The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 18 min.
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Simon Winchester
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Simon Winchester
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The first geological map of anywhere in the world was made by William Smith. It was not until 1829 that his genius was realised....
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A Century Turns: New Fears, New HopesAmerica 1988 to 2008 (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 58 min.
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William J. Bennett
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Jon Gauger
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The whole world can change in twenty years and it did. Where is America going? Just look at the decades between 1988 and 2008....
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Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice (Unabridged)
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18 hours and 33 min.
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Guy Walters
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Jonathan Cowley
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At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party....
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The Good Years: 19001914 (Unabridged)
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12 hours 20 min.
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Walter Lord
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Noah Waterman
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$ 44.07
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Walter Lord, who combines a love of great events with a passion for the people who lived through them...
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Weapons at War: Bombers
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42 min.
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The History Channel
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George C. Scott
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The early aviators used to chuck hand grenades on the enemy below. Soon, they began to pitch small castiron bombs from their open cockpits....
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Weapons at War: Attack Aircraft
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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Robert Conrad, George C. Scott
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We look at how airplanes have adapted to flying low and slow to help troops engaged in ground combat....
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Weapons at War: Air Defense
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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Robert Conrad, George C. Scott
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We examine the different antiaircraft cannons, rockets, and radar systems designed to blast enemy aircraft from friendly skies.
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Weapons at War: Brute Force: Machine Guns
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52 min.
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The flintlock rifle, when first placed in the hands of infantrymen, gave them more power than ever before....
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Weapons at War: Hitler's War Machine: The Luftwaffe
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42 min.
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In the Fall of 1939, Hitler unleashed the Luftwaffe air force, which destroyed their rivals with unrelenting artillery....
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Habeas Corpus: Politics, Law & Business (Unabridged)
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7 min.
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iMinds
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Ellouise Rothwell
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Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase that means have the body. It is a legal writ, or order, that a court may make, requiring a prisoner to be brought before it....
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Madeleine Albright at the 92nd Street Y on The Role of Religion in World Politics
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1 hour and 13 min.
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Madeleine Albright
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Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America's approach to the world....
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Generalist, Volume 2 (Unabridged)
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1 hour and 35 min.
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iMinds
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Luca James Lee, Ellouise Rothwell
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$ 5.99
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A compilation of diverse topics across our 12 categories. Perfect your dinner party conversation, impressing your boss, and discover topics of interest for the future....
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Constitucion Espanola [Spanish Constitution] (Unabridged)
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2 hours and 27 min.
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Escucha Libros S.L.N.E.
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Victoria Garcia
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$ 6.66
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Constitucion espa?ola de 1978....
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Man's Relentless Search (Unabridged)
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1 hour and 15 min.
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L. Ron Hubbard
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$ 12.57
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Stone axes, catapults, gunpowder, and weapons of mass destruction. While raging battles and infamous wars could easily be found in history books, Man still searched....
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KiMu KiPi (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 42 min.
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Madhan
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Charles K
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$ 13.96
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An audiobook in Tamil language....
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This Sceptred Isle Vol 10: The Age of Victoria 18371901 (Unabridged)
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3 hours and 11 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey
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$ 16.69
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The Queen's 64year reign encompassed huge social changes, wrought by Palmerston, Gladstone, and Disraeli, as well as Dickens, Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Gilbert and Sullivan....
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The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 45 min.
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Eric Rauchway
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Richard Davidson
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The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the American Way itself....
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 44 min.
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Jerry Brotton
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Suzanne Toren
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$ 17.50
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More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history....
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The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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5 hours and 5 min.
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Michael Cook
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Peter Ganim
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The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its 15th century....
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Deadlines and Datelines (Unabridged)
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6 hours
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Dan Rather
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David Ackroyd
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With his distinctive blend of frontline determination and a journalist's knack for a good story, CBS anchorman...
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The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread (Unabridged)
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5 hours and 12 min.
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Maria Balinksa
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Jo Anna Perrin
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$ 19.56
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This charming book recounts the remarkable journey of the bagel from the tables of 17thcentury Poland to the freezers of middle America today....
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Eyewitness, 19901999: A History of the Twentieth Century in Sound
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4 hours and 59 min.
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Joanna Bourke
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Tim PigottSmith and more
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$ 18.58
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Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen....
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Discover: Music of the Romantic Era (Unabridged)
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5 hours and 7 min.
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David McCleery
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Jeremy Siepmann
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$ 20.29
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Amid a background of wars and revolution, the 19th century produced many of the world's bestloved composers including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky....
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The Modern Scholar: Odyssey of the West IV: A Classic Education through the Great Books: Towards Enlightenment (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 10 min.
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Prof. Timothy Shutt, Prof. Fred E. Baumann, Prof. Thomas F. Madden
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Part four provides a close look at the period from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution and into the early Enlightenment....
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Odyssey of the West, Part V: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Renewal (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 49 min.
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Professor Timothy Shutt
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Professor Timothy Shutt, Professor Fred E. Baumann, Professor Joel F. Richeimer, Professor Donald M.G. Sutherland
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$ 49.95
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The Odyssey of the West series continues it grand exploration of the literature, revolutionary theories, and feats of intellectual progress....
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The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
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3 hours and 12 min.
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Deborah Cadbury
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Andrew Sachs
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$ 14.12
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The story of two 19thcentury scientists who revealed one of the most significant events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs....
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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2 hours and 45 min.
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Melvyn Bragg
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Melvyn Bragg
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$ 14.60
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Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language, from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....
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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: The Blitz
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3 hours and 4 min.
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Joshua Levine and The Imperial War Museum
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Simon MacCorkindale
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$ 15.93
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From July to September 1940, the British people watched the Battle of Britain play out in the skies above them, aware that the eventual outcome would decide their fate....
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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: The Battle for Britain
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2 hours and 59 min.
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Joshua Levine and The Imperial War Museum
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Simon MacCorkindale
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$ 15.93
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As Hitler proceeded with his invasion plans, codenamed Operation Sealion, he knew that the RAF must not be allowed to threaten the invading forces as they crossed the Channel....
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The Struggle to Victory: Forgotten Voices of the Great War
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2 hours and 29 min.
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Max Arthur
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Richard Bebb
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$ 15.93
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The horrific third battle of Ypres finally ended at Passchendale on November 10, 1917....
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Agincourt
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5 hours and 10 min.
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Juliet Barker
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Elliot Cowan
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$ 16.54
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In this landmark study of Agincourt, prizewinning author Juliet Barker draws upon a huge range of sources to give a compelling account of a battle upon which so many legends have been built....
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Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust
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5 hours and 10 min.
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Lyn Smith
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Andrew Sachs
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$ 19.93
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The intertwined moving and revealing interviews reveal the sheer complexity and horror of the Holocaust....
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From Ypres to Gallipoli: Forgotten Voices of the Great War
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2 hours and 28 min.
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Max Arthur
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Richard Bebb
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Following the second battle of Ypres, furious fighting continued on all fronts. Casualties were high, conditions dreadful, and life expectancy short....
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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6 hours and 23 min.
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Tom Holland
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Andrew Sachs
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Tom Holland's brilliant new book describes the very first clash of Empires between East and West....
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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain: Dunkirk and the Threat of Invasion
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2 hours and 58 min.
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Joshua Levine and The Imperial War Museum
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Simon MacCorkindale
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On the day that Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister, Germany invaded Holland and Belgium....
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Bad Ideas?: An Arresting History of our Inventions
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6 hours and 28 min.
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Robert Winston
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Robert Winston
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The moment man first converted a stone to a useful tool set him on a relentless path toward greater control and power over his environment. But have our creative ideas always produced desirable results....
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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5 hours and 48 min.
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Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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White Gold
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3 hours and 9 min.
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Giles Milton
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Tim PigottSmith
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In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 52 of his comrades were captured at sea....
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James May's 20th Century
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4 hours and 32 min.
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James May and Phil Dolling
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James May
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How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....
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Young Stalin
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6 hours and 35 min.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Sean Barrett
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Young Stalin is a remarkable adventure story about an exceptional, turbulent young man, born in exoticism, raised in the church, fancying himself a poet....
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A History of Modern Britain
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7 hours and 14 min.
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Andrew Marr
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Andrew Marr
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A History of Modern Britain confronts headon the victory of shopping over politics....
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Soundmap Brick Lane: Audio Tours That Take You Inside London (Unabridged)
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47 min.
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The unique history of Brick Lane is brought to life by author Tarquin Hall in this mesmerising walk down the street that has played host to over 300 years of immigrants....
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Kings and Queens of England
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2 hours and 25 min.
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Richard Hampton, David Weston
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Derek Jacobi
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$ 12.08
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The fascinating story of England's monarchy is highlighted by extracts from the diaries and speeches of English monarchs and observations by their contemporaries....
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W7 The Battle of Waterloo (Dramatised)
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1 hour
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Lawrence Wilson
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Nigel Lambert, Michael Burrell, Michael Sheard, and David Strong
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It was the final and conclusive battle of the Napoleonic Wars, after Bonaparte returned from exile in Elba....
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The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred
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7 hours and 21 min.
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Niall Ferguson
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Sean Barrett
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The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed, for most of its inhabitants, stable and relatively benign....
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The Modern Scholar: The Incas: Inside an American Empire
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7 hours and 47 min.
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Terence N. D'Altroy
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In the land of Tawantinsuyu (The Four Parts Together) the Incas reigned in the late 15th century over the greatest empire ever seen in the independent Americas....
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The Modern Scholar: Jerusalem: The Contested City
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7 hours and 53 min.
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Frank E. Peters
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Through an indepth study of the various holy sites in Jerusalem, you'll begin to see which are considered sacred and to whom....
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W3 The Battle of Midway (Dramatised)
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1 hour and 1 min.
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Kenneth Allen
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Stephen Thorne, James Berwick, Ed Bishop, and Blain Fairman
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$ 7.25
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The Japanese advance in the Pacific was stemmed and turned in the Midway Sea. It was one of the decisive actions of the Second World War....
