Bestsellers
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Road to Disaster
- A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam
- De: Brian VanDeMark
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 23 h y 12 m
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Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite many words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent and previously successful men stumbled so badly...
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Vietnam Veteran
- De Jim Rollins en 04-02-19
De: Brian VanDeMark
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Dereliction of Duty
- Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
- De: H. R. McMaster
- Narrado por: H. R. McMaster
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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A riveting narrative, Dereliction of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, and other aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Congress, and the American public....
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Rough narration
- De AC Griffin en 12-04-19
De: H. R. McMaster
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- De: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Duración: 31 h y 15 m
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A vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart....
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The usual Vietnam info delivered in the old prose
- De Kevin Warren en 10-26-17
De: Geoffrey C. Ward, y otros
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Vietnam
- An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Duración: 33 h y 33 m
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Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle....
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A more nuanced view than Ken Burns' companion book
- De Vu en 10-21-18
De: Max Hastings
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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- De: Vincent Bevins
- Narrado por: Tim Paige
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the USSR and inspiring copycat terror programs....
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Great book, but the narration has serious flaws
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 08-03-20
De: Vincent Bevins
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Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- De: Caroline Alexander
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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NYT bestselling author Caroline Alexander provides a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II....
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The Challenges of Human and Political Folly
- De Curious en 05-22-24
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Road to Disaster
- A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam
- De: Brian VanDeMark
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 23 h y 12 m
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Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite many words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent and previously successful men stumbled so badly...
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Vietnam Veteran
- De Jim Rollins en 04-02-19
De: Brian VanDeMark
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Dereliction of Duty
- Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
- De: H. R. McMaster
- Narrado por: H. R. McMaster
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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A riveting narrative, Dereliction of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, and other aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Congress, and the American public....
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Rough narration
- De AC Griffin en 12-04-19
De: H. R. McMaster
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- De: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Duración: 31 h y 15 m
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A vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart....
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The usual Vietnam info delivered in the old prose
- De Kevin Warren en 10-26-17
De: Geoffrey C. Ward, y otros
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Vietnam
- An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Duración: 33 h y 33 m
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Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle....
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A more nuanced view than Ken Burns' companion book
- De Vu en 10-21-18
De: Max Hastings
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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- De: Vincent Bevins
- Narrado por: Tim Paige
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the USSR and inspiring copycat terror programs....
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Great book, but the narration has serious flaws
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 08-03-20
De: Vincent Bevins
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Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- De: Caroline Alexander
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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NYT bestselling author Caroline Alexander provides a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II....
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The Challenges of Human and Political Folly
- De Curious en 05-22-24
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Some People Need Killing
- A Memoir of Murder in My Country
- De: Patricia Evangelista
- Narrado por: Patricia Evangelista
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.
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Great book
- De Brecht en 05-28-24
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Revolusi
- Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
- De: David Van Reybrouck
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.
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Dispatches
- De: Michael Herr
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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From its terrifying opening to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone....
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All of the reviews are correct.
- De Mark Thoreson en 01-18-22
De: Michael Herr
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Lee Kuan Yew
- The Grand Master’s Insights on China, United States, and the World
- De: Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie, Francis Chau
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage....
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Thought-provoking
- De Jean en 12-11-14
De: Graham Allison, y otros
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The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club
- Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War
- De: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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The 'Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club' was the tongue-in-cheek nickname of the US Seventh Fleet that was stationed off the coast of Vietnam and this book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1975....
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Tired drivel
- De Kevin Warren en 01-11-22
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The League of Wives
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
- De: Heath Hardage Lee
- Narrado por: Heath Hardage Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam....
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Wow
- De Jen Kerstiens en 02-24-23
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Hue 1968
- A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
- De: Mark Bowden
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 45 m
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Huế 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam....
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I KNEW This Book Would Sting Me . . . .
- De Rum Runner en 07-28-17
De: Mark Bowden
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Indonesia, Etc.
- Exploring the Improbable Nation
- De: Elizabeth Pisani
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions....
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Bill Bryson channels Margaret Mead
- De John S. en 09-01-14
De: Elizabeth Pisani
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people....
