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Blood of Revolution
- From the Reign of Terror to the Arab Spring
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Erik Durschmied's Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Arab Spring chronicles the progression of history's most infamous political upheavals. In particular, Durschmeid emphasizes the way in which these revolutions were often co-opted or perverted by extraneous special interest groups - many times with disastrous and bloody consequences. Mark Ashby's performance is both meticulous and thrilling. He illustrates the gravity of these real-life events with understated poise, relaying the facts while still bring to life some of the firsthand accounts uncovered by Durschmied.
Resumen del Editor
What do revolutions - almost always made in the name of freedom - really change? In this engaging survey, Durschmied looks at major revolts, upheavals, and revolutions over the last 200 years, describing and enriching our understanding of each of these historic and dramatic events. Using historical texts and eyewitness accounts, he analyzes the French, Mexican, and Russian revolutions; the 1919 Germany uprising and the failed putsch against Hitler in 1944; Japan's longest day during the abolishment of the emperor cult; the Cuban Revolution; and finally the Iranian Revolution that ousted the Shah in 1979. Each revolution has its own dynamic and fascinating cast of characters, but all too often, as this well-researched work shows, the end result is the same: mayhem, betrayal, glory, and death.
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The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution, and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions?
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4 out of 5 stars
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The 20th Century's New Weird History
- De Darwin8u en 08-12-17
De: China Mieville
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A Savage War of Peace
- Algeria 1954-1962
- De: Alistair Horne
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 29 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 405
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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It caused the fall of six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict, and as many European settlers were driven into exile. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history of France's Viet Nam
- De David en 04-10-16
De: Alistair Horne
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Ten Days that Shook the World
- Russia - 1917
- De: John Reed
- Narrado por: Jack Hrkach
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Experience a thrilling, comprehensive account of the Bolshevik seizure of power during the Russian Revolution - an event which ended czarist rule, led to the rise of Communism, and changed the shape of the 20th Century. Reed, a journalist who witnessed the Bolshevik takeover during ten precarious days in 1917, provides thorough background information and firsthand reporting.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A lovingly detailed, but biased account
- De Gary Z en 09-16-03
De: John Reed
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The Bridge at Andau
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future - until, at four o’clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of Budapest awoke to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution was over. But freedom beckoned in the form of a small footbridge at Andau, on the Austrian border. By an accident of history, it became, for a few harrowing weeks, one of the most important crossings in the world, as the soul of a nation fled across its unsteady planks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every American should read this book.
- De Ivie D. en 07-26-20
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1944
- FDR and the Year That Changed History
- De: Jay Winik
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 276
New York Times best-selling author Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put more pressure than any other on an ailing yet determined President Roosevelt.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Stimulating
- De Jean en 11-14-15
De: Jay Winik
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To End All Wars
- A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of personalities
- De Tad Davis en 06-09-11
De: Adam Hochschild
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Midnight's Furies
- The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
- De: Nisid Hajari
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 240
Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's protégé and the political leader of India, believed that Indians were an inherently nonviolent, peaceful people. Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a secular lawyer, not a firebrand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazingly detailed account of this tragedy i gigan
- De BG en 10-09-15
De: Nisid Hajari
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Operation Nemesis
- The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
- De: Eric Bogosian
- Narrado por: Eric Bogosian
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 281
In 1921 a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They named their operation Nemesis after the Greek goddess of retribution. Over several years the men tracked down and assassinated former Turkish leaders. The story of this secret operation has never been fully told until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Avenging Turkish Denial with Reason
- De PKsweets en 05-12-15
De: Eric Bogosian
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Bitter Freedom
- Ireland in a Revolutionary World
- De: Maurice Walsh
- Narrado por: Michael Healy
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. For too long the story of Irish independence and its aftermath has been told only within an Anglo-Irish context. Now, in the critically acclaimed Bitter Freedom, journalist Maurice Walsh, with "a novelist's eye for the illuminating detail of everyday lives in extremis" ( Prospect), places revolutionary Ireland in the panorama of the global disorder born of the terrible slaughter of World War I and provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human face of the conflict.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Helpful for Irish Americans
- De Matthew Tozer en 04-12-17
De: Maurice Walsh
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After Hitler
- The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe
- De: Michael Jones
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
With the world at war, 10 days can feel like a lifetime.... On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in Western Europe until May 8 and in Russia a day later, on the ninth. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brutal, protracted conflict coalesce into its unlikely endgame? After Hitler shines a light on 10 fascinating days after that infamous suicide that changed the course of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The slow end to World War II in Europe
- De Mike From Mesa en 04-10-16
De: Michael Jones
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The Rape of Nanking
- De: Iris Chang
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,295
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,661
In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Douglas en 09-05-09
De: Iris Chang
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- De: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 29 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,554
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,259
Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before, and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this is the most authoritative biography of Mao ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- De Jene en 08-07-06
De: Jung Chang, y otros
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Caught in the Revolution
- Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge
- De: Helen Rappaport
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eyewitness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ordinary People; Chaotic Times
- De David en 03-18-17
De: Helen Rappaport
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The Siege of Mecca
- The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine & the Birth of Al-Qaeda
- De: Yaroslav Trofimov
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 205
On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning, the first of a new Muslim century, hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"The Siege" - A Review
- De Mitch Emswiller en 05-31-08
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Church of Spies
- The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler
- De: Mark Riebling
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 343
The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope". But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pius ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pius XII Vindicated
- De James Clark en 04-17-16
De: Mark Riebling
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Seven Ages of Paris
- De: Alistair Horne
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 162
With a keen eye for the telling anecdote and pivotal moment, he portrays an array of vivid incidents to show us how Paris endures through each age, is altered but always emerges more brilliant and beautiful than ever. The Seven Ages of Paris is a great historian's tribute to a city he loves and has spent a lifetime learning to know.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very well researched, but difficult to follow
- De Aw en 05-23-19
De: Alistair Horne
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- Lynne B.
- 04-02-23
well-described revolution historical writing
This book made sense of important parts of history for me. I relistened to many many parts bc it was much like a text. it was excellent.
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