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The War Magician
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Based on an extraordinary true story and soon to be a major film produced by and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The War Magician is the remarkable tale of the man who used the powers of illusion to fight the Nazis—and created the most remarkable feat of legerdemain since the Trojan Horse.
How an Illusionist Changed the Course of World War II
When England went to war against Hitler in 1939, it mobilized its entire military and industrial resources. But there was no place in that vast army for legendary stage magician Jasper Maskelyne, whose family was renowned for creating modern theatrical illusions. Maskelyne was determined to fight the Nazis using his only weapon: he intended to apply the techniques of popular magic to the battlefield. Initially ignored and ridiculed by the staid military leadership, he eventually cajoled his way into the Camouflage Section and was sent to the western desert, where he created a new type of warfare.
With his small group of artists, the Magic Gang, Maskelyne designed and developed ingenious weapons, then tricked the Desert Fox, General Rommel, and his fabled Afrika Korps into believing there were tanks and battleships where there were none, concealed the Suez Canal, and even successfully “moved” Alexandria harbor.
But it required all his skills to pull off perhaps the largest and most complex magic trick in history. As General Bernard Montgomery told Maskelyne on the eve of the Battle of El Alamein, “The entire war will turn on what happens here. What I am about to ask you to do is impossible. It can’t be done, but it must be done. I hope you’ve brought your magic wand with you.”
This is the fact-based story of the illusion that won the war in the desert.
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In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history.
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Excellent! Highly Recommended.
- De R. Smith en 02-25-17
De: Timothy Egan
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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
- De: Miles J. Unger
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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In 1900, an 18-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night conversations at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends resolved to shake up the world.
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An Excellent Text
- De Josh Lammers en 04-04-19
De: Miles J. Unger
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Ten Days in a Madhouse
- De: Nellie Bly
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 2 h y 50 m
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No one could protect her once she was inside. No friend would hear her if she screamed. A brilliant undercover journalist and actress, Nellie Bly is admitted into Blackwell's Island asylum in New York as a homeless "crazy" lady. What will she be in 10 days?
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Pioneer of Immersion Journalism
- De Rochelle en 07-04-15
De: Nellie Bly
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Electric City
- The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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During the Roaring Twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be 10 times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society.
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Feels incomplete
- De M en 12-12-23
De: Thomas Hager
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Breaker Morant
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Cameron Goodall
- Duración: 23 h y 4 m
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Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Queensland in 1883 in his early 20s, Morant was a charming but reckless man who established a reputation as a rider, polo player and writer. He submitted ballads to The Bulletin that were published under the name 'The Breaker' and counted Banjo Paterson as a friend.
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Horrors of war
- De David R. en 04-15-21
De: Peter FitzSimons
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Dinner with the President
- De: Alex Prud'homme
- Narrado por: Pat Grimes
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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Some of the most significant moments in American history have occurred over meals, as U.S. presidents broke bread with friends or foe: Thomas Jefferson’s nation-building receptions in the new capital, Washington, D.C.; Ulysses S. Grant’s state dinner for the king of Hawaii; Teddy Roosevelt’s supper with Booker T. Washington. Here Alex Prud’homme invites listeners into the White House kitchen to reveal the sometimes curious tastes of 26 of America’s most influential presidents, how their meals were prepared and by whom, and the ways their choices affected food policy around the world.
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Not great
- De rodney fudge ferrell en 08-16-23
De: Alex Prud'homme
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Breaking Blue
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history.
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Excellent! Highly Recommended.
- De R. Smith en 02-25-17
De: Timothy Egan
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Storm of Steel
- De: Ernst Jünger
- Narrado por: Frasier Mackenzie
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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Ernst Jünger was a famous German soldier who saw action during World War I. He is best known for his memoirs Storm of Steel, which chronicle his experiences during World War I.
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great book
- De Amazon Customer en 12-28-20
De: Ernst Jünger
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The Fatal Alliance
- A Century of War on Film
- De: David Thomson
- Narrado por: David Thomson
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
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In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet—a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns his typically piercing eye to many favorites—from All Quiet on the Western Front to The Bridge on the River Kwai to Saving Private Ryan.
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I enjoy David Thomson's books
- De Boxing Fan en 08-05-24
De: David Thomson
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Eye of the Beholder
- The Almost Perfect Murder of Anchorwoman Diane Newton King
- De: Lowell Cauffiel
- Narrado por: Chris Abernathy
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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Battle Creek, Michigan, is famous as the birthplace of breakfast cereal, and the nearby suburb of Marshall is as wholesome as shredded wheat. Well-known for its colorful Victorian mansions, this stately slice of 19th-century Americana became infamous on a frigid night in February of 1991. Newscaster Diane Newton King was stepping out of her car, her children strapped into the backseat, when a sniper's bullet cut her down.
