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  • The Gestapo

  • The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
  • By: Frank McDonough
  • Narrated by: Paul McGann
  • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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The Gestapo

By: Frank McDonough
Narrated by: Paul McGann
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Publisher's Summary

Named as a 2016 Book of the Year by the Spectator.

A Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015) 

Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

Ranked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily Telegraph. 

Professor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. His work has been described as 'modern history writing at its very best...Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist' by renowned historian Andrew Roberts. 

Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files, this audiobook relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of their friends, neighbours, colleagues and even relatives who were often drawn into the Gestapo's web of intrigue. The audiobook reveals, too, the cold-blooded and efficient methods of the Gestapo officers.   

This audiobook will also show that the Gestapo lacked the manpower and resources to spy on everyone, as it was reliant on tip offs from the general public. Yet this did not mean the Gestapo was a weak or inefficient instrument of Nazi terror. On the contrary, it ruthlessly and efficiently targeted its officers against clearly defined political and racial 'enemies of the people'.   

The Gestapo will provide a chilling new doorway into the everyday life of the Third Reich and give powerful testimony from the victims of Nazi terror and poignant life stories of those who opposed Hitler's regime while challenging popular myths about the Gestapo.  

©2012 Frank McDonough (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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  • Categories: History

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Fascinating

I learnt a lot from this book. Very interesting. Performance was the best I have heard in a long time. Depressing topic although I thoroughly recommend.

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Excellent

Very helpful to see the bigger picture and to see that the Gestapo was more than a faceless vile machine.

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Revelatory and Grimly Fascinating.

Having read, without exaggeration, hundreds of books and watched a similar number of documentaries and films involving many eye-witness accounts, I didn’t expect to hear anything that I didn’t already know. I was completely disabused of this notion before I was 20 minutes into listening.
If you think you know all about the Gestapo, I’d suggest you probably don’t. But whatever your knowledge base, regardless of your perspectives, this masterful exploration and explanation of the real story will keep you engaged, informed and stupefied.
“Enjoy” is the wrong word, but appreciate it, you will.

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