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Celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great hinge moments of WW2.
The fall of Paris to the Nazis in June 1940 seemed like the darkest day of the Second World War; and the liberation of the city in August 1944 felt like the brightest.
The liberation was a hinge moment of immense significance for the twentieth century, heralding the final victory of light over darkness and opening the door to a future free from fear. It was also the party of the century: champagne flowed freely, total strangers embraced—it was a celebration of life renewed against the backdrop of the world's favorite city, seen in by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Lee Miller, JD Salinger, Picasso, and Robert Capa.
This happy ending has come to feel as if it was pre-ordained. But there was nothing inevitable about it. Had things gone differently Paris might have gone down as a ghastly monument to Nazi nihilism, reduced to a rubble-strewn graveyard.
This book, timed for the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, tells the story of those iridescent days in a startling new way. In a countdown narrative, packed with drama, heroism, joy—and heart-thumping suspense—the City of Lights' fate hangs in the balance.
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Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence, peace, goodwill, and the occasional family row. It’s as comfortable and familiar as a pair of old shoes and yet still glittery and exciting. But what do you really know about it? It’s stuffed full of traditions and rituals that most of us have been observing all our lives without having the slightest idea of where they come from.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Entertaining
- De Laura Carrington en 11-23-22
De: Bill Bryson
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The Real Life of a Roman Gladiator
- De: Alexander Mariotti, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Alexander Mariotti
- Duración: 2 h y 30 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
The Roman gladiator has long been a figure of fascination. Portrayed frequently in fine art and popular culture alike, the gladiator is both a real part of history and a legend of a romanticized past. We know that these men entertained Roman audiences by fighting in dangerous and often deadly games. But who were the gladiators? What were their lives like? And why do they continue to have such a strong hold on our imagination, centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely amazing
- De Alexandru Gris en 12-25-24
De: Alexander Mariotti, y otros
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,952
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,495
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
De: Jack Weatherford
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The History of Toys, 1900 to the Present
- De: Chris Byrne, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Chris Byrne
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Toys and games have long been a part of childhood, but the 20th century saw the rise of an entire industry devoted to the business of play, one that would constantly evolve over the years. In the six lectures of The History of Toys, 1900 to the Present, consultant and toy industry expert Chris Byrne—also known as The Toy Guy®—will take you on a journey through the world of toys from the Edwardian era to our current moment. Beginning with the birth of the mass-market toy industry, you’ll trace the many transformations of toys and our shifting theories of play and childhood development.
De: Chris Byrne, y otros
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The Last Days of Cabrini-Green
- De: Ben Austen, Harrison David Rivers
- Narrado por: Ben Austen, Patina Miller, Harry Lennix, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
- Grabación Original
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 165
In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green. What happened to Dantrell led to a truce among Chicago’s gangs, but it also ignited a national panic about poverty and violence in America’s cities. Dantrell’s name would soon be used to demolish all of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, displacing tens of thousands of low-income families.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Gripping and Necessary Work
- De booklover en 11-24-24
De: Ben Austen, y otros
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- De: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrado por: Laurence Fishburne
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12,499
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,117
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11,058
Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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it's Nearly perfect
- De Kerry en 09-16-20
De: Malcolm X, y otros
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Mythology: Mega Collection
- Classic Stories from the Greek, Celtic, Norse, Japanese, Hindu, Chinese, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Mythology
- De: Scott Lewis
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser, Oliver Hunt
- Duración: 31 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 706
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 620
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 620
Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Or how Thor got his hammer? Give your imagination a real treat. This Mega Mythology Collection of eight audiobooks is for you....
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting set of introductions.
- De Kevin Potter en 05-30-19
De: Scott Lewis
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Made in America
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,274
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,273
In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bryson Not Reading Makes For a Rare Fail
- De John en 02-28-14
De: Bill Bryson
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The Roman Empire: From Augustus to the Fall of Rome
- De: Gregory S. Aldrete, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Gregory S. Aldrete
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 696
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 608
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 601
The Roman Empire: From Augustus to the Fall of Rome traces the breathtaking history from the empire’s foundation by Augustus to its Golden Age in the 2nd century CE through a series of ever-worsening crises until its ultimate disintegration. Taught by acclaimed Professor Gregory S. Aldrete of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, these 24 captivating lectures offer you the chance to experience this story like never before, incorporating the latest historical insights that challenge our previous notions of Rome’s decline.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gregory S. Aldrete is a treasure
- De Laurel Tucker en 02-04-19
De: Gregory S. Aldrete, y otros
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The Pagan World
- Ancient Religions Before Christianity
- De: Hans-Friedrich Mueller, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Hans-Friedrich Mueller
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,366
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170
In The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity, you will meet the fascinating, ancient polytheistic peoples of the Mediterranean and beyond, their many gods and goddesses, and their public and private worship practices, as you come to appreciate the foundational role religion played in their lives. Professor Hans-Friedrich Mueller, of Union College in Schenectady, New York, makes this ancient world come alive in 24 lectures with captivating stories of intrigue, artifacts, illustrations, and detailed descriptions from primary sources of intriguing personalities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Pagan World
- De arnold e andersen md Dr Andersen en 03-28-20
De: Hans-Friedrich Mueller, y otros
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Flannery O'Connor and the Scandal of Faith
- De: Jessica Hooten Wilson, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Jessica Hooten Wilson
- Duración: 3 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Across six revealing lectures, Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson will introduce you to one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and divisive writers in Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith. Beginning with an overview of her brief but remarkable life, Professor Wilson will then take you through an exploration of themes in O’Connor’s work and the hallmarks of her literary style. You’ll get a clearer picture of O’Connor’s historical and geographical context while digging into how her stories can transcend time and place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishing and cannot put down !
