The Shining Path
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On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The lone man arrested the next morning later swore allegiance to a group called Shining Path.
Described by a US State Department cable as "cold-blooded and bestial", Shining Path orchestrated bombings, assassinations, and massacres across the cities, countryside, and jungles of Peru in a murderous campaign to seize power and impose a Communist government. At its helm was the professor-turned-revolutionary Abimael Guzmán, who launched his single-minded insurrection alongside two women: his charismatic young wife, Augusta La Torre, and the formidable Elena Iparraguirre, who married Guzmán soon after Augusta's mysterious death. Their fanatical devotion to an outmoded and dogmatic ideology, and the military's bloody response, led to the death of nearly 70,000 Peruvians.
Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna's narrative history of Shining Path is both panoramic and intimate, set against the socioeconomic upheavals of Peru's rocky transition from military dictatorship to elected democracy.
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis....
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A Fascinating Look at a Troubled Country
- De Dipam en 07-11-21
De: Declan Walsh
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- De: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrado por: Matthew Blaney
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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On a par with I'll Be Gone in the Dark, plus...
- De Grace O'Malley en 03-01-19
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Che Guevara
- A Revolutionary Life
- De: Jon Lee Anderson
- Narrado por: Armando Durán
- Duración: 36 h y 44 m
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Che Guevara was a dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson traces Che's extraordinary life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and his assassination in the Bolivian jungle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Encompassing and Fair Look at an Historical Man
- De Matt en 08-10-11
De: Jon Lee Anderson
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Crucible
- The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- De: Charles Emmerson
- Narrado por: Charles Emmerson
- Duración: 25 h y 13 m
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In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home. An Austrian war veteran trained by the German army to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. A solar eclipse turns a former patent clerk into a celebrity. An American reporter living the high life in Paris searches out a new literary style.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Splendid in all respects
- De Paul Custer en 02-11-20
De: Charles Emmerson
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
- De: Anita Anand
- Narrado por: Anita Anand
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate 20-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions.
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more interesting history
- De Autodidact en 09-07-19
De: Anita Anand
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- De: Michela Wrong
- Narrado por: Michela Wrong
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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We think we know the story of Africa’s Great Lakes region. Following the Rwandan genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What is true and what isn't?
- De Buretto en 11-30-21
De: Michela Wrong
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Erdogan Rising
- The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
- De: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Narrado por: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Everyone has heard of Erdogan: Turkey’s bullish, mercurial president is the original postmodern populist. Around the world, other strongmen are now following the path that he has blazed. For the first time, Erdogan Rising tells the inside story of how a democracy on the fringe of Europe has succumbed to dictatorship. Hannah Lucinda Smith, Turkey correspondent with The Times of London, has witnessed all that has befallen Turkey and the wider region since the onset of the Arab Spring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall fascinating profile of Erdogan’s Turkey
- De Saul M en 09-18-20
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You Don't Belong Here
- How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
- De: Elizabeth Becker
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book for Vietnam buffs
- De Penelopatty en 03-27-21
De: Elizabeth Becker
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"Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself"
- The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
- De: Florian Huber
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left but disgrace and despair. For tens of thousands of them, the only option was to choose death - for themselves and for their children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book should be required reading for anyone that seeks to understand how ordinary people could be transformed into monsters.
- De Anonymous User en 05-08-20
De: Florian Huber
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Assad or We Burn the Country
- How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
- De: Sam Dagher
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
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In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass pushed for conciliation but Assad decided to crush the uprising - an act which would catapult the country into an eight-year long war, killing almost half a million and fueling terrorism and a global refugee crisis. Assad or We Burn the Country examines Syria's tragedy through the generational saga of the Assad and Tlass families, once deeply intertwined and now estranged....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good until final chapter
- De Amazon Customer en 02-24-21
De: Sam Dagher
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- De: David Remnick
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 29 h y 6 m
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The moral complexity of a comic book
- De Tot en 02-22-19
De: David Remnick
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The Mexican Revolution
- A Captivating Guide to the Mexican Civil War and How Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata Impacted Mexico
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment of the 20th century. The Mexican fight for democracy, equality, and justice sent shockwaves around the world. No other episode in its history has left a deeper mark. It is a three-act drama full of politics, persecution, and war, not to mention earthquakes, signs in the sky, and even spiritualist sessions, while being populated by larger-than-life villains, international spies, and the universally known figures of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don’t have readers who speak Spanish - It’s the LAW!
- De James C en 06-26-21
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The Correspondents
- Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
- De: Judith Mackrell
- Narrado por: Julie Teal
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration was nails on a chalkboard
- De aunt deb en 12-20-21
De: Judith Mackrell
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Stories from Rwanda
- De: Philip Gourevitch
- Narrado por: Philip Gourevitch
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable audiobook chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Things you'd never imagine
- De LEE en 12-27-19
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
- The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
- De: Jason Stearns
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason K. Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First book I've found that explains DRC
- De Amazon Customer en 09-09-17
De: Jason Stearns
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Fractured Lands
- How the Arab World Came Apart
- De: Scott Anderson
- Narrado por: Scott Anderson
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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In 2011 a series of antigovernment uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times best-selling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, Anderson examines the myriad complex causes of the region's profound unraveling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Timely and a must to listen to!
- De becky robbins en 05-05-17
De: Scott Anderson
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The Spymaster of Baghdad
- A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS
- De: Margaret Coker
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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The Spymaster of Baghdad tells the dramatic yet intimate account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence unit called “the Falcons” came together against all odds to defeat ISIS. The Falcons, comprised of ordinary men with little conventional espionage background, infiltrated the world’s most powerful terrorist organization, ultimately turning the tide of war against the terrorist group and bringing safety to millions of Iraqis and the broader world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth every penny
- De Michelle en 04-20-21
De: Margaret Coker
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
- The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
- De: Rebecca Donner
- Narrado por: Rebecca Donner
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting narrative non fiction
- De Sarah Q en 10-22-21
De: Rebecca Donner
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Shining Path
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- Mela
- 02-12-25
A story I personally lived during my younger years living in Lima
True to facts and we'll narrated To all Peruvians that lived during those war years, this is a good reminder of what we lived thru, how far we have come and how necessary is to share this part of our history with the younger generations unless we want history to repeat.
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- Maymackenzie
- 12-01-22
Historically accurate account
I lived though the Shining Path years and this historical narrative of the communist Peruvian revolt is by far the closest to reality that I’ve have read so far.
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- Zoo
- 01-16-23
Excellent book, highly recommend
If you’ve ever been interested in any information/content about the subject of the shining path movement in Peru, this book is comprehensive and very well written. It is definitely a page turner, I am listening to it back a second time ! Great book
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- Eskil Villarreal Berger
- 12-20-22
I understand now!
Good narration, great content, I’m wiser on the Peruvian political past now. I grew up with a Peruvian mother and uncle, I never knew about Peru before now. Now I understand.
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- Paulo M.
- 12-07-23
History as drama
I wanted to learn about the history of Shining Path. What I got that was a gripping story that kept me hooked. All history books should aspire to this level of story telling!
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- Eugene
- 06-10-22
Understanding my wife
I've been married for 20 years with a native Peruvian. It wasn't until this last election did I understand the even she was effected by the Shining Path war. I loved the attention to detail here and the dedication to including the Spanish and Quechua words in the work, and was very impressed by the reader for their pronunciation. Thank you.
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- Daniel
- 04-20-22
fantastic
rich storytelling and plenty of context for those of us too young to remember
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