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Meet the heroes and villains who have become etched in the annuals of obscure history.
Did you know a woman signed the Declaration of Independence?
Have you heard about the explorer who tried to reach the North Pole via hot air balloon?
Did you know Eli Whitney had an invention even more important than the cotton gin—or did he?
Those are only three of the stories in this volume. Come with me to meet scientists and sailors, a hoax or two, champions and inventors—the spies, warriors, dogs, horses, artists, and criminals who have risen from the depths of obscure history to amuse and amaze us.
Take my hand to share a fascinating journey through obscure history’s dusty corridors. Lets have some fun!
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Fascinating Tales from Obscure History
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- Narrado por: James R. Olson
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Tales as you’ve never heard them before. In the dusty corners of history, you’ll find obscure stories about the men and women, just like you and me, whose names have been engraved in the annuals of time. Take my hand, and I’ll guide you on a fascinating journey through obscure history’s tales of inventions, sports, war, courage, crime, disasters, and more. Let’s have some fun!
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The Aviators
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- De: Winston Groom
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
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Fascinating Tales from Obscure History
- De: James R. Olson
- Narrado por: James R. Olson
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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Tales as you’ve never heard them before. In the dusty corners of history, you’ll find obscure stories about the men and women, just like you and me, whose names have been engraved in the annuals of time. Take my hand, and I’ll guide you on a fascinating journey through obscure history’s tales of inventions, sports, war, courage, crime, disasters, and more. Let’s have some fun!
De: James R. Olson
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The Aviators
- Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
- De: Winston Groom
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,989
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,977
Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the best-selling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond, including daring military raids and survival at sea, and will appeal to fans of Unbroken, The Greatest Generation, and Flyboys.
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How to Hide an Empire
- A History of the Greater United States
- De: Daniel Immerwahr
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,650
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,207
We are familiar with maps that outline all 50 states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire", exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories - the islands, atolls, and archipelagos - this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light.
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How to beat a straw man to death
- De Susan en 01-25-20
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One Summer
- America, 1927
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- Narrado por: Bill Bryson
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,600
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,058
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,041
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Why 1927?
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King Leopold's Ghost
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- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,971
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,634
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,635
In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and firearms. Correctly concluding that only slave labor could account for these cargoes, Morel almost singlehandedly made this slave-labor regime the premier human rights story in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
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Dutch Girl
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- De: Robert Matzen, Luca Dotti - foreword
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,623
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,312
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,299
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Flyboys
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- Narrado por: Author
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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Flyboys is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were captured by Japanese troops and taken prisoner. Another was rescued by an American submarine and went on to become president. The reality of what happened to the eight prisoners has remained a secret for almost 60 years.
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In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government.
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Did you know that there are actually 27 letters in the alphabet, or that the U.S. had a plan to invade Canada? And what actually happened to the flags left on the moon? Even if you think you have a handle on all things trivia, you're guaranteed a big surprise with Now I Know. From uncovering what happens to lost luggage to New York City's plan to crack down on crime by banning pinball, this book will challenge your knowledge of the fascinating stories behind the world's greatest facts.
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The Greatest Generation
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- Narrado por: Tom Brokaw
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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In this superb audiobook, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation. America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values- duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself.
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The Arsenal of Democracy
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- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
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The Arsenal of Democracy tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a “bomber an hour”. Critics scoffed: Ford didn’t make planes; they made simple, affordable cars. But bucking his father’s resistance, Edsel charged ahead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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- De Kindle Customer en 12-01-14
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The Other Side of Infamy
- My Journey through Pearl Harbor and the World of War
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- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
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War is uncomfortable for Christians, and worldwide war is unfamiliar for today's generations. Jim Downing reflects on his illustrious military career, including his experience during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to show how we can be people of faith during troubled times. The natural human impulse is to run from attack. Jim Downing - along with countless other soldiers and sailors at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 - ran toward it, fighting to rescue his fellow navy men, to protect loved ones and civilians on the island, and to find the redemptive path forward from a devastating war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sons and Soldiers
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In 1942 the US Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery of the German language, history, and customs. Known as the Ritchie Boys, they were sent in small, elite teams to join every major combat unit in Europe, where they interrogated German POWs and gathered crucial intelligence that saved American lives and helped win the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't put it down
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The Allies
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General5 out of 5 stars 148
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Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders - aligned to win World War II and created a new world order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
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De: Winston Groom
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Trail of Hope
- The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents
- De: Norman Davies
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of the Polish II Corps or "Anders Army", and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Allied forces. Complete with firsthand accounts from the men and women who lived through it, this is a unique record of one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of Polish peoples and never giving up hope for free Poland.
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Cuba Libre!
- Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
- De: Tony Perrottet
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 153
Historian and journalist Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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HUGE anti-commie here...
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De: Tony Perrottet
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Here Is Where
- Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
- De: Andrew Carroll
- Narrado por: Andrew Carroll
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll’s fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of America’s 50 states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous occurred.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Man who Loves his Country
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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain
- History's Unknown Chapters
- De: Giles Milton
- Narrado por: Giles Milton
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 325
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The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from the past. There's the cook aboard the Titanic, who pickled himself with whiskey and survived in the icy seas where most everyone else died. There's the man who survived the atomic bomb in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And there's many, many more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quite entertaining
- De Gunther en 08-05-16
De: Giles Milton
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An interesting mix of fun and serious facts that keep the listener engaged and glad they listened.
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