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American Dreamer: Who Was Jay Gatsby?
- By: Blanchard House
- Narrated by: Joe Nocera
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Just before the small-time bootlegger Max Gerlach died, he tried to reveal his secret: he was the inspiration for the mysterious Jay Gatsby. It’s a nice story, but was he telling the truth? Veteran reporter Joe Nocera and producer Poppy Damon investigate this century-old literary mystery and uncover untold secrets about the Great American Novel.
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Fascinating
- By Abblina on 17-09-24
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American Dreamer: Who Was Jay Gatsby?
- Narrated by: Joe Nocera
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 28-03-24
- Language: English
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish
- Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories
- By: Anthony S. Pitch
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of victims, told in their own words. They include the experiences of teenagers who saw their parents and siblings sent to the gas chambers; of starving children beaten for trying to steal a morsel of food; of people who saw their friends commit suicide to save themselves from the daily agony they endured.
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Disjointed, annoying.
- By P-J on 16-04-19
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish
- Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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Hitler
- Only the World Was Enough
- By: Brendan Simms
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of...
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Nuanced and enlightening
- By Julle on 01-03-20
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Hitler
- Only the World Was Enough
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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It Was My Turn
- One of Vietnam's Most Decorated Pilots and America's Secret War
- By: Gerald Baron
- Narrated by: Gerald Baron
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Warrant Officer Terry Crump was a Cobra gunship pilot who earned a near-unprecedented seven Distinguished Flying Crosses in his one-year tour in Vietnam. This is the untold story of the Pink Panthers, the 361st Aerial Weapons Company, an all-Cobra unit dedicated to supporting the secret war of MACVSOG. SOG, the so-called "Studies and Observation Group" sent small teams led by Special Forces commandos into Laos and Cambodia in violation of their supposed neutrality. It was considered "the hairiest mission" of the war with more Medals of Honor awarded to SOG teams at Kontum than any other unit.
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Lack of structure
- By Joensen on 10-06-26
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It Was My Turn
- One of Vietnam's Most Decorated Pilots and America's Secret War
- Narrated by: Gerald Baron
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-05-25
- Language: English
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And There Was Light
- The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
- By: Jacques Lusseyran
- Narrated by: Andre Gregory
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive.
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Hope and courage
- By Elize Thiart on 23-12-25
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And There Was Light
- The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
- Narrated by: Andre Gregory
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 21-03-14
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Soldier
- He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy
- By: Charlie Connelly
- Narrated by: Adrian Palmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen. But this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who...
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Best book I've had this year
- By Jenny Clifton on 15-11-14
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The Forgotten Soldier
- He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy
- Narrated by: Adrian Palmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 23-10-14
- Language: English
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She Was Never Lost
- The Amelia Earhart Saga
- By: Richard Martini
- Narrated by: Richard Martini
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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This isn't a book about finding Amelia Earhart. it's about her finding me, and guiding, directing, nudging, cajoling me along the way. It's a mind bending adventure told in third person, then in first person, then with eyewitnesses, then with a variety of mediums who I've known for decades, answering my incessant questions.
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She Was Never Lost
- The Amelia Earhart Saga
- Narrated by: Richard Martini
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 13-08-25
- Language: English
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The Catcher Was a Spy
- The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
- By: Nicholas Dawidoff
- Narrated by: Jeff Kramer
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" ( Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man.
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The Catcher Was a Spy
- The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
- Narrated by: Jeff Kramer
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-12-12
- Language: English
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How Hitler Was Made
- Germany and the Rise of the Perfect Nazi
- By: Cory Taylor, Martin Sheen - foreword
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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How did an obscure agitator on the political fringes of early-20th-century Germany rise to become the supreme leader of the "Third Reich"? Unlike many other books that track Adolf Hitler's career after 1933, this book focuses on his formative period—immediately following World War I (1918-1924). The author, a veteran producer of historical documentaries, brings to life this era of political unrest and violent conflict, when forces on both the left and right were engaged in a desperate power struggle.
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How Hitler Was Made
- Germany and the Rise of the Perfect Nazi
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 31-07-25
- Language: English
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This Was Our Malvern
- Worcestershire & Malvern History Series, Book 2
- By: Margaret Bramford
- Narrated by: Richard Lyntton
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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For history buffs and memoir lovers of the good old days, the way things used to be.... Escape to the past with this second-in-series, local history, and memoir-biography. Margaret Bramford presents the life and times, and true accounts of Spa town Malvern, Worcestershire (UK), as recollected by Malverners themselves looking back over the last century.
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This Was Our Malvern
- Worcestershire & Malvern History Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Richard Lyntton
- Series: Worcestershire & Malvern History, Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 14-11-22
- Language: English
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Granddaddy Was Airborne!
- By: Bart Hagerman
- Narrated by: Dylan Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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As an 18 year-old, Bart Hagerman volunteered for military service in April, 1943. Hagerman was wounded in action and hospitalized, then returned to the States and eventually to civilian life. After graduation from college, he accepted a direct commission and was recalled briefly during the Korean conflict. He retired from the Army in 1978 as a lieutenant colonel and a master parachutist.
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Granddaddy Was Airborne!