- De Claudia Udy en 12-27-24
De: Jessica Hooten Wilson, y otros
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Operation Jubilee
- Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice
- De: Patrick Bishop
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
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On the moonless night of August 18th, 1942, a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least 24 hours, showing the Soviets the Allies were serious about a second front and to get experience ahead of a full-scale invasion. But confidence turned to carnage with nearly two thirds of the attackers dead, wounded, or captured. The raid—the Royal Air Force's biggest battle since 1940—was both a disaster and a milestone in the narrative of the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well done indeed!
- De Jason en 12-21-21
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- De: Harald Jähner
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How. Did It Happen?
- De Bettyb en 10-19-24
De: Harald Jähner
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Hitler's People
- The Faces of the Third Reich
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler’s People, he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement: namely, the lives of its most important members. Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Evans forms a typological framework of Germany society under Nazi rule from the top down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent presentation.
- De Arnie en 08-28-24
De: Richard J. Evans
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Tank Men
- The Human Story of Tanks at War
- De: Robert Kershaw
- Narrado por: Matt Bates
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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The First World War saw the birth of an extraordinary fighting machine that has fascinated three generations: the tank. In Tank Men, ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to life the grime, the grease, and the fury of a tank battle through the voices of ordinary men and women who lived and fought in those fearsome machines. Drawing on vivid, newly researched personal testimony from the crucial battles of the First and Second World Wars, this is military history at its very best.
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
- De: Ronald Hutton
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - the only English commoner to become the overall head of state - is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria, and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very specialized
- De Draperbart en 04-23-22
De: Ronald Hutton
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Republic
- Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
- De: Alice Hunt
- Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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England's unique republican experiment - imposed on Scotland and Ireland, too - may have been shortlived, but it has had a lasting impact on British monarchy, politics, religion and culture, and on the story the British continue to tell about themselves. It is a period that, for a long time, history chose to forget, or recalled as a failure. Here, in thrilling detail, Alice Hunt brings the republic and its extraordinary cast of characters, from politicians to poets and prophets, back to life.
De: Alice Hunt
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Operation Jubilee
- Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice
- De: Patrick Bishop
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
On the moonless night of August 18th, 1942, a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least 24 hours, showing the Soviets the Allies were serious about a second front and to get experience ahead of a full-scale invasion. But confidence turned to carnage with nearly two thirds of the attackers dead, wounded, or captured. The raid—the Royal Air Force's biggest battle since 1940—was both a disaster and a milestone in the narrative of the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well done indeed!
- De Jason en 12-21-21
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- De: Harald Jähner
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How. Did It Happen?
- De Bettyb en 10-19-24
De: Harald Jähner
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Hitler's People
- The Faces of the Third Reich
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler’s People, he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement: namely, the lives of its most important members. Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Evans forms a typological framework of Germany society under Nazi rule from the top down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent presentation.
- De Arnie en 08-28-24
De: Richard J. Evans
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Tank Men
- The Human Story of Tanks at War
- De: Robert Kershaw
- Narrado por: Matt Bates
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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The First World War saw the birth of an extraordinary fighting machine that has fascinated three generations: the tank. In Tank Men, ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to life the grime, the grease, and the fury of a tank battle through the voices of ordinary men and women who lived and fought in those fearsome machines. Drawing on vivid, newly researched personal testimony from the crucial battles of the First and Second World Wars, this is military history at its very best.
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
- De: Ronald Hutton
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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - the only English commoner to become the overall head of state - is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria, and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very specialized
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De: Ronald Hutton
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Republic
- Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
- De: Alice Hunt
- Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
England's unique republican experiment - imposed on Scotland and Ireland, too - may have been shortlived, but it has had a lasting impact on British monarchy, politics, religion and culture, and on the story the British continue to tell about themselves. It is a period that, for a long time, history chose to forget, or recalled as a failure. Here, in thrilling detail, Alice Hunt brings the republic and its extraordinary cast of characters, from politicians to poets and prophets, back to life.
