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Hunt and Kill
- U-505 and the U-Boat War in the Atlantic
- Narrado por: Bob Neufeld
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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One of WW II’s pivotal events was the capture of U-505 on June 4, 1944. The top secret seizure of this massive Type IX submarine provided the Allies with priceless information on German technology and innovation. After the war, U-505 was transported to Chicago, where today several hundred thousand visitors a year pass through its well-preserved hull at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Now in audiobook, Hunt and Kill offers the first definitive study of U-505. Chapters include her construction, crew and commanders, combat history, an assessment of Type IX operations, naval intelligence, the eight fatal German mistakes that doomed the ill-fated boat, her capture, and final transportation and restoration for posterity.
The contributors to this fascinating volume - a who’s who of U-boat historians - include: Erich Topp (U-552, Odyssey of a U-boat Commander); Eric Rust (Naval Officers Under Hitler); Timothy Mulligan (Neither Sharks Nor Wolves); Jak Mallmann Showell (Hitler’s U-boat Bases); Jordan Vause (Wolf); Lawrence Patterson (First U-boat Flotilla); Mark Wise (Enigma and the Battle of the Atlantic); Keith R. Gill (former curator, U-505, Museum of Science and Industry), and Theodore P. Savas (editor, Silent Hunters: German U-boat Commanders of World War II; author, Nazi Millionaires).
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Sink ‘Em All
- Submarine Warfare in the Pacific
- De: Charles A. Lockwood
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 16 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 400
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 355
Sink 'Em All was originally published in 1951 by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the US Navy commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during World War II. Lockwood, in his leadership role, knew the skippers and crews of the submarines and retells their wartime successes and tragedies with an intimacy and realism often missing in second-hand accounts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best of the best
- De Robert en 08-29-18
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Atlantic Nightmare
- The Longest Continuous Military Campaign in World War Ii
- De: Richard Freeman
- Narrado por: Will Huggins
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
No other battle of the Second World War lasted longer than the 2,075 days of the Battle of the Atlantic. It raged from the opening day of the war in September 1939 until it ended almost six years later with Germany’s surrender in May 1945. Vital supplies of food, fuel, and the raw materials needed by the Allies to wage war had to be transported in merchant ships in escorted convoys across the Atlantic Ocean, where they were at the mercy of German U-boats and warships.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slanted Badly
- De Christopher en 07-07-24
De: Richard Freeman
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Decision at Sea
- Five Naval Battles That Shaped American History
- De: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Decision at Sea is a powerful and illuminating look at pivotal moments in the history of the Navy and of the United States. It is also a compelling study of the unchanging demands of leadership at sea, where commanders must make rapid decisions in the heat of battle with lives - and the fate of nations - hanging in the balance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book...but not great
- De Anonymous User en 11-22-20
De: Craig L. Symonds
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Operation Pedestal
- The Fleet that Battled to Malta, 1942
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta - an action-packed tale of courage, fortitude, loss, and triumph against all odds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sir Max Hastings at his best
- De J.Brock en 10-27-22
De: Max Hastings
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The Deadly Deep
- The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
- De: Iain Ballantyne
- Narrado por: Paul Ansdell
- Duración: 28 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Iain Ballantyne considers the key episodes of submarine warfare and vividly describes the stories of brave individuals who have risked their lives under the sea, often with fatal consequences. His analysis of underwater conflict begins with Archimedes discovering the principle of buoyancy. This clandestine narrative then moves through the centuries and focuses on prolific characters with deadly motives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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American Effors Get Short Shift
- De GEORGE en 03-22-19
De: Iain Ballantyne
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The Burning Shore
- How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
- De: Ed Offley
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom of the channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on the German submarine U-701. In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen's rampage along the American coast and of US Lieutenant Harry J. Kane's quest to bring him down.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ugh, Perhaps a Second Listen is Required?
- De Matthew en 09-05-15
De: Ed Offley
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Jutland
- The Unfinished Battle
- De: Nick Jellicoe
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
More than a century later, historians still argue about this controversial and misunderstood World War I naval battle off the coast of Denmark. It was the 20th century's first engagement of dreadnoughts - and while it left Britain in control of the North Sea, both sides claimed victory and decades of disputes followed. This book not only retells the story of the battle from both a British and German perspective based on the latest research, but also helps clarify the context of Germany's inevitable naval clash and the aftermath after the smoke had cleared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done
- De William en 03-30-20
De: Nick Jellicoe
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Fighting the Great War at Sea
- Strategy, Tactics and Technology
- De: Norman Friedman
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 30 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
This radical new book concentrates on the way in which each side tried to use or deny the sea to the other, and in so doing describes rapid wartime changes not only in ship and weapons technology but also in the way naval warfare was envisaged and fought. Melding strategic, technical, and tactical aspects, Friedman approaches World War I from a fresh perspective and demonstrates how its perceived lessons dominated the way navies prepared for World War II.
