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Queens and Prophets
By: Emran Iqbal El-Badawi
Narrated by: Lara Sawalha
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Contrary to popular assumption, Arab women were instrumental in shaping world history. Between Rome's intervention in the Arabian Peninsula and the Arab conquests, noblewomen ruled independently, conducting trade and making war. Their power was often celebrated as queen, priestess and goddess. With time they delegated power to the most important... Read more
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Black Catholics on the Road to Sainthood
By: Michael R. Heinlein
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The Church in the United States is greatly blessed by the contributions of Black Catholics and the legacy of holiness of so many men and women of color. These men and women lived lives that are worthy of our study and emulation.
In Black Catholics on the Road to Sainthood, Michael R. Heinlein provides the first book to explore the lives of the... Read more
A Nation So Conceived
By: Michael P. Zuckert
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 19 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln's political thought, Michael Zuckert's A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln's political ideology. Zuckert provides invaluable guidance to understanding both Lincoln and the politics of the United States between 1845 and Lincoln's death in 1865 by focusing on roughly a... Read more
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... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen
By: Viktor E. Frankl
Narrated by: Stefan Barth
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Weltbestseller und Meisterwerk der psychologischen Literatur.
Viktor E. Frankl war Professor für Neurologie und Psychiatrie an der Universität Wien und 25 Jahre hindurch Vorstand der Wiener Neurologischen Poliklinik. Mehrere Jahre musste Viktor Frankl in deutschen Konzentrationslagern verbringen.
1946 diktierte Viktor Frankl innerhalb von 9... Read more
Khrushchev
By: William Taubman
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 34 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life... Read more
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Stalin's War on Japan
By: Charles Stephenson
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Did Japan surrender in 1945 because of the death and devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or because of the crushing defeat inflicted on their armies by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the puppet state they set up in north-east China? Indeed, the Red Army's rapid and total victory in Manchukuo... Read more
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Angels with Dirty Faces
By: Jonathan Wilson
Narrated by: John Sackville
Length: 20 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer
Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di St'fano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Argentina's rich, volatile history -- by turns sublime and ruthlessly... Read more
The Princess Royal
By: Helen Cathcart
Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
To understand what it is to be a Princess Royal, Helen Cathcart skillfully portrays the lives of the foremost royal daughters from the days when princesses were "ladyes" and the King's eldest son was styled Prince Royal, through to our present Princess Royal.
There have been seven Princess Royals throughout British history, the inaugural of... Read more
Support Troops
By: William Monger
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
This story is a chronicle of the year 1968 as seen through the eyes of the author while serving at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand, supporting the air war in Vietnam. It was an odd juxtaposition, repairing the fire-control systems on F-105s that were making twice-daily bombing runs over North Vietnam, while living in relative... Read more
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The Heart of Hell
By: Jeffry D. Wert
Narrated by: Al Kessel
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault that began at 4:30 A.M. on May 12, 1864, sparked brutal combat that lasted nearly twenty-four hours. By the time Grant's forces withdrew, some 55,000 men from Union and Confederate armies had been... Read more
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Operation Underworld
By: Matthew Black
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the US Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it.
Naval intelligence officer Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa... Read more
The Greatest Evil is War
By: Chris Hedges
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of... Read more
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America's Book
By: Mark A. Noll
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 37 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture. It explores the rise of a strongly Protestant Bible civilization in the early United States that was then fractured by debates over slavery, contested by growing numbers of non-Protestant Americans, and torn apart... Read more
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Stormy Passage
By: Eric Van Young
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and burgeoning efforts at modernization.... Read more
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The Battle of Salamis
By: Barry Strauss
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
On a late September day in 480 BC, Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia after it occurred, the clash between the... Read more
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Deadly Hearts
By: Michael Burgan
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A visually dynamic companion to the biographical collection Dark Hearts, this collection of biographies details the cruel and often horrifying lives of history's most notorious - and deadly - people.
Over centuries and around the world, there is a long history of ruthless people who have wreaked havoc to get what they want. Whether... Read more
Escape to the Tatras
By: Oscar Sladek
Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A coming-of-age story set against the rise of fascism, the collapse of democracy in Slovakia and Hungary, the attempted genocide of the Jewish people, and the eventual conquest of the Allied Forces over Nazi Germany, ESCAPE TO THE TATRAS tells the story of one child’s remarkable journey encompassing the essence of life before and throughout... Read more
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The Jungle is Neutral
By: F. Spencer Chapman
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 16 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The Jungle is Neutral makes The Bridge Over the River Kwai look like a tussle in a schoolyard.
F. Spencer Chapman, the book's unflappable author, writes with typical British aplomb an amazing tale of four years spent as a guerrilla in the jungle, haranguing the Japanese in occupied Malaysia.
Traveling sometimes by bicycle and motorcycle,... Read more
The Evolution of Charles Darwin
By: Diana Preston
Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of ManWhen twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his... Read more
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Secession and State Creation
By: Mikulas Fabry & James Ker-Lindsay
Narrated by: Ian Putnam
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
What makes a state? This question has attracted more and more attention in recent years with Catalan's illegal vote for independence from Spain and Palestine's ongoing search for international recognition. And while Scotland chose to remain with the United Kingdom, discussions of independence have only continued as the ramifications of the... Read more
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Sanctions
By: Bruce W. Jentleson
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another.
It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on another. The United States has sanctions against more than... Read more
Mercy
By: Cathal J. Nolan
Narrated by: Tristan Morris
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. Individuality is subsumed in collective violence and humanity is obscured as a faceless, merciless enemy.
A barbaric logic has guided the conduct of war throughout history. Yet as Cathal Nolan reveals in this powerful book, even as war can obliterate hope and decency at the... Read more
Rebels in Arms
By: Justin Iverson
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Enslaved Black people took up arms and fought in nearly every colonial conflict in early British North America. They sometimes served as loyal soldiers to protect and promote their owners' interests in the hope that they might be freed or be rewarded for their service. But for many Black combatants, war and armed conflict offered an opportunity... Read more
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The Contagion of Liberty
By: Andrew M. Wehrman
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to protect themselves against smallpox. In The Contagion of Liberty, Andrew M. Wehrman describes a revolution within a revolution, where... Read more
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