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Goodbye Shanghai
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During the first 17 years of his life, spent in Shanghai, Sam experienced wars, changing regimes, different currencies, and a variety of schools that reflected the evolving political landscape. In a world obsessed with conflicting nationalism, his family survived as stateless residents, neither subject to, nor the responsibility of, any country. They were instead, sustained by their Russian Jewish culture and community. Through Sam's memories of early life and his love of history, we learn of Shanghai's uniqueness as a home and haven to thousands of Jews over many centuries.
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The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe's people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than 40 years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events.
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The Audible Edition Is a Disaster
- De Olu en 11-28-12
De: Chinua Achebe
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The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong
- The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet
- De: Gyalo Thondup, Anne F. Thurston
- Narrado por: Lane Nishikawa, Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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In December 2010 residents of Kalimpong, a town on the Indian border with Tibet, turned out en masse to welcome the Dalai Lama. It was only then they realized for the first time that the neighbor they knew as the noodle maker of Kalimpong was also the Dalai Lama's older brother. The Tibetan spiritual leader had come to visit the Gaden Tharpa Choling monastery and join his brother for lunch in the family compound.
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Very interesting
- De BlueSky en 12-07-15
De: Gyalo Thondup, y otros
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Trail of Hope
- The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents
- De: Norman Davies
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of the Polish II Corps or "Anders Army", and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Allied forces. Complete with firsthand accounts from the men and women who lived through it, this is a unique record of one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.
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Amazing story of Polish peoples and never giving up hope for free Poland.
- De Peter Chmiel en 09-24-19
De: Norman Davies
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Midnight at the Pera Palace
- The Birth of Modern Istanbul
- De: Charles King
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul - an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city - people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims.
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INTERESTING SUBJECT - CONFUSED WRITING
- De The Louligan en 01-18-15
De: Charles King
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Aftermath
- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
- De: Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust - and features over 40 eye-opening black-and-white photographs and posters from the period.
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Where are the photos?
- De Cassandra en 01-17-22
De: Harald Jähner, y otros
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Adolf Hitler
- A Captivating Guide to the Life of the Führer of Nazi Germany
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 2 h y 12 m
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Explore the rise of Adolf Hitler. Was Hitler, as Ian Kershaw asked, a natural consequence of German history, or an aberration? Not that Hitler had been in hiding, waiting to attack. The Führer had actually been following an aggressive and savage foreign policy for almost 10 years, and been named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1938.
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Awesome little book
- De Bryan T. en 02-02-19
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Les Parisiennes
- How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
- De: Anne Sebba
- Narrado por: Polly Stone
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
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Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers, increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became part of everyday life.
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An Excellent Historical Perspective
- De Lulu en 10-28-16
De: Anne Sebba
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50 Children
- One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
- De: Steven Pressman
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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In early 1939, few Americans were thinking about the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the growing number of Jewish families that were increasingly threatened and brutalized by Adolf Hitler's policies in Germany and Austria. But one ordinary American couple decided that something had to be done. Despite overwhelming obstacles - both in Europe and in the United States - Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus made a bold and unprecedented decision to travel into Nazi Germany in an effort to save a group of Jewish children.
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I didn't want it to end
- De David Shear en 05-07-14
De: Steven Pressman
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Ask a North Korean
- Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
- De: Daniel Tudor, Andrei Lankov - foreword
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan, Greta Jung
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the "Hermit Kingdom." This book sheds critical light on all aspects of North Korean politics and society and shows that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on in ways that are very different from what you may think.
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Brilliant Narration on the unknown perspective
- De New Jaa Yeong en 09-01-18
De: Daniel Tudor, y otros
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The General's Son
- Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
- De: Miko Peled
- Narrado por: Miko Peled
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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The journey that Peled traces in this groundbreaking memoir echoed the trajectory taken 40 years earlier by his father, renowned Israeli general Matti Peled. In The General's Son, Miko Peled tells us about growing up in Jerusalem in the heart of the group that ruled the then-young country, Israel. He takes us with him through his service in the country's military and his subsequent global travels...and then, after his niece's killing, back into the heart of Israel's conflict with the Palestinians.
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Thought Provoking and Powerful
- De FatherRobC en 05-10-16
De: Miko Peled
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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. On Taiwan, Jun married a Nationalist general, established a trading company, and emigrated to the United States. On the Communist mainland, Hong built her medical career under a cloud of suspicion about her family and survived two waves of “re-education” before she was acclaimed for her achievements.
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Wonderful Story of a Family’s Survival Through Political Change…
- De Marie G. en 04-12-23
De: Zhuqing Li