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Debut author John Donoghue presents a suspenseful new novel about the improbable friendship between a Nazi officer and a Jewish chess player in Auschwitz.
SS Obersturmführer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale, so he establishes a chess club and allows officers and enlisted men to gamble on the games. Soon Meissner learns that chess is also played among the prisoners, and there are rumors of an unbeatable Jew known as "the Watchmaker". Meissner's superiors begin to demand that he demonstrate German superiority by pitting this undefeated Jew against the best Nazi players. Meissner finds Emil Clément, the Watchmaker, and a curious relationship arises between them. As more and more games are played, the stakes rise, and the two men find their fates deeply entwined.
Twenty years later, the two meet again in Amsterdam. Meissner has become a bishop, and Emil is playing in an international chess tournament. Having lost his family in the horrors of the death camps, Emil wants nothing to do with the ex-Nazi officer despite their history, but Meissner is persistent. "What I hope," he tells Emil, "is that I can help you to understand that the power of forgiveness will bring healing." As both men search for a modicum of peace, they recall a gripping tale of survival and trust.
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Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state - or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps, and almost certain death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the five finest novels written in the 20th Century
- De Ellis D Vener en 04-08-19
De: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, y otros
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Dead Man's Land
- De: Robert Ryan
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Watson is wonderful, amid very grim surroundings
- De L. Gutman en 03-01-18
De: Robert Ryan
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Winter in Madrid
- De: C. J. Sansom
- Narrado por: Gordon Gordon
- Duración: 21 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
Winter in Madrid is set just after the bloody Spanish Civil War, with World War II looming over Europe. Reluctantly, Harry Brett looks for an old schoolmate who's become a person of interest for British intelligence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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realistic characters in historical context
- De Annie en 10-04-09
De: C. J. Sansom
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Zoo Station
- John Russell WWII Spy, Book 1
- De: David Downing
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent over a decade in Berlin, where his son lives with his mother. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported. But as World War II approaches, he faces having to leave his son as well as his girlfriend of several years, a beautiful German starlet. When an acquaintance from his old communist days approaches him to do some work for the Soviets, Russell is reluctant, but he is unable to resist the offer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall great listen!
- De Patricia en 02-28-24
De: David Downing
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Story of a Secret State
- Penguin Modern Classics
- De: Jan Karski
- Narrado por: Janusz Guttner
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 81
I do not pretend to have given an exhaustive picture of the Polish Underground, its organisation and its activities. Because of our methods, I believe that there is no one today who could give an all-embracing recital...This book is a purely personal story, my story. Jan Karski's Second World War memoir is a heroic act of witness: the courageous testimony of a man who risked everything for his country. First published in 1944, the book became an instant bestseller in the US while the war still raged in Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De David en 10-20-11
De: Jan Karski
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Babylon Berlin
- Gereon Rath, Book 1
- De: Volker Kutscher
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 221
Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, a job he detests even though he finds a new friend in his boss, Chief Inspector Wolter. There is seething unrest in the city, and the Commissioner of Police has ordered the vice squad to ruthlessly enforce the ban on May Day demonstrations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It's no Bernie Gunther Mystery ...
- De Brian English en 01-28-18
De: Volker Kutscher
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Lavender Road
- De: Helen Carey
- Narrado por: Annie Aldington
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker, a pub, two rows of terraced working class homes, and, at one end, the big house owned by the local brewer. When war breaks out, the lives and fortunes of the families who live in Lavender Road are changed out of all recognition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story with wonderful, believable characters!
- De Kathleen Bailey en 03-27-24
De: Helen Carey
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The Auschwitz Escape
- De: Joel C. Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,980
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,449
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,449
A terrible darkness has fallen upon Jacob Weisz’s beloved Germany. The Nazi regime, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, has surged to power and now hold Germany by the throat. All non-Aryans - especially Jews like Jacob and his family - are treated like dogs. When tragedy strikes during one terrible night of violence, Jacob flees and joins rebel forces working to undermine the regime. But after a raid goes horribly wrong, Jacob finds himself in a living nightmare - trapped in a crowded, stinking car on the train to the Auschwitz death camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing, horrifying, and heartwarming!
