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“You don't want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs.” (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)
Welcome to the Middle East, where Israel and her neighbors have been engaged in diplomatic and military conflicts for nearly 64 years, with roots in the disputes dating back over 2,000 years of history. Founded in May 1948, Israel faced annihilation from the moment the state declared independence, finding itself invaded by Arab armies hoping to put an end to it before it had barely been born.
Israel has since grown into the region’s strongest military power, but it continues to face existential threats that leave its position perilous in ways more dangerous than any it has faced in more than 40 years. In fact, the world has been on edge for months over the standoff between Israel and Iran. With Iran seemingly racing toward a nuclear bomb and showing no signs of relenting, all eyes are on the two sides' covert shadow war (including assassinations and cyber warfare) and ultimately whether Israel and/or the US will use force to stop them.
In Israel and Her Enemies, the authors of Decoding the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians recount the history of all the conflicts between Israel and her neighbors, while also getting listeners up to speed on where things stand now between Israel and nations like Iran and Syria, as well as relations between Israel and substate groups like Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and Hezbollah.
Along with analysis and anecdotes of important events and people, Israel and Her Enemies is the perfect starting point for understanding how the Middle East conflicts have gotten to where they are at today and what the future may hold.
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There was a time when Israel could do no wrong in America's eyes. That time is long past, and justly so - no nation is absolutely perfect, particularly not one that is engaged in a conflict as long as the Arab-Israeli conflict. But the myth of the perfect Israel has been supplanted by a far more deleterious myth: the myth of the evil Israel. This new myth has so pervaded contemporary culture that the history of Israel - as well documented as it is - has been recast and retold to fit a false narrative of Israel as violent occupier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent summary of Israeli point if view
- De Mendy en 08-12-18
De: David Brog
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The Vietnam War: History in an Hour
- De: Neil Smith
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 1 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 158
History for busy people. Listen to a concise history of the Vietnam War in just one hour. War, what is it good for? The Vietnam War: History In an Hour gives a gripping account of the most important Cold War-era conflict, fought between the United States and the Viet Cong, the Vietnam People’s Army and their Communist allies. It was one of the most traumatic military conflicts America has ever been involved in – and provoked a backlash of anti-war protests at home.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Garbage
- De Michael en 08-06-12
De: Neil Smith
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Vietnam War: A Captivating Guide to the Second Indochina War
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 2 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
The Vietnam War represented a watershed not only in American and Vietnamese history but also internationally. It wasn’t just a battle between two nations, but between two ideologies, two military strategies, and a fight for the hearts and minds of two vastly different national populations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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quick and accurate
- De BDG-ALPHA en 07-31-20
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Pakistan on the Brink
- The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
- De: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
What are the possibilities—and hazards—facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both of these countries? What does the immediate future hold, and what are America’s choices going forward? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid—Pakistan’s preeminent journalist—takes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Very Long NPR-like Interview and History Lesson
- De Harry Zimmer en 04-23-12
De: Ahmed Rashid
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In the Graveyard of Empires
- America’s War in Afghanistan
- De: Seth G. Jones
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
Following September 11, the United States successfully overthrew the Taliban regime. It established security throughout the country, and Afghanistan finally began to emerge from more than two decades of conflict. But Jones argues that, as early as 2001, planning for the Iraq War siphoned off resources and talented personnel, undermining the gains that had been made. After eight years, the United States had pushed al-Qaeda’s headquarters about one hundred miles across the border into Pakistan.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Book but- Worst Narrator Ever
- De Mark C en 01-08-11
De: Seth G. Jones
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The Cold War's Killing Fields
- Rethinking the Long Peace
- De: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold War, long viewed as a mostly peaceful, if tense, diplomatic standoff between democracy and communism, was actually a part of a vast, deadly conflict that killed millions on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. For half a century, as an uneasy peace hung over Europe, ferocious proxy wars raged in the Cold War’s killing fields, resulting in more than 14 million dead - victims who remain largely forgotten and all but lost to history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but Biased
- De Jonathan W Schneider en 08-13-18
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Descent into Chaos
- The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
- De: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 19 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
Rashid examines Central Asia, and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe, to see how the promised nation building in the region has progressed. His conclusions are devastating.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Useful!
