Cairo 1921
Ten Days That Made the Middle East
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The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East
Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as part of the Sherifian Solution and confirmed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine—the future state of Israel. No other conference had such an enduring impact on the region.
C. Brad Faught demonstrates how the conference, although dominated by the British with limited local participation, was an ambitious, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to move the Middle East into the world of modern nationalism. Faught reveals that many officials, including T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, were driven by the determination for state building in the area to succeed. Their prejudices, combined with their abilities, would profoundly alter the Middle East for decades to come.
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- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still A Great Book On The Topic
- De Nostromo en 02-03-19
De: David Fromkin
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The Sleepwalkers
- How Europe Went to War in 1914
- De: Christopher Clark
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 24 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 890
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The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting take on a complex problem
- De Steve en 01-24-15
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De Gaulle
- De: Julian Jackson
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 41 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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In a definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures this titanic figure as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and resources of the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he reveals how this volatile visionary put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Extremely British approach to de Gaulle
- De Keith en 05-31-19
De: Julian Jackson
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The War That Ended Peace
- The Road to 1914
- De: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 31 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 998
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 901
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From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Detailed review of 1882 to 1914
- De smarmer en 04-06-14
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Goebbels: A Biography
- De: Peter Longerich, Alan Bance - translator, Jeremy Noakes - translator, y otros
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 28 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 279
In life and in his grisly family suicide, Goebbels was one of Hitler's most loyal acolytes. Though powerful in the party and in wartime Germany, Longerich's Goebbels is a man dogged by insecurities and consumed by his fierce adherence to the Nazi cause. Longerich engages and challenges the careful self-portrait that Goebbels left behind in his diaries, and, as he delves deep into the mind of Hitler's master propagandist, Longerich discovers firsthand how the Nazi message was conceived. This complete portrait of the man behind the message is sure to become a standard for historians and students of the Holocaust for years to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Account of the Private Goebbels, But...
- De Derek en 05-29-15
De: Peter Longerich, y otros
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Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris
- De: Ian Kershaw
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 28 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 591
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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. Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit in his thirty-year ascent from a Viennese shelter for the indigent to uncontested rule over the German nation that had tried and rejected democracy in the crippling aftermath of World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The heart of evil
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-20-14
De: Ian Kershaw
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Ministers at War
- Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet
- De: Jonathan Schneer
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 236
In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the king reluctantly appointed prime minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great 20th-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years as he worked tirelessly first to rally his country and then to defeat Hitler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Welcome addition to the literature of World War II
- De Mike From Mesa en 05-02-15
De: Jonathan Schneer
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Ike's Gamble
- America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
- De: Michael Doran
- Narrado por: Casey Jones
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take possession of the Suez Canal, thereby bringing the Middle East to the brink of war. The British and the French, who operated the canal, joined with Israel in a plan to retake it by force. Despite the special relationship between England and America, Dwight Eisenhower intervened to stop the invasion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tightly Argued
- De Jean en 01-10-17
De: Michael Doran
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 728
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Hitler
- A Biography
- De: Ian Kershaw
- Narrado por: Alan Robertson
- Duración: 46 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 746
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent Read
- De Rodney en 09-19-13
De: Ian Kershaw
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The Maisky Diaries
- Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
- De: Gabriel Gorodetsky
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 24 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records, let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from Maisky's diary grippingly documents Britain's drift to war during the 1930s, appeasement in the Munich era, negotiations leading to the signature of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative look at the Soviet perspective
- De Mike From Mesa en 03-17-16
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Potsdam
- The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
- De: Michael Neiberg
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 470
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 409
After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce. Britain was bankrupt while Germany had been reduced to rubble. In July 1945, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered in a quiet suburb of Berlin to negotiate a lasting peace - a peace that would finally put an end to the conflagration that had started in 1914, a peace under which Europe could be rebuilt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Richly told and entertaining.
- De John Kaiser en 06-20-15
De: Michael Neiberg
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The Duel
- The 80-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler
- De: John Lukacs
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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This is a day-by-day account of the 80-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler, poised on the edge of absolute victory, and Churchill, threatened by imminent invasion and defeat.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The most aggravating history lecture ever
- De Sidney en 12-31-08
De: John Lukacs
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- De: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 127
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In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what I bargained for
- De Alexander Crowell en 08-21-20
De: Herbert P. Bix
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Kissinger: Volume I
- 1923-1968: The Idealist
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 34 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super-K" - the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama - he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every "telcon" for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial biography, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De Jean en 11-10-15
De: Niall Ferguson