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    • Serial Killers
    • By: Mitzi Szereto
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan, Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the 20th century..

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    • How the World's Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
    • By: Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,358 ratings
    • Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data....

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    • The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
    • By: Erwin Bartmann, Derik Hammond
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis....

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    • A History of the Holy Roman Empire
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor....

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    • From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber
    • By: Tony Blackman
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire....

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    • By: Rupert Matthews
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history....

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    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....

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    • A New History
    • By: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....

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    • The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
    • By: Mark Miodownik
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: The New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters reveal the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff"....

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    • True and Untold Stories of the Making of America
    • By: Glenn Beck
    • Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Glenn Beck
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story....

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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • Chronicles of Honor, Courage and Sacrifice: 1963 - 1977
    • By: Allen B. Clark
    • Narrated by: Corey Snow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical significance....

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    • A Journey Through Scottish History, Battles, Clans, Highlanders, Myths, Legends & More
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: Christian Neale
    • Series: British Isles, Book 4
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Step back in time and explore the captivating battles, clans, highlanders, myths, and legends that have shaped Scotland from ancient times to the present day.

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    • The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
    • By: Phil Lapsley
    • Narrated by: Johann North
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system....

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    • Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
    • By: David S. Mason
    • Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 24-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • Voices from the BBC Archive
    • By: Mark Jones
    • Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • This is the story of a great tragedy described by the surviving passengers, officers, and crew who were on board that night....

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    • The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • By: John Prebble
    • Narrated by: David Monteath
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • On December 28th, 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing and everyone on board....

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    • America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 31 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery.

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