- De John Robert BEHRMAN en 02-24-09
De: Ahmed Rashid
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The American War in Afghanistan
- A History 1st Edition
- De: Carter Malkasian
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 27 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon - but only after a stay of nearly two decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A superb summary of the Afghan war
- De Charles Olmsted en 06-18-22
De: Carter Malkasian
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Enemies and Neighbors
- Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
- De: Ian Black
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 20 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent historical compilation, poor framing
- De Dan Harris en 07-08-20
De: Ian Black
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The ISIS Solution
- How Unconventional Thinking and Special Operations Can Eliminate Radical Islam
- De: Jack Murphy, Brandon Webb, Peter Nealen
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 165
The ISIS Solution takes a look at the current geopolitical situation, organizational structure of ISIS, and provides new thinking and strategies for dealing with the Islamic State in the Middle East. Its authors and contributors have over 50 years of combined experience in the intelligence, analyst, and Special Operations communities. Leadership and a new philosophical conversation of action is needed to eliminate violent terrorism. This book starts the conversation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short, to the point, crammend full of information.
- De Joseph en 11-27-14
De: Jack Murphy, y otros
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Rise of ISIS
- A Threat We Can't Ignore
- De: Jay Sekulow
- Narrado por: Jay Sekulow
- Duración: 2 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
Rise of ISIS gives a better understanding of the modern face of terror, and provides an overview of the laws of war and war crimes. These laws differentiate between the guilty and innocent, and explain why the US military and the Israeli Defense Forces are often limited in their defensive measures. The authors’ firsthand experience, including multiple appearances before the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court at The Hague, along with direct contact battling jihadists during operation Iraqi Freedom lends insight into this important geopolitical issue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good view on ISIS and Hamas
- De JST en 01-06-15
De: Jay Sekulow
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Method and Madness
- The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
- De: Norman G. Finkelstein
- Narrado por: Gary Dana
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 90
In the past five years, Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014) have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. Meanwhile a total of 90 Israelis were killed in the invasions. On the face of it, this succession of vastly disproportionate attacks has often seemed frenzied and pathological.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful and remarkably unbiased
- De Mudir Soroor en 11-03-18
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The Iraq War
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
John Keegan, whom the New York Review of Books calls "the best historian of our day", now brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the most controversial war of our time. In exclusive interviews with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks, John Keegan has gathered information about the war that adds immeasurably to our grasp of its causes, complications, costs, and consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Solid, Quick Overview
- De Charles en 12-08-04
De: John Keegan
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
- A Military History
- De: Andrew J. Bacevich
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro, Andrew J. Bacevich
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 952
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 848
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 844
From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country's most respected voices on foreign affairs, offers an incisive critical history of this ongoing military enterprise - now more than 30 years old and with no end in sight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Key to Understanding the US Need for Perp. War
- De Darwin8u en 05-01-16
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The Arabs
- A History
- De: Eugene Rogan
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 27 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 672
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 592
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 588
In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time. Tracing five centuries of Arab history, Rogan reveals that there was an age when the Arabs set the rules for the rest of the world. Today, however, the Arab world's sense of subjection to external powers carries vast consequences for both the region and Westerners who attempt to control it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb Book About the Arab World
- De Nostromo en 05-29-16
De: Eugene Rogan
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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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3 out of 5 stars
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The Partition and the Troubles, slightly biased
- De J. Dalton en 05-19-19
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War
- De: Phillip Jennings
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 239
The mainstream media and history books would have you believe that the Vietnam War was tragic and a dismal failure. But Phillip Jennings is here to set the record straight, about one of the bright spots in U.S. military history. In this latest Politically Incorrect Guide, Jennings shatters culturally accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Politically incorrect is right.
- De Joe Dunckel en 09-29-20
De: Phillip Jennings