Eastern Europe

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    • An Intimate History of a Divided Land
    • By: Jacob Mikanowski
    • Narrated by: Jacob Mikanowski
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • "Eastern Europe" has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone today, and they might tell you that Estonia is in the Baltics or Scandinavia, that Slovakia is in Central Europe, and that Croatia is in the eastern Adriatic or the Balkans....

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    • Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing....

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    • Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....

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    • A New History of Central Europe
    • By: Martyn Rady
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • 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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    • The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
    • By: Anne Applebaum
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 26 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 629 ratings
    • In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe....

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    • A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Moldova, Belarus, and Romania
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roman empires knew the importance of Eastern Europe for trade and settlement....

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    • The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945
    • By: James Lucas, Robert Kershaw - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • Dawn on Sunday, June 22, 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle....

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    • Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,372 ratings
    • Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power....

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    • By: Paul Bushkovitch
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Accessible to students, tourists, and general listeners alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991....

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    • The First Thousand Years
    • By: Patrice M. Dabrowski
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux....

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    • A Journey Through History
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41,402 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • A New History
    • By: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....

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    • Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self
    • By: Anodea Judith
    • Narrated by: Laura Jennings
    • Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 570 ratings
    • In Eastern Body, Western Mind, chakra authority Anodea Judith has brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system....

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    • A History
    • By: Norman Davies
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 61 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 592 ratings
    • Here is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West....

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    • A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and 20th-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the 20th century. Listen to learn more about Kelles-Krauz....

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    • The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
    • By: Prit Buttar
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Series: Eastern Front Series, Book 1
    • Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires....

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    • Kishinev and the Tilt of History
    • By: Steven J. Zipperstein
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself"....

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    • Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine
    • By: Leon Marc
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989—but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever....

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