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    • Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
    • By: Stephane Henaut, Jeni Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • A witty exploration of the facts and legends surrounding some of the most popular French foods and wines by a French cheesemonger and an American academic, A Bite-Sized History of France tells the compelling and often surprising story of France from the Roman era to modern times....

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    • A Short History of the French and Indian War
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 618 ratings
    • Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history....

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    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: John Julius Norwich
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • John Julius Norwich - called a "true master of narrative history" by Simon Sebag Montefiore - returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France, a portrait of the past two centuries of the country he loves best....

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    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman England
    • By: Ed West
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides....

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    • The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
    • By: Donald Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 434 ratings
    • In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine....

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    • From Enlightenment to Tyranny
    • By: Ian Davidson
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 884 ratings
    • A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson....

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    • The French Debacle in Indochina
    • By: Bernard B. Fall
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 433 ratings
    • Bernard B. Fall vividly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the savage eight-year conflict in the jungles and mountains of Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1954....

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    • The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
    • By: Richard Berleth
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland....

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    • The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
    • By: Tim Blanning
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 6
    • Length: 35 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Between the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Battle of Waterloo, Europe underwent an extraordinary transformation that saw five of the modern world's great revolutions - scientific, industrial, American, French, and romantic....

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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    • By: Mark Greenside
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Despite the two decades that have passed since Greenside’s snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. (Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living details Greenside’s daily adventures....

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    • By: George R. Elford
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 560 ratings
    • The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers....

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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

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    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 702 ratings
    • Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval....

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