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    • June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    • By: Michael B. Oren
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Richard Stengel
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary of State, was the single person in government tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both ISIS's messaging and Russian disinformation....

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and 20th-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the 20th century. Listen to learn more about Kelles-Krauz....

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    • How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,019 ratings
    • In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Andrew Marr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • Nominated for the British Book Awards, Popular Non-Fiction Award, 2008.
      Shortlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.

      A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • How Britain Made the Modern World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 853 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble....

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    • Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss
    • By: Steve Richards
    • Narrated by: Steve Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • In Turning Points, seasoned political commentator and broadcaster Steve Richards explores the most consequential events in modern British history....

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    • A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....

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    • Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
    • By: Dipo Faloyin
    • Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • A kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story, Africa Is Not a Country brings the story of the continent towards reality....

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    • By: John Locke
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Often considered the foundation of political liberalism, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government was first published anonymously in 1689, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution.....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox
    • Narrated by: Theo Solomon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the Black experience in a white world....

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