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April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents—and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months to follow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chris Wallace killed it!
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De: Chris Wallace, y otros
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Bridge of Spies
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- De: Giles Whittell
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 742
Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962, when their fates helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the cold war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bridge of Spies
- De BookReader en 09-28-15
De: Giles Whittell
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Truth Worth Telling
- De: Scott Pelley
- Narrado por: Scott Pelley
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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A 60 Minutes correspondent and former anchor of the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley writes as a witness to events that changed our world. In moving, detailed prose, he stands with firefighters at the collapsing World Trade Center on 9/11, advances with American troops in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, and reveals private moments with presidents (and would-be presidents) he’s known for decades. Pelley also offers a resounding defense of free speech and a free press as the rights that guarantee all others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great listen... worth your time
- De Christina en 05-26-19
De: Scott Pelley
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The Bastard Brigade
- The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- De: Sam Kean
- Narrado por: Ben Sullivan
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 792
During World War II, in the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research; Hitler, with just a few pounds of uranium, would have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. So they assembled a rough and motley crew of geniuses—dubbed the Alsos Mission—and sent them careening into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome
- De Solar red en 07-12-19
De: Sam Kean
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One Minute to Midnight
- Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
- De: Michael Dobbs
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 717
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis.
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4 out of 5 stars
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On the verge of annihilation.
- De MikeCG en 01-22-09
De: Michael Dobbs
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Night of the Assassins
- The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
- De: Howard Blum
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
The year is 1943, and the three Allied leaders - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting, and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath. And so, a plan is devised - code name Operation Long Jump - to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very inaccurate background.
- De Anna Goforth en 04-19-22
De: Howard Blum
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A Brotherhood of Spies
- The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
- De: Monte Reel
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA concocted a cover story for President Eisenhower to deliver, assuring him that no one could have survived a fall from that altitude. But against all odds, pilot Francis Gary Powers emerged from the wreckage and was seized by the KGB. Award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lessons Learned
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De: Monte Reel
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Betrayal in Berlin
- The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
- De: Steve Vogel
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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Its code name was “Operation Gold”, a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Book
- De Toni Bowes en 01-11-20
De: Steve Vogel
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Road to Surrender
- Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
- De: Evan Thomas
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who oversaw J. Robert Oppenheimer under the Manhattan Project; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why they decided to drop the atomic bombs
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 08-08-23
De: Evan Thomas
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Enola Gay
- Mission to Hiroshima
- De: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h
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Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold. Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Beyond
- The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
- De: Stephen Walker
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - 10 times faster than a rifle bullet - Yuri Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows, he sees the Earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing, he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A remarkable story on many levels
- De Dipam en 03-22-22
De: Stephen Walker
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,592
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,909
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,830
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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4 out of 5 stars
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- De Leslie Rathjens en 03-05-20
De: Erik Larson
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Executive Actions
- De: Gary Grossman
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 20 h y 50 m
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An assassin takes aim at a Presidential candidate during a primary stump speech. The instant he pulls the trigger, the outcome of the election is irrevocably changed. But Democrat Teddy Lodge, an upcoming media sweetheart, isn't killed. His wife is. As a result, Lodge emerges as the man to beat and the greatest threat to the incumbent President, Morgan Taylor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My highest possible recommendation for this novel!
