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N-4 Down
- The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
- Narrado por: Matt Jamie
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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"Gripping.... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." (Wall Street Journal)
The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928.
Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia — code-named N-4 — was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries....
During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships.
But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific — often deadly — conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen — the first man to reach the South Pole — partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls.
In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration, Nobile, his dog, and a crew of 14 Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole, they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice flows, unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival.
Coincidentally, in Oslo, a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed — but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger....
Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of earth’s extremes.
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De: Jason Ryan
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Frozen in Time
- An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
- De: Mitchell Zuckoff
- Narrado por: Mitchell Zuckoff
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished. In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviors.
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Interesting Survival Story
- De Jennifer en 05-20-13
De: Mitchell Zuckoff
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The Ice Diaries
- The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War’s Most Daring Mission
- De: Captain William R. Anderson, Don Keith - contributor
- Narrado por: Roger Mueller
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Bristling with newly classified, never-before-published information, The Ice Diaries takes listeners on a dangerous journey beneath the vast, unexplored Arctic ice cap during the height of the Cold War.
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a great book about brave men
- De TDL Martin en 02-05-20
De: Captain William R. Anderson, y otros
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Pan Am at War
- How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II
- De: Mark Cotta Vaz, John H. Hill
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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Pan Am at War chronicles the airline's historic role in advancing aviation and serving America's national interest before and during World War II. From its inception, Pan American Airways operated as the "wings of democracy", spanning six continents and placing the country at the leading edge of international aviation. At the same time, it was clandestinely helping to fight America's wars.
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Disappointing Presentation
- De JP en 04-01-20
De: Mark Cotta Vaz, y otros
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- De: Julian Sancton
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. After a series of costly setbacks, the commandant faced two bad options: turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or recklessly chase fame by sailing deeper into the freezing waters.
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Excellent story
- De Ginger 3701 en 05-23-21
De: Julian Sancton
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The Great Air Race
- Death, Glory, and the Dawn of American Aviation
- De: John Lancaster
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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The incredible, untold story of the men who risked their lives in the first transcontinental air contest—and put American aviation on the map.
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Very entertaining/informative book
- De D. Littman en 12-09-22
De: John Lancaster
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China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats
- De: Robert Gandt
- Narrado por: Thomas Block
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt traces the development of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring human drama. He examines the political, military, and economic forces that drove its development and explains the aeronautical advances that made the aircraft possible.
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Never been this disappointed
- De doug reiter en 08-09-21
De: Robert Gandt
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel
- The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
- De: William Geroux
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of 35 cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel - the limited help Roosevelt and Churchill extended to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile alliance.
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A lot of chaff
- De J. Willson en 02-01-22
De: William Geroux
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- De: Jerry Grayson
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot ever to serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history.
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Great tales of adventure with fascinating facts about helicopters
- De david y muramatsu en 07-17-23
De: Jerry Grayson
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An Unsung Hero
- Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
- De: Michael Smith
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both. But Tom Crean returned to Ireland and never spoke about his exploits, taking his incredible story to the grave - until the publication of An Unsung Hero, which unearthed his story and saw him rightfully placed amongst the annals of the great explorers.
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Excellent!
- De Laura Louise Bernadette en 04-05-24
De: Michael Smith
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- De: Ed Caesar
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit — completely alone.
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this is very misleading as most of it is wwone
- De steve en 12-01-20
De: Ed Caesar
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Operation Kronstadt
- The Greatest True Tale of Espionage to Come Out of the Early Years of MI6
- De: Harry Ferguson
- Narrado por: Gideon Emery
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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Part Blackhawk Down, part The Riddle of the Sands, former MI6 officer Harry Ferguson has written an extraordinarily gripping non-fiction thriller. Operation Kronstadt not only reveals the early days of intelligence services but also uncovers a truly dramatic story from the Russian Revolution involving a daring rescue attempt and a "mission impossible" against the best defended naval target in Russia.
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Gripping Story
- De Anonymous User en 06-21-10
De: Harry Ferguson
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Tiger in the Sea
- The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival
- De: Eric Lindner
- Narrado por: Gary Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one. Pilot John Murray didn't have long before the plane crashed headlong into the 20-foot waves at 120 mph. As the four flight attendants donned life vests, collected sharp objects, and explained how to brace for the ferocious impact, 68 passengers clung to their seats. They all expected to die.
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A disappointment. An exciting story ruined.
- De David en 06-07-21
De: Eric Lindner
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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An incredible read
- De Lauren Olson en 12-06-19
De: Buddy Levy
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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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. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic.
