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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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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 Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.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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Water Mirror Echo
- Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
- By: Jeff Chang
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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""Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff Chang is blessed with the vision to see things we do not yet see, thinking and writing with a restless, chasm-crossing, almost...
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Water Mirror Echo
- Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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Vagabonds
- Tourists in the Heart of Darkness
- By: Nick Brokhausen, Jeff Miller
- Narrated by: Andrew B. Wehrlen
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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1978 - a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over 40 years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents.
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Great book again
- By Amazon Customer on 21-12-21
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Vagabonds
- Tourists in the Heart of Darkness
- Narrated by: Andrew B. Wehrlen
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-12-21
- Language: English
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- By: Matthew Brzezinski
- Narrated by: Charles Stransky
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance42
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On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world.
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Interesting if not groundbreaking
- By Jeeves by another name on 14-07-23
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- Narrated by: Charles Stransky
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-09-07
- Language: English
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Rescued from the Ashes
- The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
- By: Leokadia Schmidt, Oscar E. Swan - translator
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment, and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed. Rescued from the Ashes documents the incredible life story of Leokadia Schmidt and her small family and their daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto.
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...you wish it was fiction...
- By Jackie on 12-08-24
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Rescued from the Ashes
- The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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Nazi Terror
- The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans
- By: Eric A. Johnson
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance8
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Who were the Gestapo officers? Were they merely banal paper shufflers, or were they recognizably evil? Were they motivated by an eliminationist anti-Semitism? Did the average German know about the mass murder of Jews and other undesirables while they were happening? Exactly how was Nazi terror applied in the daily lives of ordinary Jews and Germans? Eric A. Johnson answers these questions as he explores the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work.
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The narrator is so important
- By M. E. Keenan Lindsey on 23-11-13
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Nazi Terror
- The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-03-11
- Language: English
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All but My Life
- By: Gerda Weissman Klein
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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All but My Life tells the haunting story of Gerda Weissman Klein’s experience under the Nazi regime. Taken from her home in Bielitz, Poland, and sent to German labor camps, Gerda survived and was liberated by American troops. In her memoir, Klein takes audiences on an alarming journey from the...
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brilliant, heart breaking, unforgettable
- By MrsBanks on 21-02-22
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All but My Life
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-12-99
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Gods
- War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
- By: Ian Toll
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the US Navy won the largest naval battle in history; MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized. Toll's narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are gripping, but he also takes the listener into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo.
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Twilight of the Gods
- War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Series: The Pacific War Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-09-20
- Language: English
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Leningrad
- Siege and Symphony
- By: Brian Moynahan
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. Drawing on extensive primary research in archives as well as personal letters and diaries, he vividly tells the story of the cruelties heaped by the twin monsters of the 20th century, Stalin and Hitler, on a city of exquisite beauty, and of its no less remarkable survival.
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A beautiful intertwining of musical & war history
- By Elizabeth on 26-03-14
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Leningrad
- Siege and Symphony
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-12-13
- Language: English
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Irma Grese & Auschwitz: Holocaust and the Secrets of the the Blonde Beast
- By: Raymond Jennings
- Narrated by: Scott ODell
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Because of her gender and youth, Irma Grese remains known today for her crimes against humanity in the camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Executed at 22 years old, she was the youngest woman to die under British law in the 20th century. Irma Grese has gained notoriety as a villain in many diaries, journals, and creative works of Holocaust survivors. She has been studied by historians, psychologists, and psychiatrists across the world. What could cause someone to act as she did? After listening to this book, you'll be able to decide for yourself.
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The Ladybird book of the Nazis, WW2 & the Holocaust
- By Stephen Armstrong on 09-03-19
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Irma Grese & Auschwitz: Holocaust and the Secrets of the the Blonde Beast
- Narrated by: Scott ODell
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-08-18
- Language: English
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The Khmer Rouge: The Notorious History and Legacy of the Communist Regime That Ruled Cambodia in the 1970s
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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The reign of the Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian communist regime, began on April 7, 1975 as Khmer Rouge militants entered the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, ultimately gaining control and forcing out its residents. For the next four years, the regime would remain in power and commit what is now referred to as the Cambodian Genocide. Their reign would result in economic turmoil, cultural destruction, and mass death, impacting Cambodia to this day.