- De Wayne en 08-12-16
De: Gary Grossman
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Night Fighter
- An Insider's Story of Special Ops from Korea to SEAL Team 6
- De: William H. Hamilton Jr., Charles W. Sasser
- Narrado por: Bill Thatcher
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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One month after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, when President John F. Kennedy pressed Congress about America’s “urgent national needs”, he named expanding US special operations forces along with putting a man on the moon. Captain William Hamilton was the officer tasked with creating the finest unconventional warriors ever seen. Merging his own experience commanding Navy Underwater Demolition Teams with expertise from Army Special Forces and the CIA, and working with his subordinate, Roy Boehm, he cast the mold for sea-, air-, and land-dispatched night fighters.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK story
- De dexter en 03-16-20
De: William H. Hamilton Jr., y otros
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The Brilliant Disaster
- JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba
- De: Jim Rasenberger
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in 1961 remains one of the most ill-fated blunders in American history, with echoes of the event reverberating even today. Despite the Kennedy administration’s initial public insistence that the United States had nothing to do with the invasion, it soon became clear that the complex operation had been planned and approved by the best and brightest minds at the highest reaches of Washington, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President John F. Kennedy himself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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US Government Perspective
- De Kindle Customer en 05-25-11
De: Jim Rasenberger
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Above and Beyond
- De: Casey Sherman
- Narrado por: Maxwell Hamilton
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
From the authors of the best-selling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the strategic wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the U-2 aerial spy program. On October 27, 1962, Kennedy, strained from back pain, sleeplessness, and days of impossible tension, was briefed about a missing spy plane.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator’s mispronunciations detracted from the story
- De Stephen E. Smith en 08-01-18
De: Casey Sherman
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Red Line
- The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
- De: Joby Warrick
- Narrado por: Barrett Leddy
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
In 2012, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, Pres. Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line”. Assad did it anyway, killing hundreds of civilians and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular war. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons, Obama leapt at the out. So begins an electrifying race to find, remove, and destroy 1,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An excellent story for Three Quarters of the Book
- De D. MacLean en 05-11-21
De: Joby Warrick
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The Arsenal of Democracy
- FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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The Arsenal of Democracy tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a “bomber an hour”. Critics scoffed: Ford didn’t make planes; they made simple, affordable cars. But bucking his father’s resistance, Edsel charged ahead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Misleading title
- De Kindle Customer en 12-01-14
De: A. J. Baime
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With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin delivers the wild facts about America's greatest adventure. From the Louisiana Purchase (Remember: If you're negotiating a treaty for your country, play it cool.) to the gold rush (There were only three ways to get to California - all of them bad.) to the life of the cowboy, the Indian wars, and the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relatable and compelling, good for kids and adults
- De brittany en 06-22-23
De: Steve Sheinkin
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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-04-17
De: Craig Alanson
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The Mona Lisa Vanishes
- A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
- De: Nicholas Day
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the Director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating true thriller!
- De Katrina en 11-26-23
De: Nicholas Day
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Two Miserable Presidents
- Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War
- De: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam, Steve Sheinkin
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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New York Times best-selling author and Newbery Honor-recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations. Unraveling a very complicated string of events - the small things, the personal ones, the big issues - Steve Sheinkin takes listeners behind the scenes that led to the Civil War. It is a time and a war that threatened America's very existence, revealed in the surprising true stories of the soldiers and statesmen who battled it out.
De: Steve Sheinkin
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Fallout
- De: JA Armstrong
- Narrado por: Cassandra York
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 15
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The Reid and Toles families are settling into their roles at the White House. President Candace Reid is grateful to have the counsel and support of close friends Alex and Cassidy Toles. Alex assumes a position as Deputy National Security Adviser. She searches to determine the cause of the Russian president’s death. Her brother, Jonathan Krause, continues to decrypt a data disc from a lab in Kaliningrad. And her partner, Claire Brackett, infiltrates the inner circle of a power broker in Poland. Candace juggles a complex agenda while supporting her children through life changes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good book!
