Best Sellers
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Written by: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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good book - hard to digest
- By Dallas J Hoday on 2021-03-17
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Poland
- The First Thousand Years
- Written by: Patrice M. Dabrowski
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
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Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux....
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
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In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Essential reading in today's times
- By Kendall L. Harding on 2022-04-10
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I Will Show You How It Was
- The Story of Wartime Kyiv
- Written by: Illia Ponomarenko
- Narrated by: Sergey Nagorny
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In late February 2022, a series of missiles and rocket strikes began falling upon Ukraine, as the Russian military barreled over the border and fanned out across the country. First they took Chernobyl, then Kherson, then Mariupol.
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My Friend Anne Frank
- The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
- Written by: Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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"Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank....
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation....
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A good histor, ok narrator
- By Kevin W. on 2023-04-01
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Written by: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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good book - hard to digest
- By Dallas J Hoday on 2021-03-17
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Poland
- The First Thousand Years
- Written by: Patrice M. Dabrowski
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux....
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Essential reading in today's times
- By Kendall L. Harding on 2022-04-10
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I Will Show You How It Was
- The Story of Wartime Kyiv
- Written by: Illia Ponomarenko
- Narrated by: Sergey Nagorny
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In late February 2022, a series of missiles and rocket strikes began falling upon Ukraine, as the Russian military barreled over the border and fanned out across the country. First they took Chernobyl, then Kherson, then Mariupol.
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My Friend Anne Frank
- The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
- Written by: Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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"Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank....
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation....
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A good histor, ok narrator
- By Kevin W. on 2023-04-01
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Operation Nemesis
- The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
- Written by: Eric Bogosian
- Narrated by: Eric Bogosian
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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A masterful account of the conspiracy of assassins that hunted down the perpetrators of a genocide....
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe
- An Intimate History of a Divided Land
- Written by: Jacob Mikanowski
- Narrated by: Jacob Mikanowski
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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"Eastern Europe" has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone today, and they might tell you that Estonia is in the Baltics or Scandinavia, that Slovakia is in Central Europe, and that Croatia is in the eastern Adriatic or the Balkans....
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Iron Curtain
- The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 26 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe....
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Brilliant and Informative
- By Josiah Logozar on 2021-03-30
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Excellent Book!
- By Sschonwa on 2023-06-23
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- Written by: Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski - translator
- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp....
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Thank you to the authors
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-06-30
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today....
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A must read
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-04-09
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Revolution 1989
- The Fall of the Soviet Empire
- Written by: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
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Revolution 1989 by British journalist Victor Sebestyen is a comprehensive and revealing account of those dizzying days that toppled Soviet tyranny and changed the World....
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The Ottoman Empire
- A History from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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Over the course of just 200 years, the Ottoman Empire grew from a small, obscure Anatolian state into the most powerful Muslim nation in the world, controlling vast swathes of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and North Africa. Then came a period of gradual decline....
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
- Written by: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
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Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact....
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A good approachable history of Istanbul
- By Devin on 2018-02-08
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A Nasty Little War
- The Western Intervention into the Russian Civil War
- Written by: Anna Reid
- Narrated by: Anna Reid
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Russia historian Anna Reid offers a sweeping and deeply researched account of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West....
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Blood, Dust and Snow
- Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front
- Written by: Friedrich Sander, Robin Schafer - editor translator, Roger Moorhouse - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephan Goldbach
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed firsthand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment....
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Stalin's War
- A New History of World War II
- Written by: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
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A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin - not Hitler - was the animating force of World War II in this major new history....
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Very well written and interesting, but bias
- By Paul M. Gareau on 2021-10-27
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Invasion
- The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
- Written by: Luke Harding
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding’s personal, frontline reporting on Russia’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an inflection point in international politics....
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- Written by: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region....
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Ukraine
- The Forging of a Nation
- Written by: Yaroslav Hrytsak
- Narrated by: Greg Kolpakchi
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak tells the sweeping story of his nation through a meticulous examination of the major events, conflicts, and developments that have shaped it over the course of centuries....
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The Great Escape: The Untold Story
- Written by: Ted Barris
- Narrated by: Ted Barris
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A unique retelling of WWII’s most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the airmen who experienced it....
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Love Thy Neighbor
- A Story of War
- Written by: Peter Maass
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Peter Maass went to the Balkans as a reporter at the height of the nightmarish war there. Love Thy Neighbor gives us a vision of a late-20th-century hell that is also a scathing inquiry into the worst extremes of human nature....
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Not what I was looking for
- By Mel K on 2023-06-06
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A Mad Catastrophe
- The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
- Written by: Geoffrey Wawro
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Wawro
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present....
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Red Army Sniper
- A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War II
- Written by: Yevgeni Nikolaev, Albrecht Wacker - foreword
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Yevgeni Nikolaev was one of Russia's leading snipers in World War II, and his memoir provides an unparalleled account of front-line action in crucial theaters of war....
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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism....
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The Reconstruction of Nations
- Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
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War and Punishment
- Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Written by: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
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As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar circulated a Facebook petition signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others....
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Engaging narrative of how narratives create our worldview
- By Dmitry on 2023-11-30
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The Collapse of Yugoslavia
- 1991-99
- Written by: Alastair Finlan
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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With updates from the author, this is a concise overview of the tragic conflict in former Yugoslavia and its significant consequences....
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War and Genocide
- A Concise History of the Holocaust
- Written by: Doris L. Bergen
- Narrated by: Collene Curran
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts....
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Robotic performance peppered with errors
- By Mathieu on 2019-10-13