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Fallout
- Disaster, Lies and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
- By: Fred Pearce
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance41
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Story41
From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity's struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with secrecy, deceit, human error, blatant disregard for life, short-sighted politics and fear. Fallout is an eye-opening odyssey through the first eight decades of this struggle and the radioactive landscapes it has left behind. We are, he finds, forever torn between technological hubris and all-too-human terror about what we have created.
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Very interesting and disturbing
- By Rob on 19-01-22
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Fallout
- Disaster, Lies and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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Atoms and Ashes
- From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance49
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Story49
Brought to you by Penguin. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now...
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A Toast For Serhii Plokhy
- By Anonymous on 09-07-23
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Atoms and Ashes
- From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 17-05-22
- Language: English
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
- The Untold Story
- By: Patricia Posner
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall200
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Performance178
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Story177
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little-known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania, who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based in part on previously classified documents, Patricia Posner exposes Capesius's reign of terror at the camp, his escape from justice, and how a handful of courageous survivors and a single brave prosecutor finally brought him to trial for murder 20 years after the end of the war.
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Shocking
- By m on 09-05-18
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
- The Untold Story
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
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The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold
- The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
- By: Tim Tate
- Narrated by: Tim Tate
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance35
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Story35
Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski, and he remains one of the most important yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now.
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It's the little things
- By Bunter on 10-10-21
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The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold
- The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
- Narrated by: Tim Tate
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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Personality and Power
- Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance17
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Story17
Brought to you by Penguin. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these...
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Not liking it
- By Angeles Martinez on 01-05-23
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Personality and Power
- Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-09-22
- Language: English
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Blood and Sand
- By: Alex Von Tunzelmann
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance16
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Story16
Blood and Sand tells this story hour by hour, with a fascinating cast of characters including Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Christian Pineau, Imre Nagy and David Ben-Gurion. It is a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony.
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A Hidden History of the UK & France in the Middle East - fascinating
- By Kindle Customer on 03-06-19
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Blood and Sand
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-11-16
- 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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Story22
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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The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
- By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall147
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Performance122
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Story122
How did communism become such a pervasive economic and political philosophy? Why did it first take root in early 20th-century Russia? These and other questions are part of a fascinating story whose drama has few equals in terms of sheer scale, scope, or human suffering and belief. These 12 lectures invite you to go inside communism’s journey from a collection of political and economic theories to a revolutionary movement that rocked the world.
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Good straight forward history
- By Neil Green on 29-05-20
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The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
- Narrated by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-11-19
- Language: English
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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance42
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Story41
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries...
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informative.
- By Marcin on 20-09-22
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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-10-17
- Language: English
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Fateful Choices
- Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human destiny.
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Unlistenable
- By Phil on 14-03-25
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Fateful Choices
- Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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Always Remember Your Name
- By: Andra Bucci, Tatiana Bucci
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance51
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Story51
On 28th March 1944, Italian sisters Tati (six) and Andra (four) were roused from their sleep and taken to Auschwitz, to the infamous Kinder Block, presided over by Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death. By the time Auschwitz was liberated, 230,000 children had been murdered, and Andra and Tati were among 70 child survivors. They were sent to Lingfield House in Britain, a home for children orphaned or lost at the end of the war.
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An emotional story!
- By Mrs. K. A. Oakley on 02-04-24
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Always Remember Your Name
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-01-22
- Language: English
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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
- A Story of Survival
- By: Anne Sebba
- Narrated by: Anne Sebba, Helen Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be...
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Inspirational
- By Sally C. on 15-04-25
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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
- A Story of Survival
- Narrated by: Anne Sebba, Helen Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-03-25
- Language: English
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Vatican I
- The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
- By: John W. O'Malley
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance18
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Story18
The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources, but in the first half of the 19th century, the foundations upon which the church had rested were shaken. For many people, liberalism in the guise of liberty, equality, and fraternity was the quintessence of the evils that shook those foundations. At the Vatican Council of 1869-1870, the church made an effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility. Author John W. O'Malley draws us into the bitter controversies over papal infallibility that at one point seemed destined to rend the church in two.
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Excellent information on an important subject
- By Anonymous on 27-10-23
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Vatican I
- The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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The Poisonous Solicitor
- By: Stephen Bates
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance31
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Story31
In 1922, Major Herbert Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic. Armstrong's case has all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, from a plot by Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers (indeed some aspects of his story appear in Sayers' Unnatural Death). It is a near-perfect whodunnit.
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Brilliant
- By Caro on 16-08-23
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The Poisonous Solicitor
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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A Mad Catastrophe
- The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
- By: Geoffrey Wawro
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Wawro
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.
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Disappointing
- By Anonimo Nonlodico on 22-03-16
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A Mad Catastrophe
- The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Wawro
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 29-08-14
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Auschwitz
- The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
- By: Roxane van Iperen
- Narrated by: Susan Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance80
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Story79
It is 1940, and the Final Solution is about to begin. The Nazis have occupied The Netherlands, but resistance is growing and two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - are risking their lives to save those being hunted, through their clandestine safehouse 'The High Nest'. It becomes one of the most important safehouses in the country, but when the house and its occupants are betrayed, the most terrifying time of the sisters' lives begins. This is the beginning of the end.
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Is Auschwitz not Aus-witch
- By Anonymous on 11-11-20
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The Sisters of Auschwitz
- The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
- Narrated by: Susan Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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Kafkaesque
- Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century
- By: Maïa Hruska
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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'A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder’ Polly Barton 'Brings a welcome freshness of vision and a dashing style … provocative and illuminating' The Spectator...
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Kafkaesque
- Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- By: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance42
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drawing on exhaustive research, this “masterful narrative history” (Booklist) details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world. “Thundering, magnificent...
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A disaster
- By Catalin on 03-10-23
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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Hunting Eichmann
- Chasing Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
- By: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall178
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Performance159
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Story158
Best-selling author Neal Bascomb has garnered critical acclaim for such riveting nonfiction as Higher and Red Mutiny. Based on extensive interviews and previously classified details, Hunting Eichmann is a compelling account of the relentless hunt for the nefarious Adolf Eichmann.
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Fantastic narration of an amazing story
- By Neville on 29-10-18
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Hunting Eichmann
- Chasing Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 27-02-09
- Language: English
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Together We Stand
- North Africa 1942–1943: Turning the Tide in the West
- By: James Holland, John Nicholl
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Abridged
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Overall67
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Performance56
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The birth of an alliance that changed the course of history. From the bestselling author of Fortress Malta this is the second book in the Mediterranean war trilogy. This audiobook looks afresh at the conflict in Northern Africa, focusing for the first time on the involvement of the US and the...
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Enlightening
- By TonyG on 29-08-25
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Together We Stand
- North Africa 1942–1943: Turning the Tide in the West
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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