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The Modern Scholar: Odyssey of the West III: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Medieval World (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 46 min.
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Prof. Timothy Shutt, Prof. Thomas F. Madden, Prof. Monica Brzezinski Potkay
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Part three is a richly detailed look at St. Augustine, Beowulf, St. Thomas Aquinas, Authurian legends, Dante, Gothic art, and other highlights of the period....
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The Modern Scholar: World War l: The Great War and the World It Made
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8 hours and 30 min.
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John Ramsden
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This course examines the major events of World War I to further understand how they led to the shaping of a new world....
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The Modern Scholar: A History of the English Language
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8 hours and 20 min.
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Prof. Michael Drout
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$ 49.95
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Professor Drout addresses the foundation of the language and its connection to specific portions of the brain....
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The Modern Scholar: The History of Ancient Israel: From the Patriarchs Through the Romans (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 41 min.
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Professor Eric H. Cline
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Israel conjures up myriad associations for peoples of all cultures and religious backgrounds. Inextricably associated with the world's three most prominent religions....
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The Modern Scholar: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic: A History of the Church in the Middle Ages
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8 hours and 14 min.
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Thomas Madden
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Renowned professor Thomas F. Madden turns his scholarly eye on the intrigue and politics swirling about the Medieval Church....
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The Gulag Archipelago: Volume II Section II: DestructiveLabor Camps, The Soul, Barbed Wire (Unabridged)
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16 hours and 13 min.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Frederick Davidson
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The first fourfifths of this volume cover what the author calls the DestructiveLabor Camps and the fate of the prisoners in them, felling timber, building canals and railroads, mining gold, without equipment...
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The Modern Scholar: Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
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7 hours and 35 min.
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Dr. Margaret MacMillan
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For six months, the world's major leaders met in Paris to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One....
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The Modern Scholar: A Way With Words, Part II: Approaches to Literature
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8 hours and 6 min.
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Professor Michael D.C. Drout
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The renowned literary scholar Michael D.C. Drout leads a series of lectures that focus on the big questions of literature....
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The Modern Scholar: The Medieval World, Part II: Society, Economy, and Culture (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 43 min.
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Thomas Madden
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An awardwinning, widely recognized expert on premodern history, Professor Thomas F. Madden concludes this twopart series on the medieval world....
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This Sceptred Isle: Empire, Volume 2: 17831876
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7 hours and 24 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Various
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$ 24.10
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This is Volume 2 of the eagerlyawaited followup to Christopher Lee's highlyacclaimed BBC Radio 4 series....
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FLAK (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 48 min.
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Michael Veitch
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The inspiring true stories of combat and camaraderie, read by the author with foreword by Bud Tingwell....
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The Second John McPhee Reader, Book One (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 39 min.
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John McPhee
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Nelson Runger
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$ 24.47
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For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction....
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The Ghost Map (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 38 min.
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Steven Johnson
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Alan Sklar
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$ 24.49
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This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease....
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The Gulag Archipelago: Volume I Section II: The Prison Industry, Perpetual Motion (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 30 min.
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Author
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Frederick Davidson
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$ 25.17
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In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath...
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A History of Britain, Volume 1: At the Edge of the World, 3000 BC AD 1603
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8 hours and 2 min.
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Simon Schama
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Timothy West
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$ 25.99
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To look back at the past is to understand the present....
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 18701914
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8 hours and 22 min.
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David McCullough
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Edward Hermann
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$ 26.60
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Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women...
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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 52 min.
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Robert Baer
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Robertson Dean
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$ 27.93
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Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia....
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The Outline of History, Volume 2 (Unabridged)
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44 hours and 31 min.
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H.G. Wells
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Bernard Mayes
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$ 27.97
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Having coined the phrase the war that will end war, H.G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world...
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A History of Greece, Volume 2 (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 35 min.
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Cyril Robinson
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 30.80
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A History of Greece continues with the bitter struggle between Sparta and Athens for mastery of the Hellenic world...
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A History of Rome, Volume 2 (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 11 min.
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Cyril Robinson
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 30.80
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With Caesar's assassination comes renewed civil war. The aristocratic senatorial faction is defeated...
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The Gulag Archipelago: Volume III: Katorga, Exile, Stalin is No More (Unabridged)
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22 hours 30 min.
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Author
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Frederick Davidson
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In this final volume of a towering work that is both literary masterpiece and living memorial to the untold millions of Soviet martyrs, Solzhenitsyn's epic narrative moves to its astounding and unforseen climax...
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The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It
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4 hours and 45 min.
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John Miller, Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell
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John Miller
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In New York City, a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers, and investigative journalists had known for years...
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An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
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4 hours
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Tom Brokaw
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Tom Brokaw and a full cast
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In this memorable audio, history comes alive and is preserved in people's own words through reflections on World War II. A young soldier writes his parents about the horrors he witnessed firsthand at Buchenwald...
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No End Save Victory Vol. 1: Perspectives on World War II
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5 hours and 24 min.
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Stephen E. Ambrose, Caleb Carr, William Manchester, and more
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Leo Burmester
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Stephen Ambrose tells the miraculous story of how a single American company took the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine...
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The Republic
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4 hours 50 min.
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Plato
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Bruce Alexander
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$ 20.29
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In The Republic, Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual: how the state should be ruled, and by whom; and the way the individual should lead his life and why...
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Resolute Determination: Napoleon and the French Empire (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 31 min.
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Donald M.G. Sutherland
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Donald M.G. Sutherland
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In these lectures, Professor Donald M.G. Sutherland explores the life and times of Napoleon, one of history's most brilliant strategic thinkers....
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Religion, Myth & Magic (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 52 min.
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Prof. Susan Johnston
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Prof. Susan Johnston
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$ 20.99
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Anthropologist Susan Johnston turns a scholarly eye on one of humankind's primary interests throughout history: the spiritual belief system....
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Brewmaster's Art (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 2 min.
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Prof. Charles Bamforth
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Prof. Charles Bamforth
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$ 20.99
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With origins 8,000 years in the past, beer brewing has held a prominent place in many and diverse cultures the world over....
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The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow
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9 hours
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edited by William Burr
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Theodore Bikel, Richard Gilliland, and more
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$ 21.00
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Expand your understanding of one of the most controversial Secretaries of States in U.S. history Henry Kissinger...
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The March of the Ten Thousand (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 32 min.
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Xenophon
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 21.00
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The March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most admired and widely read pieces of ancient literature...
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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude
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6 hours
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Robert Baer
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Robert O'Keefe
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$ 21.27
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In his powerful new audiobook, Robert Baer, author of See No Evil, turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government's...
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Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 196465
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6 hours and 24 min.
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Michael Beschloss
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Lyndon Johnson, Michael Beschloss
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$ 21.27
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As Reaching for Glory opens, LBJ is campaigning for the greatest presidential landslide in history...
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
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6 hours
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Anne Frank, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler
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Winona Ryder
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$ 21.27
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Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the 20th century...
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
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6 hours and 4 min.
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Julia Fox
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Jenny Sterlin
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$ 21.27
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In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII....
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Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 13 min.
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Leonard Mlodinow
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Robert Blumenfeld
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$ 21.95
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Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry....
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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6 hours and 17 min.
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Laurence Bergreen
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Laurence Bergreen
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$ 22.60
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In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most soughtafter commodities flourished....
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The Gulag Archipelago: Volume II Section I: DestructiveLabor Camps, The Soul, Barbed Wire (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 7 min.
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Author
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Narrator
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Frederick Davidson
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$ 23.07
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The first fourfifths of this volume cover what the author calls the DestructiveLabor Camps and the fate of prisoners in them, felling timber, building canals and railroads, mining gold, without equipment...
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop (Unabridged)
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5 hours and 31 min.
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Alan Cutler
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Grover Gardner
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$ 23.07
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This is the story of a seventeenthcentury scientistturnedpriest who forever changed our understanding of the Earth and created a new field of science...
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We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 10 min.
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Jimmy Carter
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Jimmy Carter
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$ 23.93
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Carter describes the history of previous peace efforts and why they fell short. This is President Carter's call for action, and he lays out a practical and doable path to peace....
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The Age of Sacred Terror
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6 hours and 17 min.
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Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
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Philip Bosco
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$ 23.93
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Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this project shortly after leaving the National Security Council...
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 29 min.
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Kathrin Kana
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On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, thanks largely to the efforts of the Hitler Youth....
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Eyewitness, 19701979: A History of the Twentieth Century in Sound
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4 hours and 49 min.
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Joanna Bourke
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Tim PigottSmith and more
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$ 18.58
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Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen....
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The World Is Flat: The New Material from Release 3.0 (Unabridged)
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2 hours and 2 min.
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Thomas L. Friedman
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Oliver Wyman
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$ 18.87
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These are the two completely new chapters from The World is Flat Release 3.0, on how to be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat world....
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Flags of Our Fathers
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6 hours and 20 min.
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James Bradley with Ron Powers
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Barry Bostwick and James Bradley
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$ 19.93
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In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima and into history. Through a hail of machinegun and...
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A History of Britain, Volume 1: At the Edge of the World, 3000 B.C. 1603 A.D.
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6 hours
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Simon Schama
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Timothy West
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$ 19.93
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In this, the first volume of an epic history of Britain, one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day brings the birth and growth of a nation...
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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6 hours and 4 min.
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Richard Rhodes
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Richard Rhodes
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$ 19.93
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The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War....
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To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
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6 hours and 1 min.
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James Tobin
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Boyd Gaines
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$ 19.93
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For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man....
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
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4 hours and 20 min.
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Stephen E. Ambrose
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Cotter Smith
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$ 19.93
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From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe...
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Citizen Soldiers: From the Normandy Beaches to the Surrender of Germany
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6 hours and 3 min.
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Stephen E. Ambrose
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Narrator
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Cotter Smith
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$ 19.93
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A masterful biography of the U.S. Army in the European Theater of Operations....
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DDay
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6 hours and 16 min.
