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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Durée: 21 h et 53 min
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Au global503
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Performance408
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Histoire404
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-11-13
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- Auteur(s): Adam Higginbotham
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 13 h et 55 min
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Performance367
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Histoire369
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Hair raising
- Écrit par Dmitry le 2019-05-15
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Aris
- Durée: 27 h et 50 min
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Performance13
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Histoire13
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century...
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A very informative read.
- Écrit par Robert Hoskins le 2021-03-26
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On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- Auteur(s): Timothy Snyder
- Narrateur(s): Timothy Snyder
- Durée: 9 h et 45 min
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Performance39
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Histoire39
The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author...
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Trump Derangement Syndrome as academic essay.
- Écrit par R. Ward le 2022-11-06
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The Dark Side of the Earth
- Russia's Short-Lived Victory over Totalitarianism
- Auteur(s): Mikhail Zygar
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
- Durée: 22 h et 37 min
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Named a Best History Book of the Year by The Times (London) From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never over—revealing the resurgence...
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Auteur(s): Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrateur(s): David de Vries
- Durée: 23 h et 50 min
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In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world....
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A phenomenal history of the dissolution of the USSR
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-05-24
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Durée: 21 h et 53 min
- Version abrégée
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Au global503
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Performance408
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Histoire404
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-11-13
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- Auteur(s): Adam Higginbotham
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 13 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global437
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Performance367
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Histoire369
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Hair raising
- Écrit par Dmitry le 2019-05-15
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Aris
- Durée: 27 h et 50 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global17
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Performance13
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Histoire13
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century...
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A very informative read.
- Écrit par Robert Hoskins le 2021-03-26
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On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- Auteur(s): Timothy Snyder
- Narrateur(s): Timothy Snyder
- Durée: 9 h et 45 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global47
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Performance39
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Histoire39
The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author...
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Trump Derangement Syndrome as academic essay.
- Écrit par R. Ward le 2022-11-06
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The Dark Side of the Earth
- Russia's Short-Lived Victory over Totalitarianism
- Auteur(s): Mikhail Zygar
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
- Durée: 22 h et 37 min
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Named a Best History Book of the Year by The Times (London) From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never over—revealing the resurgence...
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Auteur(s): Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrateur(s): David de Vries
- Durée: 23 h et 50 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global18
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Performance16
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Histoire17
In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world....
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A phenomenal history of the dissolution of the USSR
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-05-24
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The Great Game
- The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
- Auteur(s): Peter Hopkirk
- Narrateur(s): Alex Wyndham
- Durée: 17 h et 56 min
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The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....
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Excellent Eastern history!!
- Écrit par Robert le 2024-10-18
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- Auteur(s): Bill Browder
- Narrateur(s): Adam Grupper
- Durée: 14 h et 7 min
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Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart....
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Incredible story, well written and very engaging.
- Écrit par Unfluential le 2017-11-15
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- Auteur(s): Catherine Belton
- Narrateur(s): Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Durée: 18 h et 12 min
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In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country....
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Read the printed book.
- Écrit par fishface42 le 2021-08-31
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Auteur(s): Stephen Kotkin
- Narrateur(s): Paul Hecht
- Durée: 38 h et 47 min
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....
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Brilliant
- Écrit par Vladimir Zhivov le 2020-09-01
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Putin's Sledgehammer
- The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos
- Auteur(s): Candace Rondeaux
- Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
- Durée: 17 h et 4 min
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The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia “Putin’s Sledgehammer provides an in-depth account of, and essential political and economic background to, the story of Prigozhin’s meteoric rise and abrupt demise.” ―Times Literary Supplement A...
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- Auteur(s): China Mieville
- Narrateur(s): John Banks
- Durée: 11 h et 37 min
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The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....
