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A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe—and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream in Italy, from award-winning historian and author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet, Caroline Moorehead
“Reads like a page-turning thriller.”—BookPage
Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce’s Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy’s fascist history. In the years preceding World War II, Edda ruled over Italy’s aristocratic families and the cultured and middle classes while selling Fascism on the international stage. How a young woman wielded such control is the heart of Moorehead’s fascinating history. The issues that emerge reveal not only a great deal about the power of fascism, but also the ease with which dictatorship so easily took hold in a country weakened by war and a continent mired in chaos and desperate for peace.
Drawing on a wealth of archival material, some newly released, along with memoirs and personal papers, Mussolini’s Daughter paints a portrait of a woman in her twenties whose sheer force of character and ruthless narcissism helped impose a brutal and vulgar movement on a pliable and complicit society. Yet as Moorehead shows, not even Edda’s colossal willpower, her scheming, nor her father’s avowed love could save her husband from Mussolini’s brutal vengeance.
As she did in her Resistance Quartet, Moorehead delves deep into the past, exploring what fascism felt like to those living under it, how it blossomed and grew, and how fascists and aristocrats joined forces to pursue ten years of extravagance, amorality, and excessive luxury—greed, excess, and ambition that set the world on fire. The result is a powerful portrait of a young woman who played a key role in one of the most terrifying and violent periods in human history.
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This is an engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Winston Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy. After the tragic consequences of his involvement in the catastrophic Dardanelles Campaign of World War I, Churchill’s political career seemed over. He was widely regarded as little more than a bombastic and unpredictable buccaneer until, in 1921, an unexpected inheritance heralded a series of events that laid the foundations for his future success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great explanation if this great m Chirchill’s an
- De David Hitchins en 10-25-20
De: David Stafford
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Catherine Ho
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through 100 years of wars, revolutions, and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. All three sisters enjoyed tremendous privilege and glory, but also endured constant mortal danger. They showed great courage and experienced passionate love, as well as despair and heartbreak.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating reading
- De David L. Jones en 03-26-20
De: Jung Chang
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Nazi Wives
- The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
- De: James Wyllie
- Narrado por: Dalya Raphael
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse, and Gerda. These are the women behind the infamous men - complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families, and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Scary
- De Three River en 05-15-21
De: James Wyllie
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Crucible
- The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- De: Charles Emmerson
- Narrado por: Charles Emmerson
- Duración: 25 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home. An Austrian war veteran trained by the German army to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. A solar eclipse turns a former patent clerk into a celebrity. An American reporter living the high life in Paris searches out a new literary style.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Splendid in all respects
- De Paul Custer en 02-11-20
De: Charles Emmerson
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Agent Sonya
- Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- De: Ben Macintyre
- Narrado por: Ben Macintyre
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 729
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In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn’t know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn’t know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wanted to love it
- De Robert Bell en 09-30-20
De: Ben Macintyre
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The Daughters of Yalta
- The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
- De: Catherine Grace Katz
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-19-21
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Oblivion or Glory
- 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill
- De: David Stafford
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
This is an engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Winston Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy. After the tragic consequences of his involvement in the catastrophic Dardanelles Campaign of World War I, Churchill’s political career seemed over. He was widely regarded as little more than a bombastic and unpredictable buccaneer until, in 1921, an unexpected inheritance heralded a series of events that laid the foundations for his future success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great explanation if this great m Chirchill’s an
- De David Hitchins en 10-25-20
De: David Stafford
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Children of Nazis
- The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others - Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy
- De: Tania Crasnianski, Molly Grogan - translator
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In 1940, the German sons and daughters of infamous Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or 10 years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time, they eventually discovered the extent of their fathers' occupations: These men were leaders of the Third Reich and would later be convicted as monstrous war criminals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Anonymous User en 12-30-22
De: Tania Crasnianski, y otros
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Hitler and the Habsburgs
- The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
- De: James Longo
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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As he rose to power, Hitler's hatred toward the Habsburgs and their diverse empire fixated on Franz Ferdinand's sons, who became outspoken critics and opponents of the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo, deported to Germany, and sent to Dachau. Within hours they went from palace to prison. The women in the family, including the Archduke's only daughter Princess Sophie Hohenberg, declared their own war on Hitler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More of the Story
- De EJJ en 08-28-19
De: James Longo
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
- De: Anita Anand
- Narrado por: Anita Anand
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate 20-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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more interesting history
- De Autodidact en 09-07-19
De: Anita Anand
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The Correspondents
- Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
- De: Judith Mackrell
- Narrado por: Julie Teal
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration was nails on a chalkboard
- De aunt deb en 12-20-21
De: Judith Mackrell
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The Boy Between Worlds
- A Biography
- De: Annejet van der Zijl, Kristen Gehrman - translator
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could have not been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands explodes their promising life. What unfolds is more than the astonishing story of a love that prevailed over convention. It’s also the quest of a young boy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should Be Required Reading
- De Pam Pearson en 08-20-19
De: Annejet van der Zijl, y otros
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"Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself"
- The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
- De: Florian Huber
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left but disgrace and despair. For tens of thousands of them, the only option was to choose death - for themselves and for their children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book should be required reading for anyone that seeks to understand how ordinary people could be transformed into monsters.
