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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- By: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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Beware of this book.
- By Rubén chiquin on 05-04-21
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918–1933
- By: Frank McDonough
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
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The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature....
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Outstanding
- By Tracey J Dalton and Richard Welfare on 17-01-24
By: Frank McDonough
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Heart of Europe
- A History of the Holy Roman Empire
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
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The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor....
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Rather plain, not going to win any converts.
- By Andrew on 28-09-17
By: Peter H. Wilson
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Hitler's Last Day
- The Final Hours of the Führer
- By: Richard Dargie
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Have you ever wondered what was going on in Adolf Hitler's mind during his final hours in the Führerbunker? What were his thoughts as radio contact with the outside world grew faint, Soviet explosions became louder and louder, and he began to feel his unassailable power ebbing away?
By: Richard Dargie
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The Decline of the West
- Vol 1: Form and Actuality. Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
- By: Oswald Spengler
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 55 hrs and 52 mins
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The Decline of the West - Volume 1 published in 1917, Volume 2 in 1922 - has exercised and challenged opinion ever since....
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Dreadful nonsense.
- By Anonymous User on 28-06-23
By: Oswald Spengler
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Dünkirchen 1940
- The German View of Dunkirk
- By: Robert Kershaw
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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Dünkirchen 1940 is the first major history on what went wrong for the Germans at Dunkirk....
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A very clear truth of the Dunkirk withdrawal
- By Ken P on 03-02-23
By: Robert Kershaw
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- By: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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Beware of this book.
- By Rubén chiquin on 05-04-21
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918–1933
- By: Frank McDonough
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
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The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature....
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Outstanding
- By Tracey J Dalton and Richard Welfare on 17-01-24
By: Frank McDonough
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Heart of Europe
- A History of the Holy Roman Empire
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
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The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor....
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Rather plain, not going to win any converts.
- By Andrew on 28-09-17
By: Peter H. Wilson
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Hitler's Last Day
- The Final Hours of the Führer
- By: Richard Dargie
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Have you ever wondered what was going on in Adolf Hitler's mind during his final hours in the Führerbunker? What were his thoughts as radio contact with the outside world grew faint, Soviet explosions became louder and louder, and he began to feel his unassailable power ebbing away?
By: Richard Dargie
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The Decline of the West
- Vol 1: Form and Actuality. Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
- By: Oswald Spengler
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 55 hrs and 52 mins
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The Decline of the West - Volume 1 published in 1917, Volume 2 in 1922 - has exercised and challenged opinion ever since....
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Dreadful nonsense.
- By Anonymous User on 28-06-23
By: Oswald Spengler
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Dünkirchen 1940
- The German View of Dunkirk
- By: Robert Kershaw
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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Dünkirchen 1940 is the first major history on what went wrong for the Germans at Dunkirk....
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A very clear truth of the Dunkirk withdrawal
- By Ken P on 03-02-23
By: Robert Kershaw
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Meat Grinder
- The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942–43
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
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The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops called the campaign 'The Meat Grinder'....
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Good book shame about narration
- By Uniped75 on 10-06-23
By: Prit Buttar
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The Coming of the Third Reich
- By: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
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There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany....
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A mam-moth work
- By SHM on 25-11-11
By: Richard J. Evans
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Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust....
By: Ian Kershaw
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- By: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....
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interesting in spots but ultimately unconvincing
- By Brendan on 02-10-10
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- By: Adam Fergusson
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....
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Entertaining and sometimes scarey real-life story
- By Dave on 13-06-11
By: Adam Fergusson
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When Titans Clashed
- How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
- By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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This new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time....
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Great content, comical pronounciation
- By Binya on 05-06-22
By: David M. Glantz, and others
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- By: Adam Tooze
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
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An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period....
