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War of Attrition
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The Great War of 1914-1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, 100 years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war.
Drawing on the experience of front-line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians, and diplomats, War of Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict was fought as it was fought, as well as how the attitudes and actions of political and military leaders, and the willing responses of their peoples, stamped the 20th century with unprecedented carnage on - and behind - the battlefield.
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For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and occupation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thorough and scholarly
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By: Ben H. Shepherd
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Britain's War
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The most terrible emergency in Britain's history, the Second World War, required an unprecedented national effort. An exhausted country had to fight an unexpectedly long war and found itself much diminished amongst the victors. The outcome of the war was nonetheless a triumph, not least for a political system that proved well adapted to the demands of a total conflict and for a population who had to make many sacrifices but who were spared most of the horrors experienced in the rest of Europe.
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Great Performance, Biased with out a warning!
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For the Common Defense, 3rd Edition
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- Narrated by: John Pruden
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Called "the preeminent survey of American military history" by Russell F. Weigley, America's foremost military historian, For the Common Defense is an essential contribution to the field of military history. This third edition provides the most complete and current history of United States defense policy and military institutions and the conduct of America's wars. Without diminishing the value of its earlier editions, authors Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis provide a fresh perspective on the continuing issues that characterize national security policy.
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thanks audible
- By JM on 09-15-18
By: Allan R. Millett, and others
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The Splintered Empires
- The Eastern Front 1917-21
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
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Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.
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- By Elizabeth on 02-27-20
By: Prit Buttar
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The Allure of Battle
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- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive". Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt - all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking".
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2 out of 5 stars
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By: Cathal J. Nolan
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Three Armies on the Somme
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On July 1, 1916, British and French forces launched the first attack on the German armies lined up along the Somme in what was to become the defining battle of World War I. To this day, July 1 is often remembered for being the bloodiest day in British military history. Indeed, the British suffered some 62,000 casualties in that one day of fighting alone. As gruesome as that statistic is, it's just one of the many dark legacies left by the Somme Offensive.
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Nomonhan: Why Japan Demurred
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Kiev 1941
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- By: David Stahel
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 184
In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II and, for Hitler and Stalin, a battle of crucial importance. For the first time, David Stahel charts the battle's dramatic course and aftermath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The book you must read on Hitler's War with Russia
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By: David Stahel
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Deathride
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- By: John Mosier
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 135
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Story4 out of 5 stars 139
John Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front. The conventional wisdom is that Hitler was mad to think he could defeat the USSR, because of its vast size and population, and that the Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of the war. Neither statement is accurate, says Mosier; Hitler came very close to winning outright.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Speaking the un-speakable
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By: John Mosier
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Supreme Command
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 161
The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show, the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen - Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion - to reveal the surprising answer - the politicians. The generals may think they know how to win, but the statesmen are the ones who see the big picture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dated material
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By: Eliot A. Cohen
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The Cambridge History of Warfare
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe beginning with classical Greece and Rome, moving through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the 21st century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too anglocentric
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Instrument of War
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- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by - yet also defeated by - warfare in the modern age, that struggled to capitalize on its victories, and ultimately forgot the lessons of its defeat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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German Side Of WW1
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Haig's Enemy
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- By: Jonathan Boff
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne. In Haig's Enemy, Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war - the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful look inside dysfunctional WW1 Germany
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By: Jonathan Boff
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Collision of Empires
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- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book non-fiction book ever on the Eastern Front in 1914
- By HistoricalReader on 01-31-18
By: Prit Buttar
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George Washington’s Military Genius
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- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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George Washington’s military strategy has been called bumbling at worst and brilliant at best. So which is it? Was George Washington a strategic genius or just lucky? So asks Dave R. Palmer in George Washington’s Military Genius. An updated edition of Palmer’s earlier work, The Way of the Fox, George Washington’s Military Genius breaks down the American Revolution into four phases and analyzes Washington’s strategy during each.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Genius
- By John on 08-08-22
By: Dave R. Palmer
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To End All Wars
- A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of personalities
- By Tad Davis on 06-09-11
By: Adam Hochschild
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The Last Battle
- Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I
- By: Peter Hart
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Much has been made of - and written about - August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918 and the lead-up to November. Because of the fixation on the Great War's opening moves and the great battles that followed over the course of the next four years, the endgame seems to come as a stunning anticlimax. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the guns simply fell silent. The Last Battle definitively corrects this misperception. As Hart shows, a number of factors precipitated the Armistice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Is it over yet?