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- De rwise en 01-26-04
De: Simon Winchester
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When Broken Glass Floats
- Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
- De: Chanrithy Him
- Narrado por: Kalean Ung
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child." In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields"....
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every part of this book ...
- De chris en 05-31-24
De: Chanrithy Him
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Bait
- The Battle of Kham Duc
- De: Gregory W. Sanders, James D. McLeroy
- Narrado por: James D. McLeroy
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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An account of the battle of Kham Duc, one of the least known and most misunderstood battles in the American Phase of the Second Indochina War (1959 to 1975)....
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Great Story of Bravery
- De Anonymous User en 04-26-24
De: Gregory W. Sanders, y otros
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We Band of Angels
- The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
- De: Elizabeth M. Norman
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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We Band of Angels is the story of women searching for adventure, caught up in the drama and danger of war.
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A very moving tribute!
- De mark nelsen en 05-17-17
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Embers of War
- The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- De: Fredrik Logevall
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 32 h y 15 m
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An epic story of wasted opportunities and deadly miscalculations, Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another....
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Understanding Why We failed the People of Vietnam
- De VA en 03-22-21
De: Fredrik Logevall
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Rampage
- MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
- De: James M. Scott
- Narrado por: Jesse Einstein
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history....
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TRUE CRIME OF PURE HELL
- De Steve en 12-18-18
De: James M. Scott
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Modern Jungles
- A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival
- De: Pao Lor
- Narrado por: Craig Pierce
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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As a five-year-old boy, Pao Lor joined thousands of Hmong who fled for their lives through the jungles of Laos in the aftermath of war. After a difficult and perilous journey that neither of his parents survived, he reached the safety of Thailand....
De: Pao Lor
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Massacre in the Clouds
- An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
- De: Kim A. Wagner
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano....
De: Kim A. Wagner
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The Odyssey of Echo Company
- The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
- De: Doug Stanton
- Narrado por: CJ Wilson
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times best-selling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers....
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Great look into what a Nam solder endured.
- De Tony en 12-13-17
De: Doug Stanton
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Fire in the Lake
- De: Frances FitzGerald
- Narrado por: Jeff Bottoms
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam - the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists....
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American Hubris; Vietnamese Misery
- De gunnerThrax en 01-24-21
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The Last Helicopter
- Two Lives in Indochina
- De: Jim Laurie
- Narrado por: Jim Laurie
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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A story of a young woman left behind and a young reporter coming of age in a world of war; a gripping memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1970s....
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Great personal story
- De Ashok Patel en 05-21-23
De: Jim Laurie
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History of the Philippines
- A Captivating Guide to Philippine History
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 4 h y 5 m
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Discover the fascinating Philippines in this captivating audiobook on its history, from the origins of the archipelago’s first peoples until modern times. The Philippines is possibly the most intriguing nation of maritime Southeast Asia....
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Horrible—history from the perspective of colonizers
- De Ericka Black en 06-29-23
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The Battle of Long Tan
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: David Tredinnick
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle....
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Headwinds
- De C. W. N. en 12-26-22
De: Peter FitzSimons
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Dragon's Jaw
- An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam
- De: Stephen Coonts, Barrett Tillman
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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A riveting Vietnam War story - and one of the most dramatic in aviation history - told by a New York Times best-selling author and a prominent aviation historian....
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At some point the political commentary is exhausting
- De Tyler White en 06-07-19
De: Stephen Coonts, y otros
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History of Southeast Asia
- A Captivating Guide to the History of a Vast Region Containing Countries Such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, and More
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
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This audiobook covers ancient Southeast Asia, the mid-period, colonialism, World War Two occupation by the Japanese, the aftermath of the war, and the subsequent revolutions. The history of this region is a riveting story full of all manner of plot twists and developments....
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not a history of Asia
- De Levinia en 08-04-21
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Indestructible
- One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
- De: John R. Bruning
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times best-selling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family - imprisoned by the Japanese - and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way....
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You will love Pappy's story
- De A. L. DeWitt en 11-15-16
De: John R. Bruning