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- De Sara en 03-05-16
De: Erik Larson
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Excellent account
- De Francis J. Slobodnik en 03-22-20
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Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher.
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ok not great
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Mussolini's Daughter
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Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce’s Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy’s fascist history. In the years preceding World War II, Edda ruled over Italy’s aristocratic families and the cultured and middle classes while selling Fascism on the international stage. How a young woman wielded such control is the heart of Moorehead’s fascinating history.
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Mind Blowing
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Wings of War
- The World War II Fighter Plane That Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly
- De: David Fairbank White, Margaret Stanback White
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
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Wings of War is the incredible true story of the P-51 Mustang fighter and the unlikely crew of designers, engineers, test pilots, and army officers who brought it from the drafting table to the skies over World War II. This is hardly a straightforward tale of building an airplane—for years, the team was stymied by corruption within the defense industry and stonewalled by the Army Air Forces, who failed to understand the Mustang’s potential.
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Disappointed
- De David Kocol en 06-22-23
De: David Fairbank White, y otros
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Battle of Ink and Ice
- A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
- De: Darrell Hartman
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world’s attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international scientific and geographic circles. At the same time, the rivalry between two powerful New York City newspapers—the storied Herald and the ascendant Times—fanned the flames of the so-called polar controversy, as each paper financially and reputationally committed itself to an opposing explorer and fought desperately to defend him.
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Entangled History
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The First Wave
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- De: Alex Kershaw
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Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day’s most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as a French commando, returning to his native land, who fought to destroy German strongholds on Sword Beach and beyond.
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Thoughtful and Sobering
- De Anonymous User en 10-07-19
De: Alex Kershaw
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A Castle in Wartime
- One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
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As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north of Italy. Beautiful and privileged, Fey and her two young sons lead a tranquil life undisturbed by the trauma and privations of war. But with Fascism approaching its zenith, Fey's peaceful existence is threatened when Ulrich and Detalmo take the brave and difficult decision to resist the Nazis.
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Excellent account
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Geniuses at War
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ok not great
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Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce’s Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy’s fascist history. In the years preceding World War II, Edda ruled over Italy’s aristocratic families and the cultured and middle classes while selling Fascism on the international stage. How a young woman wielded such control is the heart of Moorehead’s fascinating history.
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Mind Blowing
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Wings of War
- The World War II Fighter Plane That Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly
- De: David Fairbank White, Margaret Stanback White
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
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Wings of War is the incredible true story of the P-51 Mustang fighter and the unlikely crew of designers, engineers, test pilots, and army officers who brought it from the drafting table to the skies over World War II. This is hardly a straightforward tale of building an airplane—for years, the team was stymied by corruption within the defense industry and stonewalled by the Army Air Forces, who failed to understand the Mustang’s potential.
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Disappointed
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Battle of Ink and Ice
- A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
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German by birth, British by naturalization, Communist by conviction, Klaus Fuchs was a fearless Nazi resister, a brilliant scientist, and an infamous spy. He was convicted of espionage by Britain in 1950 for handing over the designs of the plutonium bomb to the Russians and has gone down in history as one of the most dangerous agents in American and British history. He put an end to America's nuclear hegemony and single-handedly heated up the Cold War. But, was Klaus Fuchs really evil?
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Morally revolting -- a player in mass murder cast as a saint
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Inge's War
- A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
- De: Svenja O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
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Growing up in Paris, the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. In this transporting and illuminating audiobook, the award-winning journalist vividly reconstructs the story of her grandmother Inge's life from the rise of the Nazis through the brutal postwar years, from falling in love with a man who was sent to the Eastern Front just after she became pregnant with his child, to spearheading her family's flight as the Red Army closed in, her young daughter in tow.
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Ordinary German Citizens Caught Up
- De Hinterlander en 08-22-23
De: Svenja O'Donnell
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The Last Baron
- The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire
- De: Tom Sancton
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
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Launched in the 1880s by the first baron, the Empain industrial empire spread from Belgium and France to span more than a dozen countries. When Baron Édouard-Jean “Wado” Empain took over, he further expanded the company, became a key player in France’s nuclear sector, and, by the mid-1970s, was one of the country’s most powerful business leaders - a self-described “master of the universe”. Wado’s vertiginous rise caught the eye of Alain Cailloll, a small-time gangster who had grown up in a wealthy family before embracing a life of crime.
