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Bestsellers
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1961, this worldwide bestselling classic chronicles the most infamous era of our times.
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Held my interest for 57 hours and 13 minutes
- By Jonnie on 11-08-10
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- By: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....
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A classic of history books
- By Benedict on 04-04-09
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The Crusades
- The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
- By: Thomas Asbridge
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages....
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Comprehensive
- By Tad Davis on 10-04-16
By: Thomas Asbridge
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- By: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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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...
- By Andrew lester on 06-07-20
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Nazi Wives
- The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
- By: James Wyllie
- Narrated by: Dalya Raphael
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle....
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Scary
- By Three River on 05-15-21
By: James Wyllie
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Shadow Divers
- The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast....
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GRIPPING!
- By Douglas on 07-03-04
By: Robert Kurson
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1961, this worldwide bestselling classic chronicles the most infamous era of our times.
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Held my interest for 57 hours and 13 minutes
- By Jonnie on 11-08-10
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- By: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....
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A classic of history books
- By Benedict on 04-04-09
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The Crusades
- The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
- By: Thomas Asbridge
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages....
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Comprehensive
- By Tad Davis on 10-04-16
By: Thomas Asbridge
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- By: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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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...
- By Andrew lester on 06-07-20
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Nazi Wives
- The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
- By: James Wyllie
- Narrated by: Dalya Raphael
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle....
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Scary
- By Three River on 05-15-21
By: James Wyllie
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Shadow Divers
- The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast....
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GRIPPING!
- By Douglas on 07-03-04
By: Robert Kurson
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Blitzed
- Drugs in the Third Reich
- By: Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs....
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The best "Gotterdammerung" book I have ever read.
- By James Carl Barsz, MD on 05-06-17
By: Norman Ohler, and others
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The Storm of Steel
- By: Ernst Jünger
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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This classic war memoir, first published in 1920, is based on the author's extensive diaries describing hard combat experienced on the Western Front during World War I.....
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Horror and randomness of war
- By 9S on 12-26-14
By: Ernst Jünger
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Hitler
- A Biography
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
- Length: 46 hrs and 15 mins
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Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness....
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An Excellent Read
- By Rodney on 09-19-13
By: Ian Kershaw
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The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
- Modern War Studies
- By: Robert M. Citino
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 25 hrs and 59 mins
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By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation?
By: Robert M. Citino
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Tunnel 29
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
- By: Helena Merriman
- Narrated by: Helena Merriman
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children - all willing to risk everything to escape....
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Gripping
- By Matthew on 09-09-21
By: Helena Merriman
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918–1933
- By: Frank McDonough
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature....
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An excellent history of the time period
- By Jackie Renee Johnson on 04-02-24
By: Frank McDonough
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Iron and Blood
- A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 34 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative....
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Awesome
- By Will Georgiadis on 04-11-23
By: Peter H. Wilson
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The Habsburgs
- To Rule the World
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: Simon Boughey
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall....
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An Excellent and Interesting History
- By Darrel Bishop on 09-14-20
By: Martyn Rady
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Magnificent Rebels
- The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we first ask the question, how can I be free? It all began in the 1790s in a quiet university town in Germany....
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fascinating overall, too much drama
- By soup cook on 11-27-22
By: Andrea Wulf
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The German War
- A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945; Citizens and Soldiers
- By: Nicholas Stargardt
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A major new history of the Third Reich that explores the German psyche....
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Great read for history buffs
- By marykk on 05-12-16
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To Besiege a City
- Leningrad 1941–42
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
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A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material, To Besiege a City is a ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges....
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Outstanding
- By E. Ronakov on 09-30-23
By: Prit Buttar
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Bernard Cornwell, Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment from Napoleon's daring escape from Elba....
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Not a close run thing!
- By carl801 on 05-13-15
By: Bernard Cornwell
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The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a war correspondent for six years in Nazi Germany, having a front-row seat to Hitler’s rise in influence and power....
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Shirer and Gardner--perfect together!
- By CD318 on 07-08-20
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- By: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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Excellent
- By James on 03-30-18
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The Bohemians
- The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
- By: Norman Ohler
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet—and one of history’s greatest conspiracies is born....
By: Norman Ohler
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The Stalin Affair
- The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
- By: Giles Milton
- Narrated by: Giles Milton
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin’s mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy during four turbulent years of World War II.
By: Giles Milton
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- By: Adam Tooze
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
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An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period....
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Ties the story together in an amazing way
- By Philo on 08-23-21
By: Adam Tooze
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Berlin Diary
- The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934–1941
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s...
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The Real Rise and Fall
- By Robert on 02-26-14
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Operation Typhoon
- Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
- By: David Stahel
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged.
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Another Great Raed
- By Anonymous User on 08-29-24
By: David Stahel
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The Battle for Moscow
- By: David Stahel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter.
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Classic Stahel
- By abulbulian on 06-15-24
By: David Stahel
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- By: Adam Fergusson
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....
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Useless details, missing the big points
- By Jean Le Lupi on 07-04-12
By: Adam Fergusson
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The Third Reich in Power
- By: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
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The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....
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Great book, annoying narrator
- By Maria on 08-14-10
By: Richard J. Evans
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Normandy '44
- D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries....
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Excellent account of Normandy but be weary...
- By S. H. Moore on 02-22-20
By: James Holland
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- By: Harald Jähner
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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Blending researched political history with the firsthand experiences of everyday people, Vertigo is he dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil.
By: Harald Jähner
New releases
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- By: Harald Jähner
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future.
