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Brand Luther
- How an Unheralded Young Minister Turned His Small German Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe - and Started the Protestant Reformation
- Written by: Andrew Pettegree
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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When an obscure monk named Martin Luther tacked his theses on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months his ideas spread across Germany then all of Europe; within years their author was not just famous but infamous, responsible for catalyzing the violent wave of religious reform that would come to be known as the Protestant Reformation and engulfing Europe in decades of bloody war.
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Brand Luther
- How an Unheralded Young Minister Turned His Small German Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe - and Started the Protestant Reformation
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-27
- Language: English
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The Sensational Past
- How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
- Written by: Carolyn Purnell
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. But perception is not dependent on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past 300 years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now.
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The Sensational Past
- How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-11
- Language: English
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The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair
- Written by: Russell Martin
- Narrated by: Jeff McCarthy
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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Russell Martin, author of Beethoven's Hair, and his wife, Lydia Nibley, tell the story of how a lock of Ludwig von Beethoven's hair, clipped from the composer's head on his deathbed in Germany in 1827, ended up in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943 and was later sold at auction in London in 1994. Learn about this incredible journey through history and the mysteries revealed about Beethoven's deafness and death. Correspondence, research, and forensics further inform this fascinating story.
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The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair
- Narrated by: Jeff McCarthy
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-23
- Language: English
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Red Mutiny
- Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin
- Written by: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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In Red Mutiny, Neal Bascomb turns his attention to the legendary uprising aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905. After they are served rancid meat, 600 sailors rebel. Their violent struggle against oppression and hopelessness comes to symbolize the core ideals of the Russian Revolution.
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Red Mutiny
- Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2007-11-07
- Language: English
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Silence
- A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
- Written by: Jane Brox
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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The author of the "dazzling epic" (Lev Grossman, Time) Brilliant delivers an indelible view of the ways silence affects those who seek it and those who have it imposed upon them. Through her original, intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society.
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Silence
- A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-15
- Language: English
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Revolution Song
- A Story of American Freedom
- Written by: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution.
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Revolution Song
- A Story of American Freedom
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-27
- Language: English
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Displaced Persons
- Growing Up American After the Holocaust
- Written by: Joseph Berger
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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In this eloquent and glorious memoir, New York Times reporter Joseph Berger reflects upon his days growing up in Manhattan’s Upper West Side following World War II. Berger and his family, Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, arrived in New York in 1950. Their fascinating story of adaptation in a strange, new world speaks universally of the trials millions of American immigrants have faced.
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Displaced Persons
- Growing Up American After the Holocaust
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2011-11-18
- Language: English
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The Remedy
- Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
- Written by: Thomas Goetz
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB - often called consumption - was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that caused TB. Koch soon embarked on a remedy - a remedy that would be his undoing. When Koch announced his cure for consumption, Arthur Conan Doyle, then a small-town doctor in England and sometime writer, went to Berlin to cover the event.
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The Remedy
- Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2014-04-03
- Language: English
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Apollo's Legacy
- Perspectives on the Moon Landings
- Written by: Roger D. Launius
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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In Apollo's Legacy, space historian Roger D. Launius explores the many-faceted stories told about the meaning of the Apollo program and how it forever altered American society. The Apollo missions marked the first time human beings left Earth's orbit and visited another world, and thus they loom large in our collective memory. Many have detailed the exciting events of the Apollo program, but Launius offers unique insight into its legacy as seen through multiple perspectives.
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Apollo's Legacy
- Perspectives on the Moon Landings
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-31
- Language: English
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Paris
- After the Liberation 1944-1949
- Written by: Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
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In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War.
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Paris
- After the Liberation 1944-1949
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-28
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
- Written by: Jakob Walter
- Narrated by: Patrick Tull
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Napoleon’s surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.
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The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
- Narrated by: Patrick Tull
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2011-05-19
- Language: English
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Elie Wiesel
- Confronting the Silence
- Written by: Joseph Berger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from a small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the world stage? Drawing on Wiesel’s prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question.
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Elie Wiesel
- Confronting the Silence
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-23
- Language: English
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The Twentieth Century
- A World History
- Written by: R. Keith Schoppa
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the 20th century — with its revolutionary discoveries, technological inventions, political upheaval, and scientific advances, radical transformation touched virtually every arena of life.
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The Twentieth Century
- A World History
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-09
- Language: English
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Darwin
- Portrait of a Genius
- Written by: Paul Johnson
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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Charles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Species forever changed our concept of the world’s creation. Darwin’s revolutionary career is the perfect vehicle for historian Paul Johnson. Marked by the insightful observation, spectacular wit, and highly readable prose for which Johnson is so well regarded, Darwin brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus. From Darwin’s birth into great fortune to his voyage aboard the Beagle, to the long-delayed publication of his masterpiece, Johnson delves into what made this Victorian gentleman into a visionary scientist.
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Darwin
- Portrait of a Genius
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-11
- Language: English
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The Cause of All Nations
- An International History of the American Civil War
- Written by: Don H. Doyle
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle explains that the Civil War was more than an internal American conflict; it was a struggle that spanned the Atlantic Ocean. This audiobook follows the agents of the North and South who went abroad to tell the world what they were fighting for, and the foreign politicians, journalists, and intellectuals who told America and the world what they thought this war was really about - or ought to be about.
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The Cause of All Nations
- An International History of the American Civil War
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2014-12-30
- Language: English
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Descartes' Bones
- A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
- Written by: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, Frenchman Rene Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely deathfar from home. Sixteen years later, the pious French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France. Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much about the remains of a philosopher who washounded from country after country on charges of atheism?
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Descartes' Bones
- A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2008-11-06
- Language: English
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Becoming George Orwell
- Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
- Written by: John Rodden
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation, let alone the greatest imaginative writer of English prose fiction. Yet his influence since his death at midcentury is incomparable. No writer has aroused so much controversy or contributed so many incessantly quoted words and phrases to our cultural lexicon.
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Becoming George Orwell
- Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-04
- Language: English
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In Defiance of Hitler
- The Secret Mission of Varian Fry
- Written by: Carla Killough McClafferty
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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On August 4, 1940, an unassuming American journalist named Varian Fry made his way to Marseilles, France, carrying in his pockets the names of approximately 200 artists and intellectuals - all enemies of the new Nazi regime. As a volunteer for the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry’s mission was to help these refugees flee to safety, then return home two weeks later. As more and more people came to him for assistance, however, he realized the situation was far worse than anyone in America had suspected.
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In Defiance of Hitler
- The Secret Mission of Varian Fry
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-08
- Language: English
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Nazism and War
- Written by: Richard Bessel
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Richard Bessel, history professor at the University of York, specializes in the social and political history of Nazi Germany. In four compelling essays, he forcefully argues that racism made war inevitable. The Third Reich, led by "[A] band of political gangsters", came to power with a deep ideological commitment to war and racism. As the driving force behind the economics, social policy, and propaganda of Germany, racial hatred was the catalyst that plunged Europe into war.
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Nazism and War
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-05
- Language: English
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After Hitler
- The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe
- Written by: Michael Jones
- Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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With the world at war, 10 days can feel like a lifetime.... On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in Western Europe until May 8 and in Russia a day later, on the ninth. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brutal, protracted conflict coalesce into its unlikely endgame? After Hitler shines a light on 10 fascinating days after that infamous suicide that changed the course of the 20th century.
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After Hitler
- The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe
- Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-09
- Language: English
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