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    • Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,551 ratings
    • Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....

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    • By: Richard J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,259 ratings
    • The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....

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    • Europe: 1815-1914
    • By: Richard J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 7
    • Length: 41 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 567 ratings
    • Richard J. Evans's gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy....

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    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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    • A New History of the Middle Ages
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,675 ratings
    • When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....

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    • The Power and the Glory
    • By: Josephine Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • This stylish and incisive narrative presents listeners with a fresh perspective on one of the most fascinating kings in European history. Louis XIV's story has all the ingredients of a Dumas classic....

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    • Death of a Superpower
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 772 ratings
    • This is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the greater good of the state....

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    • By: Eileen Power
    • Narrated by: Roe Kendall
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 06-02-04
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • In this classic of social history, the author describes the lives of obscure men and women of the Middle Ages....

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    • Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943
    • By: John Gooch
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in Southern France and Africa....

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    • Power and Prejudice in the Vichy France Regim
    • By: Michael Curtis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • This masterful audiobook is the first comprehensive reappraisal of the Vichy France regime for over 20 years. France was occupied by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944....

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    • Europe 1815-1914
    • By: Richard J Evans
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 41 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about 19th-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic change....

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    • Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age’s uniquely devastating despots....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
    • By: John Foot
    • Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war, in Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond....

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    • Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
    • By: William H. McNeill
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path....

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    • Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor
    • By: Valentine Low
    • Narrated by: Valentine Low
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them....

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    • Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
    • By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Western exceptionalism - the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent - is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others....

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    • Titillating Tales of Passion and Power in the Palaces of Europe
    • By: Leslie Carroll
    • Narrated by: Leslie Carroll
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Elegant palaces, dazzling power plays, shimmering jewels, and the grandest of all-or-nothing gambles—nothing can top real-life love among the royalty. Full of unforgettable scandals and bedazzled nobles, this delightfully insightful book is what the sweetest royal dreams are made of....

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    • Renaissance and Reformation
    • By: Nick Needham
    • Narrated by: Peter Matthess
    • Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Volume Three of 2,000 Years of Christ's Power, in showing the progression of the Reformation era and the daring bravery of its figures, presents a period of history from which there are many lessons to be learnt....

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    • Hitler's Final Rise to Power
    • By: Timothy W. Ryback
    • Narrated by: Richard Attlee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Timothy W. Ryback tells the dramatic story of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin....

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    • A New History of the Middle Ages
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 24 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of The Templars, Dan Jones' epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built....

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