Historical History

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    • Walking with Destiny
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,483 ratings
    • In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman, and leader can finally be fully understood - by the best-selling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 678 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
    • By: Pamela S. Turner
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. This epic warrior tale may sound like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai Japanese history....

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    • Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend
    • By: Sharon Robinson
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla, Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Stephen Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York in 1948, which means he only cares about one thing - the Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages....

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    • A Concise Biography
    • By: David A. Bell
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context....

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    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,109 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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    • Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,537 ratings
    • Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....

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    • A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
    • By: Yijie Zhuang
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • We meet one of twenty-four citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer, and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like....

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 641 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 494 ratings
    • At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. In The Forge of Christendom, Tom Holland masterfully describes this remarkable new age....

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    • A Narrative
    • By: Allan W. Eckert
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Series: Winning of America, Book 1
    • Length: 30 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,126 ratings
    • The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America....

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    • The Wars of the Roses
    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
    • Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and best-selling historian Alison Weir....

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    • From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
    • By: Daniel Defoe
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day....

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    • The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
    • By: Joseph Bruchac
    • Narrated by: Nicolle Littrell, Michael Rafkin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 259 ratings
    • The key to the success of Lewis and Clark's 18 month journey was a young Indian girl - Sacajawea....

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    • By: Richard J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In the 70 years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant transformation in the ways in which the modern world understands Nazism. In this brilliant and eye-opening collection, Richard J. Evans offers a critical commentary on that transformation....

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    • By: Martin Luther
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • First published in 1525, Martin Luther's Bondage of the Will is acknowledged by theologians as one of the great masterpieces of the Reformation....

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    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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    • The True Life of Mary Stuart
    • By: John Guy
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 25 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than 30 years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy....

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