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The Forgotten 500 (2007) tells the story of Allied airmen who were trapped behind enemy lines in World War II and the courageous citizens of Yugoslavia who risked everything to help them get home. For political reasons, the story remained classified for decades until the 1980s. But now, the events leading to the largest rescue operation of the war are available to us all.

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Gregory A. Freeman is a best-selling American author. He’s a leading writer in the field of narrative nonfiction. His other titles include The Gathering Wind, Sailors to the End, and The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys.

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Animal Farm (1945) is a classic satirical novella that transplants the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 to a small English farm. Once the animals stage an uprising, a political battle ensues between an ideological pig named Snowball and a power-hungry pig named Napoleon.

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George Orwell is considered one of the most important British authors of the twentieth century. In particular, his books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) appear frequently on best-of-the-century lists. He was also a noted critic, essayist, and journalist.

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Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and historian whose books have garnered both international acclaim and multiple awards.

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The Anglo-Saxons (2021) is a history of the Germanic warriors and settlers whose arrival in Britain in the sixth century changed the course of the island’s history. Beginning with the collapse of Roman rule, it charts the rise of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, their conversion to Christianity, and the gradual unification of the country that became known as England. Along the way, it sheds light on the development of England’s language, culture, cities, and political and religious institutions.

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Marc Morris is a historian of the Middle Ages and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. A well-known broadcaster, Morris presented Castle, an acclaimed TV series shown on Channel 4. His previous books include The Norman Conquest, a history of the French duke who conquered England, and A Great and Terrible King, a study of Edward I.

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (2004) tells the fascinating story of Genghis Khan, the man who founded the great Mongol Empire. Today, he’s remembered as a ruthless, violent conqueror who thrived on bloodshed and destruction. What has largely been forgotten, though, is how he united disparate peoples, fostered trade and modernization, and advanced democracy – and in so doing, ushered in the modern world.

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Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist, ethnographer, and former professor at Macalester College. In 2006, he received Mongolia’s Order of the Polar Star, the highest award the country can give to a foreign citizen. His written works include Genghis Khan and the Quest for God, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, and Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World.

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Powers and Thrones (2021) is a comprehensive history of the Middle Ages. Tracing time from the fall of the western Roman Empire to the Protestant Reformation, these blinks reveal how forces such as global networks, climate change, mass migration, pandemics, and technological innovation, as well as political leaders, the clergy, and knights, shaped the medieval world.

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Empire (2003) offers a compelling overview of the highs and lows of the British Empire, from its late-to-the-game beginnings in the seventeenth century to its ultimate collapse in the twentieth century. Through the many disgraces and unparalleled achievements, you’ll learn how Great Britain came to control close to a quarter of the world, and how we’re still coming to terms with this legacy.

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Niall Ferguson is a writer and historian who currently serves as the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Prior to that, he was a Professor of International History at Harvard University. He is the author of multiple best-selling books, including Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire and Civilization: The West and the Rest.

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Donald Kagan was a prominent American historian. Beginning in the 1960s, he wrote many books covering all aspects of the Peloponnesian War, including The Fall of the Athenian Empire and On the Origin of War and the Preservation of Peace. In 2002, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.

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Over the years, countless historians have theorized about the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome (2017) tells this story from a slightly different angle, taking into consideration new information about the climate and epidemiological events that played a major role in the prosperity and downfall of one of the largest empires in history.

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Kyle Harper is a scholar of Roman history who currently serves as Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma, where he is also Senior Vice President and Provost. He has written two other award-winning books: Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425, and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality.

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Narrated by Marston York

Music by Federico Coderoni

Queen of Fashion (2006) unveils the untold ways in which Marie Antoinette, with her iconoclastic sense of fashion and rebellious nature, challenged the status quo of 18th century French court. Expressing herself through daring originality, her story reveals a great deal about the revolutionary politics that make up the history of both fashion and France.

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Caroline Weber is a specialist on eighteenth-century French culture. Before she became an associate professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University’s Barnard College, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, Bookforum, the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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The Romanovs (2016) charts the stunning rise and dramatic fall of one of the world’s great dynasties. The Romanov family helmed the Russian empire for three centuries filled with family dramas, power struggles, political upheaval, and opulent spending.

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Simon Sebag Montefiore is a prolific author and popular historian. His work has been translated into 48 languages and he has written books on Stalin, Catherine the Great, the city of Jerusalem, and more. As well as authoring numerous best-selling books, Sebag Montefiore also works as a television presenter.

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