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Fighting Back is the story of Stan Andrews, an assimilated American Jew and World War II veteran who became one of the first fighter pilots in the history of the Israeli Air Force.
In 1948, Stan Andrews left a comfortable postwar life in Los Angeles to travel to the war-torn Middle East, where a four-front Arab invasion threatened to destroy the newly-declared State of Israel. There he joined the Israeli Air Force and became one of its first fighter pilots.
Andrews was an unexpected volunteer for the fight for a Jewish state. He was many things—an artist, writer, assimilated Jew, ladies' man, pilot, and combat veteran of the Pacific War. He had previously been aloof from the struggle for Jewish independence but found himself so roused by the anti-Semitism of 1940s America that he decided to go to Israel and risk everything. Stan made the most of his time in Israel, serving in fighter and bomber squadrons and leaving his mark on an Israeli Air Force that has since become the stuff of legend.
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In 1940 Pearl Harbor had not yet happened, and America was not yet at war with Japan. But China had been trying to stave off Japanese aggression for three years - and was desperate for aircraft and trained combat pilots. General Chiang Kai-shek sent military aviation advisor Claire Chennault to Washington, where President Roosevelt was sympathetic but knew he could not intervene overtly. Instead he quietly helped Chennault put together a group of American volunteer pilots.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Well Written Historical Perspective
- De Donald Hill en 11-21-17
De: Bill Yenne
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Hit the Target
- Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe
- De: Bill Yenne
- Narrado por: Corey M. Snow
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Army formed its first air force designated to operate overseas, the Eighth. Within four months they had set up base in England. Three months later they were bombing German targets in occupied Europe. The Eighth was the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing. It was a major change in tactics - and the men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and blood.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of history, kinda boring.
- De Annie en 11-12-23
De: Bill Yenne
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LeMay
- De: Warren Kozak
- Narrado por: Grainger Hines
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 195
The firebombing of Tokyo. Strategic Air Command. John F. Kennedy. Dr. Strangelove. George Wallace. All of these have one man in common—General Curtis LeMay, who remains as enigmatic and controversial as he was in life. Until now. Warren Kozak traces the trajectory of America’s most infamous general, from his troubled background and heroic service in Europe to his firebombing of Tokyo, guardianship of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in the Cold War, frustrated career in government, and short-lived political run.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definition.....Leader.....General Curtis Le May
- De Nj-Mike en 01-04-15
De: Warren Kozak
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The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- De: Sam Kleiner
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 446
Sam Kleiner’s The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the group of young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending China. Led by legendary army pilot Claire Chennault, these men left behind an America still at peace in the summer of 1941 using false identities to travel across the Pacific to a run-down airbase in the jungles of Burma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This really happened.
- De Jason en 07-26-20
De: Sam Kleiner
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The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot
- The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom
- De: Blaine Harden
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times best-selling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception - and escape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Jfm en 08-09-15
De: Blaine Harden
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Vanished Hero
- The Life, War and Mysterious Disappearance of America’s WWII Strafing King
- De: Jay A. Stout
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most unknown, yet compelling, colorful, and controversial commanders of World War II. Arriving late to the war, he led the England-based 55th Fighter Group against the Nazis during the closing months of the fight with a no-holds-barred aggressiveness that transformed the group from a middling organization of no reputation into a headline-grabbing team that had to make excuses to no one. Indeed, Righetti's boldness paid off as he quickly achieved ace status.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Performance for a Great Story!
- De Carter L. en 11-03-17
De: Jay A. Stout
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Terror of the Autumn Skies
- The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I
- De: Blaine Pardoe
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
Frank Luke, Jr., was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still "knights of the air", Luke was an ungallant loner, a kid from Arizona who collected tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners. But during two torrid weeks in September 1918, he was the deadliest man on the Western Front. In only 10 missions, he destroyed 14 heavily defended German balloons and four airplanes, a rampage unequalled even by the dreaded von Richtofen, and the second highest American tally of the entire war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Terror of the Autumn skies
- De K. Nelson en 11-25-19
De: Blaine Pardoe
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Above and Beyond
- De: Casey Sherman
- Narrado por: Maxwell Hamilton
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
From the authors of the best-selling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the strategic wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the U-2 aerial spy program. On October 27, 1962, Kennedy, strained from back pain, sleeplessness, and days of impossible tension, was briefed about a missing spy plane.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator’s mispronunciations detracted from the story
- De Stephen E. Smith en 08-01-18
De: Casey Sherman
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The Women Who Flew for Hitler
- A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry
- De: Clare Mulley
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could not have been more different, and neither woman had a good word to say for the other.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Vividly Told Duel Biography
- De Jean en 09-11-17
De: Clare Mulley
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The Forgotten 500
- De: Gregory A. Freeman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,852
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,391
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,396
Here is the astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II: when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines. During a bombing campaign, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers, and for months the airmen lived in hiding, waiting for rescue.
