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Escape from Earth
- A Secret History of the Space Rocket
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick
Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters wrong. With the help of his friend Jack Parsons, a grandiose and occult-obsessed explosives enthusiast, Malina embarks on a journey that takes him from junk yards and desert lots to the heights of the military-industrial complex.
Malina designs the first American rocket to reach space and establishes the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But trouble soon finds him: The FBI suspects Malina of being a communist. And when some classified documents go missing, will his comrades prove as dependable as his engineering?
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Exquisitely researched, thoughtfully written, Escape from Earth is a fascinating exploration of an endlessly intriguing and remarkable subject. Fraser MacDonald has not only brought to life Frank Malina, he has captured perfectly the political and scientific contradictions of the dawn of the Space Age. (Henry Hemming, author of The Ingenious Mr. Pyke and Agents of Influence)
Frank Malina, one of the most talented pioneers of American rocket science, flirted with communism and pacifism, and then gave it all up-rocketry included-to become a painter. History has in consequence all but erased his memory - except that now, thanks to Fraser MacDonald's fascination with his story and a dogged determination to write this riveting and important book, his legacy has been revived, and will surely long endure. (Simon Winchester, New York Times best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists)
A fascinating history of America's ascent into space that literally rewrites our understanding of the rocket age; a story that mixes sex, Nazis, Communists, the FBI, and rockets and along the way reminds us how complicated and untidy even celebrated history can be. Escape from Earth is an instant addition to the rocketry canon, right there with Operation Paperclip and Hidden Figures. (Garrett Graff, best-selling author of Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself-While the Rest of Us Die)
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The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight - the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M. Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history. He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this movement. He was also truly eccentric - a thrice-married jazz aficionado who kept a menagerie of exotic pets - and almost totally unqualified for espionage. Yet he had a gift for turning practically anyone into a fearless secret agent.
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Outstanding in every way!
- De Grace O'Malley en 07-18-22
De: Henry Hemming
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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- De: Ray Monk
- Narrado por: Michael Goldstrom
- Duración: 35 h y 17 m
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb – a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his actions leading up to that great achievement, he also set himself on a dangerous collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch-hunters. In Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center, Ray Monk, author of peerless biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, goes deeper than any previous biographer in the quest to solve the enigma of Oppenheimer’s motivations and his complex personality.
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A comprehensive biography
- De Jean en 10-17-14
De: Ray Monk
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The Ghost
- The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
- De: Jefferson Morley
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells Angleton's dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal. From the agency's MKULTRA mind-control experiments to the wars of the Mideast, Angleton wielded far more power than anyone knew.
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Flawed Superpatriot
- De Bubblehog en 11-23-17
De: Jefferson Morley
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- De: David A. Price
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher.
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ok not great
- De JTA98 en 12-09-21
De: David A. Price
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Tuxedo Park
- A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
- De: Jennet Conant
- Narrado por: John Kroft
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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In the late 1930s, legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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Fantastic book, weak technical execution
- De Paul en 10-13-18
De: Jennet Conant
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present.
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Should be required reading for every citizen
- De Amazon Customer en 02-27-20
De: Gordon Corera
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The Rebel and the Kingdom
- The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
- De: Bradley Hope
- Narrado por: Lee Osorio
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the status quo—to instead live boldly by his principles.
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Phenomenal true story
- De NYCdogmomma en 11-13-22
De: Bradley Hope
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- De: Jennet Conant
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace.
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Great Listen
- De John H. Davis III en 10-22-05
De: Jennet Conant
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Puppetmaster
- The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
- De: Richard Hack
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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Richard Hack separates truth from fiction to reveal the most hidden secrets of Hoover's private life and expose his previously undisclosed conduct and actions which threatened to compromise the security of the entire nation. Based on freshly uncovered files and personal documents as well as over 100,000 pages of FBI memos and State Department papers, Hack rips the lid off the FBI Director's facade of propriety to detail a life replete with sexual indiscretions, criminal behavior and a long-standing alliance with the Mafia.
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Power corrupts
- De Jean en 08-24-14
De: Richard Hack
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The Secret Lives of Codebreakers
- The Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park
- De: Sinclair McKay
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate. In reality, however, it was the top-secret headquarters of Britain’s Government Code and Cypher School - and the site where Germany’s legendary Enigma code was finally cracked. There, the nation’s most brilliant mathematical minds - including Alan Turing, whose discoveries at Bletchley would fuel the birth of modern computing - toiled alongside debutantes, factory workers, and students on projects of international importance. Until now, little has been revealed about ordinary life at this extraordinary facility.
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Dull treatment of an exciting subject
- De Drew en 01-31-14
De: Sinclair McKay
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The Skripal Files
- The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy
- De: Mark Urban
- Narrado por: Mark Urban
- Duración: 9 h
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The Skripal Files is a remarkable and definitive account of Sergei Skripal’s story, which lays bare the new spy war between Russia and the West. Mark Urban, the diplomatic and defense editor for the BBC, met with Skripal in the months before his poisoning, learning about his career in Russian military intelligence, how he became a British agent, his imprisonment in Russia, and the events that led to his release. Skripal’s first-hand accounts and experiences reveal the high stakes of a new spy game that harks back to the chilliest days of the Cold War.
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Richard Rhodes
- Duración: 6 h
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Richard Rhodes' landmark history of the atomic bomb won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in this majestic new masterpiece of history, science, and politics, he tells for the first time the secret story of how and why the hydrogen bomb was made, and traces the path by which this supreme artifact of 20th-century technology became the defining issue of the Cold War.
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Abridged??
- De Delano en 04-17-13
De: Richard Rhodes
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The Devil's Chessboard
- Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
- De: David Talbot
- Narrado por: Peter Altschuler
- Duración: 25 h y 23 m
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An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times best seller Brothers.
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Disturbing. Makes you question the company line.
- De KTS en 02-06-16
De: David Talbot
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An Impeccable Spy
- Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
- De: Owen Matthews
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist - and the Soviet Union’s most formidable spy.
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Lots of Politics
- De Cynthia en 04-24-20
De: Owen Matthews
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Wise Gals
- The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
- De: Nathalia Holt
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels.
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Intriguing untold history
- De Andrea Guzman en 12-15-22
De: Nathalia Holt
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- dr.rocket
- 04-17-22
Nicely written and read
In my opinion the most well researched, well written and well read history of JPL and early American rocketry post Robert Goddard and pre 50s satellite launches. A must read/listen for any rocketry and space enthusiast!
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- Michael
- 10-23-19
If you like rocket history, Do Not Bother,
I finally gave up after about 2 hours.... If you are interested in anything but early American rockets, then you might like this book, but if you are interested in US rocket history... then pass, pass, pass, as you will spend hours listening to nothing about nothing....
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