Interwar Period

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    • Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
    • By: Tom Brokaw
    • Narrated by: Tom Brokaw, full cast
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In this beautiful American family album of stories from the Greatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during the Depression and World War II comes alive and is preserved in people’s own words....

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    • Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe
    • By: Joachim C. Häberlen
    • Narrated by: Nadia Albina
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989, when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote its history. In the decades between, Joachim C. Häberlen argues, new movements emerged that transformed the nature of protesting....

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    • By: Jose Delgado
    • Narrated by: Drew Crosby
    • Series: Second World War Diary, Book Boxed set - 5
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. A number of victims difficult to conceive, never surpassed by any other conflict; the masses of men, women, and resources mobilized in a conflict that shook even the most remote ends of the planet....

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    • A World History
    • By: R. Keith Schoppa
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the 20th century — with its revolutionary discoveries, technological inventions, political upheaval, and scientific advances....

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    • A New History of America's Entry into World War I
    • By: Justus D. Doenecke
    • Narrated by: Tom Lennon
    • Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • When war broke out in Europe in 1914, political leaders in the United States were swayed by popular opinion to remain neutral; yet less than three years later, the nation declared war on Germany....

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    • Voices from the BBC Archive
    • By: Joanna Bourke
    • Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
    • Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the first half of the 20th century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith....

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    • Avoiding the New Cold War
    • By: Michael W. Doyle
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years....

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    • Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper
    • By: Brooke Lindy Blower
    • Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections....

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    • The World in Revolt
    • By: Simon Hall
    • Narrated by: Phil Thron
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the 20th century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets and city squares, and took up arms in an attempt to win their freedom....

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    • By: Jeremy M. Black
    • Narrated by: Flip Crummer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy....

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    • Tales of Ambition, Power, and Legacy in the 20th Century
    • By: Dexter Maxx
    • Narrated by: Johnathan Welsh
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • In "Dictators: Rise, Reign, and Ruin", delve deep into the psyche of these emblematic figures....

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    • The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: KC Wayman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • "My good friends," the mustached, bony man with thick eyebrows and large, strong teeth somewhat reminiscent of those of a horse, shouted to the crowds from the second-floor window of his house at 10 Downing Street....

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    • On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
    • By: Daniel Kalder
    • Narrated by: Chris Ciulla
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Infernal Library is a harrowing audiobook tour of "dictator literature" in the 20th century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more....

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    • How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
    • By: Andrew Whitby
    • Narrated by: David Piggott
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census, from ancient China and the Roman Empire, through revolutionary America and Nazi-occupied Europe, to the steps of the Supreme Court....

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    • The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism
    • By: Caroline Moorehead
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Resistance Quartet
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Renowned historian Caroline Moorehead paints an indelible picture of Italy in the first half of the 20th century, offering an intimate account of the rise of Il Duce....

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    • The Age of Worker Solidarity
    • By: Nicolas Delalande
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
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    • A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked....

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    • A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
    • By: Henry Hemming
    • Narrated by: Henry Hemming
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The astonishing story of the British spies who set out to draw America into World War II....

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    • The Critical Decisions, Key Events, and Breakthrough Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped Warfare Around the World
    • By: Alan Axelrod
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The typical military history presents a chronicle of battles and wars and the commanders and troops who fought them. This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects....

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    • On the Brink of War and Revolution
    • By: Will Englund
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • "We are provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I....

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    • How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance
    • By: Michael H. Hunt
    • Narrated by: Brian Morris
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created by recent U.S. policy: what road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence?...

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