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Stephen E. Ambrose
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Stephen E. Ambrose
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$ 19.93
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When Hitler declared war on the United States, he bet that the young men brought up in the Hitler Youth would outfight...
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Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 21 min.
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Stephen Howe
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Victor Bevine
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$ 17.50
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Stephen Howe interprets the meaning of the idea of empire through the ages and examines the aftermath of imperialism on the contemporary world....
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African History: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 47 min.
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John Parker, Richard Rathbone
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Narrator
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Dion Graham
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$ 17.50
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This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyond....
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Christianity: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 35 min.
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Author
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Linda Woodhead
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Jennifer Van Dyck
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$ 17.50
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Linda Woodhead offers a bold new overview of the world's largest religion, exploring the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity over two millennia....
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The Bible: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 45 min.
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John Riches
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Jennifer Van Dyck
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$ 17.50
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It is sometimes said that the Bible is one of the most unread books in the world, yet has been a major force in the development of Western culture and continues to exert an enormous influence....
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History: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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4 hours and 43 min.
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John Arnold
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Richard Davidson
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John Arnold's addition to Oxford's popular Very Short Introductions series is a stimulating essay about how people study and understand history....
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The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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6 hours and 36 min.
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S. A. Smith
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Suzanne Toren
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This concise, accessible introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936....
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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)
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6 hours and 23 min.
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Robert J. McMahon
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Kevin Pariseau
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$ 17.50
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The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope and intensity of the Cold War....
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Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (Unabridged)
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6 hours and 48 min.
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David G. Dalin, John F. Rothmann
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Michael Prichard
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In the 1920s Hajj AminalHusseini was the political and spiritual leader of the Palestinian Arabs....
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Froissart's Chronicles: Selections from The Great Wars of England and France (Unabridged)
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3 hours
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Judge Dee
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John Horton
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$ 17.47
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The first great war correspondent of the Middle Ages, Jean Froissart chronicled events during...
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Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response (Unabridged)
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7 hours and 39 min.
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Aaron J. Klein
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Stefan Rudnicki
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$ 17.47
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1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder 11 Israeli athletes....
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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2, 19191939 (Unabridged)
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3 hours
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey and Robert Powell
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$ 16.69
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Volume 2, covering the years 19191939, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers....
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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century, Volume 3, 19391959 (Unabridged)
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3 hours and 5 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey and Robert Powell
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$ 16.69
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Volume 3, covering the years 19391959, takes a global perspective....
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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century, Volume 5, 19791999 (Unabridged)
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3 hours and 5 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey and Robert Powell
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$ 16.69
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Volume 5, covering the years 19791999, looks at the Thatcher years, the Falklands War, and the greatest ever Royal wedding....
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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century, Volume 4, 19591979 (Unabridged)
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3 hours and 5 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey and Robert Powell
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$ 16.69
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Volume 4, covering the years 19591979, includes the erection of the Berlin Wall, the first man on the Moon, the Vietnam War, Cassius Clay, the Beatles, and Profumo....
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This Sceptred Isle, Volume 2: 10871327 The Making of the Nation
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3 hours and 14 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey
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$ 16.69
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Volume 2 covers the years 1087 to 1327, a time of wars between the English and the Scots, of Crusades and of civil war....
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This Sceptred Isle, Volume 3: 13271547 The Black Prince to Henry V
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3 hours and 1 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey
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$ 16.69
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Volume 3, covering the years 1327 to 1547, takes us through a bloody and turbulent time in English history....
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Denying History: Holocaust Denial, Pseudohistory, and How We Know What Happened in the Past
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5 hours and 32 min.
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Michael Brant Shermer
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Michael Brant Shermer
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$ 13.96
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Denying History takes a bold and indepth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims....
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A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 44 min.
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Dominique Lapierre
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Stefan Rudnicki
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$ 17.47
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In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa....
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Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest
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5 hours and 36 min.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Denis deBoisblanc
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$ 17.47
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Daniel J. Boorstin introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning....
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The Story of Liberty (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 42 min.
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Charles C. Coffin
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Edward Lewis
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$ 17.47
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Charles Coffin's The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879, is not America's story alone....
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The Rape of Nanking (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 9 min.
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Iris Chang
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Anna Fields
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In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.....
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This Sceptred Isle Vol 5: Restoration & Glorious Revolution 16601702 (Unabridged)
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3 hours and 7 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey
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$ 16.69
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The awardwinning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901....
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This Sceptred Isle Vol 6: The First British Empire 17021760 (Unabridged)
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3 hours and 5 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey
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$ 16.69
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The awardwinning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901....
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This Sceptred Isle Vol 7: The Age of Revolutions 17601792 (Unabridged)
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3 hours and 3 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey
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$ 16.69
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The awardwinning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901....
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Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (Unabridged)
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2 hours and 47 min.
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Robert Kagan
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Robertson Dean
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$ 14.60
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When historians want to find out about the ideas that motivated American foreign policy in the early years of the twentyfirst century, they would do well to read this book...
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Hiroshima (Unabridged)
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5 hours
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John Hersey
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Edward Asner
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$ 14.95
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August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000...
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The Arcanum
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6 hours and 6 min.
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Janet Gleeson
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David McCallum
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$ 15.93
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Even at the dawn of the Age of Reason, some of the finest minds in Europe were still pursuing the alchemist's dream...
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Great Explorers (Unabridged)
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2 hours and 35 min.
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David Angus
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Frances Jeater, Sam Dastor, and Kerry Shale
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$ 12.59
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Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them. They pushed back the frontiers of man's knowledge of the world....
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
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3 hours and 4 min.
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Thomas Cahill
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Liam Neeson
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$ 13.27
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From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne the dark ages learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared...
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Five Days in London, May 1940 (Unabridged)
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6 hours and 25 min.
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John Lukacs
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Geoffrey Howard
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$ 13.97
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In the days between May 24th and 28th, 1940, the British War Cabinet held a historical debate over whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war....
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This Sceptred Isle Vol 8: Nelson, Wellington, & Napoleon 17921815 (Unabridged)
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2 hours and 27 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey
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$ 14.01
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The awardwinning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901....
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This Sceptred Isle Vol 9: Regency & Reform 18151837 (Unabridged)
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2 hours and 28 min.
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Christopher Lee
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Anna Massey
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$ 14.01
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The awardwinning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901....
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World War II in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki (Unabridged)
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5 hours and 38 min.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Peter J. Fernandez
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$ 11.19
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World War II in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki tells the story of Iwo Jima and the long war in the Pacific....
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 19421943
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6 hours
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Antony Beevor
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George Guidall
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$ 11.95
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In August 1942, an overconfident Adolf Hitler would attempt to invade Stalin's namesake city on the Volga...
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Fresh Air: Mideast Crisis
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4 hours and 16 min.
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Terry Gross
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$ 11.95
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Audible presents a special collection of Fresh Air interviews related to the Mideast Crisis...
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The BBC War Reports: The Second World War on Air
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2 hours and 39 min.
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BBC Audiobooks
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Richard Baker
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$ 11.12
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This unique chronicle of war has the same rawness and immediacy as when the recordings were first broadcast over 60 years ago....
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The BBC War Reports: The Second World War: The Home Front
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3 hours
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BBC Audiobooks
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Richard Baker
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$ 11.12
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In this remarkable collection of BBC recordings, we hear what the people of the Home Front listened to as they lived, loved, laughed and worked through the dark days of World War Two....
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World War II: Part 1 (Unabridged)
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2 hours and 30 min.
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Joseph Stromberg
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George C. Scott
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$ 11.17
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Historians have said that World War II was a continuation of World War I....
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Ireland (Unabridged)
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2 hours and 52 min.
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Wendy McElroy
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Harry Reasoner, Peter Hackes, and Richard C. Hottelet
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$ 11.17
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The isle of poets and scholars has known almost constant warfare for centuries....
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Pompeii: City Captured in Ash
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1 hour 30 min.
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On August 24 and 25 in the year 79 A.D., a Volcanic eruption from Mt. Vesuvius spewed fire...
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Generalist: Volume 6 (Unabridged)
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1 hour and 37 min.
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iMinds
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We can all be smarter keep learning every day with iMinds' Generalist, Volume 6....
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LRRP Company Command
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2 hours and 7 min.
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Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
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Don Leslie
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$ 7.93
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The new commander of the Company E, 52d Infantry LRRPs, Capt. George Paccerelli, was tough, but the men's new AO was brutal...
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Winston Churchill: Hero of History
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1 hour and 6 min.
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Nina Joan Mattikow
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$ 6.99
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Hear again that unmistakeable voice and the actual events in the life of the man regarded as the savior of the free world....
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The British Empire was a Force for Good: An Intelligence Squared Debate
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1 hour and 46 min.
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Intelligence Squared Limited
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The British Empire was a Force for Good....
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Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
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1 hour and 56 min.
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Jane's Smart Art Guides
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M. Jane McIntosh
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$ 9.77
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This Jane's Smart Art Audio Guide is indepth and indispensable for artlovers and historybuffs who want to hear about more than just the highlights....
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Fra Angelico: San Marco, Florence
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2 hours and 16 min.
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Jane's Smart Art Guides
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M. Jane McIntosh
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$ 9.77
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Fra Angelico's magnificent 15th Century frescoes at San Marco monastery in Florence are among the greatest achievements in the history of art....
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Bernard Lewis at the 92nd Street Y on the Middle East in Transition
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59 min.
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Bernard Lewis
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$ 1.95
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Join Professor Bernard Lewis at this visit to New York's 92nd Street Y as he shares his thoughts on Iraq and the Middle Eastern power balance....
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Darfur Genocide: What the Media Isn't Telling Us at the 92nd Street Y
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1 hour and 33 min.
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Ruth Messinger, Gerald Martone, and John Prendergast
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Ruth Messinger
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$ 1.95
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According to the United Nations, Sudanese government officials and the Janjaweed are responsible for killing and torturing civilians, destroying villages....
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BernardHenri Levy on America, France, and the Jews, at the 92nd Street Y
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1 hour and 26 min.
