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Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the 20th century's 100 best nonfiction books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world.
This brilliant work illuminates the trauma and tragedy of modern warfare in fresh, revelatory ways. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who - with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning - most effectively memorialized World War I as a historical experience.
Dispensing with literary theory and elevated rhetoric, Fussell grounds literary texts in the mud and trenches of World War I and shows how these poems, diaries, novels, and letters reflected the massive changes - in every area, including language itself - brought about by the cataclysm of the Great War.
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Hero Within (Rev. & Expanded Ed.)
- De: Carol S. Pearson
- Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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A modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawing from literature, anthropology, and psychology, author Carol S. Pearson clearly defines six heroic archetypes—the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, the Warrior, the Altruist, and the Magician—and shows how we can use these powerful guides to discover our own hidden gifts, solve difficult problems, and transform our lives with rich sources of inner strength.
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Life changing journey while listening to this book.
- De SamLan en 04-07-24
De: Carol S. Pearson
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The Unfathomable Ascent
- How Hitler Came to Power
- De: Peter Ross Range
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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On the night of January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich chancellery in Berlin, bursting with joy. The moment seemed unbelievable, even to Hitler. After an improbable political journey that came close to faltering on many occasions, his march to power had finally succeeded. While the path of Hitler's rise has been told in books covering larger portions of his life, no previous work has focused solely on his eight-year climb to rule: 1925-1933.
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The best account of Hitler’s rise to power.
- De Deal W. Hudson en 08-26-20
De: Peter Ross Range
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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- De: Laurence Rees
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
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Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed.
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Biased in favor of capitalism
- De Gerald Paduano en 04-10-21
De: Laurence Rees
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This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories
- Turner Classic Movies
- De: Carla Valderrama
- Narrado por: Carla Valderrama
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world's first movie star. Clark Gable's secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman's career. A former child star who, at 93, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking.
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Hollywood Fun
- De Ernie D. Casciato en 01-06-21
De: Carla Valderrama
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Being and Time
- De: Martin Heidegger
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain, Taylor Carman
- Duración: 23 h y 18 m
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Being and Time was published in 1927 during the Weimar period in Germany, a time of political, social and economic turmoil. Heidegger himself did not escape the pressures and his nationalism, and undeniable anti-Semitism in the following decades cast a shadow over the man, but not the work. Being and Time is not coloured by expressions of his later views (unlike other writings) and remains an outstanding document.
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Surprised it works as audio
- De Anonymous en 02-02-20
De: Martin Heidegger
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1453
- The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's listenable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the 57th emperor of Byzantium, illuminates the period in history that was a precursor to the current jihad between the West and the Middle East.
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A well written narrative with bizarre and biased commentary
- De Patrick D. Flynn en 08-17-17
De: Roger Crowley
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Murder Your Darlings
- And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
- De: Roy Peter Clark
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Stephen King would be more appropriate. Then again, what about the classics - Strunk and White, or even Aristotle himself? In Murder Your Darlings, Roy Peter Clark, who has been a beloved and revered writing teacher to children and Pulitzer Prize winners alike for more than 30 years, has compiled a remarkable collection of more than 100 of the best writing tips.
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Surprisingly engaging
- De Sil A. en 08-05-21
De: Roy Peter Clark
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Curious
- The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
- De: Ian Leslie
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Everyone is born curious. But only some retain the habits of exploring, learning, and discovering as they grow older. Those who do so tend to be smarter, more creative, and more successful. But at the very moment when the rewards of curiosity have never been higher, it is misunderstood and undervalued, and increasingly monopolized by the cognitive elite. A "curiosity divide" is opening up.
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Bazinga
- De Davidgonzalezsr en 06-13-25
De: Ian Leslie
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Final Verdict
- The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
- De: Tobias Buck
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.
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Excellent.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-08-24
De: Tobias Buck
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Palestine 1936
- The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
- De: Oren Kessler
- Narrado por: Shawn K. Jain
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict. The revolt was the crucible in which Palestinian identity coalesced, uniting all in a single struggle for independence. Yet the rebellion would ultimately turn on itself. British forces' aggressive counterinsurgency took care of the rest, finally quashing the uprising on the eve of World War II.
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Who is this narrator?
- De Rachel S. en 09-23-24
De: Oren Kessler
Audio not great for first time reader.
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Best book ever
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Pointless
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Unfortunately, the narrator completely misses the tone of the work in his excessively theatrical, overdramatized interpretation that would be more appropriate on a live stage than in this work of such serious intent.
In short, this is a work of thought-provoking content inappropriately narrated.
Fascinating Material, Awful Narration
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