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    • The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
    • By: Eckart Frahm
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....

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    • The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Epic in scope, tracing seven centuries of conflict between two great powers, historian Adrian Goldsworthy completely reshapes our understanding of one of the greatest rivalries of world history....

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    • The Age of the Great Kings
    • By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled....

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    • How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
    • By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States.

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
    • By: Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio
    • Narrated by: Dylan Baker
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 762 ratings
    • Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • A History, 1720 to the Present
    • By: John Ghazvinian
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 27 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams....

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    • The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
    • By: Andrew Scott Cooper
    • Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late shah's widow, Empress Farah....

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    • The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
    • By: David Crist
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 25 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and Iran....

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    • High Command and War in the 21st Century
    • By: Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. USMC (Ret)., Gen. James Mattis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • General Frank McKenzie oversaw some of the most important—and controversial operations in modern US military history. McKenzie provides an honest assessment of his time in command-describing decisions that were sound, as well as some outcomes he wishes were different.

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    • America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
    • By: Ray Takeyh
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Enemy of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: David Patton
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Few nations were able to not only parry but also defeat the mighty Roman Empire, rivaling it in almost all segments. One of those was the Parthian empire, cultural and traditional successor of the more famous Achaemenid Persian empire that was brought down by the Alexander the Great....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Neo-Persian Empire That Ruled Before the Arab Conquest of Persia and the Rise of Islam
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Desmond Manny
    • Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In this Captivating History audiobook, you will discover how important the Sasanian Empire was to history and how their legacy became an integral part of what we today think of as Islamic culture....

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    • A History of the Islamic Republic
    • By: Michael Axworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Axworthy takes listeners through the major periods in Iranian history over the last 30 years: the overthrow of the old regime and the creation of the new one; the Iran-Iraq war; the reconstruction era following the war; the reformist wave led by Mohammed Khatami; and the present day....

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    • My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out
    • By: Jason Rezaian
    • Narrated by: Jason Rezaian
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held hostage in a high-security prison in Tehran for 18 months and whose release - which almost didn’t happen - became a part of the Iran nuclear deal....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Persian Empire and History of Iran, Starting from the Achaemenid Empire, Through the Parthian, Sasanian and Safavid Empire to the Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Desmond Manny, Duke Holm, David Patton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of Iran, then listen to these five captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Achaemenid Empire, Parthian Empire, Sasanian Empire, The Safavid Empire, and The Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Persia, Starting from the Ancient Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanian Empires to the Safavid, Afsharid, and Qajar Dynasties
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Desmond Manny
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • One of the most shocking things about the Persians is how quickly they went from an obscure, powerless, and nomadic tribe to an immense empire that spanned across western Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe....

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    • A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
    • By: Jacqueline Saper
    • Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • In a deeply intimate and personal story, Jacqueline Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community - primarily the disparate religions and cultures....

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