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Comprehensive research into Cambodia’s history
- By MrsS on 04-02-25
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The Khmer Rouge: The Notorious History and Legacy of the Communist Regime That Ruled Cambodia in the 1970s
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 02-11-18
- Language: English
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A History of the Modern World
- From 1950 to the Present Day
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In this masterful account, Jeremy Black explores the key themes that have shaped the history of the modern world since 1950. Eschewing a simple political narrative, he instead explores the roles of the environment, demographics, the economy and technology in driving change in the world.
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A History of the Modern World
- From 1950 to the Present Day
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-12-25
- Language: English
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Gay Berlin
- Birthplace of a Modern Identity
- By: Robert Beachy
- Narrated by: James D Sasser
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its...
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Gay Berlin
- Birthplace of a Modern Identity
- Narrated by: James D Sasser
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Life Stories
- Profiles from The New Yorker
- By: Truman Capote, Ian Frazier, Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Philip Bosco, Amy Irving, Alton Fitzgerald White
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully than any other modern American journal. Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the '20s and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor, The New Yorker's Profiles have presented readers with a vast and brilliant portrait gallery.
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Life Stories
- Profiles from The New Yorker
- Narrated by: Philip Bosco, Amy Irving, Alton Fitzgerald White
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-06-04
- 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: 12 hrs
- 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 Curtain, tried to foment revolution in Albania, blown up ships to prevent the passage of refugees to Israel, and secretly funneled aid to insurgents in Afghanistan and dissidents in Poland. Through bribery and blackmail, Britain has rigged elections as colonies moved to independence.
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Disrupt and Deny
- Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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Operation Overflight
- A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
- By: Francis Gary Powers, Curt Gentry
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance42
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U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is a central character in the movie “Bridge of Spies” starring Tom Hanks. In his classic 1970 memoir, Powers reveals the full story behind what happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After his U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot...
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Interesting and informative narration of the U2 incident
- By Timothy Dolan on 05-01-26
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Operation Overflight
- A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain
- The Battle for Britain
- By: Joshua Levine, The Imperial War Museum
- Narrated by: Simon MacCorkindale
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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As Hitler proceeded with his invasion plans, code-named Operation Sealion, he knew that the RAF must not be allowed to threaten the invading forces as they crossed the Channel. It was clear that they would have to be brought to battle and defeated. Still hopeful of a settlement, Hitler believed that a sustained aerial attack, coupled with a U-Boat blockade, might bring Britain to the negotiating table.
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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain
- The Battle for Britain
- Narrated by: Simon MacCorkindale
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-12-06
- Language: English
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From Rebel to Ruler
- One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
- By: Tony Saich
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Tony Saich tells the authoritative, comprehensive story of the Chinese Communist Party—its rise to power against incredible odds, its struggle to consolidate rule and overcome self-inflicted disasters, and its thriving amid other Communist parties' collapse. Saich argues that the brutal Japanese invasion in the 1930s actually helped the party. Once in power, however, the Communists faced the difficult task of learning how to rule. From Rebel to Ruler shows that the party owes its endurance to its flexibility.
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From Rebel to Ruler
- One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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Fire
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the...
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Fire
- Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-05-06
- Language: English
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1944
- FDR and the Year That Changed History
- By: Jay Winik
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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The year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put intense pressure on the ailing yet determined President Roosevelt, is brought to vivid life in “gripping” (The New York Times Book Review) detail in this New York Times bestseller. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the...
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Good book
- By christiaan on 05-10-15
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1944
- FDR and the Year That Changed History
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-09-15
- Language: English
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