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The Spy and the Traitor
- Written by: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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excellent
- By ed mailhot on 2019-06-11
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- Written by: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart....
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Very intriguing story ...can't believe it's real.
- By Adil Rizvi on 2018-01-11
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Active Measures
- The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
- Written by: Thomas Rid
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms....
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Excellent and engaging book, but one-sided
- By Count Erklock on 2020-10-21
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Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- Written by: William Craig
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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A classic work of World War II history that brings to vivid, dramatic life one of the bloodiest battles ever fought - and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich....
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Entertaining. Historically accurate
- By Langer on 2020-09-05
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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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great book
- By Kevin on 2020-09-02
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-13
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The Spy and the Traitor
- Written by: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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excellent
- By ed mailhot on 2019-06-11
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- Written by: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart....
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Very intriguing story ...can't believe it's real.
- By Adil Rizvi on 2018-01-11
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Active Measures
- The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
- Written by: Thomas Rid
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms....
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Excellent and engaging book, but one-sided
- By Count Erklock on 2020-10-21
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Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- Written by: William Craig
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic work of World War II history that brings to vivid, dramatic life one of the bloodiest battles ever fought - and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich....
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Entertaining. Historically accurate
- By Langer on 2020-09-05
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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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great book
- By Kevin on 2020-09-02
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-13
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The Vory
- Russia's Super Mafia
- Written by: Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, or vory as the Russian mafia is also known....
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- Written by: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....
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Hair raising
- By Dmitry on 2019-05-15
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The Splintered Empires
- The Eastern Front 1917-21
- Written by: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918....
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Terrorism and Communism (Revolutions Series)
- Slavoj Zizek presents Trotsky
- Written by: Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Zizek
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution....
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The Long Hangover
- Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
- Written by: Shaun Walker
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past....
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Disinformation
- Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom Attacking Religion and Promoting Terrorism
- Written by: Prof. Ronald J. Rychlak, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again....
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Masterclass in disinformation
- By Ildemaro Ponnambalam on 2020-07-16
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar....
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
- A Memoir of Food and Longing
- Written by: Anya Von Bremzen
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations...
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- Written by: Catherine Belton
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country....
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Not So Much
- By Kemosabe on 2020-12-25
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Blowout
- Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
- Written by: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Blowout is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on Earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world’s most destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been higher....
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As always...
- By Barbara M. on 2019-10-07
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Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Written by: Serhy Yekelchyk
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Ukraine's sudden prominence in American politics has compounded an already-widespread misunderstanding of what is actually happening in the nation. In the American media, Ukraine has come to signify an inherently corrupt place, rather than a real country....
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- Written by: Donnie Eichar
- Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....
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In depth and gripping story
- By toby snelgrove on 2018-08-12
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1917
- Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
- Written by: Arthur Herman
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of two men and the two decisions that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War I and Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution....
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Stalingrad
- Written by: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
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The long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy....
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The bitter story of Stalingrad
- By braden on 2019-10-17
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- Written by: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography....
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Catherine the great
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-10-28
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Caught in the Revolution
- Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge
- Written by: Helen Rappaport
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution....
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In Broad Daylight
- The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets
- Written by: Father Patrick Desbois
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Holocaust by Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois documented for the first time the murder of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II....
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date offers a powerful new angle on the 20th century's greatest spy story....
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Class corrupts
- By andrew on 2020-11-14
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Written by: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....
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Brilliant
- By Vladimir Zhivov on 2020-09-01
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The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- Written by: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president - the only complete biography in English - that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity....
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Timely
- By TBInAB on 2018-09-14
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Three Days in Moscow
- Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
- Written by: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrated by: Bret Baier
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central role in shaping the world we live in today....
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....
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Brilliant
- By Raton de Biblioteca on 2020-03-09
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A Frozen Hell
- The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
- Written by: William R. Trotter
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1939, tiny Finland waged war - the kind of war that spawns legends - against the mighty Soviet Union....
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....
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The Russian Revolution
- A New History
- Written by: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events that ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Drawing on scores of previously untapped archival materials, McMeekin combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative....
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Enjoyed it!
- By Samantha on 2021-01-09
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Deception
- The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today
- Written by: Edward Lucas
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the "Ace of Spies", by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the "Redhead under the Bed", in 2010....
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From Russia with Blood
- The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
- Written by: Heidi Blake
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad - while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat....
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We really wanted to keep this psychopath happy eh
- By MyPublicName on 2020-06-28
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The Arabs
- A History
- Written by: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
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In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....
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Super informative, interesting, and enjoyable
- By Matthew on 2017-10-22
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Russia
- A Short History
- Written by: Abraham Ascher
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus Abraham Ascher offers a skillful blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this concise introduction to Russian history....
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The Great Game
- The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
- Written by: Peter Hopkirk
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....
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Fantastic book.
- By Anonymous User on 2020-06-22
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The Cold War
- A Captivating Guide to the Tense Conflict Between the United States of America and the Soviet Union Following World War II
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The seeds of the Cold War were sown toward the end of World War II. During the war, the US and the Soviet Union were reluctant partners. But as is often the case in history, despite their differences, America and Soviet Russia had a common enemy that brought them together - Nazi Germany. But soon after Truman was elected president, American and Soviet relations began to go south. Before the war was over, disagreements arose over how the postwar world should be administered.
