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Virginia Cowles
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This sensational 1941 memoir of life on the frontline of wartime Europe by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb
Paris as it fell to the Nazis
London on the first day of the Blitz
Madrid in the Spanish Civil War
Prague during the Munich crisis
Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland
Helsinki as the Russians attacked
Moscow betrayed by the Germans
Virginia Cowles has seen it all.
As a pioneering female correspondent, she reported from Europe from the 1930s into the Second World War, watching 'the lights in the death-chamber go out one by one' from the frontline - always in the right place at the right time.
Flinging off her heels under shellfire; meeting Hitler ('an inconspicuous little man') and the 'dapper' Mussolini; gossiping with Churchill by his goldfish pond or dancing in the bomb-blasted Ritz; reading The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism on a Soviet train or eating reindeer with guerrilla skiers ... Introduced by Christina Lamb, Cowles' incredible dispatches will make you an eyewitness to the twentieth-century as you have never experienced it before.
' An amazingly brilliant reporter ... One of the most engrossing [books] the war has produced.' New York Times Book Review
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Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday on April 20, American and Soviet troops meeting at the Elbe on April 25, Hitler's suicide on April 30, and finally the German surrender on May 8.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important, Tragic, Poignant...
- De Amazon Customer en 07-31-15
De: Walter Kempowski, y otros
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The Women Who Wrote the War
- The Riveting Saga of World War II's Daredevil Women Correspondents
- De: Nancy Caldwell Sorel
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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Nancy Sorel’s portrait pays homage to these unsung heroes. They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa; from San Francisco and all points east. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought to the battlefields of World War II a fresh optic, and reported back home what they witnessed with a new sensibility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nonfiction Account of WW2 Female News Reporters
- De DHackney en 08-30-13
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Is Paris Burning?
- De: Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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Best-selling authors and renowned journalists Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre spent three years researching this book, drawing on French Resistance radio messages, German military records, countless interviews, and secret correspondence between de Gaulle, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. Here they recreate the drama, the fervor, and the triumph that heralded one of the most dramatic events of our time. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs, in meticulous and riveting detail, the network of fateful events - day by day, moment by moment - that saved the City of Light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Necessary reading for fans of WWII and Paris history
- De K Parany en 10-10-23
De: Larry Collins, y otros
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The Last 100 Days
- The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 27 h y 31 m
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A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people - from Hitler's personal chauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, and Heinrici.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More the sum of the parts
- De Mike From Mesa en 08-27-15
De: John Toland
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Caught in the Revolution
- Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge
- De: Helen Rappaport
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eyewitness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
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Ordinary People; Chaotic Times
- De David en 03-18-17
De: Helen Rappaport
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Spain in Our Hearts
- Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book very well written and narrated
- De James750 en 05-12-16
De: Adam Hochschild
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Candy Bombers
- De: Andrei Cherny
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 24 h y 16 m
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Acclaimed author Andrei Cherny tells the gripping saga of a rag-tag band of Americans - with limited resources and little hope for success - keeping West Berliners alive in the face of Soviet tyranny, winning the hearts and minds of former enemies, and giving the world a shining example of fundamental goodness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story, Well-Read
- De Alex en 10-07-09
De: Andrei Cherny
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The Fracture Zone
- A Return to the Balkans
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region. Unrest in the Balkans has gone on for centuries. A seasoned reporter, Winchester visited the region twenty years ago. When Kosovo reached crisis level in 1997, Winchester thought a return visit to the beleaguered area would help to make sense out of the awful violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this-Great combo:Story and History Explained
- De Jeremy en 07-10-14
De: Simon Winchester
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The Winds of War
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 45 h y 48 m
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Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece
- De Robert en 05-24-13
De: Herman Wouk
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Beyond the Call
- The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front
- De: Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 11 h
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Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food, shelter, or supplies, they were an army of dying men. The Red Army had pushed the Nazis out of Russia. As they advanced across Poland, the prison camps of the Third Reich were discovered and liberated. In defiance of humanity, the freed Allied prisoners were discarded without aid.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of a real hero!
- De E. Mathur en 05-06-15
De: Lee Trimble, y otros
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Armageddon
- A Novel of Berlin
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat
- Duración: 24 h y 58 m
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At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions tested as they fight against a threat even more dangerous than Hitler.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Legendary author
- De Robert ONeill en 02-13-19
De: Leon Uris
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1944
- FDR and the Year That Changed History
- De: Jay Winik
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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New York Times best-selling author Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put more pressure than any other on an ailing yet determined President Roosevelt.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Stimulating
- De Jean en 11-14-15
De: Jay Winik
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Night Soldiers
- De: Alan Furst
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 18 h y 18 m
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Alan Furst novel!
- De Placeholder en 04-27-11
De: Alan Furst
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Troubles
- De: J. G. Farrell
- Narrado por: Kevin Hely
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer.
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Absolutely delightful read
- De E. Kim en 02-25-20
De: J. G. Farrell
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The Kindly Ones
- De: Jonathan Littell
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 39 h y 6 m
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The chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Office politics in hell
- De Maine Colonial 🌲 en 04-02-13
De: Jonathan Littell
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Sword of Honor
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
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This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At least one chapter missing
- De Sviatoslav en 08-17-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Dadland
- De: Keggie Carew
- Narrado por: Pippa Haywood, Robert Bathurst, Tom Golding, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story and get to know who her father really was.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb. Best memoir/history book
- De Readerwith opinions en 11-25-22
De: Keggie Carew
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Looking for Trouble
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- Chuck Skorupski
- 05-09-23
What a life!
What an amazing time to be witness to history in Spain, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, Finland, Russia and the UK prior to and during the Second World War as well as the Spanish Civil War
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- peter
- 06-08-22
a close view of history
Similar in many ways to William Shirer who was also a journalist during these decades, Virgina describes people, places and events with a shrewd eye that gives the listener an almost intimate perspective on these historical times. She name drops Churchill, Hemingway, Hitler, Mussolini, Goebbels, Philby, and many others as she takes us through the Spanish Civil War, Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany and the events leading to the Fall of France. Written in 1941, her book must have been a wake-up call for many readers, although not enough to avert the ensuing tragedy. The narrator has a slight lisp which is a little distracting at the start but easily ignored once the adventures of this courageous woman begin. Highly recommended.
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- Martinvars
- 01-13-23
Why is it that nobody follows this amazing writer?
At the start of the book Young and fearless American Virginia Cowles finds herself with Hemingway and others in Madrid during the Spanish Civil war. Her description of Madrid of the time is unique, and I live in Madrid to testify. From there it goes on from adventure to adventure, all narrated in her unique voice. I strongly recommend this book which will give you not the history of the time but the sensation of being there. Read it!
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Undying courage prevails
Never a moment without writing and living for a cause. A superb memory of history leading up to ww11.
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