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    • A New Life of Charles V
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers....

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    • England's Greatest Medieval Warrior
    • By: Michael Jones
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • This is a remarkable and inspiring story of one of the greatest warrior-princes of the Middle Ages - and an unforgettably vivid portrait of warfare and chivalry in the 14th century....

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    • Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • John Julius Norwich has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early 16th century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers....

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    • By: Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to V-E Day
    • By: Craig S. Chapman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Battle Hardened tells the story of an American soldier's growth from a Second Lieutenant eager to prove his worth in battle to a skilled and resolute commander....

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    • A Military History
    • By: Dennis Showalter
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war....

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    • Making the Renaissance in Europe
    • By: Maureen Quilligan
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious 16th century.

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    • The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king.

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    • The Relentless Revolutionary
    • By: John Clubbe
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions....

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    • The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
    • By: Gwen Strauss
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 389 ratings
    • The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a 10-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris....

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    • Voyages of a Viking Woman
    • By: Nancy Marie Brown
    • Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say....

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    • The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
    • By: Susan Nagel
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • The story of an astonishing woman, from her birth, to her upbringing by doting parents, to Revolution, imprisonment, exile, Restoration, and, finally, her reincarnation as saint and matriarch....

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    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

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    • Love, War, and the End of Empire
    • By: Deborah Baker
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies....

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    • By: David I. Kertzer
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • A riveting story that has been ignored by modern historians, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will prompt intense interest and discussion as it lays bare attitudes of the Catholic Church....

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    • Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
    • By: Elizabeth Lev
    • Narrated by: Edita Brychta
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In this glittering biography of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince, Elizabeth Lev reexamines her extraordinary life and accomplishments....

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    • Eddie Rickenbacker's Twenty-Four Days Adrift on the Pacific: A World War II Tale of Courage and Faith
    • By: John Wukovits
    • Narrated by: Nathan Agin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Award-winning author John Wukovits brings to life the forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible twenty-three-day crusade to keep his crew alive....

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    • In Her Own Words
    • By: Maeve Binchy
    • Narrated by: Kate Binchy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Maeve's Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity-revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor....

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