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BernardHenri Levy
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Adam Gopnik
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$ 1.95
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Among the issues addressed are French antiSemitism....
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Alan Dershowitz on the Origins of Human Rights at the 92nd Street Y
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1 hour and 25 min.
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Alan Dershowitz
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Jeffrey Toobin
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$ 1.95
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Where do rights come from? Professor Alan Dershowitz provides an entirely new resolution to this ageold dilemma: rights, he argues, do not come from God....
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Weapons at War: Hitler's War Machine: Submarines
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43 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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We look at the menacing power of the deadliest submarine force in history....
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Kati Marton and Richard Holbrooke on 'Jewish Identity and Exile' at the 92nd Street Y
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1 hour and 10 min.
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Kati Marton and Richard Holbrooke
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Richard Holbrooke
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$ 1.95
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Richard C. Holbrooke, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, interviews author Kati Marton about the extraordinary journey made by nine HungarianJewish immigrants....
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Trade: Ideas & Concepts (Unabridged)
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8 min.
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IMinds
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Ellouise Rothwell
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$ 0.99
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Learn about the development of the concept of Trade with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series....
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Weapons at War: Coast Guard
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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Robert Conrad, George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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Since 1790, the U.S. Coast Guard has fought along side her sister services in every national conflict....
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Weapons at War: Combat Cameras
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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Robert Conrad, George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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A photograph can be as vital a weapon as a machine gun or a main battle tank....
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Weapons at War: Air War in Vietnam
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43 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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Answering the desperate calls for air strikes from soldiers in the jungle, U.S. fighters and bombers unleashed their fury on the enemy in Vietnam....
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Weapons at War: Airborne Assault
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44 min.
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The History Channel
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Narrator
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George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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Paratroopers extend the infantryman's battlefield into the third dimension....
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Weapons at War: Tanks
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The first tanks that rumbled across the trenches of the First World War moved at only 4 miles per hour....
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Weapons at War: Famous Small Arms
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The evolution of famous small arms from handheld minicannons to laseraimed rifles....
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Weapons at War: Artillery
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Despite amazing technological advancements appearing on the battlefield, one of today's most powerful weapons has remained virtually unchanged for nearly six centuries....
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Weapons at War: Battle Gear
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We explore the evolution of armor and weapons for fighting men....
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The Birth of Britain: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 3 min.
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The Englishspeaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today....
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The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
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The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story....
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The Storm of War (Unabridged)
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Andrew Roberts
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Andrew Roberts asks whether, with a different decisionmaking process and a different strategy, Hitler's Axis might even have won.....
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On a Wing and a Prayer: The Untold Story of the First Heroes of the Air (Unabridged)
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Joshua Levine
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Few are aware of the risks that the pioneering airmen of the First World War took. On a Wing and a Prayer is a narrative history that conveys the perils of those early days, the thrills of learning to fly....
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (Unabridged)
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Karen Armstrong
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The Great Transformation is a revelation of humankind's early shared imperatives, yearnings, and inspired solutions, as salutary as it is fascinating....
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The Three Edwards (Unabridged)
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The Three Edwards, third in Thomas B. Costain's survey of Britain under the Plantagenets, covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England....
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Peloponnesian War, Volume 2 (Unabridged)
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If ever a tragedy of Olympian proportions could be ascribed to an historic event, it would surely be appropriate to use that term in relation to the great city state of Athens....
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The Secret History of the World (Unabridged)
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Jonathan Black
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Paul Matthews
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Here for the first time is a complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies....
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Monarchy (Unabridged)
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David Starkey
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The crown of England is the oldest surviving political institution in Europe....
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Henrietta Howard: King's Mistress, Queen's Servant (Unabridged)
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Tracy Borman
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Julia Franklin
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The mark that this enigmatic royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyond the confines of the court, and can still be felt today.....
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Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother (Unabridged)
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Anne Sebba
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Joanna David
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She was a cornerstone of high society and behindthescenes political dynamo. However it was Jennie's love life that marked her out....
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Biography: General Patton
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A special profile of the toughasnails military leader which recalls his formative years at West Point, first taste of battle in World War I....
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No Place for Ladies (Unabridged)
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Based on dozens of rare and often unpublished accounts, No Place for Ladies is a rich, colourful and fascinating picture of very different women at war....
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Weapons at War: War Games
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Methods of training soldiers war games have changed dramatically throughout military history....
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Weapons at War: Fighting Leathernecks of WWII
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The U.S. Marines who fought for control of the Pacific islands in World War II had to fight for every yard....
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Weapons at War: Elite German Forces of WWII
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Elite forces in the German army were carefully selected and given dangerous assignments in WWII....
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O Jerusalem: Day by Day, the Historic Struggle for Jerusalem and the Birth of Israel (Unabridged)
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O Jerusalem! is the epic drama of 1948, when Arabs and Jews fought for control of the city of Jerusalem...
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War' (Unabridged)
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Patrick J. Buchanan
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Don Leslie
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Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen Winston Churchill first among them the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....
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The Conquering Family (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 35 min.
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Thomas B. Costain
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David Case
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Costain's fourvolume history of the Plantagenets begins with The Conquering Family and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John....
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Triumph and Tragedy: Second World War 4 (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 47 min.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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This volume of Churchill's history ofWorld Ward 2 recounts the dramatic months as the war drew to a close the normandy landings, the liberation of western Europe....
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 191145 (Unabridged)
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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In this Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground....
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 19541962 (Unabridged)
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Alistair Horne
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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one....
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A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East (Unabridged)
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The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy. But it was not always so, as Patrick Tyler shows in this thrilling chronicle of misadventures in the region....
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Vietnam: A History (Unabridged)
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27 hours and 42 min.
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Stanley Karnow
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Edward Holland
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In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America's war in Vietnam....
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The Triumph of Liberty (Unabridged)
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Jim Powell
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Of humankind's great achievements over the past 2,000 years, one towers above all the rest....
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (Unabridged)
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28 hours and 38 min.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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Nadia May
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The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images....
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The Age of Revolution: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume III (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 42 min.
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Winston Churchill
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Christian Rodska
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This is the third volume in Churchill's famous account. During the long period of 1688 to 1815, three revolutions took place, and all led to war between the British and the French....
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Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her (Unabridged)
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Based on interviews with Japanese and American survivors, letters, diaries, and other primary sources, Danger's Hour explores the May 11, 1945, attack on the USS Bunker Hill....
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The Great Democracies: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume IV (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 44 min.
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Winston Churchill
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Christian Rodska
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The fourth and last volume in Churchill's famous account spans 1815 to 1901...
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The Last Days of the Incas (Unabridged)
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In 1532, the 54yearold Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru....
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Unabridged)
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Michael Dobbs
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In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (Unabridged)
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Michael Norman, Elizabeth Norman
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Michael Prichard
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For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan....
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Unabridged)
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Melvyn Bragg
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This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....
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The Cold War: A New History (Unabridged)
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Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy....
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (Unabridged)
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In The March of Folly, twotime Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages...
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Fire & Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 50 min.
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Christian Wolmar
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Fire & Steam celebrates the vision of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a countrywide railway to emerge....
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Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris (Unabridged)
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Author Jill Jonnes recaptures the 1889 Paris World's Fair. Casting vehement criticism aside, Gustave Eiffel built his tower to be the fair's centerpiece....
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth (Unabridged)
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Brimming with enthralling details and personalities, Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World spotlights Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map....
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Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Unabridged)
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Alistair Cooke
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John Byrne
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Bringing the United States during World War II dramatically to life, this title presents an introduction to the challenges that faced America at the start of a war long thought avoidable....
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)
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19 hours and 1 min.
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Bill Bryson
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William Roberts
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Unabridged)
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Vladimir Zubok
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Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 19431944
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Rick Atkinson
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The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate....
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The Second John McPhee Reader, Book Two (Unabridged)
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John McPhee
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Nelson Runger
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For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction....
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 30 min.
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Martin Dugard
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John Lee
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Dr. Livingstone, I presume?....
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O Jerusalem! (Unabridged)
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23 hours and 41 min.
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Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
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Frederick Davidson
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At the center of this massive and brilliant book is the most universal of man's cities: Jerusalem, the mystic heart of three great religions, condemned to pay for the passions it inspires....
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation (Unabridged)
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24 hours and 41 min.
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Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Martha Harmon Pardee
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Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind....
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Tobruk (Unabridged)
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23 hours and 22 min.
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Peter FitzSimons
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Humphrey Bower
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$ 34.96
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In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcements and supplies within eight weeks....
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The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America (Unabridged)
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25 hours and 10 min.
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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Frederick Davidson
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$ 34.96
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The great voyages of discovery to the New World are here brought to life by one of the 20th century's most eminent historians....
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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 36 min.
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Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder
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$ 31.93
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An extraordinary writer, Tracy Kidder once again shows us what it means to be fully human by telling a story about the heroism inherent in ordinary people, a story about a life based on hope....
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 3 min.
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Lars Brownworth
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Lars Brownworth
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$ 31.93
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In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another 11 centuries....
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The World Crisis 19111918 Part Three 19161918 (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 41 min.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Christian Rodska
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$ 27.52
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Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentiethcentury history....
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The Second World War: The Grand Alliance (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 54 min.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Christian Rodska
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$ 27.88
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Churchill's history of the Second World War recounts the events of 1941 surrounding America's entry into the War, Hitler's march on Russia, and the alliance between Britain and America....
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The Illustrious Dead: Napoleon, Typhus, and the Dream of World Conquest (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 30 min.
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Stephan Talty
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Stephen Hoye
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$ 27.93
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New York Times bestselling author Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world....
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
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9 hours and 52 min.
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Laurence Bergreen
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Paul Boehmer
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$ 27.93
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As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West....
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World 17881800
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12 hours and 56 min.
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Jay Winik
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Sam Tsoutsouvas
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$ 27.93
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into monumental revolution....
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A Shorter History of Australia (Unabridged)
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11 hours
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Geoffrey Blainey
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Humphrey Bower
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$ 27.97
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Geoffrey Blainey is wellplaced to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity....