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Genuinely brilliant
- By Derrick on 29-11-21
By: Adam Tooze
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Goodbye DDR
- By: Guido Knopp
- Narrated by: Victor M. Stern
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Abschied vom Klischee - vier Jahrzehnte DDR. Guido Knopp zeigt in seinem Hörbuch ein differenziertes Bild der 40-jährigen DDR-Geschichte. "Ostalgie"...
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Interesting story
- By Michael Villemoes Larsen on 22-04-23
By: Guido Knopp
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Panzer Commander
- The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
- By: Hans von Luck, Stephen E. Ambrose - introduction
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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A stunning look at World War II from the other side.... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel's 7th and then 21st Panzer Division....
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'Allo 'Allo
- By Steve V on 29-05-18
By: Hans von Luck, and others
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Bismarck
- The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship
- By: Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A gripping tale of heroism - and doom - on the high seas....
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RD Cool H
- By r on 23-11-16
By: Niklas Zetterling, and others
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To Besiege a City
- Leningrad 1941–42
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material, To Besiege a City is a ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges....
By: Prit Buttar
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The Battle of North Cape
- The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Chris Bland
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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On 25 December 1943, the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst slipped out Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital war supplies to the Soviet Union. But British naval intelligence knew of the Scharnhorst's mission before she sailed....
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kept a fast pace
- By John Taylor on 23-04-24
By: Angus Konstam
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The Third Reich at War
- By: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 35 hrs and 10 mins
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The final volume in Richard J. Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany....
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misleading title
- By julien on 08-11-18
By: Richard J. Evans
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In Defense of German Colonialism
- And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
- By: Bruce Gilley
- Narrated by: Damon Abernathy
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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The author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contrary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished....
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The other side...
- By H. P. on 09-02-23
By: Bruce Gilley
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My Life in the Red Army
- By: Fred Virski
- Narrated by: Kevin Waits
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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"My Life in the Red Army" by Fred Virski offers a rare, firsthand account of a soldier's experiences within the Soviet military machine during a critical period of the 20th century.
By: Fred Virski
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The Berlin Wall
- By: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
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The appearance of a hastily constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected....
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Ultimately a little disapointing......
- By Iain on 10-01-12
By: Frederick Taylor
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Germany in the World
- A Global History, 1500-2000
- By: David Blackbourn
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
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Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany....
By: David Blackbourn
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The Colditz Story
- By: P.R. Reid
- Narrated by: Tim Woodward
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Colditz - the dreaded POW camp was supposed to be impregnable....
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A Great Escape From Life!
- By J on 07-07-14
By: P.R. Reid
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The Good Germans
- Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
- By: Catrine Clay
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The concentration camps, the invasions, the carnage on the front-lines - the horrors of Nazism are topics well-explored in Second World War history, but little is known about those who witnessed the rise of Nazism on the ground....
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Interesting but troubling
- By HGJohn on 19-01-21
By: Catrine Clay
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- By: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Robert G. Slade paints a riveting portrait of the Weimar era....
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A solid bit of cultural history
- By North Yorkshire on 25-10-20
By: Eric D. Weitz
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Höhenrausch
- Das kurze Leben zwischen den Kriegen
- By: Harald Jähner
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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Fünfzehn Jahre wie ein Jahrhundert – ein aufregend neuer Blick auf das kurze Leben zwischen den Kriegen. Deutschland 1918. Ende des...
By: Harald Jähner
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Let Me Go
- By: Helga Schneider
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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In 1998, Helga Schneider, in her sixties, was summoned from Italy to the nursing home in Vienna in which her 90-year-old mother lived....
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Oh woe is me!!!
- By Dr McKirdy on 04-04-18
By: Helga Schneider
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The Nazis Next Door
- How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
- By: Eric Lichtblau
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in....
By: Eric Lichtblau
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The Third Reich in Power
- By: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
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The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....
