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The Twins of Auschwitz
- The Inspiring True Story of a Young Girl Surviving Mengele’s Hell
- By: Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz. Within 30 minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers while Eva and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man who became known as the Angel of Death: Dr Josef Mengele. They were 10 years old. While twins at Auschwitz were granted the 'privileges' of keeping their own clothes and hair, they were also subjected to Mengele's sadistic medical experiments.
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Powerful story on forgiveness
- By Jessica on 21-03-2024
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The Twins of Auschwitz
- The Inspiring True Story of a Young Girl Surviving Mengele’s Hell
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-08-2020
- Language: English
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- By: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.
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Great background to current world events
- By Sally Gates on 12-07-2022
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2015
- Language: English
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Four Red Sweaters
- Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
- By: Lucy Adlington
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other–in fact had never met–each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, award-winning clothes historian Lucy Adlington documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives.
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Moving
- By Anonymous User on 25-06-2025
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Four Red Sweaters
- Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-04-2025
- Language: English
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1971 - Never a Dull Moment
- Rock's Golden Year
- By: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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The '60s ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again. The next day would see the dawning of a new era. Nineteen seventy-one saw the release of more monumental albums than any year before or since and the establishment of a pantheon of stars to dominate the next 40 years - Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Rod Stewart, the solo Beatles and more.
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Great narrator, fantastic story, wish I was there…
- By finn michalak on 08-09-2024
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1971 - Never a Dull Moment
- Rock's Golden Year
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2016
- Language: English
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Agent Sonya
- Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin and unusually elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother of three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, Sonya was heading for the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific secrets from a nuclear physicist. Secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the atomic bomb.
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Good story.
- By Anonymous User on 09-11-2020
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Agent Sonya
- Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2020
- Language: English
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Gulag
- A History
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
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The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
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Wonderful book, dreary narration
- By Emanuel Eliot Blake on 03-06-2021
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Gulag
- A History
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2012
- Language: English
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GCHQ
- Centenary Edition
- By: Richard Aldrich
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 48 mins
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GCHQ is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the UK, and has existed for 100 years - but we still know next to nothing about it. In this ground-breaking book - the first and most definitive history of the organisation ever published - intelligence expert Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ’s development from a wartime code-breaking operation based in the Bedfordshire countryside into one of the world leading espionage organisations.
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One of the best researched books I’ve ever read
- By Peter Mac on 12-02-2025
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GCHQ
- Centenary Edition
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2019
- Language: English
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Mussolini and Hitler
- The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
- By: Christian Goeschel
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally. Goeschel, a scholar of 20th-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public.
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Mussolini and Hitler
- The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 25-09-2018
- Language: English
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Mengele
- The Complete Story
- By: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession).
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Getting to the truth can be Audibly Painful!
- By Fuznut on 04-03-2025
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Mengele
- The Complete Story
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 21-01-2020
- Language: English
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Pride and Fall
- The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
- By: Sergio Miller
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
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On 11 September 2001 19 al-Qaeda-inspired jihadists hijacked four aircraft and mounted the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The outrage triggered a chain of events that saw British forces drawn into a lengthy military campaign against a fierce insurgency in Afghanistan. Sergio Miller served in Defence Intelligence in Whitehall throughout the campaign, and Pride and Fall answers the many questions surrounding the conflict. Based on abundant open-source material generated by the war and first-hand testimonies, this is the story of the men and women who served.
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Pride and Fall
- The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2024
- Language: English
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Chernobyl
- History of a Tragedy
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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On the morning of 26 April 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than 5 percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of Europe with radioactive fallout.
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Deep dive
- By Anonymous User on 02-10-2022
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Chernobyl
- History of a Tragedy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 31-01-2019
- Language: English
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Headhunter
- 5-73 CAV and Their Fight for Iraq's Diyala River Valley
- By: Peter C. Svoboda, Lt. Gen William B. Caldwell (Ret.) - foreword
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Selected in 2005 by the army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected by the squadron command team, Lieutenant Colonel Poppas and Command Sergeant Major Edgar. With just more than 400 paratroopers, they were half the size of a full-strength battalion and the smallest unit in the Panther Brigade.
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Informative but mind numbing
- By Anonymous User on 17-02-2025
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Headhunter
- 5-73 CAV and Their Fight for Iraq's Diyala River Valley
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2021
- Language: English
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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. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country.
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Inspiring | Sad | Inspiring | Life Changing
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-2020
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- Narrated by: Jacek Koman
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-07-2020
- Language: English
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The Cold War
- A World History
- By: Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
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As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945, there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over 40 years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not ultimately demand a blind and absolute allegiance.
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Objective and we'll organised
- By jasper on 27-01-2020
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The Cold War
- A World History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2018
- Language: English
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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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. This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, A Spy Among Friends unlocks what was perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.
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Fantastic
- By Rowey555 on 20-02-2025
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2024
- Language: English
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Abyss
- The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
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The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. Max Hastings’s graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers.
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Excellent overview of the Middle Crisis
- By Steve Johnson on 18-07-2024
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Abyss
- The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2022
- Language: English
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- By: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
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A good feel for the history
- By Trevor F. on 30-06-2025
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2020
- Language: English
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The Achilles Trap
- Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003
- By: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
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The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons programme, Steve Coll traces Saddam's motives through understanding his inner circle. He brings to life the diplomats, scientists, family members and generals who had no choice but to defer to their leader.
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intriguing
- By Bilal Dabboucy on 01-04-2024
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The Achilles Trap
- Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2024
- Language: English
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Fateful Choices
- Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
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Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined.
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Awesome
- By kiyl on 26-09-2017
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Fateful Choices
- Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2015
- Language: English
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Six Days of War
- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- By: Michael B. Oren
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback". Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the intifada, and the rise of Palestinian terror are all part of the outcome of those six days.
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exceptional detail and storytelling
- By Misha on 04-05-2025
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Six Days of War
- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2005
- Language: English
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