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Best Sellers
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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Son of Hamas
- A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
- Written by: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin - contributor
- Narrated by: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas.....
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Eye opening
- By matthew on 2024-05-20
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Countdown bin Laden
- Written by: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
- Narrated by: Chris Wallace
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Celebrated journalist Chris Wallace delivers a deeply reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden....
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From the Inside Out
- Harrowing Escapes from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center
- Written by: Erik O. Ronningen
- Narrated by: Andrew Firda, Katie McCall
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Erik Ronningen was on the 71st floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001. Here is the story of his harrowing escape, interwoven with the accounts of 14 others....
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In the Shadows
- True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad
- Written by: Mickey Bergman, Ellis Henican
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen, Mickey Bergman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A top negotiator in countless high-stakes missions to free Americans captured abroad and held in the world's scariest prisons takes listeners inside the dramatic and shadowy world of international hostage rescue.
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....
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Best book I’ve read in years
- By MadameX on 2019-10-26
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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Son of Hamas
- A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
- Written by: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin - contributor
- Narrated by: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas.....
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Eye opening
- By matthew on 2024-05-20
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Countdown bin Laden
- Written by: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
- Narrated by: Chris Wallace
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Celebrated journalist Chris Wallace delivers a deeply reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden....
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From the Inside Out
- Harrowing Escapes from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center
- Written by: Erik O. Ronningen
- Narrated by: Andrew Firda, Katie McCall
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Erik Ronningen was on the 71st floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001. Here is the story of his harrowing escape, interwoven with the accounts of 14 others....
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In the Shadows
- True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad
- Written by: Mickey Bergman, Ellis Henican
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen, Mickey Bergman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A top negotiator in countless high-stakes missions to free Americans captured abroad and held in the world's scariest prisons takes listeners inside the dramatic and shadowy world of international hostage rescue.
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....
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Best book I’ve read in years
- By MadameX on 2019-10-26
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Homegrown
- Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
- Written by: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin reveals the definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection....
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Outstanding historical connection
- By SWSRTBoots on 2024-01-11
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The Hunt for KSM
- Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9-11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
- Written by: Terry McDermott, Josh Meyer
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive account of the decade-long pursuit and capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the terrorist mastermind of 9/11....
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The book is fascinating. Narration is abysmal
- By K on 2022-05-26
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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- Written by: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Tim Paige
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the USSR and inspiring copycat terror programs....
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unconscious vs conscious bias
- By Wells Cushnie on 2021-09-11
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Code over Country
- The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six
- Written by: Matthew Cole
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A hard-hitting exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military’s best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire....
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SEAL hate book
- By kamPy on 2023-11-28
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The Second World War
- Written by: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history....
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Weak coverage of certain battles, unless American.
- By Jordan on 2019-02-26
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
- A Cold Case Investigation
- Written by: Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
- Narrated by: Brian Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting on September 11th, 2012, al-Qa'ida carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens....
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Overreach
- The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
- Written by: Owen Matthews
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Owen Matthews dives deep into the war in Ukraine—from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol....
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Outstanding overview
- By Anonymous User on 2023-09-06
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber
- The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale
- Written by: Sean O'Driscoll
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber tells the astonishing story of Rose Dugdale, the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA....
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Stories from Rwanda
- Written by: Philip Gourevitch
- Narrated by: Philip Gourevitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
- The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
- Written by: Jason Stearns
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war....
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Confusing
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-01-23
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The Only Plane in the Sky
- An Oral History of September 11, 2001
- Written by: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001 - a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma....
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Excellent
- By melt72 on 2023-08-22
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power....
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The Peace
- A Warrior's Journey
- Written by: Romeo Dallaire
- Narrated by: Paul Gross
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Peace, Roméo Dallaire shows us the past, present and future of war through the prism of his own life....
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Black Flags
- The Rise of ISIS
- Written by: Joby Warrick
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents....
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Fantastic
- By Reese on 2024-03-27
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The Infernal Machine
- A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Steven Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map....
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Inside Delta Force
- The Story of America’s Elite Counterterrorist Unit
- Written by: Command Sergeant Major Eric L. Haney
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Delta Force—the US Army’s most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won’t hear about their heroics on CNN.....
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Authentic. Loved it!
- By engineermarko on 2019-05-10
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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
- Written by: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....
