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The Umbrella Murder
- Observer Book of the Week and Shortlisted for Fingerprint Crime Awards
- By: Ulrik Skotte
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War. Many years later, young journalist...
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Couldn’t stop listening
- By Anonymous on 23-05-26
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The Umbrella Murder
- Observer Book of the Week and Shortlisted for Fingerprint Crime Awards
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-07-24
- Language: English
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A History of Modern Syria
- By: Daniel Neep
- Narrated by: Philip Arditti
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful, definitive account of modern Syria and its fate Few countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Carved out of the Ottoman empire at the end of the First World War, Syria was then brutally ruled by France. This French ‘mandate’ carved out...
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A History of Modern Syria
- Narrated by: Philip Arditti
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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Australia: A History - How an ancient land became a great democracy
- By: Tony Abbott
- Narrated by: Tony Abbott
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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How an ancient land became a great democracy. Longlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative' Geoffrey Blainey, historian 'I think it's very good' Tom Holland, historian Australia is...
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An amazing tour de force of Australia’s remarkable story
- By Amazon Customer on 04-05-26
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Australia: A History - How an ancient land became a great democracy
- Narrated by: Tony Abbott
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-10-25
- Language: English
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Tango 1-1
- 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta
- By: Jim Thayer
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance39
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LRPs were all volunteers. They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling. They varied in age from eighteen to thirty. These men operated in precision movements, like walking through a jungle quietly and being able to tell whether a man or an animal is moving through the brush without seeing the cause of movement. They could sit in an ambush for hours without moving a muscle except to ease the safety off the automatic weapon in their hand at the first sign of trouble. These men were good because they had to be to survive.
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Another great account by a three times wounded veteran.
- By Mr R Hollingsworth on 25-06-25
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Tango 1-1
- 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-11-22
- Language: English
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The House by the Lake
- By: Thomas Harding
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall165
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Performance149
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In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a house by a lake. It had been a holiday home for her family, that she had been forced to leave as the Nazis swept to power. As he began to piece together the lives of the five families who had lived, he realised that this house had witnessed violence, betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war and the dividing of a nation.
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5 families, one house, a fantastic journey
- By JJ on 15-08-18
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The House by the Lake
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 24-09-15
- Language: English
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Achtung Panzer!
- By: Heinz Guderian
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance23
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This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937...
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Great Material
- By Kane on 16-10-25
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Achtung Panzer!
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-01-20
- Language: English
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Crucible of Hell
- Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: William Roberts, Saul David - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance90
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‘Excellent’ Antony Beevor ‘Saul David is a brilliant historian … In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life’ James Holland From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new...
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Download the book in parts
- By Matt on 06-04-20
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Crucible of Hell
- Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
- Narrated by: William Roberts, Saul David - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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I Shall Bear Witness
- The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
- By: Victor Klemperer
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance34
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A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. 'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES 'I can't remember when I read a more engrossing book'...
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Klemperer's Genius
- By Andrea Liu on 11-02-22
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I Shall Bear Witness
- The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- By: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance72
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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
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An enduring masterpiece
- By Aucher on 11-09-23
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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Rather Die Fighting
- A Memoir of World War II
- By: Frank Blaichman
- Narrated by: Pat Young
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance80
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Frank Blaichman was 16 years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped. Together they formed a partisan force dedicated to fighting the Germans. This is a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty German war machine during World War II.
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A story of a little known of a Jewish Resistance Group in Poland.
- By Colin James on 08-09-25
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Rather Die Fighting
- A Memoir of World War II
- Narrated by: Pat Young
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-01-13
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- By: John Rapley, Peter Heather
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence.
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Great relevant historic lessons for today
- By merchant on 29-05-23
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Centuries Will Not Suffice
- A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4
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Centuries Will Not Suffice explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the experiences of many who were caught up in the maelstrom.
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Centuries Will Not Suffice
- A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-07-23
- Language: English
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Ring of Fire
- A New Global History of the Outbreak of the First World War
- By: Alexandra Churchill, Nicolai Eberholst
- Narrated by: Alexandra Churchill
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Bloomsbury presents Ring of Fire by Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst, read by Alexandra Churchill. 'Churchill and Eberholst put the world back into First World War.' Dan Snow A remarkable, eyewitness-based view of the outbreak of the First World War. As war broke out in the summer of...
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what you thought you knew about 1914 but definitely didn't.
- By owen edward moody on 13-05-25
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Ring of Fire
- A New Global History of the Outbreak of the First World War
- Narrated by: Alexandra Churchill
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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The Redhead of Auschwitz
- A True Story
- By: Nechama Birnbaum
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance23
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Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair, she loses the life she once cherished.
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fantastic book thankyou for the invite to read
- By Liz GJ on 29-08-22
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The Redhead of Auschwitz
- A True Story
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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The Collapse of Yugoslavia
- 1991–99
- By: Alastair Finlan
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Bloomsbury presents The Collapse of Yugoslavia by Alastair Finlan, read by Ric Jerrom. An accessible introduction to the brutal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, one of the greatest yet least understood tragedies of the 20th century. In 1991, an ethnically diverse and peaceful region of Europe...
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The sadness of truth
- By Mr. Alexander Blake on 16-06-26
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The Collapse of Yugoslavia
- 1991–99
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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Disrupt and Deny
- Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
- By: Rory Cormac
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets. It has instigated whispering campaigns and planted false evidence on officials working behind the Iron...
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Disrupt and Deny
- Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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The Walls Have Ears
- The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
- By: Helen Fry
- Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Overall78
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Performance72
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A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation...
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Returned after a 5 minute listen.
- By Gadgetfanatic on 27-09-19
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The Walls Have Ears
- The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
- Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 24-09-19
- Language: English
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The Volunteer
- The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz – Costa Book of the Year 2019
- By: Jack Fairweather
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance947
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Brought to you by Penguin. The 2019 Costa Book of the Year and Biography Winner. How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror? Narrated by David Rintoul, this is the untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, after the Nazi...
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Philippa on 08-07-19
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The Volunteer
- The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz – Costa Book of the Year 2019
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 27-06-19
- Language: English
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Out of the Darkness
- The Germans, 1942-2022
- By: Frank Trentmann
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital question: how, and how far, have the Germans since reinvented themselves?
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Out of the Darkness
- The Germans, 1942-2022
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Berlin
- The Story of a City
- By: Barney White-Spunner, Barney White-Spunner - introduction
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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Overall26
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Performance24
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'My only complaint is that it was so fascinating I wish it had been longer. What a story!' Philip Mansel BERLIN is Europe’s most fascinating and exciting city. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism, have their origins in Berlin’s streets. With its...
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A brilliant and complete history of the city.
- By Micka Breen on 22-07-23
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Berlin
- The Story of a City
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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