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The Foundations of Western Civilization
- By: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Thomas F. X. Noble
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
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This broad and panoramic series, ripe with the telling detail on which history can turn, will help you pull an enormous sweep of history together into one coherent framework....
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Not Engaging or Very Interesting
- By Tommy D'Angelo on 03-05-17
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The Foundations of Western Civilization
- Narrated by: Thomas F. X. Noble
- Series: The Great Courses: Civilization & Culture
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-08-13
- Language: English
- This broad and panoramic series, ripe with the telling detail on which history can turn, will help you pull an enormous sweep of history together into one coherent framework....
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power....
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I loved it ... and hated it ... simultaneously
- By History on 11-21-11
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-10-11
- Language: English
- Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power....
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power....
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Shallow and unsatisfying
- By Joe on 02-19-17
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-19-15
- Language: English
- Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power....
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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TMI But Not Enough Human Perspective
- By Lynn on 01-07-24
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-02-23
- Language: English
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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The Italians before Italy: Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean
- By: Kenneth R. Bartlett, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Kenneth R. Bartlett
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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In these 24 lectures, Professor Bartlett traces the development of the Italian city-states of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, showing how the modern nation of Italy was forged out of the rivalries....
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A useful survey, just what I wanted
- By Adeliese Baumann on 11-07-16
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The Italians before Italy: Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean
- Narrated by: Kenneth R. Bartlett
- Series: The Great Courses: Renaissance & Early Modern History
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-08-13
- Language: English
- In these 24 lectures, Professor Bartlett traces the development of the Italian city-states of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, showing how the modern nation of Italy was forged out of the rivalries....
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century....
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What an epic story what great men
- By Michael on 02-12-14
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 11-06-12
- Language: English
- Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century....
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Dominion
- How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Tom Holland, Mark Meadows
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
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A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination....
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Only the forward is narrated by Holland.
- By Honora on 06-16-20
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Dominion
- How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
- Narrated by: Tom Holland, Mark Meadows
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-29-19
- Language: English
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A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination....
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The Hiding Place
- By: Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell.....
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Inspiring
- By Sara on 03-03-14
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The Hiding Place
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-03-11
- Language: English
- At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell.....
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Neil Price
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....
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Outstanding
- By Than on 10-06-20
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 08-25-20
- Language: English
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The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- By: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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could've done without the afterword...
- By Andrew lester on 06-07-20
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 04-07-20
- Language: English
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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Caesar
- Life of a Colossus
- By: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
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In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....
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Caesar and his times
- By Mike From Mesa on 08-31-15
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Caesar
- Life of a Colossus
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-12-14
- Language: English
- In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....
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The Mother Tongue
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language....
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More satire than history
- By Barbara Kindle Customer on 12-18-15
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The Mother Tongue
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-15-15
- Language: English
- With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language....
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- By: Andres Resendez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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A worthwhile listen
- By Blake on 07-10-13
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 10-07-11
- Language: English
- In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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Gulag
- A History
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
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In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Nice compliment to Solzhenitsyn
- By Thucydides on 08-03-17
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Gulag
- A History
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-15-12
- Language: English
- In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Spearhead
- An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
- By: Adam Makos
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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From the author of the international best seller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel - and forge an enduring bond with his enemy....
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Excellent
- By Msgr. John R. McGrath on 03-11-19
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Spearhead
- An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-19-19
- Language: English
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From the author of the international best seller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel - and forge an enduring bond with his enemy....
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Rubicon
- The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Tom Holland
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world.
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Excellent!
- By Aubree Koscielski on 11-08-24
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Rubicon
- The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
- Narrated by: Tom Holland
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world.
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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Butchery of the language
- By Sigurdur J. on 03-26-19
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-13-18
- Language: English
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
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This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....
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Scholarly but gripping
- By William on 06-16-16
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- Narrated by: Simon Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-03-16
- Language: English
- This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
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Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region....
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Marred by the errors in the modern section
- By Paul Boothroyd on 10-20-23
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-02-23
- Language: English
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Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region....
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To Overthrow the World
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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Award-winning historian Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes.
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Necessary reading for modern times!
- By Jeffrey Andrade on 10-30-24
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To Overthrow the World
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-10-24
- Language: English
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Award-winning historian Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes.
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