- De Anonymous User en 05-08-20
De: Florian Huber
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Eleanor
- De: David Michaelis
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 19 h y 16 m
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In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stands apart from other biographies of ER
- De Debra Malone en 11-20-20
De: David Michaelis
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
- The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
- De: Rebecca Donner
- Narrado por: Rebecca Donner
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting narrative non fiction
- De Sarah Q en 10-22-21
De: Rebecca Donner
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George VI and Elizabeth
- The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
- De: Sally Bedell Smith
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 22 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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A revelatory account of how the loving marriage of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives—from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen and Prince Charles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great telling of their lives
- De Nancy en 04-15-23
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The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1
- Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
- De: Robert Lacey
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Starring Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill, Netflix's original series The Crown, created by Peter Morgan and growing out of his Oscar-winning movie The Queen starring Helen Mirren, paints a unique and intimate portrait of Britain's longest-reigning monarch. This official companion to the show's first season is an in-depth exploration of the early years of Elizabeth II's time as queen, complete with extensive research and additional material.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you like The Crown
- De E F en 10-23-17
De: Robert Lacey
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The Last Days of the Romanovs
- Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
- De: Helen Rappaport
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Helen Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last 14 days of the Russian Imperial family, in this first of two books about the Romanovs. The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family on the night of July 16 to 17, 1918, has long been a defining moment in world history. The Last Days of the Romanovs reveals in exceptional detail how the conspiracy to kill them unfolded.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT
- De courtney en 08-31-17
De: Helen Rappaport
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Genius & Anxiety
- How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
- De: Norman Lebrecht
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent volume, beautifully designed, is an urgent and necessary celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Post-anxiety
- De Amaze en 03-27-20
De: Norman Lebrecht
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Upon retirement at the age of sixty-two, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: What do I do now? While some see retirement as a chance to cash in their chips and settle into a comfy armchair, Ollivier still longed for more. Searching for inspiration, he strapped on his gear, donned his hat, and headed out the front door to hike the Way of St. James, a 1400-mile journey from Paris to Compostela, Spain.
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, theatre, food, wine and his peccadilloes.
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William L. Shirer was a CBS foreign correspondent and renowned author of New York Times best-selling nonfiction about World War II, and this is the first part of his three-part autobiography. A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story in a personal history that parallels the greater historical events for which he served as a witness.
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Eleanor Roosevelt was born into the privileges and prejudices of American aristocracy and into a family ravaged by alcoholism. She overcame debilitating roots: in her public life, fighting against racism and injustice and advancing the rights of women; and in her private life, forming lasting intimate friendships with some of the great men and women of her time.
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Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Australian legend Jimmy Barnes' unforgettable childhood memoir. A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of OzPubRock - there isn't an accolade or cliché that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.
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This memoir is an autobiographical account of the events as witnessed by Bernal Diaz - a Conquistador on that journey - a man from Spain who desperately hoped to carve out a life of riches for himself in the new world and instead found himself on an epic journey of conquest, whilst desperately fighting to stay alive, in previously unknown and unimagined lands. This is a true tale written in his own hand and translated into English. It is a gripping account of the events from the soldiers' viewpoint as each day becomes a battle for survival against incredible odds.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch's work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch's life also evades simple categorization, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential listening for Lunch fans
- De Michael P. Mesaros en 08-14-18
De: Dennis Lim
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
- De: Michael Palin
- Narrado por: Michael Palin
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 191
In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. The rules were simple. He had to make the journey in 80 days using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg.
