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Surviving Katyń
- Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
- Narrated by: Jane Rogoyska
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's summary
The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses.
Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly 50 years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake - the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators - whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.
Critic reviews
“A gripping reconstruction of one of the most gruesome and haunting crimes of the Second World War. Jane Rogoyska’s sensitive yet dispassionate use of the harrowing evidence provided by victims, perpetrators and survivors makes for utterly compelling reading, and lays bare its toxic legacy.” (Adam Zamoyski, author of Poland: A History)
“A well-researched and beautifully written narrative of the appalling fate of the Polish officers captured by the Soviets in 1939 and massacred in 1940. Through the testimony of the few survivors and the investigators, Jane Rogoyska brings to life the suffering of the Poles which continued for decades after the war as Soviet culpability for the crime was denied across the world.” (Halik Kochanski, author of The Eagle Unbowed)
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- Justin Sluka
- 05-26-23
A well written history of my ancestors
That title isn't even hyperbole - my great grandfather, Antoni Swiercz, a veteran of the Polish-Soviet war, was one of the men executed in Katyn. Growing up, I had heard my grandmother's account of what happened to him insofar that he was arrested... but nothing beyond that.
Surviving Katyn does a wonderful job of illustrating the full history of the men arrested by the NKVD, and exposing the truth to the reader in the same way that the Polish people found out about it - long after relations "normalized".
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- J.Brock
- 10-20-21
Beyond Riveting
The Katyn massacre is one of the most appalling crimes in history. This in-depth study provides all one could hope to know about the crime and the aftermath. It’s truly a marvel. Jane Rogoyska has outdone herself and she narrates it beautifully. What a work.
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- Ron
- 03-15-22
a remarkable and important book.
my only 'criticism ' is that this is the type of book that needs referring back and forth and so, perhaps, isn't best suited a audio format. I will be buying a text version as well.
this book is even more poignant given the current war in Ukraine.
I originally came upon this book because my father in law, now deceased, was a teen who grew up near Vinnytsia during the war years. he would NOT talk about his youth or the war. he slept with a bayonet under his pillow until his death.
now that I have more understanding of the horror of what living through Operation Barbarossa and the push/return of the Nazis and Soviets through his homescape during those years and of the nearness of the death camps in Eastern Poland. it is no wonder he couldn't speak of this. May he finally rest in peace.
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- Mrs S Weatherburn
- 01-13-22
A great accompaniment to the book.
I would wholly recommend this audio version of Jane Rogoyska’s book, read by herself, if you are not Polish.
Her pronunciation of names and places were invaluable to me.
It has taken me 10 weeks to finish this epic, but I am so glad that I have persevered. The detail and research is amazing, but the topic is deeply harrowing.
Jane Rogoyska has put together a historic record of the details of the secret murder thousands of Polish Officers in 1940, and the complex lies that were told by the Soviet Union’s secret police to cover up what they had done.
Linking her writing to recent revelations uncovered by historians in the past few years, the author reminds the listener,in her conclusion, of fake news and a complex spiders web of truth and untruth!
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- gillian perry-keene
- 06-01-21
An excellent history
Part of WW2 history about which I knew very little.
It was interesting and presented in a very balanced way and without extreme predudice.
Our much loved polish population arrived for reasons different to the Nazi reasons that I thought
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A work of remarkable scholarship that moves with the swift pace of a John le Carre thriller, A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich is a chilling addition to the literature of espionage. In 1943, a young official named Fritz Kolbe from the German foreign ministry arranged to meet with Allen Dulles, then an OSS officer in Switzerland and later the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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100% very good
- By Coco on 06-11-07
By: Lucas Delattre
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Che Guevara
- A Revolutionary Life
- By: Jon Lee Anderson
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Che Guevara was a dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson traces Che's extraordinary life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and his assassination in the Bolivian jungle.
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Encompassing and Fair Look at an Historical Man
- By Matt on 08-10-11
By: Jon Lee Anderson
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Exorcising Hitler
- The Occupation and Denazification of Germany
- By: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Exorcising Hitler, Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's year zero and what came after. Despite almost total destruction, a combination of conservatism, enterprise and pragmatism in relation to former Nazis enabled the economic miracle of the 1950s. And we see how it was only when the '60s generation (the children of the Nazi era) began to question their parents with increasing violence that Germany began to awake from its sleep cure.
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Into a conquered nation
- By Adeliese Baumann on 03-30-13
By: Frederick Taylor
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Goering
- The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader
- By: Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use firsthand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking in Hitler's shadows. After rising through the ranks of the German army, Hermann Goering became Hitler's right hand man and was hand-picked to head the Luftwaffe, one of history's most feared fighting forces. As he rose in power, though, Goering became disillusioned and was eventually shunned from Hitler's inner circle.
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POWER HUNGRY
- By Danielle M Brown on 07-01-20
By: Roger Manvell, and others
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Crucible
- The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- By: Charles Emmerson
- Narrated by: Charles Emmerson
- Length: 25 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home. An Austrian war veteran trained by the German army to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. A solar eclipse turns a former patent clerk into a celebrity. An American reporter living the high life in Paris searches out a new literary style.
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Splendid in all respects
- By Paul Custer on 02-11-20
By: Charles Emmerson
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Mengele
- The Complete Story
- By: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession).
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ONE OF THE WORST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ
- By PAUL on 08-02-20
By: Gerald Posner, and others
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Lenin on the Train
- By: Catherine Merridale
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. To lead the revolt, Lenin needed to return to Petrograd immediately. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest of Russia's adversaries and betraying his homeland.
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Deteriorates into Unhinged Lenin-Bashing
- By Ike Nahem on 03-18-19
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the 20th century’s blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic.
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Held my interest for 57 hours and 13 minutes
- By Jonnie on 11-08-10
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- By: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Nostromo on 03-23-15
By: Stephen Kotkin
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The Quiet Americans
- Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling their fascinating lives, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies. Despite their ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.
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A Tragedy for One
- By Amazon Customer on 09-23-20
By: Scott Anderson
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The Gestapo
- A History of Horror
- By: Jacques Delarue, Mervyn Savill - translator
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art. The Gestapo: A History of Horror draws upon Delarue's interviews with ex-Gestapo agents to deliver a multi-layered history of the force whose work included killing student resisters, establishing Aryan eugenic unions, and implementing the Final Solution.
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Once read never fogotten!!
- By Peter M. O'Handley on 04-27-13
By: Jacques Delarue, and others
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The Wolves at the Door
- The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy
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