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Best Sellers
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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enlightening
- By Jacques Huot on 2018-08-15
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Written by: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken....
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- Written by: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life....
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Wish this was a mandatory read in Canadian schools
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-03-27
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power....
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Loved it
- By Tracey L. on 2023-05-15
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About Face
- Written by: Colonel David H. Hackworth US Army Ret., Julie Sherman
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 40 hrs and 38 mins
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From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam....
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awesome
- By The bestest friends on 2021-07-12
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....
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Captivating
- By sd on 2019-08-09
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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enlightening
- By Jacques Huot on 2018-08-15
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Written by: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken....
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- Written by: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life....
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Wish this was a mandatory read in Canadian schools
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-03-27
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power....
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Loved it
- By Tracey L. on 2023-05-15
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About Face
- Written by: Colonel David H. Hackworth US Army Ret., Julie Sherman
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 40 hrs and 38 mins
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From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam....
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awesome
- By The bestest friends on 2021-07-12
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....
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Captivating
- By sd on 2019-08-09
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- Written by: Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients....
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Breathtakingly beautiful!
- By Celia A on 2021-03-13
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- Written by: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century....
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The Great History Review of D-Day
- By Anthony on 2022-09-21
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Sand Talk
- How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- Written by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability - and offers a new template for living....
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Australian indigenous historical perspective
- By Anonymous User on 2023-02-06
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Thunderstruck
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Bob Balaban
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....
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Larson's weakest, made weaker by poor narration
- By Heather on 2022-05-30
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- Written by: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the astonishing true story of Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear....
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Great book
- By Travis on 2023-08-10
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The Battle of Arnhem
- The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
- Written by: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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Antony Beevor has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student called "The Last German Victory." Yet The Battle of Arnhem, written with Beevor's inimitable style, is about much more than a single dramatic battle - it looks into the very heart of war....
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All the details you need, and more.
- By Dark Alley Dan on 2024-05-25
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The Last Palace
- Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
- Written by: Norman Eisen
- Narrated by: Jeff Goldblum
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants....
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
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A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today....
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A must read
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-04-09
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
- Written by: Samuel P. Huntington
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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For anyone interested in foreign affairs, this book will catalyze debate, and not only for Mr. Huntington's concluding scenario for World War III....
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- Written by: Adam Fergusson
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....
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Too long not as interesting as it could have been
- By Brad Mills on 2021-07-02
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The Korean War
- A History
- Written by: Bruce Cumings
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs
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In sobering detail, The Korean War chronicles a US home front agitated by Joseph McCarthy, where absolutist conformity discouraged open inquiry and citizen dissent. Bruce Cumings incisively ties our current foreign policy back to Korea....
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Necessary Reading
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-07-21
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Written by: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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good book - hard to digest
- By Dallas J Hoday on 2021-03-17
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Homelands
- A Personal History of Europe
- Written by: Timothy Garton Ash
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies...
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Hue 1968
- A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
- Written by: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
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Huế 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam....
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Bowden is a great storyteller and this is story worth telling
- By James on 2023-08-07
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Who was Kim Philby? Those closest to him—like his fellow MI6 officer and best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, and the CIA’s head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton—knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable patriot....
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Could not put it down
- By mcgr on 2024-05-30
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Enemies and Neighbors
- Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
- Written by: Ian Black
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
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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....
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One sided book. Don’t bother.
- By Anonymous User on 2021-06-21
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- Written by: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through 100 years of wars, revolutions, and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history....
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The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute
- Written by: Jonathan Mayo
- Narrated by: Russell Bentley
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest to the lowest - who were caught up in that four-day whirlwind in November 1963....
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....
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This is a great book
- By Barbara on 2018-09-13
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1917
- Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
- Written by: Arthur Herman
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of two men and the two decisions that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War I and Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution....
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The Other Olympians
- Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
- Written by: Michael Waters
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Michael Waters uncovers, for the first time, the story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture wars....
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Achtung Panzer!
- Written by: Heinz Guderian
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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This is one of the most significant military books of the 20th century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War....
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The Reckoning
- The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
- Written by: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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Prit Buttar retraces the ebb and flow of the various battles and campaigns fought throughout the Ukraine and Romania in 1944....
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Iinformative
- By Private on 2024-01-06
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The First Wave
- The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
- Written by: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day’s most perilous missions....
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First Wave
- By Anonymous User on 2023-01-30
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Brian Epstein
- A Life from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that man is former Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Written by: Hourly History
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point.
Written by: Kassia St. Clair
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Dancing Under the Red Star
- The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
- Written by: Karl Tobien
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families—Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret—and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.
Written by: Karl Tobien
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
- Written by: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations.
Written by: Max Hastings
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D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
- Powerful Eye-Witness Accounts of the Battle for Normandy 1944
- Written by: Geraint Jones
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Geraint Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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D-Day was bloody, chaotic and frequently terrifying. Its outcome was far from certain. And at its epicentre were tens of thousands of young men, many seeing their first active service. It was a single day that changed millions of lives. A critical turning point of the Second World War. Using audio interviews with British, American, Canadian and German veterans, as well as French civilians, this immersive new oral history describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed.
