Modern Military

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,522 ratings
    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....

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    • Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Alan Mikhail
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the 16th century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power....

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    • How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,091 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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    • A Military History of the Civil War
    • By: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • By: Paul Fussell
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Universally acclaimed on publication in 1970, today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world....

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    • A History
    • By: Thomas Helling MD
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East
    • By: Uri Kaufman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • October 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was a trauma for Israel, a dangerous superpower showdown, and, following the oil embargo, a pivotal reordering of the global economic order....

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • Modern War Studies
    • By: Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. DiNardo
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Ranging over the entire history of the German Empire, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 presents a picture of unprecedented scope and depth of one of the most widely studied, criticized, and imitated organizations in the modern world....

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    • The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
    • By: Modris Eksteins
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945....

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    • The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • By: Douglas Waller
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II....

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    • The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Paul Fussell
    • Narrated by: Joel Leffert
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world....

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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