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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 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 421 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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    • 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 164 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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    • 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 374 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 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 73 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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    • 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 84 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 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 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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    • The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II
    • By: Alex Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Envoy is the stirring tale of how one man made the greatest difference in the face of untold evil.

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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 36 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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    • 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 42 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 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 35 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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    • 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 20 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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    • 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 182 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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    • 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 Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People
    • 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 129 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 86 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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    • A Global Biography
    • By: Brendan Simms
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • A powerfully argued and utterly definitive account of a murderous tyrant we thought we understood, Hitler is essential listening for anyone seeking to understand the origins and outcomes of the Second World War....

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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 71 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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