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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- Written by: Edith Eva Eger, Edith Eva Eger - introduction, Philip Zimbardo PhD. - introduction
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall440
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Performance376
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Story374
A New York Times Bestseller “I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah “Dr. Eger’s...
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Breathtakingly beautiful!
- By Celia A on 2021-03-13
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King of Kings
- The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
- Written by: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Scott Anderson
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution...
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Iran is a Mess.
- By Jake L.S. on 2025-12-03
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- Written by: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance161
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Story160
A New York Times Bestseller In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life. Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish...
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What an incredible story!
- By Anonymous on 2023-01-29
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance77
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Story77
“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a...
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Berlin pre-WWII backstory
- By RW on 2025-12-17
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Definitive Edition
- Written by: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Selma Blair
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall317
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Performance269
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Story266
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s...
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An important and beautiful story
- By Lisa on 2021-01-15
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall140
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Performance124
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Story122
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a...
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Captivating
- By sd on 2019-08-09
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- Written by: Edith Eva Eger, Edith Eva Eger - introduction, Philip Zimbardo PhD. - introduction
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall440
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Performance376
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Story374
A New York Times Bestseller “I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah “Dr. Eger’s...
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Breathtakingly beautiful!
- By Celia A on 2021-03-13
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King of Kings
- The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
- Written by: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Scott Anderson
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution...
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Iran is a Mess.
- By Jake L.S. on 2025-12-03
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- Written by: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance161
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Story160
A New York Times Bestseller In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life. Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish...
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What an incredible story!
- By Anonymous on 2023-01-29
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance77
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Story77
“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a...
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Berlin pre-WWII backstory
- By RW on 2025-12-17
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Definitive Edition
- Written by: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Selma Blair
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall317
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Performance269
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Story266
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s...
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An important and beautiful story
- By Lisa on 2021-01-15
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall140
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Performance124
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Story122
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a...
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Captivating
- By sd on 2019-08-09
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- Written by: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 46 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance0
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Story0
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that...
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The First World War
- A Complete History
- Written by: Martin Gilbert
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance45
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Story46
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...
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Eye opening
- By Xyo on 2022-07-25
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The Second World War
- Written by: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall148
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Performance134
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Story133
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall...
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Weak coverage of certain battles, unless American.
- By Jordan on 2019-02-26
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Night
- Written by: Elie Wiesel
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall210
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Performance166
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Story166
Night is an unmistakably autobiographical account of the author's own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany's death camps....
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amazed
- By Kevin on 2021-06-29
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The Guns of August
- Written by: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance88
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Story88
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
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What were they thinking
- By Anonymous on 2026-01-20
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Barbarians at the Gate
- The Fall of RJR Nabisco
- Written by: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance32
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Story32
#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that...
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A Good Listen and History Lesson
- By Kendra on 2024-12-30
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The Hiding Place
- Written by: Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall311
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Performance260
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Story257
At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell.....
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Incredible testimony
- By Jacklyn on 2021-04-23
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Stay Alive
- Berlin, 1939-1945
- Written by: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war...
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- Written by: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall438
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Performance368
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Story370
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Hair raising
- By Dmitry on 2019-05-15
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How Fascism Works
- The Politics of Us and Them
- Written by: Jason Stanley
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance55
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Story55
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen “With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism...
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A Stretch
- By Dane Richter on 2024-06-13
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The Siege
- A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”—The Washington Post A thrilling tick-tock recounting of one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue...
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Excellent research into story
- By Scooter on 2025-07-18
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The Rape of Nanking
- Written by: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall330
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Performance278
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Story277
In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.
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Eye opening
- By Kooky Canuck on 2019-08-02
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall334
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Performance292
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Story291
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as...
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enlightening
- By Jacques Huot on 2018-08-15
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A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- Written by: Walter Lord
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance74
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Story74
The Titanic collided with an iceberg on April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters. It's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine....
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The first book ever written on the disaster!
- By Bella Amelia on 2022-01-20
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On Tyranny
- Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall141
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Performance116
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Story114
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled...
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The times they are a changing!! But which way?
- By MW "Photodude." on 2019-05-06
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- Written by: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Story18
The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David...
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Massive national infrastructure projects were to the second half of the 19th century what AI is to the world today.
- By J. Bird on 2026-02-15
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Written by: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drawing on exhaustive research, this “masterful narrative history” (Booklist) details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world. “Thundering, magnificent...
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Excellent and complete.
- By michel white on 2026-03-02
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Born Survivors
- Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
- Written by: Wendy Holden
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall154
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Performance138
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Story138
Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot....
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Narrator was Excellent
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-05-17
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Written by: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance60
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Story59
J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....