De: Alice Hunt
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The Stalin Affair
- The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
- De: Giles Milton
- Narrado por: Giles Milton
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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Enter Averell Harriman: a railroad magnate and, at the start of the war, the fourth-richest man in America. At Roosevelt’s behest, he traveled to Britain to serve as a liaison between the president and Churchill and to spearhead what became known as the Harriman Mission. Together with his fashionable young daughter Kathy, an unforgettable cast of British diplomats, and Churchill himself, he would eventually manage to wrangle Stalin into the partnership the Allies needed to defeat Hitler.
De: Giles Milton
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Keeping the Faith
- God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
- De: Brenda Wineapple
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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The dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A retelling but with more detail
- De WH Griesar en 09-14-24
De: Brenda Wineapple
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Book and Dagger
- How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
- De: Elyse Graham
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narration was phenomenal!
- De Laguna Woods resident en 11-22-24
De: Elyse Graham
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The Eastern Front
- A History of the Great War 1914-1918
- De: Nick Lloyd
- Narrado por: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Duración: 22 h y 43 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as eyewitness reports, diary entries, and memoirs, Lloyd moves from the great battles of 1914 to the final collapse of the Central Powers in 1918, showing how a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spiraled into a massive conflagration that pulled in Germany, Russia, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history of WWI on the Eastern Front
- De KDN en 11-23-24
De: Nick Lloyd
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Moscow 1812
- Napoleon’s Fatal March
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 49
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In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon's invasion of Russia—history's first example of total war—had turned into an epic military disaster. Over 400,000 French and Allied troops perished and Napoleon was forced to retreat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well done
- De Zach Simon en 06-25-24
De: Adam Zamoyski
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Paris in Ruins
- Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
- De: Sebastian Smee
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans-then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunningly great narrator!
- De Julie Seavello en 12-26-24
De: Sebastian Smee
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The Incorruptibles
- A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
- De: Dan Slater
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves and thugs, jockeyed for dominance while their family members and neighbors toiled in the unregulated garment industry. But when the notorious murder of a gambler attracted global attention, a coterie of affluent German-Jewish uptowners decided to take matters into their own hands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!!!!
- De Elizabth Groberio en 08-30-24
De: Dan Slater
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The Soviet Century
- Archaeology of a Lost World
- De: Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
- Narrado por: Ciaran Saward
- Duración: 29 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization. A museum of—and travel guide to—the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great work
- De J. H. Robinson en 07-28-24
De: Karl Schlogel, y otros
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918–1933
- De: Frank McDonough
- Narrado por: Paul McGann
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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Established in 1918–19, in the wake of Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent history of the time period
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De: Frank McDonough
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A Wilder Shore
- The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
- De: Camille Peri
- Narrado por: Jeanette Illidge
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
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He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages? From their first encounter in France in 1876, Fanny and Louis’s partnership transcended societal expectations to become a literary union that was progressive, eccentric, and tempestuous, but always animated by a profound mutual respect
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fairly interesting
- De Luke en 10-25-24
De: Camille Peri
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The Light of Battle
- Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
- De: Michel Paradis
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 43 m
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On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing to invade Normandy, exhorting them to embrace the “Great Crusade” they faced. Then, in a fleeting moment alone, he drafted a resignation letter in case the invasion failed. In The Light of Battle, Michel Paradis, acclaimed author of Last Mission to Tokyo, paints a vivid portrait of Dwight Eisenhower as he learns to navigate the crosscurrents of diplomacy, politics, strategy, family, and fame with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eisenhower Unveiled: Strategy & Leadership lessons
- De Michael en 07-12-24
De: Michel Paradis
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The Soviet Sixties
- De: Robert Hornsby
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 20 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period.
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Comprehensive and Emtertaining
- De Peter en 02-26-24
De: Robert Hornsby
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Paris '44
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- C. E. Fisher
- 09-17-24
Incredible, exciting history of WWIi in France and Paris- don’t miss this!!
A retelling in a new form of the history of the war in France- but told via the true stories of key individuals and with new insights. Not only key military or police and resistance individuals are unveiled but key cultural figures such as Picasso, Hemingway, Kappa and many more. The result is a clear-eyed view of the real story under the story that leaves behind the mythology, most notably the mythologies about the liberation de Paris. Bravo Patrick Bishop!
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- Vermonter
- 08-20-24
Fascinating account !
Splendid narration brings to life the conflicting narratives and history of the people of Paris during the height of WWII - a worthy read for all interested in this period of history, and those who should be!
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- David Enzel
- 08-23-24
There are better historical accounts of the period
The author has a highly opinionated but weakly supported view of Paris and the occupation.
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- Patrick Butler
- 08-17-24
What happened to the audible version?
A few weeks ago on the Amazon site I bought the penguin audible version of this book. I've recommended it to our book club but today before our meeting tomorrow I find it impossible on Amazon to order the audible version. What happened?
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