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    • By: Paul Fussell
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Universally acclaimed on publication in 1970, today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world....

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    • A History
    • By: Thomas Helling MD
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,912 ratings
    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • In Modern English
    • By: John Flavel, Jason Roth
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Keeping the Heart, John Flavel (1627-1691) centers his teaching on Proverbs 4:23: “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the ...

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    • How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s....

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    • How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,093 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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    • America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
    • By: Jay Winik
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 31 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution....

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    • Birthplace of the Modern Mind
    • By: Justin Pollard, Howard Reid
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030 ratings
    • Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome....

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    • True Tales of Freshwater Pirates
    • By: Mikel B. Classen
    • Narrated by: Rory Young
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-25
    • Language: English
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    • Waiting in the night, hidden behind a remote island, no lights showing, pirates would lure unsuspecting ships into unknown waters. Then they would silently slide up to them and board the ship.

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    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • In this fascinating exploration of murder in 19th-century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction....

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    • Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
    • By: Blessin Adams
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • These stories are pieced together from original research using coroner’s inquests, court records, parish archives, letters, diaries and the cheap street pamphlets that proliferated to satisfy a voracious public.

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    • How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Lizzie Collingham
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals....

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    • The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
    • By: Modris Eksteins
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945....

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    • Updated to Modern English
    • By: Jason Dollar, Jonathan Edwards
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the person of Jesus Christ, we observe many excellent qualities coming together. Many of his qualities seem to be very different from one ...

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    • Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf
    • By: Mark Frost
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 738 ratings
    • Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon came from different worlds and different generations, but their passion for golf set them on parallel paths that would collide in the greatest match....

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    • How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: NIgel Carrington
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill tasked with stopping the unstoppable German war machine....

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    • Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
    • By: Donald J. Robertson
    • Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • How to Think Like Socrates is an accessible and informative guide to the life of one of the greatest thinkers in history, and the first book to focus on applying his ideas to our daily lives.

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