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    • The History and Legacy of the Mass Starvation in Ireland During the 19th Century
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Dave Wright
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In their long history of suffering, nothing was ever so terrible as what the Irish endured during the Great Potato Famine that struck the country in the 1840s....

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    • By: John Christopher
    • Narrated by: William Gaminara
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Christopher's classic post-apocalyptic novel follows the struggles of John Custance and his family as they make their way across an England that is rapidly descending into anarchy....

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    • A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,565 ratings
    • A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....

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    • The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
    • By: Madhusree Mukarjee
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II....

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    • The Man and His Era
    • By: William Taubman
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 34 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century....

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    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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    • The History of the Irish Potato Famine During the Mid-19th Century
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In their long history of suffering, nothing was ever so terrible as what the Irish endured during the Great Potato Famine that struck the country in the 1840s....

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    • Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Jean-Martin Bauer
    • Narrated by: Jean-Martin Bauer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere and what steps we can take to change course....

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    • US History: An Overview of the Most Important People and Events in the History of United States, from Indians to Contemporary History of America
    • By: William D. Willis
    • Narrated by: Ronald Fox
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • From colonization to the space race, this is the story of America’s successes and failures. Learn how a little settlement of a few hundred colonists grew to be one of the most powerful nations in the world....

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    • By: Donna Jo Napoli
    • Narrated by: Sarah-Jane Drummey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Through the eyes of 12-year-old Lorraine, this haunting novel from the award-winning author of Hidden gives insight and understanding into a little-known part of history - the Irish potato famine....

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    • The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jim Bond
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • This book calls on America to return to its abandoned role, to offer a helping hand instead of a closed fist to countries struggling to follow in our footsteps....

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    • The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.

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    • True Stories of Those Secretly Bringing Hope to One of the Darkest Nations On Earth
    • By: Scott Croft
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Ruled by a maniacal dictator and cut off from the outside world, the citizens of North Korea are living in a darkness that has nearly destroyed ...

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    • One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
    • By: Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories, and the family scraped by on rations....

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    • By: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: Peter Byrne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This is the story of three terrible famines....

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    • Days of the Apocalypse, Book 2
    • By: Mark E. Fisher
    • Narrated by: James Lawrence
    • Series: Days Of The Apocalpyse, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In Rome, when the Antichrist invites Chelsea to an intimate dinner, his promises of wealth, power, and prestige threaten to ensnare her....

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    • By: Alexandra Popoff
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate was seized by the Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century....

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    • And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
    • By: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 35 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Thomas Keneally, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s List, is universally praised for crafting smooth narratives from authentic historical events...

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