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2 out of 5 stars
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music incredibly distracting and annoying
- De LJ en 05-18-19
De: Michael Palin
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Wine Wars
- The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck, and the Revenge of the Terroirists
- De: Mike Veseth
- Narrado por: Clinton Wade
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Writing with wit and verve, Mike Veseth (a.k.a. the Wine Economist) tells the compelling story of the war between the market trends that are redrawing the world wine map and the terroirists who resist them. Wine and the wine business are at a critical crossroad today, transformed by three powerful forces. Veseth begins with the first force, globalization, which is shifting the center of the wine world as global wine markets provide enthusiasts with a rich but overwhelming array of choices.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration Tanks an Otherwise-Interesting Book
- De Gian en 02-21-14
De: Mike Veseth
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Porcelain
- A Memoir
- De: Moby
- Narrado por: Moby
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 590
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 532
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 530
There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of Palladium; of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo; of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping clubs where dance music was still largely underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby - not just a poor, skinny white kid from Connecticut but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler.
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2 out of 5 stars
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sex, alcohol, organic carrot juice, some music
- De Dr. Bob en 09-13-19
De: Moby
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)
- The Liberation Trilogy, Volume 1
- De: Rick Atkinson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 26 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,540
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,248
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,240
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern learner can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating book, great performance
- De Ted en 05-30-16
De: Rick Atkinson
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Hip-Hop (And Other Things)
- De: Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres - illustrator
- Narrado por: Bernardo Cubria
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Hip-Hop (And Other Things) is the third book in the (And Other Things) series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and great narration but...
- De Christian F Ponce en 11-15-21
De: Shea Serrano, y otros
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The Honourable Thief
- De: Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios
- Narrado por: Alan King
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Istanbul, Turkey, 1955. Benedict Hitchens, once a world-renowned archaeologist, is now a discredited - but still rather charming - shell of his former self. Once full of optimism and adventure, his determination to prove that Achilles was an historical figure led him to his greatest love, Karina, on the island of Crete and to his greatest downfall, following the disappearance of an enigmatic stranger, Eris. He has one last chance to restore his reputation, solve the mystery of Eris and prove his Achilles theory. But it is full of risk and possibly fatal consequences....
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The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1
- Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
- De: Robert Lacey
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
Starring Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill, Netflix's original series The Crown, created by Peter Morgan and growing out of his Oscar-winning movie The Queen starring Helen Mirren, paints a unique and intimate portrait of Britain's longest-reigning monarch. This official companion to the show's first season is an in-depth exploration of the early years of Elizabeth II's time as queen, complete with extensive research and additional material.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you like The Crown
- De E F en 10-23-17
De: Robert Lacey
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Stella's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 1
- De: Louise Allen
- Narrado por: Melanie Crawley
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 127
Named after the lager that christened her at birth, Stella's life is characterised instability and neglect. Her teenage mother abandons her in the first few weeks of her life, and left in the 'care' of her father, she ends up lying deserted in a house with no food, no water, no clothes and no warmth. She eventually lands in the care of foster carer Louise, who is determined to change her life for the better.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Michelle C Griffieth en 03-29-24
De: Louise Allen
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The Rise of Wolf 8
- Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog (The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone, Book 1)
- De: Rick McIntyre
- Narrado por: Geoff Sugiyama
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves - but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995. This is the incredible true story of one of those wolves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story, reader was robotic
- De matthew ramiro galvan en 07-26-23
De: Rick McIntyre
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mussolini's Daughter
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- Ann
- 02-06-24
Fascinating story told so well
I loved hearing the history of the family from the perspective of the daughter’s experiences. Well done. So interesting.
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- Greg
- 01-27-23
Mind Blowing
I knew very little about Italy in those years. Growing up in San Francisco I knew a lot of Italians who had left Italy before Mussolini came to power. They probably knew as little about what happened as I did. Nobody cared. Then as an adult, I went to Italy to visit, and I felt that something was wrong. Now I know what it was.
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- Connie H.
- 07-13-23
Excellent
The author is a true historian and has collected many diverse facts and viewpoints regarding this subject. The narrator is top notch.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-29-23
Great view of history from women’s eyes .
WW2 as seen by a woman who was there . Her story compelling, indulgent, selfish intrigue.
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