- Narrated by: Dylan Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-04-26
- Language: English
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When Character Was King
- By: Peggy Noonan
- Narrated by: Peggy Noonan
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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From the bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution comes an elegiac tribute to one of America's most beloved leaders. It is twenty years—a full generation—since Ronald Reagan first walked into the White House and ignited a revolution. From the beginning, he enjoyed the American...
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When Character Was King
- Narrated by: Peggy Noonan
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 20-11-01
- Language: English
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And i´m still Alive
- A life that was not planned!
- By: Ines Vasku
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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A biography at 24. What can you do with life know and tell? Not much at first glance, but when I think about it , I feel like I've already had more than 9 lives. No, I was never beaten or abused, I have a family and a roof over my head. And yet I wanted everything completely differently or...
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And i´m still Alive
- A life that was not planned!
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-06-26
- Language: English
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Who Was That Lady?
- Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery
- By: Jeffrey Marks
- Narrated by: Natalie Baker Shirer
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Craig Rice, the author of fourteen novels, countless short stories, and a number of true crime pieces, once rivaled Agatha Christie in sales. She was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946. However, the past fifty years have seen her fall into relative obscurity. Rice made for an interesting subject for a biography because nearly every identification point about the author was in dispute.
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Who Was That Lady?
- Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery
- Narrated by: Natalie Baker Shirer
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-09-14
- Language: English
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Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder
- Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
- By: Claudia Kalb
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? Was Frank Lloyd Wright a narcissist? In this surprising, inventive, and meticulously researched look at the evolution of mental health, acclaimed health and science journalist Claudia Kalb gives listeners a glimpse into the lives of high-profile historic figures through the lens of modern psychology, weaving groundbreaking research into biographical narratives that are deeply embedded in our culture.
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Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder
- Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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The Way It Was and the Way It Is
- By: James A. Nelson
- Narrated by: Jim Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Laugh, cry, or smile while you listen to this collection of nostalgic stories of life in general - and perhaps recall your own cherished memories. Appearing in magazines and newspapers, the stories and poems written by James A. Nelson are reminiscent of his many life experiences and relationships he established through the years. His essays are windows to his soul, opinions forged by strong family values and mores.
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The Way It Was and the Way It Is
- Narrated by: Jim Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-07-12
- Language: English
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Our Flag Was Still There
- The Star Spangled Banner That Survived the British and 200 Years―and the Armistead Family Who Saved It
- By: Tom McMillan
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Our Flag Was Still There details the improbable two-hundred-year journey of the original Star-Spangled Banner—from Fort McHenry in 1814, when Francis Scott Key first saw it, to the Smithsonian—and the enduring family who defended, kept, hid, and ultimately donated the most famous flag in American history. Tom McMillan tells a story as no one has before. Digging deep into the archives of Fort McHenry and the Smithsonian, McMillan follows the flag on an often-perilous journey through three centuries.
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Our Flag Was Still There
- The Star Spangled Banner That Survived the British and 200 Years―and the Armistead Family Who Saved It
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-06-23
- Language: English
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When I Was a Young Man
- A Memoir
- By: Bob Kerrey
- Narrated by: Bob Kerrey
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Bob Kerrey grew up outside Lincoln, Nebraska, in the 1950s, and in his trademark style - serious, sometimes wry - he tells of his journey from that heartland to the dangers of Vietnam, to the hospitals where he recovered from his grievous injuries, and finally to the Nixon White House where he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
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When I Was a Young Man
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Bob Kerrey
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-12-14
- Language: English
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Alles, was wir nicht erinnern
- Zu Fuß auf dem Fluchtweg meines Vaters
- By: Christiane Hoffmann
- Narrated by: Martina Gedeck
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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"Zu Fuß?" "Zu Fuß." "Allein?" "Allein." - Am 22. Januar 2020 macht sich Christiane Hoffmann in einem Dorf in Niederschlesien auf den Weg. Sie läuft 550 Kilometer nach Westen, es ist der Weg, auf dem ihr Vater im Winter 1945 vor der Roten Armee geflohen ist. Die Flucht und der Verlust der Heimat prägen die Kindheit der Autorin, es bleibt, wie bei so vielen Familien, eine Wunde. Nach dem Tod des Vaters kehrt die Tochter nach Rosenthal zurück, das jetzt Rózyna heißt. Sie sucht nach der Geschichte und ihren Narben.
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An integral text for today (and tomorrow)
- By CC on 16-10-23
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Alles, was wir nicht erinnern
- Zu Fuß auf dem Fluchtweg meines Vaters
- Narrated by: Martina Gedeck
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 25-02-22
- Language: German
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But God…
- When There Was No Other Way, My God Made a Way. Against All Odds, I Survived COVID-19.
- By: Kathy J. Williams
- Narrated by: Heather Siess
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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Kathy and Rob were pro-vaccine prior to COVID-19. They couldn't believe what they were hearing. Lies were being spouted on national TV. Kathy and her husband, Rob, are retired registered nurses. They both read research articles and listen to podcasts to keep their minds sharp after retirement and keep up to date on the field of medicine, especially COVID-19. The government will spin this time in history. It's very important that people step forward to tell their stories. Follow Kathy and Rob's journey through the COVID-19 pandemic and their insights to the politics governing the treatment.
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But God…
- When There Was No Other Way, My God Made a Way. Against All Odds, I Survived COVID-19.
- Narrated by: Heather Siess
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-09-24
- Language: English
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