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Title: 1924

Subtitle: The Year That Made Hitler

Author: Peter Ross Range

Narrator: Paul Hodgson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 140 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924 - the year that made a monster

Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical traditions to support his vision for the Third Reich.

Everything that would come - the rallies and riots, the single-minded deployment of a catastrophically evil idea - all of it crystallized in one defining year. Nineteen twenty-four was the year that Hitler spent locked away from society, in prison and surrounded by coconspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. It was a year of deep reading and intensive writing, a year of courtroom speeches and a treason trial, a year of slowly walking gravel paths and spouting ideology while working feverishly on the book that became his manifesto: Mein Kampf.

Until now, no one has fully examined this single and pivotal period of Hitler's life. In 1924, Peter Ross Range richly depicts the stories and scenes of a year vital to understanding the man and the brutality he wrought in a war that changed the world forever.

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Critic Reviews:

"Range's deep knowledge of the figures and events enables him to narrate clearly without being sucked into excessive explication. A lucid description of a year that made all the horror possible, even inevitable." (Kirkus Reviews)

"How did it happen? That's the fateful question that veteran journalist Peter Ross Range asks. With verve, he takes us into the diabolical rise of Adolf Hitler in the pivotal year of 1924, by turns a horrifying yet important story." (Jay Winik, author 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History and April 1865)

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Title: Sitting Ducks

Author: Steve Anderson

Narrator: Max Roll

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Sitting Ducks pieces together the story of an impossible and lesser-known WWII mission. In December 1944, during the bloody Battle of the Bulge, teams of German commandos disguised as American soldiers slipped behind the US front lines. Riding in captured US jeeps, they committed sabotage, sowed confusion, and caused paranoia among American troops. Word quickly spread that the undercover commandos were out to kill US General Eisenhower. Popular legend has made the false flag operation out to be a skilled and menacing ploy with cunning German spies speaking American English. Their commander, propaganda hero SS Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny, seemed a mastermind. But the reality was much different, and all the more deadly. The planning and training were slapdash, the mission desperate, its chances slim to none.

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Title: The Battle of Königgrätz in 1866

Subtitle: The Triumph of Maneuver in Europe's First Modern War

Author: Patrick Joseph Shrier

Narrator: Clay Willison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-16

Publisher: Battles & Book Reviews Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

In the early summer of 1866 half a million men from Prussia and the Austrian Empire fought the largest battle in European history prior to 1914 in the rolling hills of eastern Bohemia. The results of the battle determined that Prussia and not Austria would be paramount in the German world going forward. The Prussian victory at the Battle of Königgrätz has traditionally been ascribed to their possession of a breech-loading rifle and use of railways. This book shows that it was not technology but maneuver and traditional generalship that led to the Prussian victory. The Seven Weeks' War was Europe's first modern, technological war but has largely been consigned to the dustbin of history as both countries that fought it no longer exist. This is the story of Königgrätz. One long summer day that changed the course of history for the Germans.

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Title: Life in a Medieval City

Author: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Life in a Medieval City is the classic account of the year 1250 in the city of Troyes, in modern-day France. Acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies focus on a high point of medieval civilization - before war and the Black Death ravaged Europe - providing a fascinating window into the sophistication of a period we too often dismiss as backward.

Urban life in the Middle Ages revolved around the home, often a mixed-use dwelling for burghers with a store or workshop on the ground floor and living quarters upstairs. A developed economy, focusing on textiles, farming, and financial services, could be found in the town center, where craftsmen competed for business while adhering to the guilds' codes of conduct. There were schools for the children, though only boys could attend and the lessons were taught in Latin by a priest. The church was a hub of both religious and civic life; services were lively and filled with song, and baptisms and other special occasions brought neighbors together to celebrate. The weddings of wealthier townsfolk were lavish affairs full of song and dance and drinking that could sometimes last for weeks.

Critic Reviews:

Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention.... Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies. (George R.R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series)

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Title: A History of the English People

Author: Paul Johnson

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

This is a provocative and panoramic survey of 2,000 years of English history. Johnson tells the story of how a small nation, living in a geographical backwater, developed unique economic and political institutions, expanded its territory, and saddled upon it the frame of a modern industrial society.

Paul Johnson, British author and historian, is the author of many books, including Modern Times, A History of the Jews, Intellectuals, The Birth of the Modern, and The Quest for God, which have been translated into many languages. He has been a frequent contributor to the Daily Telegraph, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, and other newspapers and magazines. He has lectured to academic, business, and political audiences all over the world.

Critic Reviews:

Beautifully constructed. An idiosyncratic viewpoint has enabled Mr. Johnson to extract a great deal of new information to add to the conventional account of English, or British, history. (

Times Literary Supplement)

An excellent book that will stir up a great many people, and so it should. (

New Statesman)

He is abreast of modern scholarship, and a reader with some command of English history will find Johnsons iconoclasm stimulating and challenging. His coverage of the last two hundred years deserves to be labeled brilliant historical journalism. (

Library Journal)

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Title: The Borgias and Their Enemies

Subtitle: 1431-1519

Author: Christopher Hibbert

Narrator: John Telfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 76 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - his daughter Lucrezia and her brother Cesare, who murdered Lucrezia's husband and served as the model for Machiavelli's The Prince.

The Borgias were notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder. The story of the family's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to the highest position in Italian society is an absorbing tale.

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