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    • A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Rory Alexander
    • Length: 34 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative....

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    • To Rule the World
    • By: Martyn Rady
    • Narrated by: Simon Boughey
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 408 ratings
    • The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall....

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    • Portrait of a City Between East and West
    • By: Victor Sebestyen
    • Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling  account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe....

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    • A New History
    • By: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 370 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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    • Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
    • By: Andrew Wheatcroft
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations....

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    • The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
    • By: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Emma Newman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa - one of the most renowned women rulers in history - and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France....

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    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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    • By: James A. Michener
    • Narrated by: Larry McKeever
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future - until the citizens of Budapest awoke one morning to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution was over....

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    • The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Michael Damon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe....

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • By: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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    • The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
    • By: Greg King, Penny Wilson
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed....

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    • The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
    • By: James Longo
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • As he rose to power, Hitler's hatred toward the Habsburgs and their diverse empire fixated on Franz Ferdinand's sons, who became outspoken critics of the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the House of Austria and the Impact the Habsburgs Had on the Holy Roman Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval times to World War I, but they still exist as one of the most prestigious Austrian families. To keep themselves in such high positions, the Habsburgs had to develop unique strategies to fight their political enemies....

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    • A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
    • By: Simon Winder
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia. Thrillingly informative, Danubia is a treat that listeners will be eager to dip into....

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    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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    • Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
    • By: Greg King, Sue Woolmans
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I....

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    • The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
    • By: Geoffrey Wawro
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Wawro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present....

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    • Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
    • By: Mark David Hall
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions....

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    • The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
    • By: Richard Bassett
    • Narrated by: Aaron Blain
    • Length: 28 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Austrian History
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • When Austrian President Franz Jonas visited the Vatican in 1971, Pope Paul VI named Austria “the Island of the Blessed”. He did so to emphasize Austria’s steep recovery. Only 25 years had passed since the end of the Second World War....

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