Interwar Period

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    • The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
    • By: John Foot
    • Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war, in Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond....

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    • Vinegar Joe, the Brits, and Chiang Kai-Shek
    • By: David Rooney, John S. Major - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This new and meticulously researched biography of the controversial American commander Joe Stilwell presents an admirably lucid account of his career and the complex story of....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace....

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    • The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
    • By: Jeff Pearce, Richard Pankhurst - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels....

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    • America and Our Imperiled World
    • By: Robert Kagan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world - and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward....

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    • World War II in Europe, 1939-1945
    • By: Norman Davies
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 525 ratings
    • If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels....

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    • Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
    • By: Nicholas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning---and surviving---that harrowing conflict....

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    • Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
    • By: Sean A. Mirski
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for today....

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    • The Age of Elizabeth II
    • By: A. N. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, there were many who proclaimed that a new Elizabethan Age had begun....

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    • A History of Vienna
    • By: Angus Robertson
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Crossroads of Civilization is a rich and illuminating history of the world capital that has transformed art, culture, and politics....

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    • The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
    • By: David Levering Lewis
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall Street attorney for president....

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    • America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
    • By: Derek Leebaert
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A new understanding of the post-World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower - with global insights for today....

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    • By: Jean Edward Smith
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt....

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    • Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
    • By: Paul Preston
    • Narrated by: Robin Laing
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution....

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    • The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This book explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure....

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    • By: Susan Dunn
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In the months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the onslaught of the Nazi army and air force....

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    • The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents
    • By: Hervie Haufler
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. With total war looming, he ordered Germany's defense and intelligence organization to carry out Operation Lena - a program to place spies within Britain....

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    • By: Richard Rubin
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-23
    • Language: English
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    • This book deals with American history since 1880—a period when the United States was transformed from a relatively small, remote, and isolated ...

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    • The Rule of Force in World Affairs
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky argues that, contrary to popular perception, the real "rogue" states in the world today are not the dictator-led developing countries we hear about in the news....

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    • The First World War and American Society
    • By: David M. Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history....

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