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Best Sellers
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The Battle of Arnhem
- The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
- Written by: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Antony Beevor has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student called "The Last German Victory." Yet The Battle of Arnhem, written with Beevor's inimitable style, is about much more than a single dramatic battle - it looks into the very heart of war....
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All the details you need, and more.
- By Dark Alley Dan on 2024-05-25
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....
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Captivating
- By sd on 2019-08-09
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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enlightening
- By Jacques Huot on 2018-08-15
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The Watchmaker's Daughter
- The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
- Written by: Larry Loftis
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place....
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This is the best book I’ve ever read!
- By Jade Lizard on 2023-12-05
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Israel
- A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
- Written by: Daniel Gordis
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's attention, aroused its imagination, and, lately, been the object of its opprobrium....
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recommended
- By jacob on 2019-07-22
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Written by: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken....
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The Battle of Arnhem
- The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
- Written by: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Antony Beevor has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student called "The Last German Victory." Yet The Battle of Arnhem, written with Beevor's inimitable style, is about much more than a single dramatic battle - it looks into the very heart of war....
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All the details you need, and more.
- By Dark Alley Dan on 2024-05-25
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....
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Captivating
- By sd on 2019-08-09
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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enlightening
- By Jacques Huot on 2018-08-15
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The Watchmaker's Daughter
- The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
- Written by: Larry Loftis
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place....
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This is the best book I’ve ever read!
- By Jade Lizard on 2023-12-05
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Israel
- A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
- Written by: Daniel Gordis
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's attention, aroused its imagination, and, lately, been the object of its opprobrium....
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recommended
- By jacob on 2019-07-22
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Written by: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken....
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- Written by: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....
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Hair raising
- By Dmitry on 2019-05-15
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Written by: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....
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Brilliant
- By Vladimir Zhivov on 2020-09-01
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Written by: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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good book - hard to digest
- By Dallas J Hoday on 2021-03-17
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- Written by: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century....
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The Great History Review of D-Day
- By Anthony on 2022-09-21
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The Second World War
- Written by: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history....
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Weak coverage of certain battles, unless American.
- By Jordan on 2019-02-26
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- Written by: Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients....
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Breathtakingly beautiful!
- By Celia A on 2021-03-13
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Clementine
- The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Written by: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine her due with a deeply researched account that tells her life story....
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Recognition of Winston Churchill's mainstay.
- By Robert Peck on 2018-02-10
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The Cold War's Killing Fields
- Rethinking the Long Peace
- Written by: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War which views the decades-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the 20th century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the "Long Peace" actually was....
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The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Written by: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Lawrence Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
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This is a sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas that culminated in the assault on America....
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Why an Author Should Not Narrate Their Own Work
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-07-08
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Agent Sonya
- Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent....
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Work-life balance gone awry
- By andrew on 2020-10-21
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Wallis in Love
- The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
- Written by: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Molly Parker Myers
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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A captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne....
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Narrator poor
- By Lindsey on 2018-02-20
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Agent Zigzag
- A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
- Written by: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced....
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AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR FANS OF ESPIONAGE!
- By Evalina on 2020-03-04
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- Written by: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life....
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Wish this was a mandatory read in Canadian schools
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-03-27
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....
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This is a great book
- By Barbara on 2018-09-13
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- Written by: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the astonishing true story of Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear....
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Great book
- By Travis on 2023-08-10
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- Written by: Adam Fergusson
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....
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Too long not as interesting as it could have been
- By Brad Mills on 2021-07-02
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Guerilla Warfare
- Written by: Ernesto Che Guevara
- Narrated by: Jason Manuel Olazabal
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, written in 1960, has become a how-to manual for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world....
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Interesting as Part of a Wider Study
- By P on 2021-09-27
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Last Stop Auschwitz
- My Story of Survival from Within the Camp
- Written by: Eddy de Wind
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in Auschwitz itself, this one-of-a-kind, minute-by-minute true account is a crucial historical testament to a Holocaust survivor's fight for his life at the largest extermination camp in Nazi Germany, translated for the first time ever into English....
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Max Hastings on War
- Written by: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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From Max Hastings comes a collection of talks and lectures exploring the wars of the 20th century with the verve, insight and originality that has made him a number one bestselling historian....
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Great book
- By Don on 2023-11-18
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Let It Go
- My Extraordinary Story - from Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist
- Written by: Dame Stephanie Shirley CH
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers employed women to work on complex projects such as Concorde's black box recorder from the comfort of their own homes....
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque
- The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War
- Written by: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the listener from the multiple disasters of 1870-1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century....
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- Written by: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism....
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The fact that Russia hasn’t changed
- By ellen boyce on 2024-06-02
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Armor and Blood
- The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II
- Written by: Dennis E. Showalter
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians....
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A Very Dense hour by hour telling of Kursk
- By Daniel Jones on 2018-12-03
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Horse of a Different Color
- Little Britches, Book 8
- Written by: Ralph Moody
- Narrated by: Cameron Beierle
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 1920s, cowboy and dry-range farmer Ralph Moody finds himself with mountainous debts through the collapse of the livestock market and the dealings of a crooked partner....
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point.
Written by: Kassia St. Clair
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Brian Epstein
- A Life from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that man is former Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Written by: Hourly History
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Dancing Under the Red Star
- The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
- Written by: Karl Tobien
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families—Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret—and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.
Written by: Karl Tobien
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
- Written by: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations.
