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The Road Less Traveled
- The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
- Narrado por: Philip Zelikow
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
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During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides - Germany, Britain, and America - believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would have saved millions of lives and changed the course of history utterly.
Two years into the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the warring powers faced a crisis. There were no good military options. Money, men, and supplies were running short on all sides. The German chancellor secretly sought President Woodrow Wilson's mediation to end the war, just as British ministers and France's president also concluded that the time was right. The Road Less Traveled describes how tantalizingly close these far-sighted statesmen came to ending the war, saving millions of lives, and avoiding the total war that dimmed hopes for a better world. Theirs was a secret battle that is only now becoming fully understood, a story of civic courage, awful responsibility, and how some leaders rose to the occasion while others shrank from it or chased other ambitions.
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On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. Appeasement is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy, and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I cannot tolerate the narrator
- De DrBCFR en 06-05-19
De: Tim Bouverie
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The Nazi Menace
- Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
- De: Benjamin Carter Hett
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Eastern Europe. Some generals are unnerved by the Führer’s grandiose plan, but these dissenters are silenced one by one, setting in motion events that will culminate in the most calamitous war in history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bad Melodramatic Reading
- De Tess en 08-18-20
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Yalta
- The Price of Peace
- De: S. M. Plokhy
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 22 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Award-winning Harvard historian S.M. Plokhy delivers a “convincing revisionist analysis” ( Publishers Weekly) of the February 1945 Yalta conference. Bolstered by Soviet wiretaps, Plokhy’s engrossing narrative of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR’s negotiations reveals the West did better than previously thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The depth and breadth of understanding
- De Robin LaCorte en 06-27-19
De: S. M. Plokhy
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Europe's Last Summer
- De: David Fromkin
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 339
The early summer of 1914 was the most glorious Europeans could remember. But, behind the scenes, the most destructive war the world had yet known was moving inexorably into being, a war that would continue to resonate into the 21st century. The question of how the Great War of 1914 began has long vexed historians. In a gripping narrative, Fromkin shows that hostilities were started deliberately and that two wars were waged, one serving as pretext for the other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A different take on the events leading to the Great War
- De Chris en 09-04-20
De: David Fromkin
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Watching Darkness Fall
- FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
- De: David McKean
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 26
As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the US Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau. As German forces closed in on the French capital, Bullitt wrote the president, "In case I should get blown up before I see you again, I want you to know that it has been marvelous to work for you."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent and Meticulous…
- De Anonymous User en 03-09-23
De: David McKean
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Ike's Gamble
- America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
- De: Michael Doran
- Narrado por: Casey Jones
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take possession of the Suez Canal, thereby bringing the Middle East to the brink of war. The British and the French, who operated the canal, joined with Israel in a plan to retake it by force. Despite the special relationship between England and America, Dwight Eisenhower intervened to stop the invasion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tightly Argued
- De Jean en 01-10-17
De: Michael Doran
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Kissinger: Volume I
- 1923-1968: The Idealist
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 34 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 226
No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super-K" - the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama - he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every "telcon" for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial biography, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De Jean en 11-10-15
De: Niall Ferguson
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The China Mission
- De: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 364
As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission - this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Previously Untold Story of a Failed Mission
- De Jonathan Love en 05-29-18
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Master of the Game
- Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
- De: Martin Indyk
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 25 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
More than 20 years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Martin Indyk - a former United States ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013 - has experienced these political frustrations and disappointments firsthand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sad in its lack of creativity
- De Uri Pilichowski en 11-16-21
De: Martin Indyk
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How Wars End
- Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
- De: Gideon Rose
- Narrado por: Gideon Rose
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning victories both times, and yet still be woefully unprepared for the aftermath? Because Americans always forget the political aspects of war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- De Luis en 11-04-10
De: Gideon Rose
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Camelot's Court
- Inside the Kennedy White House
- De: Robert Dallek
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographer", delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors, their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles. In Camelot's Court, Dallek analyzes the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration - including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam - were indelible.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well Researched but Critically Flawed
- De brent lloyd en 02-08-22
De: Robert Dallek
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Ministers at War
- Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet
- De: Jonathan Schneer
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 235
In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the king reluctantly appointed prime minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great 20th-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years as he worked tirelessly first to rally his country and then to defeat Hitler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Welcome addition to the literature of World War II
- De Mike From Mesa en 05-02-15
De: Jonathan Schneer
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Potsdam
- The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
- De: Michael Neiberg
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce. Britain was bankrupt while Germany had been reduced to rubble. In July 1945, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered in a quiet suburb of Berlin to negotiate a lasting peace - a peace that would finally put an end to the conflagration that had started in 1914, a peace under which Europe could be rebuilt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Richly told and entertaining.
- De John Kaiser en 06-20-15
De: Michael Neiberg
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The Ambassador
- Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
- De: Susan Ronald
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs a bit of editing
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-02-21
De: Susan Ronald
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The Mantle of Command
- FDR at War, 1941–1942
- De: Nigel Hamilton
- Narrado por: Brad Sanders
- Duración: 20 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR’s masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes listeners inside FDR’s White House Oval Study - his personal command center - and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and tactics and overrode the near mutinies of his own generals and secretary of war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Terrible Narration
- De Ross Mackey en 04-11-22
De: Nigel Hamilton
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The War That Ended Peace
- The Road to 1914
- De: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 31 h y 58 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 865
From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Detailed review of 1882 to 1914
- De smarmer en 04-06-14
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Road Less Traveled
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- Josiah Olsson
- 03-16-24
If Only…
This was a book on the potential to end WWI by 1917, with Wilson and the U.S. being the mediators for this peace. This was more of a political and diplomatic work on WWI, rather than stories of battles or soldiers. It was well researched and thought out. A good work for those interested in WWI history. A “What if?” of history that will never be known.
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