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Part good info, but mostly filler. Dissatisfied
- By Matthew on 2023-03-04
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Reign of Terror
- How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
- Written by: Spencer Ackerman
- Narrated by: Spencer Ackerman
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an authoritarian direction....
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a shotgun blast of criticism
- By A on 2023-03-05
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No digas nada [Say Nothing]
- Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Jordi Salas
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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En diciembre de 1972, varios encapuchados secuestraron a Jean McConville, una viuda de 38 años con 10 hijos a su cargo....
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Enough Already
- Time to End the War on Terrorism
- Written by: Scott Horton
- Narrated by: Scott Horton
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism is a masterly history of these chaotic, tragic and above all futile conflicts, ranging with his usual excoriating accuracy from Mali to Pakistan, from Iraq to Yemen by way of Syria and Libya....
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Read and re-read
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-06-20
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Warriors of God
- Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
- Written by: Nicholas Blanford
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford....
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Fascinating
- By Xyo on 2023-10-15
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Laboratories of Terror
- The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine
- Written by: Lynne Viola - editor, Marc-Stephan Junge
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine....
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....
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Very interesting.
- By Christa on 2021-04-16
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The Greatest Evil Is War
- Written by: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war....
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Terrific book... though sad
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-02-15
New Releases
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The Nazis' Flight from Justice
- How Hitler's Followers Attempted to Vanish Without Trace
- Written by: Richard Dargie, Julian Flanders
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Whatever happened to the Nazis after World War II? While the Nuremberg trials saw key party members prosecuted, it was impossible to imprison every German who had supported the Third Reich. This is the story of what happened to the Nazis who escaped justice.
Written by: Richard Dargie, and others
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The United States and the Armenian Genocide
- History, Memory, Politics
- Written by: Julien Zarifian
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Although the American government expressed sympathy towards the plight of the Armenians in the 1910s and 1920s, historian Julien Zarifian explores how, from the 1960s, a set of geopolitical and institutional factors soon led the United States to adopt a policy of genocide nonrecognition which it would cling to for over fifty years, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
Written by: Julien Zarifian
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The Infernal Machine
- A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Steven Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Steven Johnson’s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries—from Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.
Written by: Steven Johnson
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Letters from Guantánamo
- Written by: Mansoor Adayfi, Antonio Aiello
- Narrated by: Mansoor Adayfi, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Elias Khalil, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia and sold to US forces for bounty money. After months of interrogations, he was sent to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as one of its first prisoners. Like the nearly 800 other men imprisoned at Guantanamo, Adayfi didn’t know why he was imprisoned or for how long. He had never seen a skyscraper and couldn’t imagine what the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center looked like, much less how they were destroyed.
Written by: Mansoor Adayfi, and others
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration.
Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
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Final Verdict
- The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
- Written by: Tobias Buck
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.
Written by: Tobias Buck
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The Nazis' Flight from Justice
- How Hitler's Followers Attempted to Vanish Without Trace
- Written by: Richard Dargie, Julian Flanders
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Whatever happened to the Nazis after World War II? While the Nuremberg trials saw key party members prosecuted, it was impossible to imprison every German who had supported the Third Reich. This is the story of what happened to the Nazis who escaped justice.
Written by: Richard Dargie, and others
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The United States and the Armenian Genocide
- History, Memory, Politics
- Written by: Julien Zarifian
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Although the American government expressed sympathy towards the plight of the Armenians in the 1910s and 1920s, historian Julien Zarifian explores how, from the 1960s, a set of geopolitical and institutional factors soon led the United States to adopt a policy of genocide nonrecognition which it would cling to for over fifty years, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
Written by: Julien Zarifian
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The Infernal Machine
- A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Steven Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Steven Johnson’s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries—from Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.
Written by: Steven Johnson
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Letters from Guantánamo
- Written by: Mansoor Adayfi, Antonio Aiello
- Narrated by: Mansoor Adayfi, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Elias Khalil, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia and sold to US forces for bounty money. After months of interrogations, he was sent to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as one of its first prisoners. Like the nearly 800 other men imprisoned at Guantanamo, Adayfi didn’t know why he was imprisoned or for how long. He had never seen a skyscraper and couldn’t imagine what the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center looked like, much less how they were destroyed.
Written by: Mansoor Adayfi, and others
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration.
Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
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Final Verdict
- The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
- Written by: Tobias Buck
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.
Written by: Tobias Buck