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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 global504
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Performance409
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Histoire405
“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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Tunnel 29
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
- Auteur(s): Helena Merriman
- Narrateur(s): Helena Merriman
- Durée: 9 h et 33 min
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Au global14
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Performance13
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Histoire13
A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired. In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East...
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Excellent
- Écrit par RW le 2022-11-27
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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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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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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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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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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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Performance913
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Histoire913
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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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 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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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 global504
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Performance409
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Histoire405
“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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Tunnel 29
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
- Auteur(s): Helena Merriman
- Narrateur(s): Helena Merriman
- Durée: 9 h et 33 min
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Au global14
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Performance13
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Histoire13
A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired. In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East...
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Excellent
- Écrit par RW le 2022-11-27
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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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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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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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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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Performance913
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Histoire913
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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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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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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Au global52
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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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Winter Is Coming
- Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
- Auteur(s): Garry Kasparov
- Narrateur(s): George Backman
- Durée: 11 h et 41 min
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Performance42
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Histoire41
Lest we be drawn into another prolonged conflict, Kasparov now urges a forceful stand - diplomatic and economic - against Putin....
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Great Look at Putin's Rise and Hold on Power
- Écrit par Chris le 2019-10-31
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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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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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Performance19
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Histoire19
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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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
- Auteur(s): David Stahel
- Narrateur(s): Stewart Crank
- Durée: 17 h et 41 min
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Performance11
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Using archival records, in this book, David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front....
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Technical, sometimes repetitive and lacking humanity considering the barbaric methods of this campaign.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-10-13
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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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Performance53
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Histoire54
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 Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- Auteur(s): David Hoffman
- Narrateur(s): Bob Walter
- Durée: 20 h et 46 min
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“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve Coll The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a...
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Exactly as described.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-01-14
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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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Performance22
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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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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- Auteur(s): Donnie Eichar
- Narrateur(s): Donnie Eichar
- Durée: 6 h et 23 min
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....
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In depth and gripping story
- Écrit par toby snelgrove le 2018-08-12
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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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Performance85
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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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Performance51
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Histoire52
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 Prophet
- The Life of Leon Trotsky
- Auteur(s): Isaac Deutscher
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 62 h et 43 min
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This three-part biography of Leon Trotsky was hailed by Graham Greene as one of "the greatest . . . in the English language"—a must listen for those interested in the history of Soviet Russia and international communism.
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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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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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On a Knife’s Edge
- The Ukraine, November 1942-March 1943
- Auteur(s): Prit Buttar
- Narrateur(s): Roger Clark
- Durée: 22 h et 7 min
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Drawing on firsthand accounts, On a Knife's Edge is a story of brilliant generalship, lost opportunities, and survival in the harshest theater of war....
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The Ghost of Freedom
- A History of the Caucasus
- Auteur(s): Charles King
- Narrateur(s): Michael Page
- Durée: 11 h et 40 min
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A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the 20th century lay inside the Soviet Union....
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Enjoyed it!
- Écrit par Ricky le 2020-01-19
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Spies
- The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
- Auteur(s): Calder Walton
- Narrateur(s): Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Durée: 20 h et 22 min
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Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the...
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Fascinating history, disappointing epilogue
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-04-07
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Russia
- Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
- Auteur(s): Antony Beevor
- Narrateur(s): Rob Heaps
- Durée: 21 h et 55 min
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“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.”—The Wall Street Journal An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of...
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An excellent read.
- Écrit par Romeo V. le 2022-12-29
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Stalingrad
- Auteur(s): Antony Beevor
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August...
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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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A History of Russia
- 9th Edition
- Auteur(s): Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
- Narrateur(s): Rich Miller
- Durée: 33 h et 16 min
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Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present.
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The Cold War
- A New History
- Auteur(s): John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrateur(s): Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
- Durée: 9 h et 51 min
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Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy....
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Generic cold war history
- Écrit par Grace le 2019-07-19
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
- Durée: 15 h et 21 min
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Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. As the award-winning historian...
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A good histor, ok narrator
- Écrit par Kevin W. le 2023-04-01
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The Soviet Century
- Archaeology of a Lost World
- Auteur(s): Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
- Narrateur(s): Ciaran Saward
- Durée: 29 h et 56 min
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Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization....
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Looking glass into a hidden world
- Écrit par Goldfish le 2025-02-12