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Red Road from Stalingrad
- Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
- Written by: Mansur Abdulin
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story. His vivid firsthand account of a ruthless war on the Eastern Front gives rare insight into the reality of the fighting and into the tactics and mentality of the Red Army's soldiers.
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The Start of the Russo-Turkish Wars
- The History of the Initial Conflicts Between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
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In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century.
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The Holodomor
- The History and Legacy of the Ukrainian Famine Engineered by the Soviet Union
- Written by: Charles River Editors
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The Holodomor: The History and Legacy of the Ukrainian Famine Engineered by the Soviet Union examines the events that brought about the famine and its terrible toll.
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The Fight for Lithuanian Independence
- The History and Legacy of Lithuania in the 20th Century
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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Modern-day Lithuania is a small country bordering the Baltic Sea with a population of less than three million people, but despite its relative size, the nation has exerted an influential role on the history of the region. More recently, in the 20th century, Lithuania was caught between much larger powers in two world wars and then the Cold War. Along with neighbors Latvia and Estonia, Lithuania was one of the only states to truly break free of the Soviet Union when the latter dissolved in 1991.
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The Vladimir Lenin Collection: State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, & Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
- Written by: Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is better known by his alias Lenin. A Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, he served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia became the Soviet Union, a one-party state governed by the Communist Party.
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The Cold War
- A Captivating Guide to the Tense Conflict Between the United States of America and the Soviet Union Following World War II
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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The seeds of the Cold War were sown toward the end of World War II. During the war, the US and the Soviet Union were reluctant partners. But as is often the case in history, despite their differences, America and Soviet Russia had a common enemy that brought them together - Nazi Germany. But soon after Truman was elected president, American and Soviet relations began to go south. Before the war was over, disagreements arose over how the postwar world should be administered.
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Red Road from Stalingrad
- Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
- Written by: Mansur Abdulin
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
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Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story. His vivid firsthand account of a ruthless war on the Eastern Front gives rare insight into the reality of the fighting and into the tactics and mentality of the Red Army's soldiers.
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The Start of the Russo-Turkish Wars
- The History of the Initial Conflicts Between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
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In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century.
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The Holodomor
- The History and Legacy of the Ukrainian Famine Engineered by the Soviet Union
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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The Holodomor: The History and Legacy of the Ukrainian Famine Engineered by the Soviet Union examines the events that brought about the famine and its terrible toll.
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The Fight for Lithuanian Independence
- The History and Legacy of Lithuania in the 20th Century
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
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Modern-day Lithuania is a small country bordering the Baltic Sea with a population of less than three million people, but despite its relative size, the nation has exerted an influential role on the history of the region. More recently, in the 20th century, Lithuania was caught between much larger powers in two world wars and then the Cold War. Along with neighbors Latvia and Estonia, Lithuania was one of the only states to truly break free of the Soviet Union when the latter dissolved in 1991.
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The Vladimir Lenin Collection: State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, & Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is better known by his alias Lenin. A Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, he served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia became the Soviet Union, a one-party state governed by the Communist Party.
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The Spy Who Changed History
- The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Stole America's Top Secrets
- Written by: Svetlana Lokhova
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
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On a sunny September day in 1931, Soviet spy Stanislav Shumovsky walked down the gangplank of the SS Europa and into New York, concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students. Joseph Stalin had sent him to acquire American secrets to help close the USSR’s yawning technology gap. In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the listener on a journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation, piecing together every aspect of Shumovsky’s life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives.
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Romanovs
- A Captivating Guide to the Romanov Dynasty That Ruled Russia from 1613 Until the Russian Revolution and the Life of Nicholas II
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Romanovs and Nicholas II, then pay attention.
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The Reckoning
- The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
- Written by: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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Prit Buttar retraces the ebb and flow of the various battles and campaigns fought throughout the Ukraine and Romania in 1944. January and February saw Army Group South encircled in the Korsun Pocket. Although many of the encircled troops did escape, in part due to Soviet intelligence and command failures, the Red Army would endeavour to not make the same mistakes again. Indeed, in the coming months the Red Army would demonstrate an ability to learn and improve, reinventing itself as a war-winning machine, demonstrated clearly in its success in the Iasi-Kishinev operation.
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Hitler's Great Gamble
- A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II
- Written by: James Ellman
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II. Within six months, the invasion bogged down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, most historians have agreed that this was Hitler's gravest mistake. In Hitler's Great Gamble, James Ellman argues that while Barbarossa was a gamble and perverted by genocidal Nazi ideology, it was not doomed from the start.
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Ten Days That Shook the World
- Written by: John Reed
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's phenomenal firsthand account of the October Revolution, leading up to the storming of the Winter Palace and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917.
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Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Written by: Serhy Yekelchyk
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Ukraine's sudden prominence in American politics has compounded an already-widespread misunderstanding of what is actually happening in the nation. In the American media, Ukraine has come to signify an inherently corrupt place, rather than a real country struggling in the face of great challenges. Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses Ukraine's relations with the West, particularly the United States, from the perspective of Ukrainians.