Bestsellers
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
De: Jack Weatherford
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A Book of Five Rings
- The Strategy of Musashi
- De: Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrado por: Alec Sand
- Duración: 1 h y 39 m
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Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and zen philosophy....
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Read all of it in one day, then read it once a day forever
- De Luis Roman en 08-08-17
De: Miyamoto Musashi
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In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- De: Yeonmi Park
- Narrado por: Eji Kim
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day....
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Wow. What a story!
- De Jfm en 02-01-16
De: Yeonmi Park
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Korean Mythology Collection
- The Stories, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Folktales, and History of Korea
- De: William Elliot Griffis, Im Bang, Yi Ryuk, y otros
- Narrado por: James Francis Markert
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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Dive deep into the enchanting world of Korean mythology with this comprehensive collection that brings together three classic works on Korea's rich tapestry of tales, legends, and folklore. Whether you're a lover of mythology or otherwise, this collection offers a treasure trove of stories....
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Korean Mythology
- De Jay Rose en 11-16-23
De: William Elliot Griffis, y otros
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Orientalism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- De: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Duración: 31 h y 15 m
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A vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart....
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The usual Vietnam info delivered in the old prose
- De Kevin Warren en 10-26-17
De: Geoffrey C. Ward, y otros
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
De: Jack Weatherford
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A Book of Five Rings
- The Strategy of Musashi
- De: Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrado por: Alec Sand
- Duración: 1 h y 39 m
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Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and zen philosophy....
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Read all of it in one day, then read it once a day forever
- De Luis Roman en 08-08-17
De: Miyamoto Musashi
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In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- De: Yeonmi Park
- Narrado por: Eji Kim
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day....
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Wow. What a story!
- De Jfm en 02-01-16
De: Yeonmi Park
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Korean Mythology Collection
- The Stories, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Folktales, and History of Korea
- De: William Elliot Griffis, Im Bang, Yi Ryuk, y otros
- Narrado por: James Francis Markert
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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Dive deep into the enchanting world of Korean mythology with this comprehensive collection that brings together three classic works on Korea's rich tapestry of tales, legends, and folklore. Whether you're a lover of mythology or otherwise, this collection offers a treasure trove of stories....
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Korean Mythology
- De Jay Rose en 11-16-23
De: William Elliot Griffis, y otros
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Orientalism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- De: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Duración: 31 h y 15 m
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A vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart....
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The usual Vietnam info delivered in the old prose
- De Kevin Warren en 10-26-17
De: Geoffrey C. Ward, y otros
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Road to Disaster
- A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam
- De: Brian VanDeMark
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 23 h y 12 m
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Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite many words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent and previously successful men stumbled so badly...
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Vietnam Veteran
- De Jim Rollins en 04-02-19
De: Brian VanDeMark
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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excellent book but awkward narration
- De TexasVC en 02-25-20
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Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- De: Caroline Alexander
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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NYT bestselling author Caroline Alexander provides a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II....
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The Challenges of Human and Political Folly
- De Curious en 05-22-24
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Dereliction of Duty
- Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
- De: H. R. McMaster
- Narrado por: H. R. McMaster
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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A riveting narrative, Dereliction of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, and other aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Congress, and the American public....
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Rough narration
- De AC Griffin en 12-04-19
De: H. R. McMaster
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Vietnam
- An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Duración: 33 h y 33 m
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Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle....
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A more nuanced view than Ken Burns' companion book
- De Vu en 10-21-18
De: Max Hastings
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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- De: Vincent Bevins
- Narrado por: Tim Paige
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the USSR and inspiring copycat terror programs....
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Great book, but the narration has serious flaws
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 08-03-20
De: Vincent Bevins
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The Accidental President
- Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Tony Messano
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb....
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 11-14-17
De: A. J. Baime
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden
- Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
- De: Zhuqing Li
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other’s best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated at the end of the Chinese Civil War. One became a model Communist, the other a model capitalist....
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Wonderful Story of a Family’s Survival Through Political Change…
- De Marie G. en 04-12-23
De: Zhuqing Li
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Ghost Wars
- The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- De: Steve Coll
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 26 h y 48 m
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The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan....
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An Exceptional Accomplishment
- De Joe en 11-08-13
De: Steve Coll
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 41 h y 9 m
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....
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A political as well as military history
- De Mike From Mesa en 07-30-15
De: John Toland
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- De: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- De Rocky Mackintosh en 01-05-17
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Judgment at Tokyo
- World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
- De: Gary J. Bass
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 31 h y 23 m
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In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction....
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Biased revisionist history
- De Amazon Customer en 12-31-23
De: Gary J. Bass
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- De: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 29 h y 50 m
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The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- De Jene en 08-07-06
De: Jung Chang, y otros
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Lee Kuan Yew
- The Grand Master’s Insights on China, United States, and the World
- De: Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie, Francis Chau
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage....
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Thought-provoking
- De Jean en 12-11-14
De: Graham Allison, y otros
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Shogun
- The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler
- De: A.L. Sadler, Stephen Turnbull - foreword, Alexander Bennett - foreword
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 17 h y 56 m
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Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan....
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INTERESTING
- De JK en 04-26-24
De: A.L. Sadler, y otros
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African Samurai
- The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
- De: Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society....
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Not worth finishing
- De William Shehan en 06-12-19
De: Thomas Lockley, y otros
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Killing the Rising Sun
- How America Vanquished World War II Japan
- De: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, Bill O'Reilly
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat....
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Skimming the surface
- De Mike From Mesa en 10-25-16
De: Bill O'Reilly, y otros
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Empires of the Steppes
- De: Kenneth Harl
- Narrado por: Corey M. Snow
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization....
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Interview with Dan Carlin
- De Laurie A. Steuart en 08-17-23
De: Kenneth Harl
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Road to Surrender
- Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
- De: Evan Thomas
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender....
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Why they decided to drop the atomic bombs
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 08-08-23
De: Evan Thomas
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- De: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- De Carl A. Gallozzi en 09-05-18
De: Stephen R. Platt
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Dispatches
- De: Michael Herr
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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From its terrifying opening to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone....
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All of the reviews are correct.
- De Mark Thoreson en 01-18-22
De: Michael Herr
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Hue 1968
- A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
- De: Mark Bowden
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 45 m
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Huế 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam....
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I KNEW This Book Would Sting Me . . . .
- De Rum Runner en 07-28-17
De: Mark Bowden
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Revolusi
- Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
- De: David Van Reybrouck
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- De: Steve Coll
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 28 h y 30 m
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Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....
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Slow At Times But Always Horrifying And Engaging
- De Gillian en 02-20-18
De: Steve Coll