The Atlantic Charter
Political and Economic Goals of Roosevelt and Churchill
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In the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Charter marked the first of many meetings between President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Charter laid out eight articles promoting ideals such as equality among nations and promising post-war freedom of the seas. It was ironic that in a conference concerning war aims, the United States was still a neutral country and the British were far from sure they could win the war against Germany.
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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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Yalta
- The Price of Peace
- De: S. M. Plokhy
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 22 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Award-winning Harvard historian S.M. Plokhy delivers a “convincing revisionist analysis” ( Publishers Weekly) of the February 1945 Yalta conference. Bolstered by Soviet wiretaps, Plokhy’s engrossing narrative of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR’s negotiations reveals the West did better than previously thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The depth and breadth of understanding
- De Robin LaCorte en 06-27-19
De: S. M. Plokhy
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Japan 1941
- Countdown to Infamy
- De: Eri Hotta
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 295
When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Japanese viewpoint
- De Jean en 01-01-14
De: Eri Hotta
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On China
- De: Henry Kissinger
- Narrado por: Nicholas Hormann
- Duración: 20 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,397
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,150
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. On China illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and tight line modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, and Richard Nixon’s historic trip to Beijing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another History of China
- De Elton en 09-23-11
De: Henry Kissinger
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- De: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 33 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 349
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 309
Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet he also answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another butcher of the Chinese language
- De Jack Hanson en 09-19-21
De: Ezra F. Vogel
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Churchill's Trial
- Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
- De: Dr. Larry Arnn
- Narrado por: Wayne Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
A penetrating look at the necessity of constitutional limits upon government and exceptional men to lead those governments, uniquely taken by overlaying the life and writings of Winston Churchill with the American experiment.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece of Political Philosophy
- De Jean en 01-25-16
De: Dr. Larry Arnn
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Reagan's Secret War
- The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster
- De: Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Martin and Annelise Anderson drew upon their access to more than eight million classified documents housed within the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. What emerges from this treasure trove of material is evidence that Reagan intended from his first days in office to bring down the Soviet Union, that he considered eliminating nuclear weapons his paramount objective, and that he was the principal architect of the policies that brought the Soviets to the nuclear-arms negotiating table.
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5 out of 5 stars
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IMPORTANT HISTORICAL INFORMATION
- De Byron en 06-19-12
De: Martin Anderson, y otros
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The Internationalists
- How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
- De: Oona A. Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin
- Duración: 19 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
On a hot summer afternoon in 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to outlaw war. Within the year, the treaty signed that day, known as the Peace Pact, had been ratified by nearly every state in the world. War, for the first time in history, had become illegal the world over. But the promise of that summer day was fleeting. Within a decade of its signing, each state that had gathered in Paris to renounce war was at war. And in the century that followed, the Peace Pact was dismissed as an act of folly and an unmistakable failure.
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2 out of 5 stars
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cart before horse
- De Coffin Family en 12-02-22
De: Oona A. Hathaway, y otros
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The Balfour Declaration
- The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- De: Jonathan Schneer
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the 20th century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of "a National Home for the Jewish people", and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. Now the entire fascinating story of the document is revealed in this impressive work of modern history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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From the Zionist Point of View
- De Sam Peter en 10-11-19
De: Jonathan Schneer
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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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Historia4 out of 5 stars 128
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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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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Agony and Eloquence
- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution
- De: Daniel L. Mallock
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
The drama of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is the foundational story of America - courage, loyalty, hope, fanaticism, greatness, failure, forgiveness, love. Agony and Eloquence is the story of the greatest friendship in American history and the revolutionary times in which it was made, ruined, and finally renewed. In the wake of Washington's retirement, longtime friends Thomas Jefferson and John Adams came to represent the opposing political forces struggling to shape America's future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen
- De Kyle B. en 03-12-21
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The Cold War
- A New History
- De: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrado por: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 980
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 702
Drawing on new and often startling information from newly opened Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese archives, this thrilling account explores the strategic dynamics that drove the Cold War, provides illuminating portraits of its major personalities, and offers much fresh insight into its most crucial events. Riveting, revelatory, and wise, it tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Cordell eddings en 10-13-07
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The Marshall Plan
- Dawn of the Cold War
- De: Benn Steil
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 345
The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.
In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike with a vision at odds with their history and self-conceptions. In the process, they would drive the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a Western identity that continues to shape world events.
Focusing on the critical years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil’s thrilling account brings to life the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations—the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the division of Germany. In each case, we see and understand like never before Stalin’s determination to crush the Marshall Plan and undermine American power in Europe.
Given current echoes of the Cold War, as Putin’s Russia rattles the world order, the tenuous balance of power and uncertain order of the late 1940s is as relevant as ever. The Marshall Plan provides critical context into understanding today’s international landscape. Bringing to bear fascinating new material from American, Russian, German, and other European archives, Steil’s account will forever change how we see the Marshall Plan and the birth of the Cold War. A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, this is an instant classic of Cold War literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Deeply Researched Narrative
- De Jean en 10-18-18
De: Benn Steil
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James Madison and the Making of America
- De: Kevin R. C. Gutzman
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 127
In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen - as "The Father of the Constitution” - to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he influenced the spirit of today's United States.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a traditional biography
- De David en 12-14-12