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The Happiest Man on Earth
- By: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Jacek Koman
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp....
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Inspiring | Sad | Inspiring | Life Changing
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-2020
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Napoleon the Great
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives....
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Well worth the listen
- By Michael Flanagan on 20-05-2015
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges....
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This is a powerful book by a truly insightful author.
- By Daniel Rimmer on 27-10-2018
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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Just as yesterday
- By luke.oconnor on 05-02-2020
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The End is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- By: Dan Carlin
- Narrated by: Dan Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin connects the past and future in fascinating and colourful ways, exploring a question that has hung over humanity like the sword of Damocles from the collapse of the Bronze Age to the nuclear era - that of human survival....
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Dan Carlin Conquers the audio book
- By Anonymous User on 04-11-2019
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present....
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Great!
- By Michael Matusik on 13-09-2018
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- By: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Jacek Koman
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp....
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Inspiring | Sad | Inspiring | Life Changing
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-2020
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Napoleon the Great
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives....
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Well worth the listen
- By Michael Flanagan on 20-05-2015
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges....
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This is a powerful book by a truly insightful author.
- By Daniel Rimmer on 27-10-2018
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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Just as yesterday
- By luke.oconnor on 05-02-2020
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The End is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- By: Dan Carlin
- Narrated by: Dan Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin connects the past and future in fascinating and colourful ways, exploring a question that has hung over humanity like the sword of Damocles from the collapse of the Bronze Age to the nuclear era - that of human survival....
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Dan Carlin Conquers the audio book
- By Anonymous User on 04-11-2019
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present....
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Great!
- By Michael Matusik on 13-09-2018
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Say Nothing
- A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matt Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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A shocking true story of murder, extreme politics and the deep scars left by the Troubles in Ireland of the 1970s and the human consequences. A taut tale of murder, extreme politics, institutionalised violence and the deep scars left by such turmoil....
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excellent
- By Amazon Customer on 19-06-2020
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The Night Travelers
- By: Armando Lucas Correa
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Four generations of women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and, finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Girl....
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Beautiful and equal parts uplifting and heartbreaking
- By DanR on 05-05-2023
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War....
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incompetence at the highest level
- By Grant Lewis on 10-09-2021
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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Directionless and difficult to follow.
- By Howling Fantods on 09-12-2019
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Burke and Wills
- The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
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The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....
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Returned
- By Anonymon on 28-11-2017
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A Brilliant Life
- My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust
- By: Rachelle Unreich
- Narrated by: Rachel Griffiths, Rachelle Unreich
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed....
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Just wonderful
- By Julie raunik on 01-12-2023
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The Rest Is History
- By: Goalhanger Podcasts, Dr Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook, Dr Tom Holland
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys...there’s a new history book in town....
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The Second World War
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 17 mins
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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China....
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Both comprehensive and interesting
- By Neill on 17-05-2015
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American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- By: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers....
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All ego, no sniping
- By Andrew on 24-10-2014
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Bonhoeffer
- Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
- By: Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Eric Metaxas
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in 40 years, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life - the theologian and the spy - to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil....
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Very detailed
- By Josh on 22-08-2020
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Normandy ‘44
- D-Day and the Battle for France
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history....
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Perfection.
- By Anonymous User on 03-12-2023
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The Nazis Knew My Name
- A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz
- By: Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee, David Brewster - contributor
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Zoe Carides
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity....
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5 stars
- By Veronica V on 04-11-2021
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- By: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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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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Jordan B Peterson Mandatory Reading list and for a good reason.
- By Anonymous User on 11-01-2021
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The Daughter of Auschwitz
- By: Tova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In Birkenau, Tova Friedman witnessed atrocities that she could never forget. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale. In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalises what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive....
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A powerful and moving personal history
- By AJ Kearns on 02-11-2023
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August in Kabul
- America's Last Days in Afghanistan
- By: Andrew Quilty
- Narrated by: John Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment....
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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Required reading
- By Brett on 07-05-2017
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Boomerang
- The Meltdown Tour
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story....
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Another great story and insights
- By Adam on 26-11-2023
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The Stable Boy of Auschwitz
- By: Henry Oster, Dexter Ford
- Narrated by: William Hope, Susan Oster, Dexter Ford, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the darkest moment of history, one child found the courage and strength to survive the unimaginable. This is Henry’s true story....
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Very moving story!
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-2023
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Revolutionary Spring
- Fighting for a New World 1848-1849
- By: Christopher Clark
- Narrated by: Christopher Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848....
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Essential reading.
- By Dallas Simpson on 10-11-2023
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The Vanishing Point
- By: Andrea Hotere
- Narrated by: Victoria Fox
- Length: 9 hrs
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London, 1991: Alex Johns, trainee art intern at the Courtauld, believes a hidden secret lies within Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas—one of the most written about paintings of all time....
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Wonderful rich story
- By Anonymous User on 21-10-2023
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- By: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, The Escape Artist is the astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust....
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A very important book about the Holocaust
- By Kindle Customer on 19-10-2022
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If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- By: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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From 2010 to 2020, more people globally participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Why did so few get what they wanted? If We Burn is a meticulous investigation into the era of global protests....