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Very great book
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-05-18
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Gulag
- A History
- Auteur(s): Anne Applebaum
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 27 h et 41 min
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In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Essential reading in today's times
- Écrit par Kendall L. Harding le 2022-04-10
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The Oak and the Larch
- A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
- Auteur(s): Sophie Pinkham
- Narrateur(s): Abigail Reno
- Durée: 10 h et 7 min
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Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse.
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- Auteur(s): Bill Browder
- Narrateur(s): Adam Grupper
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he exposed Vladimir Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars from Russia—and how Putin is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way....
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I loved it!
- Écrit par Sam le 2022-05-09
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A Short History of Russia
- How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
- Auteur(s): Mark Galeotti
- Narrateur(s): Mark Galeotti
- Durée: 4 h et 50 min
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A Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch "Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book." -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads Russia’s epic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's...
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Encompassing yet succinct
- Écrit par DJDQ le 2023-03-07
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The Cold War
- A World History
- Auteur(s): Odd Arne Westad
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 22 h et 44 min
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In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....
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Comprehensive Cold War study
- Écrit par Kevin W. le 2022-06-08
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The Soviet Sixties
- Auteur(s): Robert Hornsby
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 20 h et 29 min
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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. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period....
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Disinformation
- Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom Attacking Religion and Promoting Terrorism
- Auteur(s): Prof. Ronald J. Rychlak, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
- Narrateur(s): Corey Snow
- Durée: 13 h et 10 min
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The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again....
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Very instructive and informative
- Écrit par Ina_M le 2024-07-10
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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- Auteur(s): Masha Gessen
- Narrateur(s): Masha Gessen
- Durée: 16 h et 45 min
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE...
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Stalin's War
- A New History of World War II
- Auteur(s): Sean McMeekin
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
- Durée: 24 h et 56 min
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A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when...
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Very well written and interesting, but bias
- Écrit par Paul M. Gareau le 2021-10-27
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Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- Auteur(s): William Craig
- Narrateur(s): David Baker
- Durée: 13 h et 26 min
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A classic work of World War II history that brings to vivid, dramatic life one of the bloodiest battles ever fought - and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich....
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Entertaining. Historically accurate
- Écrit par Langer MD le 2020-09-05
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Muppets in Moscow
- The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
- Auteur(s): Natasha Lance Rogoff, Gary Knell - afterword
- Narrateur(s): Emily Lahey Shoov
- Durée: 10 h et 59 min
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union....
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Decent read
- Écrit par Stephintoronto le 2026-01-27
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Iron Curtain
- The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- Auteur(s): Anne Applebaum
- Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell
- Durée: 26 h et 39 min
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In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of...
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A comprehensive critical history of the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe.
- Écrit par J. Bird le 2025-08-29
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Staline 2
- (de 1934 à 1953)
- Auteur(s): Jean-Jacques Marie
- Narrateur(s): Eric Herson-Macarel
- Durée: 21 h et 11 min
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L'ouverture des archives russes, il y a dix ans, permet de porter un regard neuf sur les grands personnages de l'histoire soviétique, à...
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A very detailed description
- Écrit par András le 2024-09-24
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From Cold War to Hot Peace
- An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
- Auteur(s): Michael McFaul
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 20 h et 58 min
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This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president....
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Insightful
- Écrit par elena m. le 2018-09-23
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Rasputin
- The Untold Story
- Auteur(s): Joseph T. Fuhrmann
- Narrateur(s): Curtis Sisco
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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A century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating....
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Stealth
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- Auteur(s): Peter Westwick
- Narrateur(s): David de Vries
- Durée: 7 h et 46 min
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On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....
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Red Heat
- Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
- Auteur(s): Alex von Tunzelmann
- Narrateur(s): Sarah Coomes
- Durée: 19 h et 55 min
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The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, and the machinations of superpowers....
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- Auteur(s): David Hoffman
- Narrateur(s): Steve Coulter
- Durée: 22 h et 50 min
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A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....
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Informative and still relevant in 2022
- Écrit par Henderson le 2022-05-29