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  • I Escaped from Auschwitz cover art

    • I Escaped from Auschwitz

    • The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
    • Written by: Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic, Sir Martin Gilbert - foreword, Robin Vrba - editor, Nikola Zimring - editor
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees fled over 100 miles to be the first to give graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz....

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    • Einstein

    • His Life and Universe
    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2007-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

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    • On Freedom

    • Written by: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny.

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    • Stephen Fry's Edwardian Secrets

    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

    • Powered flight. Votes for women. Human sexuality. Mass migration. The psychology of dreams. The magic of the movies. Spies and detectives. Welcome to Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets....
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    • The Prize

    • The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
    • Written by: Daniel Yergin
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 46 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2024-12-17
    • Language: English
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    • Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil.

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    • The Happiest Man on Earth

    • The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
    • Written by: Eddie Jaku
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings

    • In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life....

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    • On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition)

    • Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
    • Written by: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings

    • The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times....

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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
    • Release date: 2020-04-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings

    • 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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    • The Siege

    • A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
    • Written by: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor Ben Macintyre.

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    • The Rising Sun

    • The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
    • Written by: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2014-06-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

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    • The Spy and the Traitor

    • The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • Written by: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings

    • If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....

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    • A World Undone

    • The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
    • Written by: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken....

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    • The Choice

    • Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
    • Written by: Dr. Edith Eva Eger
    • Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 433 ratings
    • A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients....

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    • The Guns of August

    • Written by: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2008-04-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....

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    • Ardennes 1944

    • The Battle of the Bulge
    • Written by: Antony Beevor
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2015-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his "last gamble" in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium....

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    • Kissinger

    • A Biography
    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2013-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • When Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had already become the most admired person in the US and one of the most unlikely celebrities to capture the world’s imagination....

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    • Barbarians at the Gate

    • The Fall of RJR Nabisco
    • Written by: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • A number-one New York Times best seller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco....

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    • On Tyranny

    • Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    • Written by: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2017-02-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings

    • The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....

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  • Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 cover art

    • Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

    • Written by: Tony Judt
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2011-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement.....

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    • The Second World War

    • Written by: Antony Beevor
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2012-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history....

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