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James May's 20th Century
- By: James May, Phil Dolling
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....
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Great Listen
- By Codin Moldovanu on 02-07-2018
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El Narco
- The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels
- By: Ioan Grillo
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office....
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great in depth read
- By Kindle Customer on 22-07-2019
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Only Hope
- A Survivor's Stories of the Holocaust
- By: Felicia Bornstein Lubliner
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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I'll have to be autobiographical, but follow me if you will into Auschwitz and spend a day there, and meet some of the people in the nameless mass of bodies. Try, if you will, to feel, even for a moment, that you could have been one of them, that in fact you were one of them
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Strike of the Sailfish
- Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier
- By: Stephen L. Moore
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accidentally sinks to the bottom of the sea during a training exercise, killing half her crew. Coming to the rescue is the USS Sculpin, in many ways the Squalus’s twin. As their oxygen supply dwindles, the remaining crew aboard the Squalus are saved in a time-consuming, white-knuckle operation. Eventually the sunken submarine is raised, repaired, and returned to duty, with a new name: the Sailfish.
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Vilna, the End of the Road
- A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story
- By: Sarah Shimonovitz
- Narrated by: Abigail Langham
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Lithuania, 1941. As the Nazi forces invade the capital city of Vilna, its Jews’ lives are forsaken. Death lurks beyond every corner, not only at the hands of the German invaders, but mainly at those of local killing gangs collaborating with the new regime. Sarah Shimonovitz is not spared from this threat of death. When the Nazis round up Vilna’s Jews in the ghetto and sentence all those without essential professions to death, Sarah’s life is in grave danger. But she manages to survive the selection, moving between hiding places and evading her pursuers.
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Untamed Waters
- The Golden Age of Piracy
- By: Thomas Weiss
- Narrated by: Dylan J Holt
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Untamed Waters: The Golden Age of Piracy is a captivating and thoroughly researched exploration of history's most notorious era, delving into the thrilling world of pirates and their daring exploits on the high seas. From the sun-kissed shores of the Caribbean to the treacherous waters of the Indian Ocean, this book unravels the motivations behind piracy and its impact on global trade and politics. With meticulous citations, it serves as both an engaging listen for history enthusiasts and a valuable academic resource.
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Memories, Miracles, and Meaning
- Insights of a Holocaust Survivor
- By: Fanny Krasner Lebovits
- Narrated by: Eva Beim
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In this memoir, written at age ninety-five, Fanny recounts her inspirational and emotional story, its historical context, and her observations on the human condition. She narrates her heartbreaking and triumphant memories, her belief in miracles, and the insights and meaning she draws from those experiences. Fanny's mission is to ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten and never repeated. Never again should hate drive human behavior to devalue human life. Never again should the world stand by and observe such atrocities.
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1660-1783)
- By: Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Narrated by: Anne Brown, Donald Taylor
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Consider by scholars as the single most influential book in naval strategy, Alfred Thayer Mahan’s “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1660-1783)”, is a history of naval warfare and sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that would have a profound influence on the world in the early part of the twentieth century. Mahan published “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1660-1783)” while he was President of the US Naval War College.
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Only Hope
- A Survivor's Stories of the Holocaust
- By: Felicia Bornstein Lubliner
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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I'll have to be autobiographical, but follow me if you will into Auschwitz and spend a day there, and meet some of the people in the nameless mass of bodies. Try, if you will, to feel, even for a moment, that you could have been one of them, that in fact you were one of them
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Strike of the Sailfish
- Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier
- By: Stephen L. Moore
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accidentally sinks to the bottom of the sea during a training exercise, killing half her crew. Coming to the rescue is the USS Sculpin, in many ways the Squalus’s twin. As their oxygen supply dwindles, the remaining crew aboard the Squalus are saved in a time-consuming, white-knuckle operation. Eventually the sunken submarine is raised, repaired, and returned to duty, with a new name: the Sailfish.
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Vilna, the End of the Road
- A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story
- By: Sarah Shimonovitz
- Narrated by: Abigail Langham
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Lithuania, 1941. As the Nazi forces invade the capital city of Vilna, its Jews’ lives are forsaken. Death lurks beyond every corner, not only at the hands of the German invaders, but mainly at those of local killing gangs collaborating with the new regime. Sarah Shimonovitz is not spared from this threat of death. When the Nazis round up Vilna’s Jews in the ghetto and sentence all those without essential professions to death, Sarah’s life is in grave danger. But she manages to survive the selection, moving between hiding places and evading her pursuers.
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Untamed Waters
- The Golden Age of Piracy
- By: Thomas Weiss
- Narrated by: Dylan J Holt
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Untamed Waters: The Golden Age of Piracy is a captivating and thoroughly researched exploration of history's most notorious era, delving into the thrilling world of pirates and their daring exploits on the high seas. From the sun-kissed shores of the Caribbean to the treacherous waters of the Indian Ocean, this book unravels the motivations behind piracy and its impact on global trade and politics. With meticulous citations, it serves as both an engaging listen for history enthusiasts and a valuable academic resource.