By: Harald Jähner
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The Stalin Affair
- The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
- By: Giles Milton
- Narrated by: Giles Milton
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Enter Averell Harriman: a railroad magnate and, at the start of the war, the fourth-richest man in America. At Roosevelt’s behest, he traveled to Britain to serve as a liaison between the president and Churchill and to spearhead what became known as the Harriman Mission. Together with his fashionable young daughter Kathy, an unforgettable cast of British diplomats, and Churchill himself, he would eventually manage to wrangle Stalin into the partnership the Allies needed to defeat Hitler.
By: Giles Milton
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The Berlin Airlift
- The Cold War Mission to Save a City
- By: John Tusa, Ann Tusa, Sir Michael Burton - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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With strong insight into the characters of Ernest Bevin, General Clay, Dean Acheson, and Robert Schumann, and now with a foreword by former British minister to Berlin Sir Michael Burton, this a story of individual heroism and high brinkmanship politics, of daily life under appalling circumstances, and great achievements against all odds.
By: John Tusa, and others
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Hero City
- Leningrad 1943–44
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege. Prit Buttar tells the story of how the siege was finally broken. The Red Army had suffered multiple setbacks in the preceding two years but achieved a partial success by breaking the blockage in early 1943. However, this was followed by further failed attempts to lift the siege completely. This compelling history uses original Russian source material to vividly describe the deprivations visited upon those trapped. But it also details the tactical successes and strategic failures of both sides.
By: Prit Buttar
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The Hitler Youth
- How Germany Indoctrinated a New Generation
- By: Julian Flanders
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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To secure the future of the Nazi party, Hitler needed to create a generation of young Germans steeped in Nazi ideology, physically fit and ready to fight and die for their country. The result was the Hitler Youth, founded in 1922, which by war-time constituted the single most successful mass movement in the Third Reich and comprised many of its most committed Nazis.
By: Julian Flanders
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Sind Sie stolz, Deutsche zu sein?
- Ein neues Bild, für ein entspanntes Miteinander der Kulturen
- By: Johanna Grünhagen
- Narrated by: Johanna Grünhagen
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Sind Sie stolz, Deutsche zu sein? Damit wir diese Frage mit guten Gewissen und weltoffen mit "Ja!" beantworten können, hat Johanna Grünhagen Ihr Buch geschrieben. Auf der Suche nach der eigenen Identität stieß die Autorin in ihrer Familiengeschichte auf das schwere Erbe der NS-Zeit und erkannte, wie sehr diese Zeit auch ihr Leben geprägt hat. Um nicht in dem Gefühl der Schuld aus der Vergangenheit stecken zu bleiben, hat Sie für sich und alle Deutschen nach einem Weg heraus aus dieser Lähmung gesucht.
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- By: Harald Jähner
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future.
By: Harald Jähner
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The Stalin Affair
- The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
- By: Giles Milton
- Narrated by: Giles Milton
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Enter Averell Harriman: a railroad magnate and, at the start of the war, the fourth-richest man in America. At Roosevelt’s behest, he traveled to Britain to serve as a liaison between the president and Churchill and to spearhead what became known as the Harriman Mission. Together with his fashionable young daughter Kathy, an unforgettable cast of British diplomats, and Churchill himself, he would eventually manage to wrangle Stalin into the partnership the Allies needed to defeat Hitler.
By: Giles Milton
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The Berlin Airlift
- The Cold War Mission to Save a City
- By: John Tusa, Ann Tusa, Sir Michael Burton - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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With strong insight into the characters of Ernest Bevin, General Clay, Dean Acheson, and Robert Schumann, and now with a foreword by former British minister to Berlin Sir Michael Burton, this a story of individual heroism and high brinkmanship politics, of daily life under appalling circumstances, and great achievements against all odds.
By: John Tusa, and others
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Hero City
- Leningrad 1943–44
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege. Prit Buttar tells the story of how the siege was finally broken. The Red Army had suffered multiple setbacks in the preceding two years but achieved a partial success by breaking the blockage in early 1943. However, this was followed by further failed attempts to lift the siege completely. This compelling history uses original Russian source material to vividly describe the deprivations visited upon those trapped. But it also details the tactical successes and strategic failures of both sides.
By: Prit Buttar
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The Hitler Youth
- How Germany Indoctrinated a New Generation
- By: Julian Flanders
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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To secure the future of the Nazi party, Hitler needed to create a generation of young Germans steeped in Nazi ideology, physically fit and ready to fight and die for their country. The result was the Hitler Youth, founded in 1922, which by war-time constituted the single most successful mass movement in the Third Reich and comprised many of its most committed Nazis.
By: Julian Flanders
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Sind Sie stolz, Deutsche zu sein?
- Ein neues Bild, für ein entspanntes Miteinander der Kulturen
- By: Johanna Grünhagen
- Narrated by: Johanna Grünhagen
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Sind Sie stolz, Deutsche zu sein? Damit wir diese Frage mit guten Gewissen und weltoffen mit "Ja!" beantworten können, hat Johanna Grünhagen Ihr Buch geschrieben. Auf der Suche nach der eigenen Identität stieß die Autorin in ihrer Familiengeschichte auf das schwere Erbe der NS-Zeit und erkannte, wie sehr diese Zeit auch ihr Leben geprägt hat. Um nicht in dem Gefühl der Schuld aus der Vergangenheit stecken zu bleiben, hat Sie für sich und alle Deutschen nach einem Weg heraus aus dieser Lähmung gesucht.