Middle World

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    • By: Peter Mansfield
    • Narrated by: Richard Brown
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the Middle East...

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    • The Great War in the Middle East
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,538 ratings
    • In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story....

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    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • By: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • By: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 800 ratings
    • Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place....

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 510 ratings
    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

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    • The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 711 ratings
    • Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....

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    • History for the Classical Child: The Middle Ages (Second Edition, Revised) (Vol. 2) (Story of the World)
    • By: Susan Wise Bauer
    • Narrated by: Jim Weiss
    • Series: The Story of the World, Book Volume 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives—and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their history. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivating guide to the history of other lands....

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    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,600 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

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    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
    • By: Thomas F. Madden
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • For more than two millennia, Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia....

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    • The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
    • By: Tore Skeie
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire and puts listeners in the mindset of Vikings, providing new insight into their goals, values, and what they chose to live and die for....

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    • America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
    • By: Ray Takeyh
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne....

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    • (an Unofficial Minecraft Book)
    • By: David Blaze
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Ages 8-12 ◆ For Kids Who Love Minecraft and Video Games Kids who love playing Minecraft will love this book! Jayden “Minecraft” Montgomery's ...

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    • The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
    • By: Michael Wood
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.

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    • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    • By: Kim Ghattas
    • Narrated by: Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 477 ratings
    • Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy....

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    • By: Alan M. Dershowitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • In this audiobook, Alan M. Dershowitz presents an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence....

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    • Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
    • By: Ian Black
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today....

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    • The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,470 ratings
    • The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history....

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    • England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • Two-time Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state....

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    • A Report on the Banality of Evil
    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 771 ratings
    • Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared in The New Yorker in 1963....

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