Written by: Geraint Jones
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Brotherhood of the Bomb
- The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
- Written by: Gregg Herken
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller—the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science—and its practitioners—enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War?
Written by: Gregg Herken
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Brian Epstein
- A Life from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that man is former Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Written by: Hourly History
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point.
Written by: Kassia St. Clair
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Dancing Under the Red Star
- The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
- Written by: Karl Tobien
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families—Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret—and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.
Written by: Karl Tobien
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
- Written by: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations.
Written by: Max Hastings
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D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
- Powerful Eye-Witness Accounts of the Battle for Normandy 1944
- Written by: Geraint Jones
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Geraint Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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D-Day was bloody, chaotic and frequently terrifying. Its outcome was far from certain. And at its epicentre were tens of thousands of young men, many seeing their first active service. It was a single day that changed millions of lives. A critical turning point of the Second World War. Using audio interviews with British, American, Canadian and German veterans, as well as French civilians, this immersive new oral history describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed.
Written by: Geraint Jones
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Brotherhood of the Bomb
- The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
- Written by: Gregg Herken
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller—the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science—and its practitioners—enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War?
Written by: Gregg Herken
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Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island
- The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation
- Written by: John R Bruning
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines between the U.S. and Australia.
Written by: John R Bruning
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The Autobiography of a Designated “Memorial Candle” Holocaust Lessons, Volume II
- A Never-Ending Field to Study
- Written by: Mayer Jacobovits
- Narrated by: Sean Lester
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Children of concentration camp survivors are also known as "memorial candles" because they are usually named after relatives who have been killed in the Holocaust. This is Volume II of an autobiography and is dedicated exclusively to how a son of Concentration Camp survivors dealt with the ever-present topic in such people's life: the Holocaust.
Written by: Mayer Jacobovits
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Raoul Wallenberg: A Life from Beginning to End
- World War 2 Biographies
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Raoul Wallenberg lived at a time when one of the worst outrages of inhumanity was occurring: the Holocaust. As a Swedish businessman in Hungary, he bore witness to this tragedy firsthand as Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to Auschwitz.
Written by: Hourly History
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The Soviet Century
- Written by: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917, to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years, and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.
Written by: Moshe Lewin, and others
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Why the Nineties Matter
- Written by: Terry H. Anderson
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In Why the Nineties Matter, Terry Anderson provides a broad-ranging history of America in that decade. Not simply a chronological account, the book focuses on key trends that either began or gained steam then and which have had lasting effects until this day. Threading together politics, economic transformations, and sociocultural trends, he focuses on what mattered most in retrospect.
Written by: Terry H. Anderson
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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 Quality of Love
- Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
- Written by: Ariane Bankes
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their friends and lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Albert Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell.
Written by: Ariane Bankes
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Latin America's Democratic Crusade
- The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
- Written by: Allen Wells
- Narrated by: Allen Wells
- Length: 29 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the Global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who preferred reform to revolution? Scholars have routinely neglected, dismissed, or caricatured moderate politicians. In this book, Allen Wells argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between capitalism and communism—that was Washington's abiding preoccupation—but between democracy and dictatorship.
Written by: Allen Wells
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The Forbidden Daughter
- The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
- Written by: Zipora Klein Jakob
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet, despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida—meaning non-birth in Hebrew.
Written by: Zipora Klein Jakob
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The Martyr and the Red Kimono
- A Fearless Priest’s Sacrifice and a New Generation of Hope in Japan
- Written by: Naoko Abe
- Narrated by: Ami Okumura Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish monk named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered in Auschwitz. Kolbe's life had been remarkable. Fiercely intelligent and driven, he founded a movement of Catholicism and spent several years in Nagasaki, ministering to the 'hidden Christians' who had emerged after centuries of oppression. A Polish nationalist as well as a monk, he gave sanctuary to fleeing refugees and his death was no less remarkable: he volunteered to die, saving the life of a fellow prisoner. It was an act that profoundly transformed the lives of two Japanese men.
Written by: Naoko Abe
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Every Last Jew
- A Teenage Boy's Story of Survival
- Written by: Mark Koperweis
- Narrated by: Mark Koperweis
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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In Every Last Jew, Mark Koperweis beautifully retells his father Henry’s amazing story of survival that takes you on an unimaginable journey that is up-close, personal, and in full living horror. Gain insights as to why the Nazis, and Hitler in particular, hated the Jews, making them the enemy of society, and labeling them Untermenschen—subhuman.
Written by: Mark Koperweis
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Hitler's Furies
- German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
- Written by: Wendy Lower
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women holding down the home front during the war, as loyal wives and cheerleaders for the Führer, pales in comparison to Lower’s incisive case for the massive complicity, and worse, of the 500,000 young German women she places, for the first time, directly in the killing fields of the expanding Reich.
Written by: Wendy Lower