Modern Military History

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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
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    • 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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    • How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: NIgel Carrington
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill tasked with stopping the unstoppable German war machine....

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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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    • 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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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
    • By: John Nagl
    • Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington....

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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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    • The History of the Transition from World War II to Modern Japan
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Tim Welch
    • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The American occupation of Japan holds a singular and problematic place in the histories both of Japan and of American foreign policy....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Concise History
    • By: Michael Wert
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late 17th century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy....

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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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    • 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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    • A History of the Revolutionary, Emperor, and Military Genius Who Reshaped Europe and Defined Modern Leadership
    • By: Aeon History
    • Narrated by: Luke Oldham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Witness Napoleon Bonaparte's Rise and Fall: From an outsider on Corsica to the Emperor of France, Napoleon's journey is a tale of ambition, strategy, and leadership. This book delves deep into his life, revealing a story that transcends history and offers timeless lessons.

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    • The Fight for Freedom That Shaped Modern Mexico (1910-1920) (Savage Civil Wars of the 20th Century: Revolutions, Resistance, and the Fight for Power)
    • By: Daniel Wrinn
    • Narrated by: Daniel Wrinn
    • Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • This was a decade-long struggle that toppled a dictatorship, reshaped the nation's social fabric, and set the stage for modern Mexico.

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    • Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1788-1851 (The Maritime Trilogy, Book 2)
    • By: Peter Padfield
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: The Maritime Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom, Peter Padfield presents a superb description and analysis of naval campaigns conducted between 1788 and 1851 that shaped the modern world....

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