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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- De: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....
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An American Tragedy
- De Edith en 12-13-07
De: Kai Bird, y otros
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- De NH en 03-21-19
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Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- De: Liz Cheney
- Narrado por: Liz Cheney
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution....
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Most important book I've ever read.
- De James m Finamore jr en 12-07-23
De: Liz Cheney
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The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 30 h y 39 m
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Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history....
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Tedious
- De Jim Redding en 06-14-16
De: Max Hastings
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 21 h y 30 m
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- De Henrik en 04-20-07
De: Walter Isaacson
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- De: Ray Dalio
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- De Dudley en 01-04-22
De: Ray Dalio
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- De: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....
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An American Tragedy
- De Edith en 12-13-07
De: Kai Bird, y otros
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- De NH en 03-21-19
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Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- De: Liz Cheney
- Narrado por: Liz Cheney
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution....
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Most important book I've ever read.
- De James m Finamore jr en 12-07-23
De: Liz Cheney
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The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 30 h y 39 m
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Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history....
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Tedious
- De Jim Redding en 06-14-16
De: Max Hastings
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 21 h y 30 m
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- De Henrik en 04-20-07
De: Walter Isaacson
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- De: Ray Dalio
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes....
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- De Dudley en 01-04-22
De: Ray Dalio
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- De: Ben Macintyre
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....
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John Lee is GREAT!
- De David en 09-21-18
De: Ben Macintyre
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Hitler's Forgotten Children
- A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity
- De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2. Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children....
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Interesting story.
- De Brad Bowles en 04-08-16
De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, y otros
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power....
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I loved it ... and hated it ... simultaneously
- De History en 11-21-11
De: Erik Larson
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Bonhoeffer
- Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
- De: Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner, Eric Metaxas
- Duración: 23 h y 23 m
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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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Mandatory Reading
- De cmb en 03-10-20
De: Eric Metaxas, y otros
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
- Duración: 25 h y 17 m
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century....
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What an epic story what great men
- De Michael en 02-12-14
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The Guns of August
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 19 h y 9 m
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
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Wonderful
- De Mike From Mesa en 10-28-08
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- De: Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Narrado por: Tovah Feldshuh
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients....
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One Of The Most Powerful Books I Have Read in My Lifetime!
- De R. F. Wood en 05-11-18
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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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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future....
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Disappointing
- De Noah Lugeons en 09-11-18
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- De: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 33 h y 25 m
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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Best Single-Volume History of the 30 Years' War
- De Amazon Customer en 10-09-23
De: Peter H. Wilson
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American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- De: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell....
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Tremendously Enlightening, could not put it down
- De T. Edwards en 01-09-12
De: Chris Kyle, y otros
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- De: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrado por: Kevin Gallagher
- Duración: 10 h
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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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could've done without the afterword...
- De Andrew lester en 06-07-20
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- De: Eddie Jaku
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
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In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life....
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Everyone needs to listen to this amazing man
- De Christan Derryberry en 05-12-21
De: Eddie Jaku
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- De Sara en 03-05-16
De: Erik Larson
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Empires of the Sky
- Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
- De: Alexander Rose
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 22 h y 43 m
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The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky—a story that ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg....
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Actually, a One-Sided Story
- De JP en 08-03-20
De: Alexander Rose
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Israel
- A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
- De: Daniel Gordis
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 16 h y 19 m
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Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's attention, aroused its imagination, and, lately, been the object of its opprobrium....
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Excellent, mildly but honestly biased, terrible narration
- De Schaq en 04-01-17
De: Daniel Gordis
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Legacy of Ashes
- The History of the CIA
- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
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This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders....
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Flawed but Important
- De Michael en 07-18-08
De: Tim Weiner
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 41 h y 9 m
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....
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A political as well as military history
- De Mike From Mesa en 07-30-15
De: John Toland
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Blind Man's Bluff
- The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
- De: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
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Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables....
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best Cold War documentary...
- De Kojoukhinator Sr. en 11-15-17
De: Sherry Sontag, y otros
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The Story of World War II
- De: Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 24 h y 52 m
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Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published....
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INCREDIBLE! WELL-RESEARCHED, COMPLETE & UNBIASED!
- De The Louligan en 07-15-14
De: Donald L. Miller, y otros
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Night of the Assassins
- The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
- De: Howard Blum
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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The year is 1943, and the three Allied leaders - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting, and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide....
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Very inaccurate background.
- De Anna Goforth en 04-19-22
De: Howard Blum
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Autocracy, Inc.
- The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Anne Applebaum
- Duración: 7 h
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From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them.
De: Anne Applebaum
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds....
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Colorful anecdotes but tiring after a while.
- De reader en 05-03-23
De: Simon Winchester
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe
- The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
- De: Jeffrey Veidlinger
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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From an award-winning historian, the first full depiction of the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution and how they laid the groundwork for the Holocaust....
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Very Dense and Informative
- De J.Brock en 10-06-22