Unforgettable World War II
Aftermath of the Extraordinary Second World War
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War has a tradition of changing the social and economic map of a country. The concept of family was completely torn apart by the widespread devastation of the Second World War. This audiobook looks at the experiences of six people from various sectors who were involved in this global conflict.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,349
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,191
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,182
Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's attention, aroused its imagination, and, lately, been the object of its opprobrium. Why does such a small country speak to so many global concerns? More pressingly: Why does Israel make the decisions it does? And what lies in its future? We cannot answer these questions until we understand Israel's people and the questions and conflicts, the hopes and desires, that have animated their conversations and actions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, mildly but honestly biased, terrible narration
- De Schaq en 04-01-17
De: Daniel Gordis
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The Holocaust
- A New History
- De: Laurence Rees
- Narrado por: Eric Vale
- Duración: 19 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 315
Laurence Rees has spent 25 years meeting the survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. In this sweeping history, he combines this testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was possible. Rees argues that while hatred of the Jews was at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, we cannot fully understand the Holocaust without considering Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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FANTASTIC BOOK, BUT HORRIBLE READING
- De Aspen en 08-31-17
De: Laurence Rees
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Hitler's Forgotten Children
- A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity
- De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 167
Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2. Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second phase of the Final Solution.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story.
- De Brad Bowles en 04-08-16
De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, y otros
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- De: Timothy Snyder
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 19 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,407
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,192
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,190
Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required listening for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a warning for the future
- De judith en 11-06-19
De: Timothy Snyder
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The Third Reich at War
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 35 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,139
Evans interweaves a broad narrative of the war’s progress with viscerally affecting personal testimony from a wide range of people - from generals to front-line soldiers, from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives. The Third Reich at War lays bare the dynamics of a nation more deeply immersed in war than any society before or since. Fresh insights into the conflict’s great events are here, from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler’s suicide in the bunker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- De Karen en 09-03-10
De: Richard J. Evans
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History of Germany
- A Captivating Guide to German History, Starting from 1871 through the First World War, Weimar Republic, and World War II to the Present
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Germany is one of the richest and most influential countries in the world, which is amazing when you consider that the nation is only about the size of the US states of Oregon and Washington combined. It’s even more astounding when you consider that at the end of World War II, every major German city (and many minor ones) had been flattened by the Allied bombing campaign. Still more amazing is that the country has gone from international pariah and home of the Holocaust to one of the most well-regarded and humanitarian nations on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The later chapters
- De Anonymous User en 02-14-25
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Operation Nemesis
- The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
- De: Eric Bogosian
- Narrado por: Eric Bogosian
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 288
In 1921 a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They named their operation Nemesis after the Greek goddess of retribution. Over several years the men tracked down and assassinated former Turkish leaders. The story of this secret operation has never been fully told until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Avenging Turkish Denial with Reason
- De PKsweets en 05-12-15
De: Eric Bogosian
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Hiroshima Nagasaki
- De: Paul Ham
- Narrado por: Robert Meldrum
- Duración: 20 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice", American leaders claimed at the time - and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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While extraordinary, I can only give it 3 stars
- De Gillian en 12-17-14
De: Paul Ham
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There Was a Country
- A Personal History of Biafra
- De: Chinua Achebe
- Narrado por: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 142
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe's people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than 40 years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Audible Edition Is a Disaster
- De Olu en 11-28-12
De: Chinua Achebe
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Inside ISIS
- The Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army
- De: Benjamin Hall
- Narrado por: Chris Kayser
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Despite numerous warnings from intelligence services, ISIS' rise to power has left countries around the world floundering for solutions. Today we face a threat that is more violent, more powerful, and financially stronger than ever before. In this audiobook journalist Benjamin Hall will provide insights by answering the basic questions we still don't have the answers to: Who are they? Where did they come from? How are they so successful so quickly? How can they be stopped?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exciting yet profoundly sad
- De jeanne sumstine en 12-13-15
De: Benjamin Hall
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The Korean War
- A History
- De: Bruce Cumings
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 8 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
In sobering detail, The Korean War chronicles a US home front agitated by Joseph McCarthy, where absolutist conformity discouraged open inquiry and citizen dissent. Cumings incisively ties our current foreign policy back to Korea: an America with hundreds of permanent military bases abroad, a large standing army, and a permanent national security state at home, the ultimate result of a judicious and limited policy of containment evolving into an ongoing and seemingly endless global crusade.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real eye-opener
- De Bookworm en 10-09-19
De: Bruce Cumings
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My Brother's Keeper
- Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Nazi Holocaust
- De: Rod Gragg
- Narrado por: Rick Zieff
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
My Brother's Keeper unfolds powerful stories of Christians from across denominations who gave everything they had to save the Jewish people from the evils of the Holocaust. This unlikely group of believers, later honored by the nation of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations, included ordinary teenage girls, pastors, priests, a German army officer, a former Italian fascist, an international spy, and even a princess.
De: Rod Gragg
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No Simple Victory
- World War II in Europe, 1939-1945
- De: Norman Davies
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 20 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 528
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 294
If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels in his groundbreaking book No Simple Victory. Far from being a revisionist history, No Simple Victory instead offers a clear-eyed reappraisal, untangling and setting right the disparate claims made by America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in order to get at the startling truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Account of WWII in Europe
- De Nikoli Gogol en 12-27-07
De: Norman Davies
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Enduring Vietnam
- An American Generation and Its War
- De: James Wright
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse the mistakes, but it brings those who served out of the shadows. Enduring Vietnam recounts the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of families who grieved those who did not return.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De Rebecca Delgado en 03-20-23
De: James Wright