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BOOK

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

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7 minAudio
EVENTCentral Europe
1618 to 1648

The Thirty Years War

Central Europe

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8 minAudio
EVENTSouthern Russia
1942 to 1943

The Battle of Stalingrad

Southern Russia

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8 minAudio
EVENTEurope, the Middle East, and Africa
1914 to 1918

The First World War

Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

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7 minAudio
EVENTEurope and North Africa
1939 to 1945

The Second World War in Europe

Europe and North Africa

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8 minAudio
EVENTBelgium
1815

The Battle of Waterloo

Belgium

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8 minAudio
EVENTUnited States
1861 to 1865

The American Civil War

United States

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8 minAudio
EVENTNormandy, France
June 1944

The Normandy Landings

Normandy, France

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7 minAudio
EVENTKorean Peninsula
1950 to 1953

The Korean War

Korean Peninsula

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7 minAudio
EVENTVietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
1955 to 1975

The Vietnam War

Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

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7 minAudio
BOOK

The Sleepwalkers

by Christopher Clark

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BOOK

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

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BOOKModern Era

The Guns of August: How a Continent Talked Itself Into Catastrophe

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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4 minAudioModern Era
EVENTCuba, United States, Soviet Union
October 1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuba, United States, Soviet Union

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4 minAudioModern Era
EVENTEastern Mediterranean
1453

The Fall of Constantinople

Eastern Mediterranean

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4 minAudioMedieval