- By Rick B on 11-17-20
By: Peter Hart
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Pax Romana
- War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World
- By: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 464
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Pax Romana examines how the Romans came to control so much of the world and asks whether traditionally favorable images of the Roman peace are true. Goldsworthy vividly recounts the rebellions of the conquered and examines why they broke out, why most failed, and how they became exceedingly rare. He reveals that hostility was just one reaction to the arrival of Rome and that from the outset, conquered peoples collaborated, formed alliances, and joined invaders, causing resistance movements to fade away.
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2 out of 5 stars
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2 stars if youve read goldsworthy; 2.5 or 3 if not
- By fm2 on 10-21-16
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The Rules of the Game
- Jutland and British Naval Command
- By: Andrew Gordon, Sir John Woodward - foreword
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics, but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often-described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely fascinating dissection of naval strategy
- By A personal on 09-25-21
By: Andrew Gordon, and others
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- Dennis
- 09-15-14
A Factual account of misguided actions
What did you love best about War of Attrition?
I am a history buff and I had no idea of just how horrific this war was. The first modern war was fought with outdated generals and politicans who were truly clueless of the cost in human suffering
Who was your favorite character and why?
I kind of like the British Lord Kittchner and the Frech Gen who figured out how to win after millions were needlessly killed
Have you listened to any of Derek Perkins’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Mr Perkins is a great factual reader who brings a degree of logic to a senseless situation
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
After reading the book I couldn't go to a movie, it would be too painful to know that millions died due to complete stupity Sorry
Any additional comments?
I did enjoy the book with a cast of Millions who never made it back home this was an eye opener to the fact "You don't win this War fighting the same as the Last one"
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Roo
- 07-14-15
Decent WW1 book
While not a gripping account of the war, it's an excellent explanation for the character of the war.
Attrition. Body count. Material production. Courage on the battlefield is not a factor, morale is. The war is a meat grinder, and the generals who realized how to fight and win an attritional war, are the heroes.
The leaders thinking in outmoded terms of valour and élan...are the ones responsible for the worst decisions.
Offensives only work with a vast expenditure of material, mostly artillery shells, for limited objectives. The losses of 1916 are presented as achieving a great deal; they led to German attrition on a large scale.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Adam S.
- 04-21-15
Military History
Gave it a shot after after Wall Street journal gave it a best non fiction award. It was. Little dull for me, the military history was just too vague. I wanted
more specifics.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Marc
- 05-24-23
Deep Analysis of the War
Deep analysis of the various ways attrition played a part in the great war. Gives good insight into the thinking and though process of the various leaders and generals of the war. Showing how the war evolved along with the new types of attrition it created. Narration was very good and the vocabulary of the author was very enjoyable.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Jeffrey W. Hunt
- 05-08-23
Excellent
Very engaging, thoughtful, outstanding read and reading. Highly recommended to any student of World War 1.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- G. Collins
- 08-21-16
One of the most boring books that I have ever read
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Only a World War One specialized historian and even in that category I'm doubtful. This 17 chapter books outlook could be summarized in one chapter. This book was extremely tiring to listen to.
Would you ever listen to anything by William Philpott again?
I don't think so. It wasn't the narrator. No narrator could save this book. Because I waited so long to listen to it I didn't apply for a refund but I should have. I can't recommend this book to anyone. And, I AM interested in World War I.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
Nothing could have saved it.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Not much.
Any additional comments?
Avoid this book.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- BMC
- 08-05-14
Confusing and disorganized
Any additional comments?
I recently listened to A World Undone and loved it. I was hoping to see WWI from a different perspective and thus broaden my understanding of its history. This book is not very well organized the characters are presented with little or no back ground. The author uses very few original quotes and makes statements without backing them with evidence or quotations.
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