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As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Triple poorly performed
- By Jpop on 03-13-21
By: Ken Follett
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The Caine Mutiny
- By: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,062
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,664
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,656
Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century, this gripping story has become a perennial favorite, selling millions throughout the world, and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even Better than the Movie
- By James on 06-20-12
By: Herman Wouk
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The Unlikely Spy
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,253
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,645
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“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable - a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Unlikely Spy
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Welcome to the Monkey House
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- Narrated by: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, and others
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Classic Vonnegut
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By: Kurt Vonnegut
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 194
This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At least one chapter missing
- By Sviatoslav on 08-17-15
By: Evelyn Waugh
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Hawke: Three Black Ops
- Alex Hawke Series
- By: Ted Bell
- Narrated by: John Shea
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 223
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4 out of 5 stars 202
This set includes Crash Dive, What Comes Around, and White Death, three Alex Hawke novellas never available before on audio. In Crash Dive, Alex Hawke is on a highly covert mission to enter another nation’s airspace undetected and find a way to avert a global war. In What Comes Around, two CIA officers are found dead. Hawke discovers that the victims are connected through one man: Spider Payne, a rogue intelligence officer. In White Death, M16 suspects a bizarre conspiracy when two bankers are found dead, and vast sums are plundered from the Queen of England’s accounts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Scam
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-18
By: Ted Bell
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Winter in Madrid
- By: C. J. Sansom
- Narrated by: Gordon Gordon
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 172
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4 out of 5 stars 116
Winter in Madrid is set just after the bloody Spanish Civil War, with World War II looming over Europe. Reluctantly, Harry Brett looks for an old schoolmate who's become a person of interest for British intelligence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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realistic characters in historical context
- By Annie on 10-04-09
By: C. J. Sansom
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Daughters of Eden
- By: Charlotte Bingham
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at Eden Park is a surprise, not least to them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book everyone should read.
- By XX on 09-11-05
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- By: Sloan Wilson
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everything going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race - what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great read/listen
- By BBJ on 09-26-16
By: Sloan Wilson
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The Hunters
- A Novel
- By: James Salter
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 87
Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational F-86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enough kills to become an ace. But things do not turn out as expected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Hunters
- By Nicholas on 10-25-15
By: James Salter
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A Perfect Spy
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,039
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,031
Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend - and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father's death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad moustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus? In A Perfect Spy, John le Carré has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remembrances of loyalties past
- By Darwin8u on 04-13-13
By: John le Carré
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A Special Providence
- By: Richard Yates
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape his mother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part, struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreams of prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off to fight in Europe, hoping to become his own man, Richard Yates portrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to his heroic ideals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dark
- By Barbara or Jerold Gendler on 11-30-22
By: Richard Yates
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Goodnight from London
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Robson
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 847
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 752
In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Light story
- By Bev Holdgate on 08-10-17
By: Jennifer Robson
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good explanaing of Judism
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I wanted the next adventure of Herbie Bookbinder!
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It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster - of a sort peculiar to the tropics - ensue.)
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Silly but Charming. Funny, Smart and Memorable.
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Sailor and Fiddler
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A pleasant bow to all of us
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Unlistenable
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Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon - the towering novel of the 20th century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies - the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus - one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
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Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point.... Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter - until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!
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At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions tested as they fight against a threat even more dangerous than Hitler.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Legendary author
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The Lawgiver
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At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father’s strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business. Two other key characters in the novel are Herman Wouk himself and his wife of more than 60 years, Betty Sarah, who, almost against their will, find themselves entangled in the Moses movie .
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OMG, Herman Wouk is still brilliant at 97!!
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Oversimplification of Middle East problems
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Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener's magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America's past, the story of Colorado - the Centennial State - is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country; and the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe.
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One Credit, 14 Great Books
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-19-16
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- Dave
- 01-30-14
A book that delivers though goes too far at times
What did you love best about The Winds of War?
The story links many different sections very well though at times it does seem a little too compartmentalized. But the author does an excellent job of moving this family through so many interesting historical times while providing some emotional links at times.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Winds of War?
The description of the bombing of Poland and the hardships endured in that country were well articulated and really made me emphasize with the characters. The pre-war assignment of Germany was an enlightening prelude to the war.
Which character – as performed by Kevin Pariseau – was your favorite?
Byron becomes the darling of most of the story as the son that stumbles into fortune and misery while maintaining a certain amount of stubbornness and aloofness.
Who was the most memorable character of The Winds of War and why?
Pug is the most memorable character though at times Pug's adventures go over the top. His flight from England with British Air force was borderline ridiculous. He is all business with a few drops of emotion.
Any additional comments?
I was not sure how a book of this length would appeal to me via audio, but it really was well-done. Worth a listen to for any "historical" (not that long ago) fiction fan.
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- A. S.
- 03-15-19
Entertaining and educational
Excellent all around. Marvelously organized and never for one minute dragged. I’m a pretty good student of the having read Churchill’s History and several regarding Roosevelt and Washington during war time. This book brought a lot of that to life.
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- Cindy King
- 03-27-15
great
educational and entertaining at the same time
highly recommend
enjoyed it was a fun way to learn history
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- 2Scotts
- 09-05-16
Did not disappoint !
A masterpiece written by Herman Wouk. The characters were well written and addicting. You felt you were part of the story. Additionally, the narration by Kevin Pariseau was magnificent. Excellent all the way round.
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- rurhann1776
- 10-10-19
pure excellence
an amazing story, had a hard time putting the headphones down. definitely worth the listen. well narrated and riveting
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- Qualityfinder
- 03-24-21
A complete immersive experience.
Recommended by my father, I found myself pleasantly surprised. this small series is going to be one I remember forever.
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- betty pfaffl
- 04-16-21
Outstanding
This was one of the most informative and entertaining books I have read in a long time
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- So Cal Photo
- 06-01-21
Superb
After enjoying Caine Mutiny so much, I decided to give this epic novel a try. 32+ hours seemed like it would be daunting, but it flew by!
I must comment on the narration, it was absolutely superb!
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- Randall
- 05-29-21
Love this author
The Winds of War, is only my third book by this author, but I am
looking forward to listening to War and Remembrance next.
I hope to find more of his gems.
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- Ben Vella
- 04-16-18
Engrossing start to finish
Wow, what a fantastic sweeping epic. Something so Long kept me enthralled for the many hours it ran. Educating and entertaining in equal measure. Beautifully written and performed.
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