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Excellent book, poor sound editing
- By Pip on 2023-04-27
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- Written by: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance41
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Story40
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished...
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American Perspective
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-09-21
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Yes to Life
- In Spite of Everything
- Written by: Viktor E. Frankl, Daniel Goleman - introduction, Joelle Young - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance38
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Story38
Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist...
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Relevant still today
- By Laurie K on 2023-12-05
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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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Overall63
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Performance54
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Story55
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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The Nuremberg Interviews
- An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses
- Written by: Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - editor, Robert Gellately - introduction
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine, Joshua Kane
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust...
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A great book for a historians book shelf
- By Carol Mooney on 2023-03-19
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood
- The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
- Written by: Haley Cohen Gilliland
- Narrated by: Alejandra Reynoso
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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Story1
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 THE WASHINGTON POST’S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 THE ATLANTIC’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025...
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An incredible story that everyone needs to know
- By Sameer Arora on 2026-02-06
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Red Dawn over China
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On the 18th of February 1943 Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made a speech in the Berlin Sports Palace that is regarded as one of the most chilling, and at the same time most effective, rhetorical performances of the twentieth century. In this definitive English translation, renowned historian Peter Longerich delves into the historical buildup to Goebbels's most notorious speech, the speech itself, and its lasting effect.
Written by: Peter Longerich, and others
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On Both Sides of the Wall
- A Resistance Fighter's Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto
- Written by: Vladka Meed, Elie Wiesel - introduction, Steven D. Meed - translator
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel, was just a teenager when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Increasingly devastated by the deportation and murder of 300,000 Jews—including her mother, brother, and sister—who were sent from Warsaw to the death camp of Treblinka, she heeded the call for armed resistance, joining the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), established in Warsaw in July 1942.
Written by: Vladka Meed, and others
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Peaky Blinders: The Real Story
- The True History of Birmingham's Most Notorious Gangs
- Written by: Carl Chinn
- Narrated by: Carl Chinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham's underworld and fact behind its fiction.
Written by: Carl Chinn
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Two Idiots, One Crash
- The Wild Tale of Greed, Ego, and the Panic That Reshaped Wall Street (Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly)
- Written by: Rick Stupart
- Narrated by: Jacques Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the high-stakes world of early 20th-century finance, two ambitious men thought they could outsmart the market—and almost brought down the entire U.S. economy in the process. Two Idiots, One Crash is the gripping, darkly funny, and surprisingly timely true story of Augustus Heinze and Charles Morse—two overconfident schemers who leveraged banks, backdoor deals, and bravado in a financial system built more on personality than policy. In 1907, their reckless gambles triggered a full-scale panic that toppled banks, destroyed fortunes, and sent Wall Street into chaos. With the U.S.
Written by: Rick Stupart
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Unsettled Ground
- Reflections on Germany’s Attempts to Make Amends
- Written by: Jeffrey Katz
- Narrated by: Jeffrey L. Katz
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Germany one felt the world’s wrath for crimes committed during the Nazi regime. More recently, it received extravagant praise for facing up to the atrocities. The country now boasts of new Jewish museums, Holocaust memorials, restored synagogues, and classroom lessons designed to honor its Jewish heritage and teach tolerance. This effort was led not by politicians or historians, but by local citizen activists, few of them Jewish, almost all of them born after World War II. They could have shrugged off responsibility for evils done before they were born.
Written by: Jeffrey Katz
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Die Buchhandlung der Exilanten
- Paris 1940 - Zuflucht und Widerstand
- Written by: Uwe Neumahr
- Narrated by: Peter Bieringer
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Sie sind literarische Legenden. Adrienne Monnier und Sylvia Beach haben mit ihren benachbarten Buchhandlungen über Jahrzehnte das literarische Paris geprägt. Doch 1940, mit der deutschen Besatzung, ändert sich auch für sie alles. Aus der literarischen Oase im Herzen der Stadt wird ein Zufluchtsort für deutsch-jüdische Exilanten und ein Ort des Widerstands. Uwe Neumahr erzählt in seinem bewegenden Buch die Geschichte dieses großen Paares und ihrer Freunde.
Written by: Uwe Neumahr
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The Five Poets
- Soviet Ocean Liners of the 1960s, Their Poetic Names, Cold War Voyages, and the Last Days of Marco Polo
- Written by: Cyril Marlen
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Some ships pass through history almost unnoticed. They are built, they serve, they age, and they disappear, leaving behind little more than a few photographs, an entry in a register, and the faint memory of a name painted once on steel. And then some ships carry something larger than themselves. Ships that become symbols without entirely meaning to. Ships that reflect the ambitions, anxieties, and identity of the age that produced them.
Written by: Cyril Marlen