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1 out of 5 stars
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dull, Dull, DULL
- De Anonymous User en 01-13-20
De: Norman Friedman
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Grey Wolves
- The U-Boat War 1939–1945
- De: Philip Kaplan
- Narrado por: A. T. Chandler
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 362
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 321
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 319
In the early years of the Second World War, the elite force of German submariners known as the Ubootwaffe came perilously close to perfecting underwater battle tactics and successfully cutting Britain's transatlantic lifeline. To the Allies, these enemy sailors were embarking on a mission of unequivocal evil. Each member of the Ubootwaffe understood that he must take pride in being part of a unique brotherhood. He had to do so because he was setting out on a journey that would test his mental and physical endurance to the very limits, and which he had little chance of surviving.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Like a Jr High Book Report, Performance Bad Too
- De Bill Sayer en 12-03-15
De: Philip Kaplan
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies
- The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
- De: Jeffrey Cox
- Narrado por: Theodore O'Brien
- Duración: 22 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 96
Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The first months of the war were frightening.
- De michael s en 10-07-22
De: Jeffrey Cox
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Tin Cans and Greyhounds
- The Destroyers That Won Two World Wars
- De: Clint Johnson
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
In Tin Cans and Greyhounds, author Clint Johnson brings listeners inside the quarter-inch hulls of destroyers to meet the men who manned the ships' five-inch guns and fought America's wars from inside a "tin can" - risking death by cannon shell, shrapnel, bomb, fire, drowning, exposure, and sharks.
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1 out of 5 stars
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a lengthy history lessonn
- De SCOTTY en 09-14-19
De: Clint Johnson
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Bismarck
- The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship
- De: Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 183
The sinking of the German battleship Bismarck - a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns - was one of the most dramatic events of World War II. She left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of 18 May 1941, yet was almost immediately discovered by Norwegian resistance and Allied air reconnaissance. British battlecruiser Hood was quickly dispatched from Scapa Flow to intercept the Bismarck, together with new battleship Prince of Wales.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for any WWII Naval Historian!
- De Rick en 10-14-13
De: Niklas Zetterling, y otros
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Hunt the Bismarck
- The Pursuit of Germany’s Most Famous Battleship
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 137
Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armored protection earned her the reputation of being unsinkable. This claim was finally put to the test in May 1941, when she sortied into the Atlantic and fought the legendary battle of the Denmark Strait, destroying HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy. Bismarck was now loose in the North Atlantic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fresh look at a well known story!
- De Donald Hill en 10-26-19
De: Angus Konstam
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Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway
- De: David Rigby
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 83
The story of the man who won the battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States. During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told - until now.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This biographer is obsessed
- De J. S. Harbour en 05-17-20
De: David Rigby
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A Game of Birds and Wolves
- The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
- De: Simon Parkin
- Narrado por: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 787
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 678
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 672
Combining vibrant novelistic storytelling with extensive research, interviews, and previously unpublished accounts, Simon Parkin describes for the first time the role that women played in developing the Allied strategy that, in the words of one admiral, "contributed in no small measure to the final defeat of Germany." Rich with unforgettable cinematic detail and larger-than-life characters, A Game of Birds and Wolves is a heart-wrenching tale of ingenuity, dedication, perseverance, and love, bringing to life the imagination and sacrifice required to defeat the Nazis at sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lost story thrillingly revealed
- De Maudiemanding en 02-18-20
De: Simon Parkin
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World War II at Sea
- A Global History
- De: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 25 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,234
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,227
World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina - at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world - and the dominance of the Kidö Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Patrick en 02-14-19
De: Craig L. Symonds
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Turning the Tide
- How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
- De: Ed Offley
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
The U.S. experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor, but rather in the period from 1942 to 1943, in the frigid North Atlantic and American coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Nearly seven decades after the event, the Battle of the Atlantic still stands as the longest-running and most lethal clash of arms in naval history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just The Facts
- De PismoPat en 05-15-11
De: Ed Offley
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Hunt and Kill
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- John S
- 05-28-19
Root Canal
The info is boring as heck and the technical references to locations are like getting a root canal
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