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Operation Damocles
- Israel's Secret War Against Hitler's Scientists, 1951-1967
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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The forgotten cloak-and-dagger history of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt to develop long-range missiles capable of striking Israel.
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- De: Scott Anderson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling their fascinating lives, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies. Despite their ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Tragedy for One
- De Amazon Customer en 09-23-20
De: Scott Anderson
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From Warsaw with Love
- Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
- De: John Pomfret
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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From the award-winning and acclaimed author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, From Warsaw with Love tells the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War. In 1990, soon after the Polish people voted in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Polish government sent a veteran spy, who’d battled the West for decades, to rescue six American officers trapped in Baghdad.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb - All Americans should know about its recent and colonial history if strayegic partnership with the USA
- De zephyr99 en 07-08-23
De: John Pomfret
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GCHQ
- Centenary Edition
- De: Richard Aldrich
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 25 h y 48 m
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GCHQ is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the UK, and has existed for 100 years - but we still know next to nothing about it. In this ground-breaking book - the first and most definitive history of the organisation ever published - intelligence expert Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ’s development from a wartime code-breaking operation based in the Bedfordshire countryside into one of the world leading espionage organisations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely fascinating
- De philstopford en 04-01-24
De: Richard Aldrich
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The Nazi Conspiracy
- The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
- De: Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 843
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In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt had a critical goal: a face-to-face sit-down with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This first-ever meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own secret plan took shape—an assassination plot that would’ve changed history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous book!
- De Luke Einfeldt en 01-18-23
De: Brad Meltzer, y otros
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- De: Susan Williams
- Narrado por: Chanté McCormick
- Duración: 21 h y 14 m
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In White Malice, Susan Williams unearths the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa’s new generation of nationalist leaders. This dramatically upends the conventional belief that the African nations failed to establish effective, democratic states on their own accord. As the old European powers moved out, the US moved in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very good read.
- De Amazon Customer en 11-20-22
De: Susan Williams
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1983
- Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink
- De: Taylor Downing
- Narrado por: Ben Onwukwe
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983 - the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon. The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one - more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the United States, President Reagan vastly increased defense spending, described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," and launched the "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative to shield the country from incoming missiles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story, poor narration choices.
- De John Gray en 02-11-19
De: Taylor Downing
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Good Hunting
- An American Spymaster's Story
- De: Jack Devine
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 352
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Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story is the spellbinding memoir of Devine's time in the CIA, where he served for more than 30 years, rising to become the acting deputy director of operations, responsible for all of the agency's spying operations. This is a story of intrigue and high-stakes maneuvering - all the more gripping when the fate of our geopolitical order hangs in the balance. But this audiobook also sounds a warning to our nation's decision makers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating, An education on spying
- De Anthony en 12-13-15
De: Jack Devine
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing untold history
- De Andrea Guzman en 12-15-22
De: Nathalia Holt
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The Berlin Wall
- De: Frederick Taylor
- Narrado por: Daniel Philpott
- Duración: 19 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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The appearance of a hastily constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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TEAR. DOWN. THIS. WALL
- De Simone en 05-23-13
De: Frederick Taylor
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Lots of Politics
- De Cynthia en 04-24-20
De: Owen Matthews
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Code Warriors
- NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community found itself targeting not soldiers on the battlefield, but suspected spies, foreign leaders, and even American citizens.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Did Vladimir Putin Steal the American Election?
- De Cynthia en 12-01-16
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The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 30 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious
- De Jim Redding en 06-14-16
De: Max Hastings
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Legacy of Ashes
- The History of the CIA
- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
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This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Flawed but Important
- De Michael en 07-18-08
De: Tim Weiner
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At the Center of the Storm
- My Years at the CIA
- De: George Tenet
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
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In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that has attended the post 9/11 world, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and compelling, At the Center of the Storm is George Tenet's memoir of his life at the CIA - a revelatory look at the inner workings of America's top intelligence agency and its dealings with national leaders at home and abroad.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- De Karen en 05-05-07
De: George Tenet
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88 Days to Kandahar
- A CIA Diary
- De: Robert L. Grenier
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
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In his gripping narrative, we meet General Tommy Franks, who bridles at CIA control of "his" war; General "Jafar Amin", a gruff Pakistani intelligence officer who saves Grenier from committing career suicide; Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's brilliant ambassador to the US, who tries to warn her government of the al-Qaeda threat; "Mark", the CIA operator who guides GulAgha Shirzai to bloody victory over the Taliban.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Honest conclusion based on practical realities.
- De rehman en 03-30-15
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Confront and Conceal
- Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
- De: David E. Sanger
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Three and a half years ago, David Sanger’s book The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power described how a new American president came to office with the world on fire. Now, just as the 2012 presidential election battle begins, Sanger follows up with an eye-opening, news-packed account of how Obama has dealt with those challenges, relying on innovative weapons and reconfigured tools of American power to try to manage a series of new threats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sobering reminder on what the presidency requires
- De Marilyn en 09-03-12
De: David E. Sanger
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Agents of Influence
- A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
- De: Henry Hemming
- Narrado por: Henry Hemming
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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As World War II raged into its second year, Britain sought a powerful ally to join its cause - but the American public was sharply divided on the subject. The Canadian-born MI6 officer William Stephenson, with his knowledge and influence in North America, was chosen to change their minds by any means necessary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shaken, not stirred.
- De Reeka en 06-21-20
De: Henry Hemming
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The Longest War
- America and Al-Qaeda Since 9/11
- De: Peter L. Bergen
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 16 h y 43 m
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In The Longest War, Peter Bergen offers a comprehensive history of this war and its evolution, from the strategies devised in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to the fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and beyond. Weaving together internal documents from al-Qaeda and the U.S. offices of counterterrorism, first-person interviews with top-level jihadists and senior Washington officials, along with his own experiences on the ground in the Middle East, Bergen balances the accounts of each side.
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2 out of 5 stars
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More Bush bashing..yes, but still worth reading.
- De Dennis en 01-18-11
De: Peter L. Bergen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Operation Damocles
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- Howard Sterling
- 08-05-16
Exciting and useful for today
Stranger than fiction. Better than any spy novel. Helps assess Israeli and Egyptian mentality. Would recommend to any one interested in Mideast.
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- Baal K'reeah
- 08-24-23
Does not fulfill its promise
The focus of this book is from a 3rd party view and does not devote much time to the fate of Nazi scientists. It focusses more on the politics in Egypt. Could not finish it.
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