Historic Historical Nonfiction

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    • The Red Wheel: Node III, Book 1
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz - translator
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Series: The Red Wheel, Book 3
    • Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events....

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    • An Epic of the American West
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,200 ratings
    • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • Growing Up in Siberia
    • By: Esther Hautzig
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • Poland, 1940. The Russian army invades the beautiful city streets of Vilna. Soldiers storm 10-year-old Esther Rudomin's house and arrest her entire family....

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    • Vietnam War - Helicopter Gunships
    • By: Fred Allen
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • SCROLL DOWN TO SEE VIDEO OF A VIETNAM HELICOPTER GUNSHIP IN LIVE COMBAT Experience intense combat from the Crew Chief/Door Gunner’s seat in a ...

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    • How Winston Changed the World
    • By: William Nester
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Winston Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • A History of the Hawaiian Islands
    • By: Gavan Daws
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The Hawaiian kingdom was tiny, and the big world was huge. The 19th century was the high water mark of Western imperialism, worldwide, and the great powers were planting their flags across the Pacific. Hawai'i was in their sights....

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    • Rediscovering the Mound-Builders: Unearthing Ancient Civilizations of North and South America, Their Achievements, and the Impact of European Conquest.
    • By: Seth Parker
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-25
    • Language: English
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    • A historical non-fiction book set in various regions of ancient North and South America during the pre-Columbian era. Unearth the forgotten legacy ...

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    • A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
    • By: Helmut Walser Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past....

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    • A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
    • By: Clare Hunter
    • Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we have to tell our story....

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    • Major Great Civilizations of Antiquity
    • By: Taylor Quinn
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the secrets of our past and unlock a deeper understanding of human development. Immerse yourself in the legacies of ancient civilizations ...

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    • The Fascinating Biographies of Bad Girls, Seductresses, Rebels and One-of-a-Kind Women
    • By: Marlene Wagman-Geller
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Amazing women with a story to tell. Join Mae West as she shakes up the entertainment industry with her wit and wisdom or create colorful art pieces with Yayoi Kusama that are larger than life itself....

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    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

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    • How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
    • By: Olivia Campbell
    • Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care....

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    • A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
    • By: Yijie Zhuang
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • We meet one of twenty-four citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer, and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like....

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    • The Story of Louis Braille
    • By: Russell Freedman
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Blind since the age of three, Louis Braille wanted to be able to read. He spent every spare moment punching holes in paper with a stylus until, by the age of 15, he had invented his own alphabet....

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    • Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
    • By: John Railey
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In the summer of 1967, 19-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound....

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    • The True Story of World War I's Bravest Dog
    • By: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The story of a dog so brave he saved lives and won hearts....

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