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A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
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Orlando Figes
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"I went to get the letters for our friends, and couldn't help but feel a little envious, I didn't expect anything for myself. And suddenly-there was my name, and, as if it was alive, your handwriting."
In 1946, after five years as a prisoner - first as a Soviet POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee (falsely accused of treason) in the Arctic Gulag - 29-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexpectedly received a letter from Sveta, the sweetheart he had hardly dared hope was still alive. Amazingly, over the next eight years, the lovers managed to exchange more than 1,500 messages and even to smuggle Sveta herself into the camp for secret meetings. Their recently discovered correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin's Gulag, unmediated and uncensored.
Orlando Figes, author of Natasha's Dance, draws on Lev and Sveta's letters as well as KGB archives and recent interviews to brilliantly reconstruct the broader world in which their story unfolded. With the powerful narrative drive of a novel, Just Send Me Word reveals a passion and endurance that triumphed over the tragic forces of history.
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- De Nordic Artisan en 05-11-19
De: Paul Glaser
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- De: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education". Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting!!
- De Iread en 11-12-20
De: Chol-hwan Kang, y otros
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Always Remember Your Name
- A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz
- De: Andra Bucci, Tatiana Bucci
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 4 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister, Andra, were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their aunt, and cousin Sergio, they were deported to Auschwitz. Over 230,000 children were deported to the camp, where Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, performed deadly experiments on them. Only a few dozen children survived, Tati and Andra among them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important read!
- De Holly Thomas en 02-24-22
De: Andra Bucci, y otros
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Echoes from the Holocaust
- A Memoir
- De: Mira Ryczke Kimmelman
- Narrado por: Susan Marlowe
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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The daughter of a Jewish seed exporter, the author was born Mira Ryczke in 1923 in a suburb of the Baltic seaport of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Her childhood was happy, and she learned to cherish her faith and heritage. Through the 1930s, Mira's family remained in the Danzig area despite a changing political climate that was compelling many friends and neighbors to leave. With the Polish capitulation to Germany in the autumn of 1939, however, Mira and her family were forced from their home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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4.5* - memoir of a survivor
- De Christine Newton en 06-09-17
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A Thousand Miles to Freedom
- My Escape from North Korea
- De: Sebastien Falletti, Eunsun Kim
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,718
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,452
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,451
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child, Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the countrywide famine escalated. By the time she was 11 years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun too was in danger of starving. Finally her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Much New Here, but Courage and Hope to Spare
- De Gillian en 03-25-16
De: Sebastien Falletti, y otros
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Lara
- The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
- De: Anna Pasternak
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak - whose novel in progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet - he persecuted Boris' mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris' affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga's role in Boris' writing process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderfully enjoyable read
- De gran 80 en 03-15-17
De: Anna Pasternak
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A Lucky Child
- A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
- De: Thomas Buergenthal
- Narrado por: Thomas Buergenthal, Don Hagen
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir, A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the U.S. to start a new life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Account
- De Simone en 04-23-15
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Paper Love
- Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
- De: Sarah Wildman
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Years after her grandfather's death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled "Correspondence: Patients A-G". What she found inside weren't dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. One woman's letters stood out: those from Valy-Valerie Scheftel, her grandfather's lover who remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling and Personal Exploration
- De Murphee en 08-09-23
De: Sarah Wildman
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Adolfo Kaminsky
- A Forger's Life
- De: Sarah Kaminsky, Mike Mitchell
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
At the age of 17, Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was living in Nazi-occupied Paris, using forged documents to hide in plain sight. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and his ability to masterfully reproduce official documents with an artistic eye, he was recruited to join the Jewish underground. He soon became the primary forger for the Resistance in Paris, working tirelessly with his network to create papers that would save an estimated 14,000 men, women, and children from certain death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible!
- De Mareo McCracken en 04-28-17
De: Sarah Kaminsky, y otros
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Hanns and Rudolf
- The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
- De: Thomas Harding
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
May 1945: In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss' capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Read This Marvelous Book...
- De Douglas en 01-04-14
De: Thomas Harding
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Ravensbruck
- Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
- De: Sarah Helm
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 32 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 631
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 563
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 563
On a sunny morning in May 1939, a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods 50 miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded in through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Holocaust.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My mother was a Ravensbruck survivor.
- De Stephen Sean Campbell en 07-06-20
De: Sarah Helm
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Schindler's List
- De: Thomas Keneally
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 516
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 471
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 468
An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden — Schindler’s Jews — to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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really well done
- De Neil H. Greenberg en 03-09-19
De: Thomas Keneally
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 29 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 170
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Real Life Dystopian Nightmare
- De Timothy en 08-31-18
De: Orlando Figes
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Born Survivors
- Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
- De: Wendy Holden
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,283
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,124
Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband. With the rest of their families gassed, these young wives are determined to hold on to all they have left-their lives, and those of their unborn babies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just an incredible story!
