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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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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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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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Performance265
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Histoire264
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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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrateur(s): Simon Russell Beale
- Durée: 28 h et 41 min
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Performance39
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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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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 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
- Version intégrale
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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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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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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
- Version intégrale
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Au global313
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Performance265
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Histoire264
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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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrateur(s): Simon Russell Beale
- Durée: 28 h et 41 min
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Performance39
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Histoire38
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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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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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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When Titans Clashed
- How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
- Auteur(s): David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
- Narrateur(s): James Romick
- Durée: 17 h et 49 min
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This new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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The Moscow Rules
- The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
- Auteur(s): Antonio J. Mendez, Jonna Mendez
- Narrateur(s): Wilson Bethel
- Durée: 7 h et 2 min
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A “devilishly fun” (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives. Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on...
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Magicians in Russia
- Écrit par David le 2025-10-14
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The Lighthouse of Stalingrad
- The Epic Siege at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II
- Auteur(s): Iain MacGregor
- Narrateur(s): Kris Dyer
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
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A thrilling, vivid, and “compelling” (Wall Street Journal) account of the epic siege during one of World War II’s most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to...
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Well researched on a less covered side of Stalingrad
- Écrit par Amazon Apologist le 2023-11-26
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The Vory
- Russia's Super Mafia
- Auteur(s): Mark Galeotti
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
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Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, or vory as the Russian mafia is also known....
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Very well done !
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-11-22
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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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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- Auteur(s): Robert K. Massie
- Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
- Durée: 23 h et 52 min
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs “[A] compelling portrait not...
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Fantastic listen
- Écrit par jessica huang le 2024-07-07
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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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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
- Durée: 14 h et 52 min
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A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal). On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe...
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Excellent Book!
- Écrit par Sschonwa le 2023-06-23
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Return of History
- Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
- Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
- Durée: 11 h
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An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe....
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A People’s Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Orlando Figes
- Narrateur(s): Roger Davis
- Durée: 47 h et 1 min
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A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....
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Heartbreaking but not very analytically precise
- Écrit par Zooid le 2025-09-13
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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