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Tragic Story Well Told
- De Nice guy en 08-08-22
De: Tom Sancton
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How to Disappear
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- De: Akiko Busch
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How to Disappear is a unique and exhilarating accomplishment, overturning the dangerous modern assumption that somehow fame and visibility equate to success and happiness. Busch presents a field guide to invisibility, reacquainting us with the merits of remaining inconspicuousness, and finding genuine alternatives to a life of perpetual exposure. Accessing timeless truths in order to speak to our most urgent contemporary problems, she inspires us to develop a deeper appreciation for personal privacy in a vast and intrusive world.
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Not a Guide on How to Disappear
- De Cat Wilson en 10-04-23
De: Akiko Busch
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Immortal Valor
- The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II
- De: Robert Child
- Narrado por: Vaughn Johseph
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The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African-Americans served, not a single black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for over four decades.
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Informative
- De Garry Schettini en 10-05-22
De: Robert Child
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Two Roads Home
- Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
- De: Daniel Finkelstein
- Narrado por: Daniel Finkelstein
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Beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—years of war and trials they barely survived. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes. He relocated his family to safety in Amsterdam, where they knew Anne Frank. But in those years safety was an illusion: Anne Frank famously went into hiding and Daniel's mother, Mirjam, also still a child, was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters.
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Most engaging and important audiobook I ever listened to.
- De Kathleen M. Allen en 04-11-24
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Ordinary Heroes
- A Memoir of 9/11
- De: Joseph Pfeifer
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown Manhattan on the morning of 9/11, he had no idea that his life was about to change forever. A few moments later, he watched as the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Pfeifer, the closest FDNY chief to the scene, spearheaded rescue efforts on one of the darkest days in American history.
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An amazing account
- De Anonymous User en 09-09-21
De: Joseph Pfeifer
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Super Fly
- The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
- De: Jonathan Balcombe
- Narrado por: Jonathan Balcombe
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution.
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Wonderful
- De Chris en 02-13-22
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The York Patrol
- The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I's Most Famous Soldier
- De: James Carl Nelson
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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In the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100, detailing York's heroics yet also restoring the unsung heroes of his patrol to their rightful place in history - from renowned World War I historian James Carl Nelson.
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So many regiments & divisions
- De Pat Newell en 01-26-23
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
- De: Adam Goodheart
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
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As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their parents' faith in compromise and appeasement, to do the unthinkable in the name of an ideal.
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Not what I expected
- De Sol en 07-01-11
De: Adam Goodheart
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The Presidents vs. the Press
- The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media - from the Founding Fathers to Fake News
- De: Harold Holzer
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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Every president has been convinced of his own honesty and transparency; every reporter who has covered the White House beat has believed with equal fervency that his or her journalistic rigor protects the country from danger. Our first president, George Washington, was also the first to grouse about his treatment in the newspapers, although he kept his complaints private. Subsequent chiefs like John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Barack Obama were not so reticent, going so far as to wield executive power to overturn press freedoms, and even to prosecute journalists.
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Riveting !!
- De Cathy E Taub en 12-18-20
De: Harold Holzer
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Time's Echo
- The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
- De: Jeremy Eichler
- Narrado por: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal “Ode to Joy,” he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace and freedom, a time when millions would be embraced as equals. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony then gave wing to Schiller’s words, but barely a century later these same words were claimed by Nazi propagandists and twisted by a barbarism so complete that it ruptured, as one philosopher put it, “the deep layer of solidarity among all who wear a human face.”
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Beautiful
- De Chuck Millar, PhD en 05-18-24
De: Jeremy Eichler
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- J.
- 07-25-23
Age of Great Explorations and Innovations
A story of polar exploration with airships and early airplanes. Piesing has done a huge amount of research for this book and made it also easily approachable with his story telling talents. The narrator also does great work bringing the stories alive.
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- Edward C. Charbonnet
- 10-08-21
Is early aviation at the North Pole
Fascinating story not only of Exploration of the Arctic but of the politics of the twenties and thirties.
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- Austin J.
- 12-13-22
Highly recommend
An excellent book on early aviation, airships and arctic survival. Umberto Nobile is somewhat overshadowed in airship history by Eckener and the Zeppelin Company so this was my first experience with him. Quite an interesting character! Mark’s book is thoroughly researched and well written and I couldn’t put it down.
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- 2451
- 09-01-21
Interesting and entertaining
I haven’t rated, but few, of my inventory of 4,000 books. This is great in historical terms, and plays like a great novel.
You won’t be disappointed with this purchase
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- nerdymko
- 03-13-22
Interesting History
This book is for people who like polar exploration, disasters , and Fascist machinations . It isn’t the best of all these , but it certainly is one of the more unique stories of this time period .
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- Red
- 10-20-21
too much
chased too many rabbits to tell a simple story. Could have been a shorter story
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