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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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    • 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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    • A New History of the Second World War
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Length: 28 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,289 ratings
    • The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people....

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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 278 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 48 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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    • How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the 20th century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt....

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    • A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
    • By: David Gilmour
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake....

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    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 28 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness....

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    • The Road to 1914
    • By: Margaret MacMillan
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 978 ratings
    • From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I....

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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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    • Explaining the Holocaust
    • By: Peter Hayes
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Despite the books, movies, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, an explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted in the heart of Europe in the 20th century still seems elusive....

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