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In 1939 Rev. Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: They were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Armed with only $40,000, the Sharps quickly learned the art of spy craft and covertly sheltered political dissidents and Jews and helped them escape the Nazis. After narrowly avoiding the Gestapo themselves, the Sharps returned to Europe in 1940 as representatives of the newly formed Unitarian Service Committee and continued their relief efforts in Vichy France.
This riveting true story offers listeners a rare glimpse at high-stakes international relief efforts during World War II. Defying the Nazis is a fascinating portrait of resistance as told through the story of one courageous couple.
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- De: Charles Glass
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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In Americans in Paris, tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival unfold season by season as renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable cast of expatriates and their struggles in Nazi Paris. Before the Second World War began, approximately thirty thousand Americans lived in Paris, and when war broke out in 1939 almost five thousand remained.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative, but average engagement
- De Leann en 05-09-17
De: Charles Glass
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Enemies of the People
- My Family's Journey to America
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton draws on her skill as an investigative reporter to discover who her journalist parents really were---and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't stop listening
- De Jane en 04-09-10
De: Kati Marton
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The Last Palace
- Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
- De: Norman Eisen
- Narrado por: Jeff Goldblum
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 207
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book despite goldblum’s narration
- De Fernando Ferrante en 01-19-19
De: Norman Eisen
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The Invitation-Only Zone
- The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
- De: Robert S. Boynton
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project faltered, the abductees were hidden in a series of guarded communities known as "Invitation-Only Zones" - the fiction being that these were exclusive enclaves, not prisons.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over enthusiastic reader!
- De AJW en 02-14-16
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Lioness
- Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
- De: Francine Klagsbrun
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 32 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 189
Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The persistent mispronunciations of Hebrew and Yiddish words ruined this performance
- De YH-O en 12-30-18
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Agent 110
- An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
- De: Scott Miller
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet's advance. Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family. Dulles met with and facilitated the plots of Germans who were trying to destroy the country's leadership.
De: Scott Miller
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Prague Winter
- A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
- De: Madeleine Albright
- Narrado por: Madeleine Albright
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 385
Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia—the country where she was born—the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. Albright's experiences, and those of her family, provide a lens through which to view the most tumultuous dozen years in modern history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History from a Personal Perspective
- De Jeanette Finan en 02-22-13
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The Vatican Pimpernel
- The World War II Exploits of the Monsignor Who Saved Over 6,500 Lives
- De: Brian Fleming
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 132
During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty ran an escape organization for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. Safe within the Vatican state, he regularly ventured out in disguise to continue his mission, which earned him the nickname 'The Pimpernel of the Vatican'. When the Allies entered Rome, he and his collaborators - priests, nuns, and laypeople of numerous nationalities and religious beliefs - had saved the lives of over 6,500 people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enthralling
- De Jean en 05-27-15
De: Brian Fleming
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The Good Man of Nanking
- The Diaries of John Rabe
- De: Edwin Wickert
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
This unique and gripping document contains the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now being honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe mobilized the remaining Westerners in Nanking and organized an "International Safety Zone" which guaranteed safety to all unarmed Chinese by virtue of Germany's pact.
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4 out of 5 stars
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why is it narrated by a woman?
- De Anonymous User en 11-10-20
De: Edwin Wickert
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No Ordinary Time
- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- De: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 39 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,308
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,028
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,020
No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become the preeminent economic and military power in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great at 1.5 speed
- De Brett en 01-04-13
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Hanns and Rudolf
- The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
- De: Thomas Harding
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
May 1945: In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss' capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Read This Marvelous Book...
- De Douglas en 01-04-14
De: Thomas Harding
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9,110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,705
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7,692
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved it ... and hated it ... simultaneously
- De History en 11-21-11
De: Erik Larson
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- De: Jennet Conant
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 197
They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen
- De John H. Davis III en 10-22-05
De: Jennet Conant
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Defying Hitler
- The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
- De: Gordon Thomas, Greg Lewis
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 59
An enthralling story that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Righteous Few
- De Linda en 05-19-19
De: Gordon Thomas, y otros
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Sisters in Resistance
- How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
- De: Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In 1944, Benito Mussolini's daughter, Edda, gave Hitler and her father an ultimatum: release her husband, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband's journals to the press. To avoid the peril of exposing Nazi lies, Hitler and Mussolini hunted for the diaries for months, determined to destroy them. Hilde Beetz, a German spy, was deployed to seduce Ciano to learn the diaries' location and take them from Edda. Drawing from in‑depth research and first-person interviews, Mazzeo gives listeners a riveting look into this little‑known moment in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating WW2 account of women in resistance
- De lgmichael en 10-30-23
De: Tilar J. Mazzeo
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Stalin's Daughter
- The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
- De: Rosemary Sullivan
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 19 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators—her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy—the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insightful and thoroughly researched
- De Jean en 06-16-15
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Defying the Nazis
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- Sky A. Stewart
- 12-03-16
Very moving history.
Sad book, so much loss of life. A very good portrayal of what it must have been like both just to live through WWII and to resist the Nazies. Good reader. Corny accents though.
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- Janed
- 01-23-19
Excellent Book!! Unbelievable Sacrafice for Others
This couple sacrificed their family life to help others. What an amazing story of bravery!! Ordinary people that were chosen by their church to go and help, and they had to learn everything about getting past the Nazis and surviving, so that they could help others survive!!! We all should be this unselfish and honorable!!!! A gripping tale that you cannot put down!!!!
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