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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,201 ratings
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • A History of Nazi Germany
    • By: William L. Shirer
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17,869 ratings
    • Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1961, this worldwide bestselling classic chronicles the most infamous era of our times.

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    • The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken....

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    • How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
    • By: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....

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    • An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
    • By: William L. Shirer
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 48 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 679 ratings
    • As an international war correspondent and radio commentator, William L. Shirer didn't just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world's oldest military powers - and institute a rule of terror and paranoia....

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    • How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,413 ratings
    • The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Victor Davis Hanson argues that neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual....

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    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 914 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • By: Antony Beevor
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,652 ratings
    • Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Alan Robertson
    • Length: 46 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 732 ratings
    • Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness....

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    • By: Richard J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,180 ratings
    • There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany....

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    • The Holocaust as History and Warning
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first....

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    • The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: George K. Wilson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,695 ratings
    • Citizen Soldiers provides a compelling account of the extraordinary stories of ordinary men in their fight for democracy....

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    • By: Jean Edward Smith
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 32 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,397 ratings
    • One of today's premier biographers, Jean Edward Smith, has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt....

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    • Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
    • By: Benjamin Carter Hett
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 587 ratings
    • Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, with disturbing resonances for our own time....

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    • How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,615 ratings
    • Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe)....

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    • The True Story of the D-Day Spies
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 963 ratings
    • On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery....

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    • An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 730 ratings
    • Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II.

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    • Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
    • By: Stephen Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Series: Stalin, Book 1
    • Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 874 ratings
    • A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....

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    • A Complete History
    • By: Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 438 ratings
    • It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...

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