Modern Military History

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    • A Military History of the Civil War
    • By: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 26-09-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen....

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • How the British Navy Changed the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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    • The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-Day Black Ops
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard....

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • Modern War Studies
    • By: Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. DiNardo
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Ranging over the entire history of the German Empire, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 presents a picture of unprecedented scope and depth of one of the most widely studied, criticized, and imitated organizations in the modern world....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
    • By: Modris Eksteins
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945....

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    • A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....

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    • The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
    • By: Garry Wills
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots....

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    • The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Giles Milton
    • Narrated by: Giles Milton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Reichstag in the spring of 1945. Streets were choked with rubble, power supplies severed and the population close to starvation....

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    • By: Dominic Sandbrook
    • Narrated by: Ziggy Heath
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Travel back in time to a world engulfed by war, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on an action-packed adventure. From the soaring heights of an aeroplane cockpit to the desperate depths of the muddy trenches, we are plunged first-hand into a war unlike any other....

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    • By: Dominic Sandbrook
    • Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Prepare to enter the most dramatic conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a spine-tingling, heart-stopping adventure. We witness the Second World War first-hand through the eyes of ordinary people living in extraordinary times....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 29-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace....

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    • Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-2023
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the summer of 2007 the British Army's 662 Squadron deployed its most potent weapons system in combat for the very first time - the iconic Apache attack helicopter. This is the definitive story of the aircraft and of the crew who fly her....

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    • A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018
    • By: Paul Preston
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church....

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