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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 495 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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    • By: Margaret Alice Murray
    • Narrated by: Joel Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921) by the anthropologist Margaret Alice Murray examines the statements of the accused during the witch trials. Her theory, also called the "witch-cult hypothesis" posits that the European tales about witches were based on a pagan religion....

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    • Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia - three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history....

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    • The German Perspective
    • By: Peter Margaritis
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 28 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • In December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness....

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    • By: Douglas Murray
    • Narrated by: Douglas Murray
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,973 ratings
    • In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric....

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    • In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
    • By: Simon Winder
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Propelled by a wish to reclaim the varied German civilization that the Nazis ruined, and that many have worked to rebuild, Germania was recorded to enlighten us on serious topics, curiosities, and on the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape....

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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,195 ratings
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
    • By: Charles Freeman
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization....

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    • By: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Life in a Medieval City is the classic account of the year 1250 in the city of Troyes, in modern-day France....

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    • By: William Chester Jordan
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • It was an age of hope, accomplishment, and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. The era seemed to be flowering into a renaissance - until the disastrous 14th century rained catastrophe....

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    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has drawn enthusiastic praise for his books, which are sharply-focused studies as well as glorious celebrations of their subjects....

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    • By: Nicholas J. Higham, Martin J. Ryan
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • N. J. Higham and M. J. Ryan reexamine Anglo-Saxon England in the light of new research in disciplines as wide ranging as historical genetics, paleobotany, archaeology, literary studies, art history, and numismatics....

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    • A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
    • By: Robert Hughes
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 26 hrs
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • From the beginning, Rome was a hotbed of power, overweening ambition, desire, political genius, and corruption....

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    • By: John Keegan
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 742 ratings
    • In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict....

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    • The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
    • By: Christopher Clark
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 28 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 958 ratings
    • In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia - a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development - ceased to exist....

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    • From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • The Florentines presents a sweeping and magisterial 400-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance....

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    • By: John Hirst
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilization....

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    • A History of the First World War
    • By: Jorn Leonhard, Patrick Camiller - translator
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 39 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany's leading historian of the 20th century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences. Pandora's Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come....

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    • A New History of Islamic Spain
    • By: Brian A. Catlos
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Kingdoms of Faith is a magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the 17th....

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    • The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
    • By: Carlos M. N. Eire
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....

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