Written by: Max Hastings
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D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
- Powerful Eye-Witness Accounts of the Battle for Normandy 1944
- Written by: Geraint Jones
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Geraint Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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D-Day was bloody, chaotic and frequently terrifying. Its outcome was far from certain. And at its epicentre were tens of thousands of young men, many seeing their first active service. It was a single day that changed millions of lives. A critical turning point of the Second World War. Using audio interviews with British, American, Canadian and German veterans, as well as French civilians, this immersive new oral history describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed.
Written by: Geraint Jones
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Brotherhood of the Bomb
- The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
- Written by: Gregg Herken
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller—the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science—and its practitioners—enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War?
Written by: Gregg Herken
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point.
Written by: Kassia St. Clair
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Brian Epstein
- A Life from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that man is former Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Written by: Hourly History
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Dancing Under the Red Star
- The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
- Written by: Karl Tobien
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families—Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret—and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.
Written by: Karl Tobien
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
- Written by: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations.
Written by: Max Hastings
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D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
- Powerful Eye-Witness Accounts of the Battle for Normandy 1944
- Written by: Geraint Jones
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Geraint Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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D-Day was bloody, chaotic and frequently terrifying. Its outcome was far from certain. And at its epicentre were tens of thousands of young men, many seeing their first active service. It was a single day that changed millions of lives. A critical turning point of the Second World War. Using audio interviews with British, American, Canadian and German veterans, as well as French civilians, this immersive new oral history describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed.
Written by: Geraint Jones
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Brotherhood of the Bomb
- The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
- Written by: Gregg Herken
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller—the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science—and its practitioners—enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War?
Written by: Gregg Herken
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Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island
- The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation
- Written by: John R Bruning
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines between the U.S. and Australia.
Written by: John R Bruning
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The Autobiography of a Designated “Memorial Candle” Holocaust Lessons, Volume II
- A Never-Ending Field to Study
- Written by: Mayer Jacobovits
- Narrated by: Sean Lester
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Children of concentration camp survivors are also known as "memorial candles" because they are usually named after relatives who have been killed in the Holocaust. This is Volume II of an autobiography and is dedicated exclusively to how a son of Concentration Camp survivors dealt with the ever-present topic in such people's life: the Holocaust.
Written by: Mayer Jacobovits
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Raoul Wallenberg: A Life from Beginning to End
- World War 2 Biographies
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Raoul Wallenberg lived at a time when one of the worst outrages of inhumanity was occurring: the Holocaust. As a Swedish businessman in Hungary, he bore witness to this tragedy firsthand as Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to Auschwitz.
Written by: Hourly History
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The Soviet Century
- Written by: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917, to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years, and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.
Written by: Moshe Lewin, and others
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Why the Nineties Matter
- Written by: Terry H. Anderson
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In Why the Nineties Matter, Terry Anderson provides a broad-ranging history of America in that decade. Not simply a chronological account, the book focuses on key trends that either began or gained steam then and which have had lasting effects until this day. Threading together politics, economic transformations, and sociocultural trends, he focuses on what mattered most in retrospect.
Written by: Terry H. Anderson
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Final Verdict
- The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
- Written by: Tobias Buck
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.
Written by: Tobias Buck
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The Quality of Love
- Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
- Written by: Ariane Bankes
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their friends and lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Albert Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell.
Written by: Ariane Bankes
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Latin America's Democratic Crusade
- The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
- Written by: Allen Wells
- Narrated by: Allen Wells
- Length: 29 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the Global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who preferred reform to revolution? Scholars have routinely neglected, dismissed, or caricatured moderate politicians. In this book, Allen Wells argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between capitalism and communism—that was Washington's abiding preoccupation—but between democracy and dictatorship.
Written by: Allen Wells
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The Forbidden Daughter
- The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
- Written by: Zipora Klein Jakob
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet, despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida—meaning non-birth in Hebrew.
Written by: Zipora Klein Jakob
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The Martyr and the Red Kimono
- A Fearless Priest’s Sacrifice and a New Generation of Hope in Japan
- Written by: Naoko Abe
- Narrated by: Ami Okumura Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish monk named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered in Auschwitz. Kolbe's life had been remarkable. Fiercely intelligent and driven, he founded a movement of Catholicism and spent several years in Nagasaki, ministering to the 'hidden Christians' who had emerged after centuries of oppression. A Polish nationalist as well as a monk, he gave sanctuary to fleeing refugees and his death was no less remarkable: he volunteered to die, saving the life of a fellow prisoner. It was an act that profoundly transformed the lives of two Japanese men.
Written by: Naoko Abe
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Every Last Jew
- A Teenage Boy's Story of Survival
- Written by: Mark Koperweis
- Narrated by: Mark Koperweis
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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In Every Last Jew, Mark Koperweis beautifully retells his father Henry’s amazing story of survival that takes you on an unimaginable journey that is up-close, personal, and in full living horror. Gain insights as to why the Nazis, and Hitler in particular, hated the Jews, making them the enemy of society, and labeling them Untermenschen—subhuman.
Written by: Mark Koperweis
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Hitler's Furies
- German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
- Written by: Wendy Lower
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women holding down the home front during the war, as loyal wives and cheerleaders for the Führer, pales in comparison to Lower’s incisive case for the massive complicity, and worse, of the 500,000 young German women she places, for the first time, directly in the killing fields of the expanding Reich.
Written by: Wendy Lower