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What you did not know, very interesting
- By Rolf Bonde Bondeson on 27-06-11
By: Richard J. Evans
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My Life in the Red Army
- By: Fred Virski
- Narrated by: Kevin Waits
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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"My Life in the Red Army" by Fred Virski offers a rare, firsthand account of a soldier's experiences within the Soviet military machine during a critical period of the 20th century. Through the lens of Virski's personal journey, the book sheds light on the inner workings, struggles, and day-to-day life of the Red Army from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.
By: Fred Virski
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Germania
- A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
- By: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
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There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.
By: Simon Winder
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The Battle for Moscow
- By: David Stahel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous accounts, only failed at the gates of Moscow.
By: David Stahel
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Takeover
- By: Timothy W. Ryback
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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A dramatic narrative of the six months leading up to President Paul von Hindenburg's decision to appoint Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Takeover brings to life the secret meetings, political manoeuvrings, and shifting loyalties involved in Hitler's rise, using contemporary sources without the advantage of historical hindsight. Historian Timothy W. Ryback illuminates just how close Hitler came to not ascending to power.
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Empire of Rags and Bones
- Waste and War in Nazi Germany
- By: Anne Berg
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Historicizing the much-championed ideal of zero waste, Anne Berg shows that the management of waste was central to the politics of war and to the genesis of genocide in the Nazi Germany. Destruction and recycling were part of an overarching strategy to redress raw material shortages, procure lebensraum, and cleanse the continent of Jews and others considered undesirable. Resource extending schemes obscured the crucial political role played by virtually all German citizens to whom salvaging, scrapping, and recycling were promoted as inherently virtuous and orderly behaviors.
By: Anne Berg
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Hitler's Last Day
- The Final Hours of the Führer
- By: Richard Dargie
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Have you ever wondered what was going on in Adolf Hitler's mind during his final hours in the Führerbunker? What were his thoughts as radio contact with the outside world grew faint, Soviet explosions became louder and louder, and he began to feel his unassailable power ebbing away? Did Hitler repent of his crimes against humanity or was he obsessed with thoughts of his imminent defeat and suicide?
By: Richard Dargie
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My Life in the Red Army
- By: Fred Virski
- Narrated by: Kevin Waits
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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"My Life in the Red Army" by Fred Virski offers a rare, firsthand account of a soldier's experiences within the Soviet military machine during a critical period of the 20th century. Through the lens of Virski's personal journey, the book sheds light on the inner workings, struggles, and day-to-day life of the Red Army from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.
By: Fred Virski
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Germania
- A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
- By: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
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There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.
By: Simon Winder
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The Battle for Moscow
- By: David Stahel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous accounts, only failed at the gates of Moscow.
By: David Stahel
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Takeover
- By: Timothy W. Ryback
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A dramatic narrative of the six months leading up to President Paul von Hindenburg's decision to appoint Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Takeover brings to life the secret meetings, political manoeuvrings, and shifting loyalties involved in Hitler's rise, using contemporary sources without the advantage of historical hindsight. Historian Timothy W. Ryback illuminates just how close Hitler came to not ascending to power.
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Empire of Rags and Bones
- Waste and War in Nazi Germany
- By: Anne Berg
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Historicizing the much-championed ideal of zero waste, Anne Berg shows that the management of waste was central to the politics of war and to the genesis of genocide in the Nazi Germany. Destruction and recycling were part of an overarching strategy to redress raw material shortages, procure lebensraum, and cleanse the continent of Jews and others considered undesirable. Resource extending schemes obscured the crucial political role played by virtually all German citizens to whom salvaging, scrapping, and recycling were promoted as inherently virtuous and orderly behaviors.
By: Anne Berg
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Hitler's Last Day
- The Final Hours of the Führer
- By: Richard Dargie
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered what was going on in Adolf Hitler's mind during his final hours in the Führerbunker? What were his thoughts as radio contact with the outside world grew faint, Soviet explosions became louder and louder, and he began to feel his unassailable power ebbing away? Did Hitler repent of his crimes against humanity or was he obsessed with thoughts of his imminent defeat and suicide?
By: Richard Dargie