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The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 25 min.
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Sarah Murgatroyd
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Catherine Milte
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$ 27.97
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In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of Melbourne....
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Conquests and Cultures: An International History (Unabridged)
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16 hours and 20 min.
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Thomas Sowell
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Robertson Dean
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$ 27.97
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This book is the culmination of fifteen years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice....
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A Concise History of the Middle East, Ninth Edition (Unabridged)
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18 hours and 9 min.
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Arthur Goldschmidt, Lawrence Davidson
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Tom Weiner
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$ 27.97
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The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East....
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
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9 hours and 55 min.
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Mark Bowden
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Mark Bowden
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$ 27.97
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The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history....
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 31 min.
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Tamim Ansary
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Tamim Ansary
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$ 27.97
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Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other....
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Munich, 1938: Appeasement and World War II (Unabridged)
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19 hours and 9 min.
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David Faber
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Arthur Morey
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$ 27.99
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On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting at Munich with the German chancellor Adolf Hitler and was greeted with a hero's welcome....
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The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 51 min.
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Jim Marrs
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Paul Boehmer
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$ 27.99
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Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government....
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 4 min.
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Nicholas Thompson
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Michael Prichard
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$ 27.99
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Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winningand survivingthat harrowing conflict....
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The Looming Tower: AlQaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 23 min.
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Lawrence Wright
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Alan Sklar
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$ 27.99
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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans, and the Western intelligence failures....
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Churchill and America (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 42 min.
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Martin Gilbert
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Simon Vance
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$ 27.99
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Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America....
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The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 22 min.
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Ji Chaozhu
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Norman Dietz
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$ 27.99
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No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu's The Man on Mao's Right....
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A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 29 min.
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Robert J. Mrazek
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Dick Hill
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$ 27.99
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One of the great untold stories of WW II finally comes to light in this account of the members of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet ....
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 19 min.
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Jack Weatherford
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Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
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$ 28.00
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 58 min.
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Simon Winchester
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Simon Winchester
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$ 29.27
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The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcanoisland of Krakatoa (the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster) was followed by an immense tsunami....
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The Second World War: Alone (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 4 min.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Christian Rodska
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$ 29.61
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After the first forty days we were alone, writes Churchill. This edition is part two of Churchill's own abridgement of his original sixvolume history of the Second World War....
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The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 42 min.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Christian Rodska
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$ 29.61
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Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work....
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A History of Britain, Volume 2: The British Wars, 1603 1776
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10 hours and 53 min.
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Simon Schama
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Timothy West
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$ 29.61
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Simon Schama's sweeping history of Britain breathes life into our past centuries, vividly depicting exactly what life was like for our ancestors....
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A History of Britain, Volume 3: The Fate of Empire, 1776 2000
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10 hours and 55 min.
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Simon Schama
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Timothy West
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$ 29.61
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Awardwinning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental threevolume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic....
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Hannibal: One Man Against Rome (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 14 min.
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Harold Lamb
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 30.80
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This is the breathtaking adventure of the great Carthaginian general who shook the foundations of Rome...
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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 5 min.
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Gregory Feifer
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Robertson Dean
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$ 24.49
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In gripping detail, Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered....
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Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 17 min.
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Margaret MacMillan
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Barbara Caruso
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$ 24.49
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Margaret MacMillan brings her extraordinary gifts to two of the most important countries today, the United States and China, and one of the most significant moments in modern history....
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 3 min.
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Eric Metaxas
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Johnny Heller
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$ 24.49
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Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (17591833)....
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Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 49 min.
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John Frederick Walker
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David Colacci
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$ 24.49
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Ivory's Ghosts is the first comprehensive, contemporary look at the world's most treasured organic material, ivory....
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 58 min.
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Michael B. Oren
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Robert Whitfield
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$ 24.47
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In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as the Setback....
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Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man who Was Shakespeare
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10 hours and 15 min.
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Mark Anderson
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Simon Prebble
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$ 24.47
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Journalist Mark Anderson's biography offers tantalizing proof that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the real Shakespeare....
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Empires of the Sea: The Contest for the Center of the World (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 21 min.
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Roger Crowley
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John Lee
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$ 24.49
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Empires of the Sea tells the story of the 50year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean....
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The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 7 min.
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Bill Sloan
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Robertson Dean
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$ 25.17
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The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the largest landseaair battle ever waged by the United States....
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Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 12 min.
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Pete Earley
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Edward Holland
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$ 25.17
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When Aldrich Ames was arrested in 1994, he had been feeding the KGB information for nine years....
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The World Crisis 191118: Part 1 1911 to 1914 (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 17 min.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Christian Rodska
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$ 25.30
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Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of 20hcentury history....
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Days that Changed the World: The Defining Moments in World History (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 56 min.
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Hywel Williams
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Gordon Dulieu, Charlotte Strevens
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$ 25.30
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Covering nearly 2500 years, from 480 BC to 11 September 2001, Days that Changed the World tells the stories of 50 days that truly made history....
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Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 39 min.
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Matthew Brzezinski
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Charles Stransky
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$ 25.87
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On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....
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The Demon Under The Microscope (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 18 min.
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Thomas Hager
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Stephen Hoye
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$ 26.59
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Fastpaced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....
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Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 2 min.
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David Cordingly
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John Lee
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$ 26.59
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Nicknamed le loup des mers (the sea wolf) by Napoleon, Thomas Cochrane was one of the most daring and successful naval heroes of all time....
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The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 33 min.
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Charles Pellegrino
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Arthur Morey
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$ 26.59
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Last Train from Hiroshima offers listeners a stunning you are there time capsule, gracefully wrapped in elegant prose.....
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 38 min.
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Stephen Kinzer
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Paul Boehmer
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$ 26.59
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This book recounts the thrilling and uplifting tale of a man who defied the odds to lift himself and his country out of misery toward a more promising future....
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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 16 min.
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Buddy Levy
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Patrick Lawlor
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$ 26.59
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It was a moment unique in human history: the facetoface meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart....
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Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies' Table Our Journey Through the Middle East (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 12 min.
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Ted Dekker, Carl Medearis
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George K. Wilson
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$ 20.99
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Is it really possible to love one's enemies? That's the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East....
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Anne Frank Remembered (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 9 min.
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Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold
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Barbara Rosenblat
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$ 20.99
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From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a diary in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity....
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 20 min.
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Brian Fagan
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Tavia Gilbert
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$ 22.95
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A breakout best seller on how the earth's previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara....
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The History of Money (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 35 min.
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Jack Weatherford
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Narrator
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Victor Bevine
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$ 22.95
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The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives....
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One Christmas in Washington: Roosevelt and Churchill Forge the Grand Alliance (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 3 min.
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David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig
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Lloyd James
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A fascinating, indepth look at one of the most crucial periods in modern history....
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Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilization (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 22 min.
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Brian Fagan
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John Haag
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In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian Fagan, climate change is a central issue....
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The Persian Wars, Volume 1 (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 58 min.
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Herodotus
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 15.40
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Unquestionably, Herodotus has left mankind one of the world's greatest works of literature...
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The Persian Wars, Volume 2 (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 29 min.
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Herodotus
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 15.40
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Starting with Book Five, Volume 2 of The Persian Wars enters directly into the intrigues between the Greeks and Persians...
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Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 6 min.
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Nayan Chanda
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Stephen Russell
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$ 12.25
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Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other....
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The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor (Unabridged)
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8 hours and 40 min.
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William B. Breuer
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Patrick Lawlor
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$ 17.47
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Before General MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of I shall return and retake the Philippines from Japanese control, a remarkable rescue mission would have to take place....
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The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 34 min.
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Paul Robert Walker
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Robert Whitfield
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$ 19.56
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The author brings to life Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, two talented, passionate artists, and the competitive drive that united and divided them....
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Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 35 min.
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Lee Harris
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Barrett Whitener
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$ 19.57
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Civilization and Its Enemies is an extraordinary tour de force by America's reigning philosopher of 9/11, Lee Harris....
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A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 16031776
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11 hours
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Simon Schama
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Timothy West
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$ 19.93
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The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars...
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Victory (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 28 min.
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Peter Schweizer
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Ian Esmo
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Victory chronicles why and how Ronald Reagan helped to bring down the Soviet Union....
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 53 min.
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Gavin Menzies
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Simon Vance
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$ 20.97
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Gavin Menzies presents astonishing new evidence that it was Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that set the European Renaissance ablaze....
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Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of World War II's OSS (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 6 min.
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Patrick K. O'Donnell
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Christopher Lane
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$ 20.97
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A revealing look into the intrigue and extraordinary courage of our intelligence gatherers of World War II....
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Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 52 min.
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Nechama Tec
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Stefan Rudnicki
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$ 20.97
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The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims. But in fact, many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich....
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 4 min.
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Paul Johnson
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James Adams
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$ 20.97
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In this enlightening and entertaining work, Johnson presents heroism through examples in history....
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After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 49 min.
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Brian Latell
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Stefan Rudnicki
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$ 20.97
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In this compelling, behindthescenes account, former top CIA officer and Cuba expert Brian Latell examines the extraordinary Castro brothers....
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Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 59 min.
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Diana Preston and Michael Preston
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James Adams
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$ 20.97
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Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, the Taj Mahal's flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have for centuries dazzled all who have seen it....
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 23 min.
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Philip Gourevitch
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Jeff Cummings
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$ 20.97
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In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority....
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VangoNotes for The World: A History, 1/e
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8 hours and 26 min.
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Felipe FernandezArmesto
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$ 19.95
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Download a sample chapter for free now! Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from your text and listen to them on your mp3 player.
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VangoNotes for The World: A Brief History, 1/e
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10 hours and 12 min.
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Felipe FernandezArmesto
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$ 19.95
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Download a sample chapter for free now! Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from your text and listen to them on your mp3 player.
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The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 50 min.
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Gordon S. Wood
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Malcolm Hillgartner
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$ 20.97
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History is to society what memory is to the individual. Historian Gordon Wood examines the sea change in his field through consideration of some of its most important historians and their works....
