World Tragedies

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    • An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
    • Length: 33 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,686 ratings
    • Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle....

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    • The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,530 ratings
    • The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth....

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    • The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
    • By: Tim Weiner
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 06-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon's demise were inextricably linked....

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    • The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
    • By: James Davison Hunter
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry?

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    • Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's presents a thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.

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    • Statecraft and World Order
    • By: Hal Brands, Charles Edel
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order....

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
    • By: David Pietrusza
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt's impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson....

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    • Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
    • By: Scott Anderson
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War—and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world....

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    • A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
    • By: John U. Bacon
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 362 ratings
    • From best-selling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima....

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    • Henry Kissinger and His World
    • By: Barry Gewen
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Few public officials have provoked such intense controversy as Henry Kissinger. During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations, he came to be admired and hated in equal measure....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Shalom Auslander
    • Narrated by: Shalom Auslander
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing. Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
    • By: Ari Shavit
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 854 ratings
    • An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today....

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    • John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell, and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis - and as perilous....

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    • Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games
    • By: David Clay Large
    • Narrated by: Gregory St. John
    • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • With the Olympic movement in constant danger of terrorist disruption, and with the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 tragedy upon us in 2012, the Munich story is more timely than ever....

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    • By: Brenda Davies
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Based on a true story, The Girl Behind the Gates is the raw, heart-breaking yet ultimately uplifting tale of a young woman cut down in her prime, and of the woman who finally brings her back to life....

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    • How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
    • By: Pete Earley
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 761 ratings
    • The strange but true story of a man who suffers a traumatic brain injury and as a result is given the ability to converse with the world's most terrifying criminals....

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    • The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders
    • By: Edward Alden, Laurie Trautman
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-25
    • Language: English
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    • More people traveled internationally in 2019 than in any year in history. After COVID began its rapid spread throughout the world, though, international travel plummeted, and nations across the world hardened their borders.

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    • The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
    • By: Alistair Horne
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • In a sweeping narrative written with his trademark erudition and wit, Horne provides a meticulously detailed analysis of the ground maneuvers in each hubristic battle....

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