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Mountain Commandos in the Falklands
- The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action during the 1982 Conflict
- By: Rod Boswell
- Narrated by: Rod Boswell
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Sunset, 8 June 1982, East Falkland. Eight specially trained Royal Marines infiltrate Goat Ridge, a long rocky hilltop between Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which are occupied by a battalion of 600 Argentine infantry. Their daring mission was to hide out in hostile territory, reconnoiter the...
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Mountain Warfare at its Best
- By Mr C. on 21-02-26
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Mountain Commandos in the Falklands
- The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action during the 1982 Conflict
- Narrated by: Rod Boswell
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 30-05-25
- Language: English
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Iran and the Revolution
- A History
- By: Homa Katouzian
- Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A major new history of revolutionary Iran, from the 1940s to the present Iran’s revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this seismic event? How did the revolutionary movement gain such strength? And...
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Iran and the Revolution
- A History
- Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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Legacy of Violence
- A landmark history of the British Empire - and the violence that built it.
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall135
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Performance120
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe...
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Slow burner but ultimately devastating
- By Arkhidamos on 26-10-22
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Legacy of Violence
- A landmark history of the British Empire - and the violence that built it.
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Six Days of War
- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- By: Michael B. Oren
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall200
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Performance155
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In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback". Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the intifada, and the rise of Palestinian terror are all part of the outcome of those six days.
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Very biased, but worthwhile
- By Flopadoo on 24-07-13
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Six Days of War
- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 12-12-05
- Language: English
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The Story of World War II
- By: Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance93
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Story93
Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought - and whose outcome was in greater doubt - than one might imagine. This is the war that Americans on the home front would have read about had they had access to previously censored testimony.
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Title it: The American Story of World War II
- By Dave Reed on 22-01-16
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The Story of World War II
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-08-12
- Language: English
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
- By: Ruth Franklin
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust. Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit, this book chronicles and interprets Anne’s life as a Jew in Amsterdam during World War II while also telling the story of the diary—its multiple drafts, its discovery, its reception, and its message for today’s world.
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Important take on a well known life
- By cat38 on 23-02-26
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-01-25
- Language: English
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Kremlin Winter
- Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
- By: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance42
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In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite and prolific historians of modern Russia'...
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Absolutely outstanding analysis of Putin + Russia
- By leslie10 on 16-05-22
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Kremlin Winter
- Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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London in the Twentieth Century
- By: Jerry White
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 21 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance19
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Story19
In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
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Dry but informative
- By Barry Winters on 07-11-23
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London in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 21 hrs
- Release date: 04-10-19
- Language: English
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Entitled
- A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
- By: Chris Bryant
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance6
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Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power, and prestige and examines the greed, ambition, jealousy, and rivalry which drove aristocratic families to guard their interests with such determination.
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Interesting but spoiled by narrator
- By Mary Carnegie on 01-04-24
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Entitled
- A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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Travellers in the Third Reich
- The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
- By: Julia Boyd
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall337
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Performance308
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Story305
Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating firsthand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler - one so palpable that the listener will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.
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An unusual journey
- By japlah on 07-07-19
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Travellers in the Third Reich
- The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 46 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that...
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 46 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-12-24
- Language: English
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance21
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The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David...
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Good book, annoying narrator
- By Patrick Donovan on 10-06-16
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-01-11
- Language: English
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Operation Paperclip
- The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall281
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Performance247
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Story248
The fascinating story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51 and Biological War. “This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing.” ―Boston Globe In the chaos following World War II, the...
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A very interesting topic
- By C. Hutchinson on 04-12-16
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Operation Paperclip
- The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-02-14
- Language: English
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Abridged
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Overall257
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Performance184
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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...
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Another great clearing in the jungle from CJ
- By Matt on 17-05-08
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-04-08
- Language: English
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The Nazis Knew My Name
- By: Maya Lee, Magda Hellinger, David Brewster
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Zoe Carides
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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'This thought-provoking book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Holocaust' – Ariana Neumann The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and...
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A well written book giving a different view of the holocaust.
- By Anonymous on 22-05-23
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The Nazis Knew My Name
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Zoe Carides
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-09-21
- Language: English
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Collision of Empires
- The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance41
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The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires - Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany - remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely expose of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front - a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever.
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At last a proper campaign history
- By Mr. Daniel R. Kane on 27-10-18
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Collision of Empires
- The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Series: Eastern Front Series, Book 1
- Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 26-12-17
- Language: English
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The Plot to Kill King
- The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- By: Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance27
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William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Ray's innocence. This myth-shattering expose is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Pepper's original best-selling and critically-acclaimed book of the same name, with 26 years of additional research included. The result reveals dramatic new details of the night of the murder, the trial, and why Ray was chosen to take the fall for an evil conspiracy.
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Fantastically detailed, thorough & shocking
- By Donna Shannon on 30-01-21
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The Plot to Kill King
- The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-12-16
- Language: English
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Maoism
- A Global History
- By: Julia Lovell
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance47
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For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist government. With disagreements and conflicts between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.
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Pure propoganda
- By Jay Blake on 12-12-19
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World War II: Desert War
- American Heritage
- By: Stephen W. Sears
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against Britain's Bernard Montgomery and America's George Patton. Here, from award-winning military historian Stephen W. Sears, is the dramatic story of the generals, politicians, and soldiers who changed the course of the war.
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I really enjoyed this. But weird pronunciation.
- By fjonny on 11-04-24
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World War II: Desert War
- American Heritage
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 17-01-17
- Language: English
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The Holocaust
- History and Memory
- By: Jeremy M. Black
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance6
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Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue with generations of scholars who separate the Holocaust from Germany's military ambitions, historian Jeremy M. Black demonstrates persuasively that Germany's war on the Allies was entwined with Hitler's war on Jews.
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Informative!
- By Amazon Customer on 11-01-19
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The Holocaust
- History and Memory
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-02-17
- Language: English
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