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The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 36 min.
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Dore Gold
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Nadia May
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$ 20.97
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Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and make it off limits to Christian and Jewish believers. This revealing book reminds us that the war on terror is also a war on faith....
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VangoNotes for The World: A History, 1/e, Vol. 2
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5 hours and 54 min.
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Felipe FernandezArmesto
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$ 19.95
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Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 33 min.
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Jonathan B. Tucker
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Patrick Cullen
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$ 19.57
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Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges....
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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 29 min.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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Pam Ward
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$ 19.57
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From bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions....
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 41 min.
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George Friedman
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William Hughes
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Grounded in Friedman's unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary trends, The Next 100 Years is a compelling, realistic, and eyeopening portrait of the future....
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A Short History of Africa (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 27 min.
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Roland Oliver, J. D. Fage
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Geoffrey Howard
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$ 19.56
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Dramatic alterations in political power have corrected the once prevalent vision of a Europeancentered world....
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The Duel: The 80Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 39 min.
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John Lukacs
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Grover Gardner
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$ 15.93
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This is a daybyday account of the 80day struggle in 1940 between Hitler, poised on the edge of absolute victory, and Churchill, threatened by imminent invasion and defeat....
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China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 8 min.
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David Kang
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David Henry
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$ 17.47
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Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 18391841...
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Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 25 min.
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Rashid Khalidi
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Ray Grover
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$ 17.47
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To understand the momentous events in the Middle East over the last two decades we must understand the crucial interplay of cold war superpowers there from 1945 to 1990....
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Vandargal Vendrargal (Unabridged)
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12 hour 44 min
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Madhan
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Charles K
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$ 17.47
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An audiobook in Tamil language....
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The Bloody White Baron: The Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 28 min.
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James Palmer
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Stefan Rudnicki
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$ 22.95
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In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron UngernSternberg....
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An Edible History of Humanity (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 3 min.
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Tom Standage
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George K. Wilson
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$ 20.99
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Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion....
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Galileo's Daughter (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 49 min.
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Dava Sobel
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George Guidall
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$ 21.27
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Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world.....
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Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 32 min.
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Christian Wolmar
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Michael Tudor Barnes
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$ 21.41
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Blood, Iron, and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world, linking cities that had hitherto been isolated....
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Tamerlane: Conqueror of the Earth (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 19 min.
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Harold Lamb
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 22.40
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Harold Lamb brings the mighty Tatar leader Tamerlane to vivid life and shows how this ruthless commander used his superior intellect and magnetic leadership to overcome one obstacle after another....
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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9 hours and 34 min.
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Jared Diamond
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Christopher Murney
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$ 24.47
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In his millioncopy best seller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world....
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Red Star Rogue (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 14 min.
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Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond
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Brian Emerson
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$ 23.07
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One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last....
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 32 min.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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Wanda McCaddon
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$ 23.07
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Twotime Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state....
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Sputnik: The Shock of the Century (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 2 min.
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Paul Dickson
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Jerry Carrier
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$ 23.77
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On October 4, 1957, as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age....
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First into Nagasaki (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 39 min.
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George Weller
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Stefan Rudnicki
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$ 23.07
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On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city....
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Storm and Conquest: The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809 (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 9 min.
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Stephen Taylor
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James Adams
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The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's navy and France....
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Volume 2 (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 1 min.
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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Frederick Davidson
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$ 23.07
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus...
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 59 min.
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Gavin Menzies
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Simon Vance
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$ 23.07
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Lost in China's selfimposed isolation after 1423 was the knowledge that the Chinese had reached America 70 years before Columbus....
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 22 min.
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Michael Wex
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Michael Wex
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$ 26.60
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Michael Wex gives us a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile....
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Children of War: The Second World War Through the Eyes of a Generation (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 35 min.
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Susan Goodman
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Anne Dover
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$ 26.71
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The novelist Susan Goodman, herself a child of the Second World War, wanted to commemorate and celebrate the experiences of a special generation before they were lost to history....
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Nella Last's Peace: The PostWar Diaries of Housewife, 50 (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 19 min.
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Patricia Malcolmson
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Carole Boyd
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$ 26.84
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In this next installment of her unique diaries, Nella Last describes how ordinary people rebuilt their lives after the war was over....
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Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 37 min.
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Anne Nelson
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Anne Nelson
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$ 26.59
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This riveting account of German resistance is based on years of research by the distinguished journalist Anne Nelson. This is a beautiful and moving portrait of ordinary but heroic figures....
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Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 51 min.
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William Rosen
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Barrett Whitener
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$ 26.59
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The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea....
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The Fourth Horseman: One Man's Mission to Wage the Great War in America (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 7 min.
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Robert Koenig
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Norman Dietz
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$ 26.59
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The Fourth Horseman tells the startling story of a secret mission led by a brilliant but conflicted surgeon who became one of Germany's most daring spies and saboteurs during World War I....
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Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 194145
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10 hours and 5 min.
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John A. Glusman
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Harry Chase
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$ 26.57
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The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II....
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Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 18691899 (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 7 min.
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Dominic Green
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Stephen Hoye
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Three Empires on the Nile tells of the rise of the first modern Islamic state and its fateful encounter with the British Empire of Queen Victoria....
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The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 14 min.
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Nancy Goldstone
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Josephine Bailey
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Nancy Goldstone portrays the riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial, and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages....
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Internal Combustion (Unabridged)
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16 hours and 6 min.
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Edwin Black
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Stephen Hoye
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Internal Combustion is the compelling tale of corruption and manipulation that subjected the U.S. and the world to an oil addiction that could have been avoided, that was never necessary....
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 27 min.
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Thomas Keneally
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Simon Vance
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It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony....
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White Hunters (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 19 min.
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Brian Herne
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Robert Whitfield
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A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....
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Is Paris Burning? (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 10 min.
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Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
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Frederick Davidson
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Is Paris burning? is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city....
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The Triumph of the West: The Origin, Rise, and Legacy of Western Civilization (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 23 min.
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J.M. Roberts
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Frederick Davidson
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Over the centuries, two important beliefs arose in Europe: a faith that man could order his own destiny and that progress was normal....
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Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 17171927 (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 10 min.
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Jessica L. HarlandJacobs
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Brett Barry
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They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers....
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Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 23 min.
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Gerard Helferich
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Ray Childs
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The thrilling story of the charismatic explorer who Simon Bolivar called the true discoverer of South America and the daring expedition that altered the course of science....
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 35 min.
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Robert Leckie
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John Allen Nelson
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Here is one of the most riveting firstperson accounts ever to come out of World War II....
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 36 min.
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Jennet Conant
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Simon Prebble
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$ 24.99
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Prior to the U.S. entering WWII, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed....
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Genius: Volume 1 (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 32 min.
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iMinds
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iMinds Genius collection presents 72 iMinds knowledge grabs, offering six titles across each of the 12 main categories of knowledge....
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 39 min.
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Sandy Tolan
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Sandy Tolan
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Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli/Palestinian conflict down to its most human level....
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 30 min.
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Niall Ferguson
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Simon Prebble
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$ 24.99
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance....
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 13 min.
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Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende (Foreword)
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Jonathan Davis
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Since its U.S. debut a quartercentury ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America....
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus, Volume 1 (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 44 min.
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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Frederick Davidson
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all...
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 17 min.
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Nicholson Baker
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Norman Dietz
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Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust....
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The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 12 min.
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Charles Nicholl
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Simon Vance
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In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster; it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded....
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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 35 min.
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Michael Krondl
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Todd McLaren
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In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chefturnedjournalist tells the story of three legendary cities that transformed the globe in the quest for spice....
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In the Ruins of Empire (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 21 min.
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Ronald Spector
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Michael Prichard
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Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia peace was a brief, fretful interlude....
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Firestorm: Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 1 min.
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Marshall De Bruhl
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Michael Prichard
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On February 13 and 14, 1945, three successive waves of British and U.S. aircraft rained down thousands of tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on the largely undefended city of Dresden....
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 57 min.
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Robert McCrum
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James Langton
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It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the 19th century...
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Prehistory: Making of the Human Mind (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 1 min.
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Colin Renfrew
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Robert Ian MacKenzie
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In this passionately argued work, Colin Renfrew offers a concise summary of prehistory while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself....
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The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea (Unabridged)
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10 hour 46 min
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James Campbell
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Stephen Hoye
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The 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of World War II's entire Pacific campaign....
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A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 38 min.
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Lucas Delattre
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Michael Prichard
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A work of remarkable scholarship that moves with the swift pace of a John le Carre thriller, A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich is a chilling addition to the literature of espionage....
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Shadows in the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 47 min.
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Larry Alexander
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Norman Dietz
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Set on retaking the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a firstrate intelligencegathering unit....
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Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 27 min.
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David S. Landes
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Alan Sklar
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Through perseverance, solid ingenuity, and unwavering determination, familyrun companies dynasties have dominated wealth and business throughout the last two centuries....
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The Forgotten 500 (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 40 min.
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Gregory A. Freeman
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Patrick Lawlor
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The astonishing, neverbeforetold story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II: when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines....
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Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 19421945 (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 12 min.
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Barrett Tillman
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Mel Foster
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Whirlwind is the only book to examine in depth the human drama behind the most important bombing campaign in history....
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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 10 min.
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Colin Wells
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Lloyd James
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A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia....
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A History of China (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 32 min.
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Hilda Hookham
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Charlton Griffin
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From Confucius and LaoTzu to Sun Yatsen, Chang Kaishek and Mao Zedong, Chinese civilization unfolds here in this audiobook as a comprehensible and highly enjoyable summary....
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The Great Age of Discovery, Volume 2: Captain Cook and the Scientific Explorations (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 9 min.
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Paul Herrmann
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Charlton Griffin
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As the 18th century approached its midpoint, commercial and military competition between the European states became fierce....
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The Great Age of Discovery, Volume 1: Columbus, Magellan, and the Early Explorations (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 16 min.
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Paul Herrmann
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Charlton Griffin
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In the space of 400 years, Western man methodically set out to explore and map the entire earth....
