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    • The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
    • By: Erwin Bartmann, Derik Hammond
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis....

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    • A History of the Occupied Territories
    • By: Ilan Pappe
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts....

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    • A New History
    • By: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....

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    • How the World's Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
    • By: Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,360 ratings
    • Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data....

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    • By: Rupert Matthews
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history....

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    • The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
    • By: Mark Miodownik
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: The New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters reveal the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff"....

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    • A History of the Holy Roman Empire
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor....

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    • From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber
    • By: Tony Blackman
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire....

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    • Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
    • By: Gerald Posner
    • Narrated by: Scott Aiello
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone....

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    • An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
    • By: Nick Popaditch, Mike Steere
    • Narrated by: Danny Delk
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • May 6, 1986: Nick Popaditch arrives at the Receiving Barracks, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California....

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    • Voices from the BBC Archive
    • By: Mark Jones
    • Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • This is the story of a great tragedy described by the surviving passengers, officers, and crew who were on board that night....

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    • True and Untold Stories of the Making of America
    • By: Glenn Beck
    • Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Glenn Beck
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story....

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    • The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • Serial Killers
    • By: Mitzi Szereto
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan, Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the 20th century..

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    • True Tales from Operators of the Big Cat in Peace and War
    • By: Ian Hall
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Originally intended as a trainer, the Anglo-French Sepecat jet, equipped with the very latest in weapon-aiming and navigational equipment, eventually became the backbone....

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    • By: Max Gallo
    • Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-19
    • Language: French
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • "Le roi est mort, vive le roi !" Mai 1643, un nouveau soleil s'est levé sur le royaume de France. Sous l'œil aimant d'une mère rompue à...

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    • By: John Prebble
    • Narrated by: David Monteath
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • On December 28th, 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing and everyone on board....

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    • The Fate of London's Foundlings
    • By: Helen Berry
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Orphans of Empire tells the story of what happened to the thousands of children who were raised at the London Foundling Hospital, Coram's brainchild, which opened in 1741 and grew to become the most famous charity in Georgian England....

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