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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,126 ratings
    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

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    • Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
    • By: David Stahel
    • Narrated by: Philip Battley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged.

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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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 38 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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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 427 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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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 682 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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    • 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America
    • By: Tom Pecore Weso
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape.

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    • The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
    • By: Larry Loftis
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place....

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    • War in the Far East Series, Book 1
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Series: War in the Far East, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account....

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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 17 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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    • How Winston Changed the World
    • By: William Nester
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Winston Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power....

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    • 1880-1945
    • By: Gotz Aly
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole....

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    • A True Story of Resilience, Survival and Unbroken Spirit of a Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II
    • By: CORRIE SMITH
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A True Story of Resilience Survival and Unbroken Spirit A Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II Treasures of Sadness is the story of ...

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    • A Combat History of the First World War
    • By: Peter Hart
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality....

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    • 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
    • By: Kenneth C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Leon Nixon, Kenneth C. Davis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don’t Know Much About History Kenneth C. Davis provides a delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time—from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion.

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    • The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport
    • By: Barbara Winton
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story.

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    • The Red Wheel: Node III, Book 1
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz - translator
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Series: The Red Wheel, Book 3
    • Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events....

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