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Europe Since 1815, Volume 1: Reaction and Nationalism (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 29 min.
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Mitchell Garrett and James Godfrey
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Charlton Griffin
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Europe underwent profound upheavals in the decades immediately following the downfall of Napoleon....
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Europe Since 1815, Volume 2: Imperialism and Militarism (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 44 min.
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Mitchell Garrett and James Godfrey
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 30.80
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19th century Europe produced some of the greatest soldiers, statesmen, scientists, artists, and thinkers of any period in recorded history....
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Europe Since 1815, Volume 3: Catastrophe and Renewal (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 17 min.
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Mitchell Garrett and James Godfrey
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Charlton Griffin
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The ominous forces of militarism, nationalism, and secret alliances were finally set loose by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand....
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Embracing Defeat (Unabridged)
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21 hours and 39 min.
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John W. Dower
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Edward Lewis
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This illuminating study explores the ways in which the defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society....
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 18901914 (Unabridged)
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21 hours and 47 min.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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Nadia May
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The fateful quartercentury leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was heaving in its pain....
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The Guns of August (Unabridged)
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19 hours and 9 min.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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Nadia May
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In this Pulitzer Prizewinning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
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A History of Warfare (Unabridged)
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19 hours and 12 min.
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John Keegan
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Frederick Davidson
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Starting with the premise that all civilizations owe their origins to warmaking, Keegan probes the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war in different societies....
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century (Unabridged)
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23 hour 7 min
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Alex Ross
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Grover Gardner
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The Rest Is Noise takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern music....
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The History of the Peloponnesian War (Unabridged)
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22 hours and 6 min.
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Thucydides
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Pat Bottino
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$ 31.47
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The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 B.C. and continued intermittently for 27 years....
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A History of the Arab Peoples (Unabridged)
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20 hours and 47 min.
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Albert Hourani
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Nadia May
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$ 31.47
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Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises...
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The Origins of Totalitarianism (Unabridged)
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23 hours and 22 min.
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Hannah Arendt
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Nadia May
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$ 31.47
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This classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an ideological weapon for imperialism....
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The Story of India (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 36 min.
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Michael Wood
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Sam Dastor
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$ 29.61
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Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000year history of India....
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Lost Discoveries: The Multicultural Roots of Modern Science from the Babylonians to the Maya (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 38 min.
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Dick Teresi
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Peter Johnson
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In the tradition of Daniel Boorstin, the cofounder of Omni delivers an original work of history...
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 14 min.
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William J. Bernstein
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Mel Foster
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$ 27.99
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In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....
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Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 28 min.
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Nina Burleigh
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Cassandra Campbell
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$ 28.00
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Little more than 200 years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modernday Middle East....
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 30 min.
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Steve Wiegand, Erik Sass
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Johny Heller
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$ 27.99
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About 60,000 years ago, the first Homo sapiens were just beginning their move across the grasslands and up the ladder of civilization....
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The Hitler Book (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 20 min.
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Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl
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Michael Prichard
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$ 27.99
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Joseph Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler....
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The Pirate Queen (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 41 min.
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Susan Ronald
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Josephine Bailey
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$ 27.99
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Dubbed the pirate queen by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies....
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The Greatest Battle (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 42 min.
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Andrew Nagorski
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Michael Prichard
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$ 27.99
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Based on previously secret documents and eyewitness testimony, this is the shocking account of the most massive and deadliest battle of World War II....
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Hitler and the Holocaust (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles]
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9 hours and 5 min.
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Robert S. Wistrich
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George Guidall
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$ 26.95
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For over 50 years scholars and philosophers alike have attempted to make some sense of the Third Reich and its Final Solution campaign....
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The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 55 min.
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Anthony Gottlieb
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Nadia May
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$ 27.97
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In this landmark new study of Western thought, Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers...
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The Basque History of the World (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 47 min.
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Mark Kurlansky
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George Guidall
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$ 27.97
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The singular remarkable fact about the Basques is that they still exist, best selling author Mark Kurlansky says...
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China, Inc. (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 38 min.
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Ted C. Fishman
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Alan Sklar
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$ 27.99
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How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism....
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Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (Unabridged)
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18 hours and 20 min.
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Robert Falcon Scott
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William Sutherland
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$ 27.97
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In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott...
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Salt: A World History (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 43 min.
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Mark Kurlansky
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Scott Brick
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$ 27.97
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So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it...
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Panama Fever (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 45 min.
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Matthew Parker
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Oliver Wyman
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$ 27.97
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The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history....
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American Theocracy (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 51 min.
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Kevin Phillips
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Scott Brick
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$ 27.93
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Every worlddominating power has been brought down by a related set of causes....
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Heroes of History (Unabridged)
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12 hours and 10 min.
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Will Durant
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Grover Gardner
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$ 27.95
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At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses....
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Jews, God, and History (Unabridged)
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17 hours and 54 min.
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Max I. Dimont
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Anna Fields
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$ 27.97
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Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe....
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A Measureless Peril (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 26 min.
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Richard Snow
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John Dossett
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$ 27.93
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Richard Snow's nonfiction account of America's role in the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II....
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The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel
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9 hours
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Roberto Escobar
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Ruben Diaz
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$ 27.93
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Arguably the largest and most successful criminal enterprise in history, at times the Medellin drug cartel was smuggling 15 tons of cocaine a day, worth more than half a billion dollars....
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The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 9 min.
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Gregg Easterbrook
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Jonathan Marosz
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$ 27.93
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Gregg Easterbrook makes the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century; and yet today, most men and women feel less happy...
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The Man Who Loved China (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 11 min.
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Simon Winchester
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Simon Winchester
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$ 31.93
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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester chronicles the story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who turned his eccentric genius on the study of China....
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A Short History of Ireland (Unabridged)
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22 hours and 55 min.
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Dr Jonathan Bardon
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-
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$ 33.39
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In the wake of its 30th birthday celebrations in 2006, BBC Radio Ulster embarked on the station's most ambitious project to date, the recounting of the history of Ireland....
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (Unabridged)
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28 hours and 1 min.
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David K. Shipler
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Robert Blumenfeld
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$ 34.97
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The Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature...
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A History of the Jews (Unabridged)
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28 hours and 45 min.
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Paul Johnson
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Nadia May
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$ 34.97
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This historical magnum opus covers 4,000 years of the extraordinary history of the Jews as a people, a culture, and a nation....
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The Crusades (Unabridged)
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27 hours and 6 min.
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Zoe Oldenbourg
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Nadia May
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$ 34.97
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With subtlety and exceptional sensitivity, historian Zoe Oldenbourg analyzes the complicated tangle of currents and ideas that motivated the Crusades....
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 19 min.
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Author
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Jack Weatherford
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Robertson Dean
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$ 31.93
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With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford restores the queens' missing chapter to the annals of history....
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A Short History of Medicine: Modern Library Chronicles (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 29 min.
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Author
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Frank GonzalezCrussi
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John McDonough
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$ 32.87
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Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank GonzalezCrussi penned this concise history of medicine....
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Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 20 min.
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Author
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Kenneth Timmerman
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Robertson Dean
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$ 31.93
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Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The new antiSemitism targets not only Jews, but Americans...
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Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 44 min.
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Lisa Miller
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Linda Emond
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$ 31.93
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Newsweek editor Lisa Miller presents a compelling study of the afterlife in Heaven.....
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A History of Greece, Volume 1 (Unabridged)
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9 hours and 31 min.
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Cyril Robinson
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 30.80
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A History of Greece is the thrilling story of the rise to power and influence of the greatest civilization the world has ever known...
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A History of Rome, Volume 1 (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 38 min.
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Author
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Cyril Robinson
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 30.80
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A History of Rome is the story of a tiny market town on the Tiber, its rise to world domination, and then its slow, terrible plunge to utter ruin...
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Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 8 min.
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Arthur Goldwag
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Fred Sanders
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$ 35.93
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An indispensable guide, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and suspicious coincidences.....
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Empire of Blue Water (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 25 min.
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Stephan Talty
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John H. Mayer
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$ 35.93
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Henry Morgan challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. This is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean....
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The Africans (Unabridged)
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18 hours and 27 min.
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David Lamb
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Nelson Runger
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$ 34.99
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Written in 1983, The Africans is a remarkable and very personal commentary on the people of this vast continent....
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Worlds at War: The 2,500Year Struggle Between East and West (Unabridged)
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20 hours and 35 min.
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Anthony Pagden
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John Lee
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$ 34.99
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The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....
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The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo (Unabridged)
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21 hours and 59 min.
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Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins
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Patrick Lawlor
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$ 38.49
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Roy Adkins, with his wife, Lesley, returns to the Napoleonic War in The War for All the Oceans, a gripping account of the naval struggle that lasted from 1798 to 1815....
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The Influence of Seapower Upon History (Unabridged)
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20 hours and 22 min.
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Author
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Alfred T. Mahan
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Jonathan Reese
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$ 37.95
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In 1886, the U.S. had no navy to speak of. But it did have Alfred T. Mahan, a captain of the U.S. Navy...
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The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Unabridged)
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30 hours and 34 min.
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Robert Conquest
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Frederick Davidson
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$ 38.46
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The definitive work on Stalin's purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968.....
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The Pirate Hunter (Unabridged)
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18 hours and 27 min.
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Richard Zacks
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Michael Prichard
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$ 41.99
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....
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Weapons at War: Grunts of Vietnam
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44 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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The story of the soldiers and Marines who saw combat in Vietnam....
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Weapons at War: Attack Helicopters
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43 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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This episode traces the marriage of firepower and the helicopter....
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Weapons at War: Air Cavalry
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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With the evolution of the parachute, the paratrooper, and the helicopter, traditional ground warfare acquired a new, third dimension....
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Weapons at War: Hazardous Duty
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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We look at the military power that has been unleashed by the United States and the unmatched arsenal it has at its disposal....
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Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford (Unabridged)
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13 hours and 27 min.