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Memories, Miracles, and Meaning
- Insights of a Holocaust Survivor
- By: Fanny Krasner Lebovits
- Narrated by: Eva Beim
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In this memoir, written at age ninety-five, Fanny recounts her inspirational and emotional story, its historical context, and her observations on the human condition. She narrates her heartbreaking and triumphant memories, her belief in miracles, and the insights and meaning she draws from those experiences. Fanny's mission is to ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten and never repeated. Never again should hate drive human behavior to devalue human life. Never again should the world stand by and observe such atrocities.
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1660-1783)
- By: Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Narrated by: Anne Brown, Donald Taylor
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Consider by scholars as the single most influential book in naval strategy, Alfred Thayer Mahan’s “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1660-1783)”, is a history of naval warfare and sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that would have a profound influence on the world in the early part of the twentieth century. Mahan published “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1660-1783)” while he was President of the US Naval War College.
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A Boy Growing Up Under the Nazi Boot and the Greek Civil War
- By: George C. Kakridas
- Narrated by: Stephen Dalton
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is an autobiography of George C. Kakridas which depicts how a child growing up during the Nazi occupation and the Greek civil war survived to write his heart wrenching story.
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By My Mother's Hand
- As Told by Survivor Henry Melnick
- By: Henry Melnick, Limore Zisckind
- Narrated by: Michael Melnick, Limore Zisckind
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Holocaust survivor Henry Melnick was born in Lodz, Poland. Shortly after the Nazis occupied Poland in 1939, he was sent to perform slave labor in the Nowy Sącz, Tarnów, and Szebnie ghettos and work camps. He was then transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.
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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- By: Elena Kostyuchenko, Ilona Chavasse - translator, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. At once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.
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The Soviet Sixties
- By: Robert Hornsby
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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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. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period.
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Okinawa
- A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
- By: Robert Leckie
- Narrated by: Preston Geer
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing battle strategy and analysis with portraits of the men who fought on both sides to give the listener a complete account of the invasion. Lasting eighty-three days and surpassing D-Day in both troops and material used, the Battle of Okinawa was a decisive victory for the Allies, and a huge blow to Japan. In this stirring account, Leckie provides a complete picture of the battle and its context in the larger war.
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Explaining Hitler
- The Search for the Origins of His Evil
- By: Ron Rosenbaum
- Narrated by: Steve Quinn
- Length: 22 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptically analyzes the key strains of Hitler interpretation.
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Circle of Stars
- A History of the EU and the People Who Made It
- By: Dermot Hodson
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The European Union is the most ambitious, and one of the most contentious, international organizations ever created. Decisions made in Brussels shape the lives of over 500 million Europeans, and its laws and policies resonate around the world. But how has the European Union endured over three turbulent decades marred by crises at home and abroad? In this major account, Dermot Hodson traces the development of the European Union from its establishment in 1993 through to Brexit, COVID-19, and the invasion of Ukraine.
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The Gunner and the Grunt
- Two Boston Boys in Vietnam With the First Calvary Division Airmobile
- By: Michael L. Kelly, Peter Burbank
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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The Gunner and the Grunt is written in the voices of two soldiers who fought in the same battles as members of the same recon unit but from different angles. Michael Kelley, the "Gunner," was flying in an armed helicopter above the jungle providing suppressive fire support, while Peter Burbank, the "Grunt," was down in the jungle on foot patrol involved in fire fights with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troops. The book follows these two Boston boys from army training through deployment to the war zone and the shock of first combat missions.
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From Conquest to Colony
- Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil
- By: Kirsten Schultz
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a "colony" that would reinvigorate Portuguese power.
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Auschwitz on the Potomac 1943
- Hillel Kook, the Attempt to Save European Jewry, and The Birth of The Israeli Nation
- By: Eliyho Matz
- Narrated by: Paul Yarish
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Eliyho Matz has done the world a service by bringing this documentary history together in book form, so that readers may see for themselves what was known, documented, and reported about the Holocaust during the 1940s, and hopefully be able to apply his information and analysis to the thorny problems facing America, Israel and the world today.
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The Last Boy in Auschwitz
- A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II)
- By: Moshe Bomberg
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Poland, 1940. Moshe and his family flee their hometown of Warsaw in a desperate bid for survival as Nazi forces advance on the city. Hiding under false identities, they hope to wait out the end of the war, which must surely be near. But nowhere is truly safe for Poland’s Jews, and soon Moshe and his brother find themselves en route to Auschwitz, from where no one returns. Separated from the rest of their family, they hold on to each other with everything they have.
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Great Fire of London
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 59 mins
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London was a tinderbox waiting to ignite. An unusually hot and dry summer had drained the city’s water supplies, and without an organized firefighting force, its citizens were left to fend for themselves. The stage was set for catastrophe, and in the early hours of Sunday, September 2, 1666, the spark was struck. A seemingly inconsequential fire ignited in a baker’s shop on Pudding Lane. Unchecked and underestimated, it would grow to become one of the most devastating disasters London had ever faced.