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The Pentagon's post-World War II history is told through its critical moments, including the troubled birth of the Department of Defense during the Cold War, the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the tumultuous 1967 protest against the Vietnam War. The pivotal attack on September 11 is related with chilling new detail, as is the race to rebuild the damaged Pentagon, a restoration that echoed the spirit of its creation.
This study of a single enigmatic building tells a broader story of modern American history, from the eve of World War II to the new wars of the 21st century. Steve Vogel has crafted a dazzling work of military social history.
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The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill.
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- De Brian en 11-16-10
De: David E. Hoffman
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Through the Perilous Fight
- Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
- De: Steve Vogel
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
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In the summer of 1814, the United States of America teetered on the brink of disaster. The war it had declared against Great Britain two years earlier appeared headed toward inglorious American defeat. In a fast-paced, character-driven narrative, Steve Vogel tells the story of this titanic struggle from the perspective of both sides. Like an epic novel, Through the Perilous Fight abounds with heroes, villains, and astounding feats of derring-do.
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History at its finest!
- De Anonymous User en 04-04-24
De: Steve Vogel
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Restricted Data
- The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
- De: Alex Wellerstein
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author's efforts, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early 21st century. A compelling history of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power.
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Alright. Some interesting facts
- De Dustin C. en 07-28-24
De: Alex Wellerstein
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The Cave and the Light
- Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 25 h y 26 m
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The Cave and the Light reveals how two Greek philosophers became the twin fountainheads of Western culture, and how their rivalry gave Western civilization its unique dynamism down to the present.
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All of Western Philosphy Leads to Ayn Rand?!?
- De Leslie en 06-22-15
De: Arthur Herman
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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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Fascinating listen
- De Amy Neff en 12-15-22
De: Robert Gellately
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Betrayal in Berlin
- The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
- De: Steve Vogel
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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Its code name was “Operation Gold”, a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries.
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Fascinating Book
- De Toni Bowes en 01-11-20
De: Steve Vogel
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
- De: Jean Edward Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 28 h y 22 m
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Author of the best-seller FDR, Jean Edward Smith is a master of the presidential biography. Setting his sights on Dwight D. Eisenhower, Smith delivers a rich account of Eisenhower’s life using previously untapped primary sources. From the military service in WWII that launched his career to the shrewd political decisions that kept America out of wars with the Soviet Union and China, Smith reveals a man who never faltered in his dedication to serving America, whether in times of war or peace.
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Good, although biased, biography
- De Mike From Mesa en 10-15-12
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George F. Kennan
- An American Life
- De: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hilgartner
- Duración: 31 h y 54 m
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Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.
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Kennan: a man who needs to be studied
- De Muttering Beduwen en 06-10-12
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The World Turned Upside Down
- A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- De: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
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As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This 10-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation's economy.
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Soooo much info...
- De BenRias en 05-26-21
De: Yang Jisheng, y otros
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The End of the Cold War 1985-1991
- De: Robert Service
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 21 h y 58 m
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Drawing on new archival research, Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War - the first to give equal attention to the internal deliberations from both sides of the Iron Curtain - opens a window onto the dramatic years that would irrevocably alter the world's geopolitical landscape and the men at their fore.
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Behind the scenes look at a pivotal period of time
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-20-16
De: Robert Service
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Terrible Swift Sword
- The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of 20th-century warfare.
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Full of history but just a little long
- De Dennis en 09-17-13
De: Joseph Wheelan
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The Deluge
- The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
- De: Adam Tooze
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 21 h y 57 m
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In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order.
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Not For The Faint of Heart
- De David en 07-15-15
De: Adam Tooze
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Diplomacy
- De: Henry Kissinger
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 37 h y 52 m
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Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America's approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations. Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is a must-listen for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow.
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Great foreign policy overview!
- De Mikhail en 02-02-20
De: Henry Kissinger
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Enemies and Neighbors
- Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
- De: Ian Black
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 20 h y 4 m
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In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral histories to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting - to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age from both sides.
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Decent historical compilation, poor framing
- De Dan Harris en 07-08-20
De: Ian Black
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The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times best seller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain".
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Scientia Est Potentia/Knowledge is Power
- De Cynthia en 10-08-15
De: Annie Jacobsen
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Area 51
- An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere s75 miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the US government - but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to 19 men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to 55 additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, 32 of whom lived and worked there for extended periods.
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Disappointing
- De Mike From Mesa en 06-06-11
De: Annie Jacobsen
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Made in America
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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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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Bryson Not Reading Makes For a Rare Fail
- De John en 02-28-14
De: Bill Bryson
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The Silmarillion
- De: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrado por: Martin Shaw
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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The complete unabridged audiobook of J.R.R Tolkien's The Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part.
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Finally!
- De Brian en 11-22-18
De: J. R. R. Tolkien
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- R. Williams
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Fascinating details!
Excellent documentation of remarkable history! Full of irony and inside connection with the characters and the building.
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- Eric G.
- 02-02-23
Motivational and complete
Incredible dialogue and story line that really breathes life into the building. Anyone that works in the Pentagon will find a refreshing motivation.
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