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Julia Fox
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Julia Barrie
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$ 66.39
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Jane Rochford was the sisterinlaw to Anne Boleyn and Lady of the Bedchamber to Catherine Howard, whom she followed to the scaffold in 1542....
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Biography: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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46 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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Meet the man who went from Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe, in WWII to CommanderinChief....
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Biography: General Omar Bradley
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46 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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A profile of the great American military leader who became one of the few fivestar generals....
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Biography: Chester Nimitz
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47 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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A profile of the World War II leader who took command of a shattered navy and led U.S. forces to victory over oftensuperior Japanese forces....
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Biography: Admiral Bull Halsey
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46 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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This episode chronicles the turbulent life and times of the legendary World War II leader who fought toetotoe with the mighty Japanese Navy....
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Biography: Jimmy Doolittle
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45 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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The dazzling career of the aviation pioneer who led World War II's most hairraising air raids, and whose perilous experiments with blind flying helped usher in the era of commercial aviation....
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Biography: Hap Arnold
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46 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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A profile of the aviation pioneer who helped build Pan American Airways and the U.S. Air Force, and who was the genius behind American air strategy in WWII....
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Biography: Erwin Rommel
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47 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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The story of Germany's brilliant Desert Fox who nearly outfoxed Allied troops in World War II, and then later plotted to assassinate Hitler....
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Biography: Tokyo Rose
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44 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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The story of the women who broadcast Japanese propaganda to American troops in WWII. Focuses on Iva Toguri, a U.S. citizen, who became known as Tokyo Rose for her radio broadcasts....
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Biography: George C. Marshall
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45 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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A portrait of the WWII fivestar general who was the only career officer ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize....
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Biography: General Douglas MacArthur
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45 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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Administrator, swashbuckler, and statesman, MacArthur was a military man of definite style who crossed swords with presidents....
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Biography: Harry S. Truman (Unabridged)
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46 min.
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A&E Television Networks
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$ 0.95
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He was a Midwest farm boy who never graduated from college and a failed businessman who turned to politics because he needed a job....
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Secret Societies: Inside the World's Most Notorious Organizations (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 42 min.
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Author
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John Lawrence Reynolds
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Narrator
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Paul Hecht
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$ 30.87
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John Lawrence Reynolds takes a behindthescenes look at the origins, initiations, secret signs and famous members of the most notorious secret societies of all time....
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Marco Polo (Unabridged)
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16 hours and 29 min.
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Author
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Laurence Bergreen
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Narrator
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Paul Boehmer
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$ 43.93
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As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West....
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The World Is Flat: Further Updated and Expanded (Unabridged)
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27 hours and 21 min.
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Author
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Thomas L. Friedman
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Narrator
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Oliver Wyman
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$ 47.93
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With the "flattening" of the globe, the world may have gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner....
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (Unabridged)
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25 hours and 46 min.
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Margaret MacMillan
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Suzanne Toren
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$ 48.95
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Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's bestselling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world....
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Churchill (Unabridged)
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37 hours and 31 min.
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Roy Jenkins
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Robert Whitfield
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$ 48.97
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Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost 60 years...
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Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History (Unabridged)
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15 hours and 16 min.
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Mark Kurlansky
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Josephine Bailey, Ed Begley, Jr., Constance Towers Gavin, and more
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$ 48.97
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Every once in a while a writer of particular skills takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea...
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Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Unabridged)
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39 hours and 28 min.
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Paul Johnson
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Nadia May
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$ 48.97
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This fastpaced, allencompassing narrative history offers a fullscale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....
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History of the World, Updated (Unabridged)
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54 hours and 48 min.
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J.M. Roberts
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Frederick Davidson
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$ 48.97
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In the History of the World, Updated, J. M. Roberts has revised his monumental previous work, History of the World, taking into account the great range of discoveries....
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The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (Unabridged)
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44 hours and 36 min.
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H. G. Wells
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Bernard Mayes
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$ 48.97
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Having coined the phrase the war that will end war, H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement....
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I Believe in Yesterday: A 2000Year Tour Through the Filth and Fury of Living History (Unabridged)
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10 hours and 31 min.
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Tim Moore
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Andrew Wincott
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$ 26.91
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Tim Moore finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experiencing the hardships and homespun pleasures enjoyed and endured by Moores gone by....
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An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (Unabridged)
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16 hours and 11 min.
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John O'Farrell
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John O'Farrell
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$ 27.56
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Here at last is a chance to have a good laugh and learn all that stuff you feel you really ought to know by now....
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The Untold History of the Potato (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 52 min.
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John Reader
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Martin Hyder
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$ 19.74
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The potato humble, lumpy, bland, familiar is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? We may be underestimating this remarkable tuber....
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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Unabridged)
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46 hours and 35 min.
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
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Walter Dixon
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$ 41.99
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The National Book Critics Circle Awardwinning author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time....
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The History of Science: A Sweeping Visage of Science and its History
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25 hours and 28 min.
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Professor Michael Shermer
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Dr. Michael Shermer
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$ 69.97
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This is a sweeping look at science, its history and philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present, with special emphasis on defining science within the cultural context of the age....
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The Travels of Marco Polo (Unabridged)
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11 hours and 34 min.
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Marco Polo
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Walter Covell
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$ 44.07
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...
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The Peloponnesian War, Volume 1 (Unabridged)
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14 hours and 46 min.
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Thucydides
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Charlton Griffin
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$ 44.80
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Historians universally agree that Thucydides was the greatest historian who has ever lived, and that his story of the Peloponnesian conflict is a marvel of forensic science and fine literature.....
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Weapons at War: Amphibious Warfare
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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Robert Conrad, George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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We take a look at the vehicles that make possible the most complex of military maneuvers: the amphibious assault landing....
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Weapons at War: Big Guns
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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When it comes to superior firepower, military leaders have often believed that bigger is better....
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Weapons at War: Future Weapons
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43 min.
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The History Channel
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Narrator
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George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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Every new weapon must have seemed all powerful when it first appeared on the battlefield....
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Great Blunders in History: Disaster in the Dardanelles
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21 min.
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The History Channel
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Here is an investigation into the true story behind the military disaster immortalized in the film Gallipoli....
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Great Blunders in History: Kashmir
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21 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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Right up to the moment when India and Pakistan became independent, the last British viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, was undecided as to which country should incorporate Kashmir into its borders....
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Great Blunders in History: Disaster at Dien Bien Phu
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24 min.
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The History Channel
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The 1954 French army disaster in Vietnam at Dien Bien Phu was a colossal political and military miscalculation....
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Great Blunders in History: The Falklands War
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21 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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An examination of Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri's decision to invade the Britishheld Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas, reveals that it ended his military junta....
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Great Blunders in History: Russian Civil War
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21 min.
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The History Channel
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In 1917, Russia experienced the bloodiest civil war ever, in which 10 million were killed....
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Great Blunders in History: Mao's Great Leap Forward
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21 min.
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The History Channel
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Obsessed with the need to modernize China, Mao TseTung attempted to quadruple China's steel production by sending 100 million peasants to work the furnaces....
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Weapons at War: Submarines
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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Robert Conrad, George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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We trace the history of the world's most powerful weapons: ballistic missile submarines....
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Weapons at War: Sub Hunters
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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The hunter became the hunted as Navies developed the special weapons and tactics of antisubmarine warfare....
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Weapons at War: Battleships
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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Robert Conrad, George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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There was a time when the battleship was the largest mobile structure on the face of the earth. A nation's power was measured by the number of battleships sailing under its flag....
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Weapons at War: Hell on Wheels
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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$ 0.95
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Armored cars gave soldiers the chance to shoot on the move....
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Weapons at War: Experimental Weapons
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52 min.
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The History Channel
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Robert Conrad, George C. Scott
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$ 0.95
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Technological advances change the speed and scope of warfare....
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China: Geography & Nature (Unabridged)
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5 min.
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iMinds
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Leah Vandenburg
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$ 0.99
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Learn about the history and geography of China with iMinds....
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Alan Dershowitz and Natan Sharansky on Peace in the Middle East at the 92nd Street Y
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1 hour and 26 min.
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Alan Dershowitz and Natan Sharansky
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Natan Sharansky
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Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and former Israeli Minister Natan Sharansky discuss the possibilities and pitfalls....
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The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda
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51 min.
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American RadioWorks
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In April 1994, the central African nation of Rwanda exploded into 100 days of violence, killing 800,000 people....
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Korea: The Unfinished War
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49 min.
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American RadioWorks
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To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended more than fifty years ago...
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Shadow Over Lockerbie
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53 min.
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American RadioWorks
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$ 2.95
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270 people died when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988....
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Specialist: History, Volume 1 (Unabridged)
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45 min.
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iMinds
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$ 3.99
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Have a particular interest? Recognize gaps in your knowledge? iMinds Specialist works across each of our 12 categories bringing you targeted information to broaden your mind....
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Global Jihad: Understanding September 11 (Unabridged)
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1 hour 46 min.
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Quintan Wiktorowicz
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Grover Gardner
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$ 4.95
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A Middle East scholar writes in a clear straightforward manner, carefully explaining who the terrorists are, where they come from...
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A Difference in Magnitude: The World's First Nuclear Attacks
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2 hours and 59 min.
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Pocket University
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Ralph Cosham
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$ 4.95
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In post 9/11, nuclear proliferation has put new meaning to the world's first nuclear attacks....
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Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura, Rome
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1 hour and 48 min.
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Jane's Smart Art Guides
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M. Jane McIntosh
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$ 9.77
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Raphael's groundbreaking frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura at the Vatican are among the greatest achievements in the history of art....
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Christian History Issue #28: The 100 Most Important Events in Church History (Unabridged)
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3 hours and 25 min.
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Author
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Hovel Audio
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Nadia May
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$ 8.98
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Inside this issue you'll find 100 of the greatest events in Church history....
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Diary of an Airborne Ranger: An LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone
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2 hours
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Frank Johnson
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Don Leslie
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$ 7.93
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When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was 19, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others but with two important differences...
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Greece: The Golden Age
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1 hour 30 min.
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