Interwar Period

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    • The True Story of the D-Day Spies
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 943 ratings
    • On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery....

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    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 823 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
    • By: Benjamin Carter Hett
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, with disturbing resonances for our own time....

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    • By: Herman Wouk
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Series: Winds of War, Book 2
    • Length: 56 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,487 ratings
    • Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers....

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy....

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    • Image and Reality in the Third Reich
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: George Cunningham
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 07-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Few, if any, 20th-century political leaders have enjoyed greater popularity among their own people than Hitler did in the decade or so following his rise to power in 1933. Ian Kershaw's groundbreaking study charts the creation, growth, and decline of the "Hitler myth"....

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    • Europe 1914-1949
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 8
    • Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 712 ratings
    • The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the 20th century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II....

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    • Downfall: 1939-1945
    • By: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 comes a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself....

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    • The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 430 ratings
    • This fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history offers a full-scale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....

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    • How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,599 ratings
    • Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe)....

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    • By: Jean Edward Smith
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 32 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,375 ratings
    • One of today's premier biographers, Jean Edward Smith, has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt....

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    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 38 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 544 ratings
    • The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time.....

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    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 906 ratings
    • Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates....

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    • The Holocaust as History and Warning
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
    • In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first....

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    • Hitler's Architect
    • By: Martin Kitchen
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A new biography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities....

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    • Ascent 1889-1939
    • By: Volker Ullrich
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 34 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 689 ratings
    • A major new biography - an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil....

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    • A History of Intelligence
    • By: Christopher Andrew
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 37 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • In this audiobook, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia - and shows its relevance today....

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    • John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    • By: Benn Steil
    • Narrated by: Philip Rose
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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