- De PCF en 06-03-17
De: Wendy Holden
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The Reluctant Communist
- My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
- De: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Fredrick
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 7 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for 40 years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history and human story
- De Anonymous User en 09-16-21
De: Charles Robert Jenkins, y otros
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Nazis Knew My Name
- A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz
- De: Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee, David Brewster
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton, Zoe Carides
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 42
In March 1942, 25-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in charge of the day-to-day accommodation blocks, they could deflect attention away from themselves. Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and put in charge of hundreds of women in the notorious Experimental Block 10. She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: saving lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary courage.
- De Alice@Wonderland en 10-01-24
De: Magda Hellinger, y otros
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Enemies of the People
- My Family's Journey to America
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton draws on her skill as an investigative reporter to discover who her journalist parents really were---and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't stop listening
- De Jane en 04-09-10
De: Kati Marton
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,970
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,734
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,738
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular best seller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- De David en 12-15-12
De: Jung Chang
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A People’s Tragedy
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 47 h y 1 m
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Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It would be 5 stars
- De Michael Polevoy en 01-31-19
De: Orlando Figes
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The Story of Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
The Story of Russia is about how the Russians defined themselves―and repeatedly reinvented such definitions along the way. Moving from Russia’s agrarian beginnings in the first millennium to subsequent periods of monarchy, totalitarianism, and perestroika, all the way up to Vladimir Putin and his use of myths of Russian history to bolster his regime, celebrated historian Orlando Figes examines the ideas that have guided the country’s actions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect…
- De Samantha Dispenzieri en 02-21-23
De: Orlando Figes
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 29 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 170
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Real Life Dystopian Nightmare
- De Timothy en 08-31-18
De: Orlando Figes
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 21 h y 39 m
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At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange - they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DO LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!!
- De JK en 10-28-21
De: Orlando Figes
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Crimea
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Malk Williams
- Duración: 20 h y 38 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 449
The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding History of the Crimean War
- De Rick Sailor en 11-08-18
De: Orlando Figes
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Hitler's True Believers
- How Ordinary People Became Nazis
- De: Robert Gellately
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodgepodge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and transformed him, however briefly, into the most powerful leader in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating listen
- De Amy Neff en 12-15-22
De: Robert Gellately
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A People’s Tragedy
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 47 h y 1 m
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Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It would be 5 stars
- De Michael Polevoy en 01-31-19
De: Orlando Figes
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The Story of Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
The Story of Russia is about how the Russians defined themselves―and repeatedly reinvented such definitions along the way. Moving from Russia’s agrarian beginnings in the first millennium to subsequent periods of monarchy, totalitarianism, and perestroika, all the way up to Vladimir Putin and his use of myths of Russian history to bolster his regime, celebrated historian Orlando Figes examines the ideas that have guided the country’s actions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect…
- De Samantha Dispenzieri en 02-21-23
De: Orlando Figes
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 29 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 170
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Real Life Dystopian Nightmare
- De Timothy en 08-31-18
De: Orlando Figes
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 21 h y 39 m
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange - they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DO LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!!
- De JK en 10-28-21
De: Orlando Figes
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- Narrado por: Malk Williams
- Duración: 20 h y 38 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 452
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding History of the Crimean War
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De: Orlando Figes
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Hitler's True Believers
- How Ordinary People Became Nazis
- De: Robert Gellately
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodgepodge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and transformed him, however briefly, into the most powerful leader in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating listen
- De Amy Neff en 12-15-22
De: Robert Gellately
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Just Send Me Word
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- Elaine R. R.
- 04-18-14
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Would you consider the audio edition of Just Send Me Word to be better than the print version?
Can't compare, but the audio edition was very good.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
The emotional relationship between the protagonists was most interesting, but it was not enough. It was unrealistic to me that there was no comment (in these uncensored letters) about Stalin, the repressions, politics. That would have been most interesting.
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- Daryl
- 07-31-12
Just send Me Word
Would you listen to Just Send Me Word again? Why?
Absolutel! This book not only details the love story of Lev and Sveta but also deals with some of the political aspects of Russia that I was not familiar with. It also was quite obviously not exclusively a love storyl but a stoy of resilliance, trust, and a powerful network of friends and family, ordinary people.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Lev and Sveta. Keeping their love alive when it obviously presented such risk, particularly for Sveta. Also, all of the friends and family who helped along the way.
Have you listened to any of James Langton’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I haven't listened to any of his other books, but perhaps I will listen to one that takes place in England. It took some geting used to, hearing Russian language and streets and events from an Englishman...
Any additional comments?
An incredibly important book detailing the history of Russia, and highlighting the story of two lovers who beat the odds.
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- 01-20-23
Long, but worth it
Remarkable documentation of a terrible situation with extraordinary people and a brutal environment. Excellent insight into a dictatorship in which the people are mandated to believe in the system that is repressing them.
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