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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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“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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Performance364
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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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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
- Durée: 25 h et 56 min
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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...
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A must read for the budding western communists
- Écrit par Aaron C le 2021-12-31
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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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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 Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
- Durée: 27 h et 30 min
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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most...
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- 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
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Au global502
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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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Au global434
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Performance364
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Histoire366
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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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
- Durée: 25 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
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Performance43
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Histoire43
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...
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A must read for the budding western communists
- Écrit par Aaron C le 2021-12-31
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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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Performance39
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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 Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
- Durée: 27 h et 30 min
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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most...
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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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Performance15
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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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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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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- Auteur(s): Laurence Rees
- Narrateur(s): John Sackville
- Durée: 18 h et 17 min
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"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history."―Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and...
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great book
- Écrit par Dariusz le 2021-05-07
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The Sword and the Shield
- The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
- Auteur(s): Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin
- Narrateur(s): Charles Stransky
- Durée: 6 h et 28 min
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In 1992 Vasili Mitrokhin defected to England and brought along an extensive archive of military intelligence from the Soviet Union. A career KGB officer...
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Forged in War
- A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today
- Auteur(s): Mark Galeotti
- Narrateur(s): Simon Shepherd
- Durée: 15 h et 31 min
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A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia’s destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine.
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Armor and Blood
- The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Showalter
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 10 h
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While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians....
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A Very Dense hour by hour telling of Kursk
- Écrit par Daniel Jones le 2018-12-03
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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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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Auteur(s): Anne Applebaum
- Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
- Durée: 17 h et 46 min
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AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural...
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A must read
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-04-09
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Auteur(s): Ben Macintyre, John le Carré
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 11 h
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin “[A Spy Among...
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Could not put it down
- Écrit par mcgr le 2024-05-30
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The Illegals
- Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
- Auteur(s): Shaun Walker
- Narrateur(s): Paul Thornley
- Durée: 14 h et 19 min
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ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...
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Blowout
- Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
- Auteur(s): Rachel Maddow
- Narrateur(s): Rachel Maddow
- Durée: 15 h et 33 min
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2021 GRAMMY Winner for Best Spoken Word Album #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All “A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today...
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As always...
- Écrit par Barbara M. le 2019-10-07
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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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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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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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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrateur(s): Simon Russell Beale
- Durée: 28 h et 41 min
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and...
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the worst audiobook I have ever encountered
- Écrit par Wade Nelson le 2023-06-02
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Russia at War, 1941–1945
- A History
- Auteur(s): Alexander Werth, Nicolas Werth - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 38 h et 27 min
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In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964....
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fantastic
- Écrit par Tim le 2023-02-23
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The Unwomanly Face of War
- An Oral History of Women in World War II
- Auteur(s): Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrateur(s): Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson
- Durée: 14 h et 18 min
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century For more than three...
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Great Listen
- Écrit par Joseph Awad le 2021-08-26
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KGB
- Auteur(s): Bernard Lecomte
- Narrateur(s): François Muller
- Durée: 9 h et 25 min
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Trente ans ont passé depuis que l'URSS s'est effondrée, en décembre 1991. Depuis cette date, à Moscou, les archives se sont ouvertes...
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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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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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Death of a Dissident
- The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
- Auteur(s): Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko
- Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
- Durée: 5 h et 40 min
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The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the...
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Crimea
- Auteur(s): Orlando Figes
- Narrateur(s): Malk Williams
- Durée: 20 h et 38 min
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....
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entertaining and informative
- Écrit par brian finamore le 2020-05-22
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The Wild Blue
- The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
- Auteur(s): Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrateur(s): Jeffrey DeMunn
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us into the skies of World War II aviation, flying aboard the crowded and dangerous B-24 bombers as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine and secured Allied victory. The young men who flew the...
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
- Durée: 21 h et 55 min
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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and...
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a must read
- Écrit par R nT C le 2022-12-02
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A Failed Empire
- The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
- Auteur(s): Vladimir Zubok
- Narrateur(s): Nick Sullivan
- Durée: 20 h et 13 min
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Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....
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very interesting but not for everyone
- Écrit par Wells Cushnie le 2022-04-23