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Bestsellers
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Midnight in Moscow
- A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
- By: John J. Sullivan, General Jim Mattis
- Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.
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Honest, very thoughttfully written and well-narrated memoir
- By Victor on 08-17-24
By: John J. Sullivan, and others
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: David E. Sanger, and others
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One Jewish State
- The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- By: David Friedman
- Narrated by: Harvey Wallmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the leading architects of the historic Abraham Accords, David Friedman explains why in these turbulent and dangerous times, the simple phrase of three words—ONE JEWISH STATE—must be the guideline for Israel and the world’s collective future.
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Novel idea
- By Exacting Buyer on 09-21-24
By: David Friedman
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- By Sherry on 06-19-17
By: Tim Marshall
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 46 hrs
- Unabridged
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Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil.
By: Daniel Yergin
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Bob Jamieson
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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The Prize is as much a history of the 20th-century as of the oil industry itself....
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major let down
- By Randol on 06-18-10
By: Daniel Yergin
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Midnight in Moscow
- A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
- By: John J. Sullivan, General Jim Mattis
- Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.
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Honest, very thoughttfully written and well-narrated memoir
- By Victor on 08-17-24
By: John J. Sullivan, and others
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: David E. Sanger, and others
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One Jewish State
- The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- By: David Friedman
- Narrated by: Harvey Wallmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the leading architects of the historic Abraham Accords, David Friedman explains why in these turbulent and dangerous times, the simple phrase of three words—ONE JEWISH STATE—must be the guideline for Israel and the world’s collective future.
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Novel idea
- By Exacting Buyer on 09-21-24
By: David Friedman
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- By Sherry on 06-19-17
By: Tim Marshall
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 46 hrs
- Unabridged
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Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil.
By: Daniel Yergin
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Bob Jamieson
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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The Prize is as much a history of the 20th-century as of the oil industry itself....
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major let down
- By Randol on 06-18-10
By: Daniel Yergin
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World Order
- By: Henry Kissinger
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the 21st century....
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More retrospective than future oriented
- By Scott on 10-23-14
By: Henry Kissinger
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How States Think
- The Rationality of Foreign Policy
- By: John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally....
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2hours of content crammed into 8 hours of listening
- By Al from Virginia on 02-04-24
By: John J. Mearsheimer, and others
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On China
- By: Henry Kissinger
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
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In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....
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Another History of China
- By Elton on 09-23-11
By: Henry Kissinger
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No Higher Honor
- A Memoir of My Years in Washington
- By: Condoleezza Rice
- Narrated by: Condoleezza Rice
- Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the civil rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Condoleezza Rice first distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign....
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A Disarming Memoir
- By Lynn on 03-19-12
By: Condoleezza Rice
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The War That Ended Peace
- The Road to 1914
- By: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I....
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Detailed review of 1882 to 1914
- By smarmer on 04-06-14
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The Back Channel
- A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
- By: William J. Burns
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, William J. Burns
- Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time. Here, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career....
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A Definitive look at Diplomacy
- By Jean on 07-19-19
By: William J. Burns
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The Education of an Idealist
- A Memoir
- By: Samantha Power
- Narrated by: Samantha Power
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives....
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Sam's Power: Privilege in U.S. Politics
- By RelizzScholar27 on 11-09-19
By: Samantha Power
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Lawrence in Arabia
- War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history - the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East....
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A Comprehensive, Compelling Biography
- By Lester Gesteland on 10-05-20
By: Scott Anderson
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Franklin and Winston
- An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
- By: Jon Meacham
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II.
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Franklin and Winston Review
- By Ronald Hull on 01-29-04
By: Jon Meacham
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War Without Rules
- China's Playbook for Global Domination
- By: Gen. Robert Spalding
- Narrated by: David Bryson, Brett Boles
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook.
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Bombshell revelations!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-14-22
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The Perfect Weapon
- War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
- By: David E. Sanger
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb....
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mix of information and propaganda
- By Inthego on 06-14-19
By: David E. Sanger
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Stealth War
- How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
- By: Robert Spalding
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West....
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A General with a backbone loaded with truth "woke"
- By Jason on 10-01-19
By: Robert Spalding
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John Quincy Adams
- Militant Spirit
- By: James Traub
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 25 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise yet dedicated himself to politics and government....
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Best narrator of all the audio books I've listened
- By grimm79 on 12-12-17
By: James Traub
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The Modern Mercenary
- Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order
- By: Sean McFate
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide....
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More of a political treatise than insight ...
- By Clayton on 05-07-15
By: Sean McFate
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Seward
- Lincoln's Indispensable Man
- By: Walter Stahr
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of our most acclaimed new biographers - the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s "team of rivals" to appear in more than 40 years....
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I Wish Doris Kearns Goodwin Had Written This
- By AR on 06-21-15
By: Walter Stahr
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Has China Won?
- The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
- By: Kishore Mahbubani
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable....
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Outstanding, timely, and prescient
- By William J Brown on 04-19-20
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Breaking History
- A White House Memoir
- By: Jared Kushner
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Jared Kushner
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Jared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened behind closed doors during the Trump presidency....
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Proud Conservative female
- By Not who you think on 08-25-22
By: Jared Kushner
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- By: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....
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One of the Best books this year!
- By Nazir on 05-26-22
By: Scott Carney, and others
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Adults in the Room
- My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
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Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....
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Very interesting but listen with caution.
- By Dimitris on 10-08-19
By: Yanis Varoufakis
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The Blood Telegram
- Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
- By: Gary J. Bass
- Narrated by: Dennis Heath
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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This magnificent history provides the first full account of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s secret support for Pakistan in 1971 as it committed shocking atrocities in Bangladesh.
By: Gary J. Bass
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The Hopkins Touch
- By: David Roll
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
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The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration....
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Hopkins - the glue of the tripartite coalition
- By Chrissie on 05-19-13
By: David Roll
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Sledgehammer
- How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East
- By: David Friedman
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Trump administration’s peace agreements in the Middle East were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment in decades. Now, for the first time, his ambassador to Israel explains how they pulled it off....
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A must read regarding Israel
- By Joseph Barello on 06-24-24
By: David Friedman
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
- By: Christopher Hitchens, Ariel Dorfman - introduction
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi. America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war criminal....
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We need more people like Christopher Hitchens
- By Bruce on 10-13-12
By: Christopher Hitchens, and others
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Appeasement
- Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
- By: Tim Bouverie
- Narrated by: John Sessions
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time"....
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I cannot tolerate the narrator
- By DrBCFR on 06-05-19
By: Tim Bouverie