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McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the center of events in Derry which first brought Northern Ireland to world attention. He witnessed the gradual transformation of the civil rights movement from a mild campaign for “British Democracy” to an all-out military assault on the British state.
This book describes the people involved in the war, gives an account of the springs of the "Catholic" opposition, tells what their world was like and how their background affected the daily conduct of events. McCann gets beyond the rhetoric of the organized groups to the real people involved - people who are not so different from those in any other British town.
©1974, 2018 Eamonn McCann. Introduction to Haymarket edition: Eamonn McCann (P)2018 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral histories to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting - to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age from both sides.
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Decent historical compilation, poor framing
- De Dan Harris en 07-08-20
De: Ian Black
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Modern Times
- The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 37 h y 53 m
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Beginning with May 29, 1919, when photographs of the solar eclipse confirmed the truth of Einstein's theory of relativity, Johnson goes on to describe Freudianism, the establishment of the first Marxist state, the chaos of "Old Europe", the Arcadian 20s, and the new forces in China and Japan. Also discussed are Karl Marx, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Roosevelt, Gandhi, Castro, Kennedy, Nixon, the '29 crash, the Great Depression, Roosevelt's New Deal, and the massive conflict of World War II.
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The Anti-Howard Zinn
- De Pork C. Fish en 05-22-12
De: Paul Johnson
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1848
- Year of Revolution
- De: Mike Rapport
- Narrado por: Hugh Kermode
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 - but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom. Political events so dramatic had not been seen in Europe since the French Revolution, and they would not be witnessed again until 1989, with the revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe.
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1848 by Mike Rapport
- De Aria Amirbahman en 02-07-22
De: Mike Rapport
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- De: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 38 h y 47 m
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Volume One of Stalin begins and ends in January 1928 as Stalin boards a train bound for Siberia, about to embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He is now the ruler of the largest country in the world, but a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. In Siberia, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted.
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Excellent Book But First Time Listener Beware
- De Nostromo en 03-23-15
De: Stephen Kotkin
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The Partition of Ireland and the Troubles: The History of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to the Good Friday Agreement
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Colin Fluxman
- Duración: 1 h y 50 m
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The Partition of Ireland and the Troubles: The History of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to the Good Friday Agreement analyzes the tumultuous events that marked the creation of Northern Ireland, and the conflicts fueled by the partition. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Northern Ireland like never before.
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The Partition and the Troubles, slightly biased
- De J. Dalton en 05-19-19
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A History of Modern Britain
- De: Andrew Marr
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 29 h y 59 m
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A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade political leaders think they know what they are doing but find themselves confounded. Every time the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted.
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Masterful in focus, pace, content, performance
- De Philo en 11-10-16
De: Andrew Marr
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Hitler
- De: Joachim C. Fest, Richard Winstton - translator, Clara Winstton - translator
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 41 h y 22 m
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This masterful biography by one of Germany’s best known journalists was the leading nonfiction best seller in Germany. Fest shows Hitler as the receptacle of the dreads and resentments of a shaken social order, gifted with an uncanny instinct for all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Though a warped human being, he was neither clown nor puppet, as many liked to think; Hitler appears here as an enormously astute politician, impressing and hypnotizing Germans and foreigners alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Fest uncovers in Hitler a constantly destructive personality....
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Should be part of high school education
- De Rex Riethmeier en 12-25-18
De: Joachim C. Fest, y otros
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The French Revolution
- From Enlightenment to Tyranny
- De: Ian Davidson
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality, and authority. Yet it remains an elusive, perplexing historical event. Its significance morphs according to the sympathies of the viewer, who may see it as a series of gory tableaux, a regrettable slide into uncontrolled anarchy - or a radical reshaping of the political landscape. In this riveting new book, Ian Davidson provides a fresh look at this vital moment in European history. He reveals how it was an immensely complicated and multifaceted revolution....
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superficial; trite
- De David Hart en 04-25-19
De: Ian Davidson
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Ben-Gurion
- A Political Life
- De: Shimon Peres, David Landau
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Shimon Peres was in his early 20s when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the "Old Man", as he was called even then, was already a mythic figure. Peres, who came of age in the cabinets of Ben-Gurion, is uniquely placed to evoke this figure of stirring contradictions - a prophetic visionary and a canny pragmatist who early grasped the necessity of compromise for national survival.
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Great Perfomance, Less than Stellar Story
- De Alexander en 01-02-12
De: Shimon Peres, y otros
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Hitler
- A Biography
- De: Ian Kershaw
- Narrado por: Alan Robertson
- Duración: 46 h y 15 m
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Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.
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An Excellent Read
- De Rodney en 09-19-13
De: Ian Kershaw
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Cursed Victory
- Israel and the Occupied Territories; A History
- De: Ahron Bregman
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief but pivotal Six Day War. Cursed Victory is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath—a military occupation of the Palestinian territories that is now well into its fifth decade. The audiobook provides a gripping and unvarnished chronicle of how what Israel promised would be an "enlightened occupation" quickly turned sour and the anguished diplomatic attempts to bring it to an end.
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Largely just the diplomatic history
- De Norman B. Bernstein en 09-28-15
De: Ahron Bregman
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Hitler
- Ascent 1889-1939
- De: Volker Ullrich
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 34 h y 46 m
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For all the literature about Adolf Hitler, there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood, to his failures as a young man in Vienna, to his experiences during the First World War, to his rise as a far-right party leader.
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Worthwhile if you haven't read a Hitler biography
- De Joshua en 11-03-16
De: Volker Ullrich
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Democracy
- Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
- De: Condoleezza Rice
- Narrado por: Grace Angela Henry
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy.
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A Case for Democracy
- De Jean en 05-18-17
De: Condoleezza Rice
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Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace
- De: Feargal Cochrane
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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After two decades of relative peace following the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the Brexit referendum in 2016 reopened the Northern Ireland question. In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane considers the region's troubled history, from the struggle for Irish independence in the 19th century to the present.
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Excellent. Provides great clarity to those familiar and unfamiliar with the topic.
- De Patrick S. Miller en 02-07-25