Bestsellers
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Written by: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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4 out of 5 stars
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good book - hard to digest
- By Dallas J Hoday on 2021-03-17
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Blood, Dust and Snow
- Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front
- Written by: Friedrich Sander, Robin Schafer - editor translator, Roger Moorhouse - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephan Goldbach
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed firsthand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment....
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story5 out of 5 stars 83
A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-04-09
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Intent to Destroy
- Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
- Written by: Eugene Finkel
- Narrated by: Phillipe Bosher
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Political scientist Eugene Finkel uncovers the full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resisted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and frustrating history
- By Yan S on 2025-02-08
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential reading in today's times
- By Kendall L. Harding on 2022-04-10
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The Great Escape: The Untold Story
- Written by: Ted Barris
- Narrated by: Ted Barris
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
A unique retelling of WWII’s most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the airmen who experienced it....
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Written by: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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4 out of 5 stars
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good book - hard to digest
- By Dallas J Hoday on 2021-03-17
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Blood, Dust and Snow
- Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front
- Written by: Friedrich Sander, Robin Schafer - editor translator, Roger Moorhouse - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephan Goldbach
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed firsthand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment....
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story5 out of 5 stars 83
A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-04-09
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Intent to Destroy
- Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
- Written by: Eugene Finkel
- Narrated by: Phillipe Bosher
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Political scientist Eugene Finkel uncovers the full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resisted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and frustrating history
- By Yan S on 2025-02-08
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential reading in today's times
- By Kendall L. Harding on 2022-04-10
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The Great Escape: The Untold Story
- Written by: Ted Barris
- Narrated by: Ted Barris
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
A unique retelling of WWII’s most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the airmen who experienced it....
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Freedom to Win
- A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People—and Olympic Gold
- Written by: Ethan Scheiner
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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During the height of the Cold War, a group of small-town young men would lead their underdog hockey team from the little country of Czechoslovakia against the Soviet Union, the juggernaut in their sport....
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Empires of the Silk Road
- A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
- Written by: Christopher I. Beckwith
- Narrated by: Jim Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
With narration by Jim Lee, who tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires....
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War and Punishment
- Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Written by: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
The first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppressing Ukraine, War and Punishment provides an unprecedented overview of the war for Ukrainian independence that affects us all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging narrative of how narratives create our worldview
- By Dmitry on 2023-11-30
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book!
- By Sschonwa on 2023-06-23
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Fuel and Power
- Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin
- Written by: Jeronim Perović
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a very timely study of Russia's development into a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day.
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Bloodlands (German edition)
- Europa zwischen Hitler und Stalin
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Stefan Kaminski
- Length: 21 hrs and 16 mins
- Abridged
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"Bloodlands" ist eines jener seltenen Bücher, die mit einem Schlag den Blick auf die Geschichte verändern. Weltweit in mehr als vierzig Sprachen...
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good histor, ok narrator
- By Kevin W. on 2023-04-01
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Iron Curtain
- The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 26 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and Informative
- By Jay on 2021-03-30
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The Ukrainian Night
- An Intimate History of Revolution
- Written by: Marci Shore
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices....
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Battleground Ukraine
- From Independence to the War with Russia
- Written by: Adrian Karatnycky
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Ukraine expert Adrian Karatnycky provides an eyewitness account of the history of the modern Ukrainian state and of the nation through the tenures of the six presidents who have led Ukraine since the collapse of the USSR.
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The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
- Written by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
How did communism become such a pervasive economic and political philosophy? Why did it first take root in early 20th-century Russia? These and other questions are part of a fascinating story whose drama has few equals in terms of sheer scale, scope, or human suffering and belief....
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5 out of 5 stars
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good
- By A on 2023-06-02
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Romanian History
- A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
If you want to discover the captivating history of Romania and Vlad the Impaler, then pay attention....
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good but incomplete history of Romania & Biography of Vlad III
- By Jason Gacek on 2023-08-30
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Stalin's War
- A New History of World War II
- Written by: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin - not Hitler - was the animating force of World War II in this major new history....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very well written and interesting, but bias
- By Paul M. Gareau on 2021-10-27
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Empire of God
- How the Byzantines Saved Civilization
- Written by: Robert Spencer
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philosophical and political thought is derived from that of the ancient Greeks; our Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion, and both of these came to us via the Roman Empire.
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The Last Tsar
- The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
- Written by: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Tsar tells the the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert.
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- Written by: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region....
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The Last Crusade
- The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
- Written by: Nigel Cliff
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Historian Nigel Cliff delivers a sweeping reinterpretation of Vasco da Gama's pioneering voyages, revealing their significance as a decisive turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam - a series of events which forever altered the relationship between East and West....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The last crusade
- By Daniel on 2024-05-12
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The Reconstruction of Nations
- Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
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Gulag Boss
- A Soviet Memoir
- Written by: Feodor Vasilievich Mochulsky, Deborah Kaple - translator
- Narrated by: Chris Patton
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the Soviet Gulag camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police....
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Poland
- The First Thousand Years
- Written by: Patrice M. Dabrowski
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux....
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Ukraine
- Birth of a Modern Nation
- Written by: Serhy Yekelchyk
- Narrated by: David Aranovich
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate....
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Children of the Night
- The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
- Written by: Paul Kenyon
- Narrated by: Paul Kenyon
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
The country that gave us Vlad Dracula, and whose citizens consider themselves descendants of ancient Rome, has traditionally preferred the status of enigmatic outsider.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a story
- By Malachaí Liath on 2023-07-16
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
- Written by: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good approachable history of Istanbul
- By Devin on 2018-02-08
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The Gun
- Written by: C. J. Chivers
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
It is the world's most widely recognized weapon, the most profuse tool for killing ever made....