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Thoroughly Researched Book but UNNECESSARILY WORDY
- De Mary Burnight en 01-07-22
De: Lowell Cauffiel
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Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders
- De: Greg King
- Narrado por: Lewis Arlt
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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It began as a home invasion by the “Manson family” in the early hours of August 9, 1969. It ended in a killing spree that left seven people dead: actress Sharon Tate, writer Voyteck Frykowski, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, hair stylist Jay Sebring, student Steven Parent, supermarket owner Leno LaBianca, and his wife, Rosemary. The shock waves of these crimes still reverberate today. They have also, over time, eclipsed the life of their most famous victim - a Dallas beauty queen with Hollywood aspirations.
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Creepy Stuff
- De Judy en 06-02-19
De: Greg King
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Life Among the Savages
- De: Shirley Jackson
- Narrado por: Lesa Lockford
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures.
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Stories From A Quirky Family
- De Sara en 01-23-16
De: Shirley Jackson
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Jack Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the 20th century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.
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Worth a listen
- De Amazon Customer en 12-06-19
De: Frank Dikötter
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Cults
- The World's Most Notorious Cults
- De: Nigel Cawthorne
- Narrado por: Stuart Nurse
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rituals and shadowy hierarchies make for some of the most disturbing and shocking revelations in history. Most chilling of all is the fact that many of their followers forfeit all independence in order to carry out the often sadistic bidding of a mysterious master manipulator - and continue to defend their leader to this day.
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The description had me hooked! However...
- De sarah machen toy en 11-07-19
De: Nigel Cawthorne
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The Revolutionary Paul Revere
- De: Joel J. Miller
- Narrado por: John Behrens
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
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Always smack dab in the thick of things, he was an ordinary citizen living in extraordinarily turbulent times. Revere played key roles in colonial tax fights and riots, the infamous Boston Massacre, the Tea Party, the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and even the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. In this fast-paced, dramatic account, Paul Revere’s life pulses with energy as author Joel J. Miller explores his family and church life along with his revolutionary contribution as a spy, entrepreneur, express rider, freemason, and commercial visionary.
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Great
- De Grace en 03-11-24
De: Joel J. Miller
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The Soviet Sixties
- De: Robert Hornsby
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 20 h y 29 m
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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
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City at the Edge of Forever
- Los Angeles Reimagined
- De: Peter Lunenfeld
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach? In City at the Edge of Forever, Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences.
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Intriguing stories
- De DEANNA M DILLION en 02-27-23
De: Peter Lunenfeld
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The Lincoln Miracle
- Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
- De: Edward Achorn
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history—Abraham Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential election.
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Detailed, bordering dry
- De jacob casebolt en 08-05-24
De: Edward Achorn
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Genealogy of a Murder
- Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
- De: Lisa Belkin
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is. In fact, the man—a prisoner out on parole—had called him only days before. By helping his former charge and trainee, the doctor, a believer in second chances, may have inadvertently helped set the murder into motion.
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Excellent
- De jane-o en 05-26-24
De: Lisa Belkin
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- Jim S.
- 12-29-23
Amazing story 
An incredible story of the use of creativity in the ugly concept of war. And the way it was read by an Englishman using different dialect, added a lot to the story. Highly recommended I will probably listen again. 
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- oseedee
- 05-11-23
Exceptional Story Perfectly Narrated
This is one of the best Audible books I have ever listened to! Jasper Maskelyne's story is a "must read" for any student of World War II. Until listening to The War Magician, I was not aware that the art of illusion helped to win the war for the Allied armies. This story is rife with human drama, non stop intrigue, and laugh out loud British wit. This book was so good, I felt lost when it ended. Where are more books like this??
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- Lisa
- 05-11-23
The war Magician is wonderful and Alex Jennings is top notch. I couldn’t wait to listen each day
The War Magician is well written and very exciting. Alex Jenning had me on the edge of my seat. Bravo!
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- Avid series reader
- 12-27-23
The qualities of the protagonist—He was an admirable, fascinating man.
I liked it all—the characters, the telling of the historic events, and the fact that there was no sad ending.
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- J. Jordan
- 05-04-23
Really Wanted This To Be Good
Oh how I was looking forward to reading this book after hearing the announcement of the movie! The day the book was released I purchased it and started listening. Weeks later…as in right now, I have still been unable to make myself sit and listen to more than 15 minutes of the story at a time. With much regret I returned the book and won’t be giving it another listen.
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- Prairy Earth
- 08-19-24
Boring story once you know the facts
I made the mistake of looking up the Wikipedia story as I was listening to this book. Once I found out that there is little evidence that Jasper and his collection of soldiers may have significantly overstated their role/significance in the desert war, the knowledge took the wind out of the sails of this story.
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