- De DebaDeb en 04-01-14
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The Kindly Ones
- De: Jonathan Littell
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 39 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 216
The chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Office politics in hell
- De Maine Colonial 🌲 en 04-02-13
De: Jonathan Littell
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The Patriots
- A Novel
- De: Sana Krasikov
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
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Nocturne
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 16 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elzunia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance. But the outbreak of war shatters all her dreams. As bombs fall, she meets Adam, a taciturn airman whose fate becomes entwined with hers. In despair over the occupation, Adam joins the Polish resistance, then flies bombers for the RAF.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Blech
- De Caroline H. en 02-20-11
De: Diane Armstrong
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A Christmas Journey
- De: Anne Perry
- Narrado por: Terrence Hardiman
- Duración: 3 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 906
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 830
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 824
It's Christmas and the well-born guests who have gathered at Applecross for a delicious weekend of relaxation are warmed by roaring fires, mistletoe, and gorgeously wrapped gifts. It's scarcely the setting for misfortune, and no one - not even that clever young aristocrat and budding sleuth Vespasia Cumming-Gould - anticipates the tragedy that is to darken this light-hearted holiday house party. But soon one young woman lies dead, a suicide, and Vespasia must uncover the heartbreaking truth behind the tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Never tire of Anne Perry
- De Joan en 12-22-17
De: Anne Perry
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Back Channel
- De: Stephen L. Carter
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
October, 1962, in Cuba: Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And, in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen - a 19-year-old Cornell sophomore - is swept up in a bizarre concatenation of circumstances that will make of her the back-channel liaison between Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Kennedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT spy thriller!
- De Mark en 12-04-16
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Code Name: Lise
- The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
- De: Larry Loftis
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,484
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,330
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,326
1942: World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and a plane crash later, she finally lands in occupied France to begin her mission. It is here that she meets her commanding officer, Captain Peter Churchill. As they successfully complete mission after mission, Peter and Odette fall in love. All the while, they are being hunted by the cunning German secret police sergeant, Hugo Bleicher, who finally succeeds in capturing them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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SKIP THE PROLOGUE!
- De Erica J. Conway en 09-17-19
De: Larry Loftis
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Season of Darkness
- De: Maureen Jennings
- Narrado por: Tom Craig
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Following the disastrous retreat of the British army from Dunkirk in 1940, England is plunged into a state of fear. The threat of a German invasion is real, and many German Nationals are interned in camps across the country. One such camp is on the ancient moor land of Prees Heath, near the small town of Whitchurch in Shropshire, where Tom Tyler is the sole detective inspector. Young women from all walks of life have joined the Land Army, to help desperate farmers keep the country fed. Then one turns up dead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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much better than average historical detective
- De connie en 09-30-12
De: Maureen Jennings
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The Eyre Affair
- A Thursday Next Novel
- De: Jasper Fforde
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,697
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,177
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,178
In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Worthy Read
- De chicagoalum en 01-21-10
De: Jasper Fforde
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Topaz
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba - and himself. A thrilling and well-paced novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A spy thriller in disguise
- De Shmuel M en 04-14-19
De: Leon Uris
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The Best of Our Spies
- Spy Masters, Book 1
- De: Alex Gerlis
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 784
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 697
France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy, and the liberation of Europe is under way. In the Pas-de-Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband, Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Kind of Spy Story
- De Linda Hanson en 01-11-16
De: Alex Gerlis
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- Allen Christopher
- 03-17-22
Fantastic book!!
A must read/listen!! great story!! A must for Ww2 and chess fans!! Narrator was very enjoyable to listen to!! Just a fantastic book!!
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