- De Kindle Customer en 12-28-23
De: JA Armstrong
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Bombs Away
- De: Harry Turtledove
- Narrado por: Henry Stozier
- Duración: 17 h y 4 m
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From "the master of alternate history" comes a new trilogy that reimagines a mid-20th century in which General MacArthur, without bothering to consult President Truman, detonates nuclear warheads in several Manchurian cities after China enters the Korean War. In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the 20th century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This Bomb's a dud
- De Dallas Huybregts en 09-27-16
De: Harry Turtledove
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Lincoln's Grave Robbers
- De: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 3 h y 16 m
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A true crime thriller - the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body! The action begins in October of 1875, as Secret Service agents raid the workshop of master counterfeiter Ben Boyd. Soon after Boyd is arrested, members of his counterfeiting ring gather to discuss how to spring their ringleader. Their plan: grab Lincoln's body from its Springfield tomb, stash it in the sand dunes near Lake Michigan, and demand, as a ransom, the release of Ben Boyd - and $200,000 in cash.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lincoln
- De min en 03-06-16
De: Steve Sheinkin
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Fallout
- De: Todd Strasser
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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It’s the summer of 1962, and Scott and his friends spend their days playing baseball and thinking about girls. But the threat of nuclear war looms over everything they do, and they are haunted by the idea that they could all be dead tomorrow. Even though the possibility of war is all anyone talks about, Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst, building a bomb shelter to protect his family and stocking it with enough supplies to keep them alive for two critical weeks. The neighbors scoff, but then, in the middle of the night in late October, the unthinkable happens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story!
- De Rebecca U. en 03-10-24
De: Todd Strasser
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The Bletchley Riddle
- De: Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin
- Duración: 8 h
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Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they’re living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World War II—Britain’s eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley Park. As Jakob joins Bletchley’s top minds to crack the Nazi's Enigma cipher, fourteen-year-old Lizzie embarks on a mission to solve the mysterious disappearance of their mother.
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Born to Fly
- The First Women's Air Race Across America
- De: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrado por: Kim Mai Guest
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14
Just nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929 Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the incredible lives of legend Amelia Earhart, who has captivated generations; Marvel Crosson, who built a plane before she even learned how to fly; Louise Thaden, who shattered jaw-dropping altitude records; and Elinor Smith, who at age 17 made headlines when she flew under the Brooklyn Bridge. Born to Fly is the gripping story of the fearless women pilots who aimed for the skies - and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Do Yourself a Favor and Read This Book.
- De Kathy en 11-12-23
De: Steve Sheinkin
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- KLM
- 11-29-22
Great History
Life is fragile, this confluence of events almost wiped it out. It is easy to go to war, it’s not easy to go to peace.
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- Kate
- 08-13-23
Fantastic!!!
I learned so much that I didn't know... EVERYONE should read this book. We all desperately need to understand history so we never ever repeat this!!!
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- nightowl
- 08-19-23
Good background on events I was too young to understand at the time.
My earliest memory of public events was JFK’s assassin and my parent’s reaction and the clock on walk of the newsroom when it was announced on TV are the limits of that,
The early cold war story, particularly the resistance in Berlin were not something I learned about in school. This filled some gaps in my education. The narrator went beyond simple recitation and energized the story
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- Rabbi Reuven Silverman
- 03-21-22
Top flight history!
Just well done. Great history with details with excitement and kept you glued. Narrated beautifully!
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- Brendan H.
- 01-04-22
Fantastic Listen
The book does a fantastic job summarizing the events of the Cold war. It is aimed at middle school or high school students, but does an excellent job giving the facts in an interesting and well paced way. I really think any fan of history would enjoy it.
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- Doug Buie
- 12-14-23
Stupidity of leadership on both sides.
A good tell tell story of my generation of fools. It goes on today still.
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- Tyson J Smith
- 10-03-22
Great way to learn history
The author presents the facts about history in such an interesting way that even one not inclined to read history books is captivated!
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- Lady P
- 03-18-22
Incredible storytelling
Steve is so good at bringing a range of complex characters to us in a fashion that we understand the history.
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- jamie
- 12-21-23
The eye-opener of how close the world came to ending 
I like to have this presented historical facts and not boring way. But in an Interesting way. 
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- Tyra Williams
- 03-24-23
Amazing
Great history lesson. Read it for my battle of the books team it was great.
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