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The Battle of Arnhem
- The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
- Auteur(s): Antony Beevor
- Narrateur(s): Sean Barrett
- Durée: 16 h et 47 min
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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.
- Écrit par Dark Alley Dan le 2024-05-25
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Auteur(s): Walter Isaacson
- Narrateur(s): Edward Herrmann
- Durée: 21 h et 30 min
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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
- Écrit par Jacques Huot le 2018-08-15
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Auteur(s): Ben Macintyre
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 13 h et 20 min
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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
- Écrit par sd le 2019-08-09
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- Auteur(s): Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Narrateur(s): Tovah Feldshuh
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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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!
- Écrit par Celia A le 2021-03-13
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The Watchmaker's Daughter
- The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
- Auteur(s): Larry Loftis
- Narrateur(s): Christa Lewis
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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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!
- Écrit par Jade Lizard le 2023-12-05
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Auteur(s): G. J. Meyer
- Narrateur(s): Robin Sachs
- Durée: 27 h et 57 min
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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
- Auteur(s): Antony Beevor
- Narrateur(s): Sean Barrett
- Durée: 16 h et 47 min
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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.
- Écrit par Dark Alley Dan le 2024-05-25
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Auteur(s): Walter Isaacson
- Narrateur(s): Edward Herrmann
- Durée: 21 h et 30 min
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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
- Écrit par Jacques Huot le 2018-08-15
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Auteur(s): Ben Macintyre
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 13 h et 20 min
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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
- Écrit par sd le 2019-08-09
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- Auteur(s): Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Narrateur(s): Tovah Feldshuh
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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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!
- Écrit par Celia A le 2021-03-13
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The Watchmaker's Daughter
- The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
- Auteur(s): Larry Loftis
- Narrateur(s): Christa Lewis
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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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!
- Écrit par Jade Lizard le 2023-12-05
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Auteur(s): G. J. Meyer
- Narrateur(s): Robin Sachs
- Durée: 27 h et 57 min
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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
- Auteur(s): Adam Higginbotham
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 13 h et 55 min
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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
- Écrit par Dmitry le 2019-05-15
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Auteur(s): Christopher R. Browning
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Gallagher
- Durée: 10 h
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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
- Écrit par Dallas J Hoday le 2021-03-17
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Auteur(s): Stephen Kotkin
- Narrateur(s): Paul Hecht
- Durée: 38 h et 47 min
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....
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Brilliant
- Écrit par Vladimir Zhivov le 2020-09-01
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- Auteur(s): Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Boggs
- Durée: 25 h et 17 min
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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
- Écrit par Anthony le 2022-09-21
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The Second World War
- Auteur(s): Antony Beevor
- Narrateur(s): Sean Barrett
- Durée: 39 h et 18 min
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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.
- Écrit par Jordan le 2019-02-26
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Israel
- A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
- Auteur(s): Daniel Gordis
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
- Durée: 16 h et 19 min
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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
- Écrit par jacob le 2019-07-22
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Clementine
- The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Auteur(s): Sonia Purnell
- Narrateur(s): Susan Lyons
- Durée: 17 h et 33 min
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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.
- Écrit par Robert Peck le 2018-02-10
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The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Narrateur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Durée: 16 h et 31 min
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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
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-07-08
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- Auteur(s): Eddie Jaku
- Narrateur(s): Raphael Corkhill
- Durée: 3 h et 47 min
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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
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-03-27
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The Cold War's Killing Fields
- Rethinking the Long Peace
- Auteur(s): Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 22 h et 32 min
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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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Agent Sonya
- Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- Auteur(s): Ben Macintyre
- Narrateur(s): Ben Macintyre
- Durée: 14 h et 14 min
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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
- Écrit par andrew le 2020-10-21
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Agent Zigzag
- A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
- Auteur(s): Ben MacIntyre
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 10 h et 53 min
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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!
- Écrit par Evalina le 2020-03-04
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Freedland
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Freedland
- Durée: 11 h et 47 min
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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
- Écrit par Travis le 2023-08-10
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- Auteur(s): Erik Larson
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 13 h et 4 min
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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
- Écrit par Barbara le 2018-09-13
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- Auteur(s): Adam Fergusson
- Narrateur(s): Antony Ferguson
- Durée: 9 h
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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
- Écrit par Brad Mills le 2021-07-02
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Last Stop Auschwitz
- My Story of Survival from Within the Camp
- Auteur(s): Eddy de Wind
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
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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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Guerilla Warfare
- Auteur(s): Ernesto Che Guevara
- Narrateur(s): Jason Manuel Olazabal
- Durée: 4 h et 42 min
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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
- Écrit par P le 2021-09-27
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Wallis in Love
- The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
- Auteur(s): Andrew Morton
- Narrateur(s): Molly Parker Myers
- Durée: 12 h et 11 min
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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
- Écrit par Lindsey le 2018-02-20
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Max Hastings on War
- Auteur(s): Max Hastings
- Narrateur(s): Max Hastings
- Durée: 13 h et 32 min
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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
- Écrit par Don le 2023-11-18
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Let It Go
- My Extraordinary Story - from Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist
- Auteur(s): Dame Stephanie Shirley CH
- Narrateur(s): Rachel Atkins
- Durée: 11 h et 26 min
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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
- Auteur(s): Mary McAuliffe
- Narrateur(s): Nancy Peterson
- Durée: 16 h et 43 min
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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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Ortona
- Canada's Epic World War II Battle
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): William Dufris
- Durée: 14 h et 37 min
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In one furious week of fighting in December 1943, the First Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port at all costs....
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I had no idea...
- Écrit par Ryan F le 2019-03-09
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- Auteur(s): David Remnick
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 29 h et 6 min
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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
- Écrit par ellen boyce le 2024-06-02
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Horse of a Different Color
- Little Britches, Book 8
- Auteur(s): Ralph Moody
- Narrateur(s): Cameron Beierle
- Durée: 9 h et 3 min
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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....