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The Confidence Men
- How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
- Narrado por: Richard Elfyn
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The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
Finalist for the Edgar® Award • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR • “Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg machine.” (The New York Times Book Review)
Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around, and one day, an Ottoman official approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board - and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception - to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom.
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“Fox (Conan Doyle for the Defense), a former obituary writer for the New York Times, recounts in this marvelous history how two British army officers in WWI orchestrated ‘the most singular prison break ever recorded'.... Fox enriches her account with intriguing deep dives into the psychology of ‘coercive persuasion’, the mechanics of confidence games, and the history of spiritualism in the US and England. Readers will be mesmerized by this rich and rewarding tale.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- De Arlon James en 11-07-20
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For the Glory
- Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr
- De: Duncan Hamilton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
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Many people will remember Eric Liddell as the Olympic gold medalist from the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. Famously, Liddell would not run on Sunday because of his strict observance of the Christian Sabbath, and so he did not compete in his signature event, the 100 meters, at the 1924 Paris Olympics. He was the greatest sprinter in the world at the time, and his choice not to run was ridiculed by the British Olympic committee, his fellow athletes, and most of the world press.
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The challenge of a life lived for God's Glory
- De David en 06-30-16
De: Duncan Hamilton
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Naples '44
- De: Norman Lewis
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
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Naples '44 is an unflinching autobiographical account of a year in Naples after the armistice and Allied landings in Sorrento in 1943. Working as a British counterintelligence officer under the Allied occupation, Lewis documents the rich pageant of life in the city and its surrounding areas. There is suffering and squalor: Criminal gangs are on the rise, along with typhus and black market commerce, and the female population is forced into part-time prostitution. But there is farce and humor, too, witnessed in the Roman uncle paid handsomely simply to appear at funerals.
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Sharply observed, beautifully written, and deeply humane
- De cw en 11-13-23
De: Norman Lewis
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- De: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 25 h y 56 m
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Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
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Should be required reading in US schools
- De Richard en 01-01-21
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Prisoners of the Castle
- An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
- De: Ben Macintyre
- Narrado por: Ben Macintyre
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In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape.
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Another chapter of history brought to life by a master
- De Steve en 09-28-22
De: Ben Macintyre
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The Art of Resistance
- My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
- De: Justus Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, 16-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, penniless and cut off from contact with his family in Poland, Justus fled south.
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Rosenberg, Please focus
- De Jess en 03-20-22
De: Justus Rosenberg
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Men at Arms
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
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Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade that seriously blots his Halberdier copybook. Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback.
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Supposedly Humorous
- De Kindle Customer en 11-13-18
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Professor and the Madman
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
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Perfect example of a quality audible book.
- De Jerry en 07-07-03
De: Simon Winchester
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First into Nagasaki
- De: George Weller
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city. Going into the hospitals and consulting the doctors of the bomb's victims, Weller was the first to document its unprecedented long-range medical effects. He also became the first to enter the nearby Allied POW camps, which rivaled those of the Nazis for cruelty and bested them for death count.
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First Into Nagasaki
- De Harold en 02-15-07
De: George Weller
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- De: Ed Caesar
- Narrado por: James Langton
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit — completely alone.
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this is very misleading as most of it is wwone
- De steve en 12-01-20
De: Ed Caesar
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- De: Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski - translator
- Narrado por: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....
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The bar of manhood
- De Rhea en 09-22-13
De: Witold Pilecki, y otros
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What Did You Do in the War, Sister?
- De: Dennis J. Turner
- Narrado por: Annie Pesch, Dennis Turner
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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The book is a fictional memoir based on actual events. The inspiration for the book came from hundreds of letters and other accounts written by Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who were living in German-occupied Belgium and Italy during World War Two. Turner created a composite character, Sister Christina, who is described as an Ohio farm girl who joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Namur to teach English and agricultural skills to young Catholic girls. Assigned to Belgium in 1939, she worked Nazi-occupied Belgium for the duration of World War Two.
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Great story very interesting.
- De Pamela J. Cogburn en 08-19-23
De: Dennis J. Turner
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The Wolves at the Door
- The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy
- De: Judith Pearson
- Narrado por: Patrice O’Neill
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 to follow a dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer. After watching Hitler roll over Poland and France, she enlisted to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret espionage and sabotage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France where, if captured, imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Gestapo was all but assured.
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The narrator is ruining the book for me
- De Penni Khandi en 06-19-14
De: Judith Pearson
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Schindler's List
- De: Thomas Keneally
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden — Schindler’s Jews — to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.
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really well done
- De Neil H. Greenberg en 03-09-19
De: Thomas Keneally
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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Sonia Purnell
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and - despite her prosthetic leg - helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.
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Maybe it’s the narrator?
- De Andrea en 09-18-19
De: Sonia Purnell
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Confidence Men
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- Anthony
- 02-25-23
What a great story
Anybody who reads us book will be enthralled by the ingenuity of the two officers in the way in manner of their escape?
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- Martha Ressler
- 12-04-21
You think you don't like non-fiction?
Crack open The Confidence Men and see if it doesn't keep you turning pages all the way to the end. In addition to it being a compelling story, you end up learning a lot about the contradictions of the times -- late 19th century and early 20th century, when voices could, somehow, transmit through radio waves and the telephone. So why not telepathically?
Why shouldn't the dead speak to us?
These were the times in which Jones and Hill played their long, dangerous con in an attempt to escape from a Turkish prison.
And without being overt, what does this story tell us about those who believe the big lies and the con men of today?
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- Ross DeSautel
- 07-16-22
Too long
If I were a prisoner of war, I would never go through all of that for an attempted escape. I would either be better off as a prisoner, or dead from any other kind of escape. You must have a propensity to tell long boring useless stories to be able to go through all of that for so long to make an attempted escape. Not held in interest.
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- Marky Maypo
- 10-17-21
Unbelievable
Truth is often stranger than fiction . This is mind-blowing with fantastic narration. Wow!
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- Randy
- 04-09-24
Long haul to get to the story
The performance was good. I thought the story was funny and the two guys are brilliant. I think it was drawn out quite long - this could have been a cracked.com badass of the week post and covered it just fine. But overall, it was an enjoyable listen. I might even listen to it again some day.
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- Rody
- 12-20-22
A Fascinating and Unorthodox POW Story
A truly remarkable story that combines meticulous escape plans with a study of spiritualism and con games, it is amazing that it all happened and is not more widely known. Excellent narration as well.
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- Paul Schneider
- 09-10-22
How to Play a Long Con
A great adventure in obscure history, a true story of war prisoners playing a long con - successfully on their captors. Well nearrated and easy to listen.
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- DASH
- 02-10-23
I’m debating listening again
At the end, there was a great deal of interesting information though throughout the story I debated on whether or not to keep listening because it was difficult for me to follow.
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- Stuart Jump
- 02-27-22
Mixed feelings
I loved the parts about what the prisoners did to con everyone, but the time spent discussing the history of spiritualism and the history of the psychology behind this were too long and detracted from the book’s effectiveness.
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- Marjorie
- 06-20-21
Everything you wanted to know about spiritualism
This is the true story of how 2 British prisoners of war (WWI) in Turkey manipulated their captors over a period of years in order to escape captivity. There are occasional redundancies, but in addition to telling an entertaining yarn, it provides a short history of mental trickery and interpretations of why people in the early 20th Century were so susceptible.
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