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4 out of 5 stars
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an amazing tale
- De Ron en 10-28-07
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Operation Columba - The Secret Pigeon Service
- The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of the Operation Columba and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. A tale of wartime espionage, bitter rivalries, extraordinary courage, astonishing betrayal, harrowing tragedy, and a quirky, quarrelsome band of spy masters and their special mission, Operation Columba opens a fascinating new chapter in the annals of World War II. It is ultimately, the story of how, in one of the darkest and most dangerous times in history, under threat of death, people bravely chose to resist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Belgium Pigeon
- De Don Rottiers en 08-10-21
De: Gordon Corera
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The Book of Honor
- The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives
- De: Ted Gup
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall in to which seventy-one stars are carved - each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. At the base of this wall lies "The Book of Honor," in which the names of these agents are inscribed, or at least thirty-five of them... In this remarkable program, author Ted Gup delves into covert lives and classified deaths at the CIA.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Painfully narrated.
- De RM en 08-16-19
De: Ted Gup
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The German Aces Speak
- World War II Through the Eyes of Four of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
- De: Anne-Marie Lewis, Jon Guttman, Brigadier General Robin Olds USAF - Ret., y otros
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 694
Few perspectives epitomize the sheer drama and sacrifice of combat more perfectly than those of the fighter pilots of World War II. As romanticized as any soldier in history, the World War II fighter pilot was viewed as larger than life: a dashing soul waging war amongst the clouds. In the 65-plus years since the Allied victory, stories of these pilots' heroics have never been in short supply. But what about their adversaries - the highly skilled German aviators who pushed the Allies to the very brink of defeat?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what I hoped for
- De Michael Jacobi en 09-01-20
De: Anne-Marie Lewis, y otros
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The Unsubstantial Air
- American Fliers in the First World War
- De: Samuel Hynes
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the voices of the aviators themselves. A World War II pilot himself, the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes revives the adventurous young men who inspired his own generation to take to the sky.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great info poorly arranged
- De Joseph P. en 05-22-15
De: Samuel Hynes
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Cold War Navy SEAL
- My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa
- De: James M. Hawes, Mary Ann Koenig
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet- and Chinese-backed rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government. He knew the United States must preserve deniability, so he would be abandoned in any life-threatening situation; he did not know that Che Guevara was attempting to export his revolution a few miles away. Cold War Navy SEAL gives unprecedented insight into a clandestine chapter in US history through the experiences of Hawes, a distinguished Navy frogman and later a CIA contractor. His journey began as an officer in the newly-formed SEAL Team 2, where Hawes commanded boats in the CIA's series of covert, hit-and-run raids into North Vietnam. Those raids directly instigated the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Anthony Infantolino en 05-31-23
De: James M. Hawes, y otros
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The Brilliant Disaster
- JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba
- De: Jim Rasenberger
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in 1961 remains one of the most ill-fated blunders in American history, with echoes of the event reverberating even today. Despite the Kennedy administration’s initial public insistence that the United States had nothing to do with the invasion, it soon became clear that the complex operation had been planned and approved by the best and brightest minds at the highest reaches of Washington, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President John F. Kennedy himself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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US Government Perspective
- De Kindle Customer en 05-25-11
De: Jim Rasenberger
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Double Ace
- The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales
- De: Robert Coram
- Narrado por: Barry Press
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Robert Lee Scott was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia, with an oversize personality used dogged determination to achieve his childhood dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. First capturing national attention during World War II, Scott, a West Point graduate, flew missions in China alongside the legendary "Flying Tigers", where his reckless courage and victories against the enemy made headlines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tiger Fan
- De Robert M. en 12-23-17
De: Robert Coram
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The Millionaires' Unit
- De: Marc Wortman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockerfeller; the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad; several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards, they were prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in France.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard story to get into.
- De Craig Walker en 01-14-15
De: Marc Wortman
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