All Against All
The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
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A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded to drive governments toward a war few of them wanted and none of them could control.
All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is about the power of bad ideas - exploring why, during a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went so wrong. Historian Paul Jankowski reveals that it was collective mentalities and popular beliefs that drove this crucial period that sent nations on the path to war, as much as any rational calculus called "national interest".
Over these six months, collective delusions filled the air. Whether in liberal or authoritarian regimes, mass participation and the crowd mentality ascended. Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the League of Nations; Mussolini looked toward Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over war debts, arms, currency, tariffs, and Germany. New hopes flickered but not for long: A world economic conference was planned, only to collapse when the US went its own way.
All Against All reconstructs a series of seemingly disparate happenings whose connections can only be appraised in retrospect. As he weaves together the stories of the influences that conspired to lead the world to war, Jankowski offers a cautionary tale relevant for Western democracies today. The rising threat from dictatorial regimes and the ideological challenge presented by communism and fascism gave the 1930s a unique face, just as global environmental and demographic crises are coloring our own. While we do not know for certain where these crises will take us, we do know that those of the 1930s culminated in the Second World War.
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For America, the gun is a story of innovation, power, violence, character, and freedom. From the founding of the nation to the pioneering of the West, from the freeing of the slaves to the urbanization of the 20th century, our country has had a complex and lasting relationship with firearms. Now, in First Freedom, nationally syndicated columnist and veteran writer David Harsanyi explores the ways in which firearms have helped preserve our religious, economic, and cultural institutions for more than two centuries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Must-Read/Must-Listen
- De Nathan en 01-22-19
De: David Harsanyi
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Sailing the Graveyard Sea
- The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
- De: Richard Snow
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in the New York Harbor at the end of a voyage intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this routine exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore claiming he had prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted mutineers were being held under guard, but three had already been hanged at sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the day to day brutality
- De L. Lombard en 01-15-24
De: Richard Snow
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The Berlin Wall
- August 13, 1961 - November 9, 1989
- De: Frederick Taylor
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 21 h y 28 m
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On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: It became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by 300 watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism that stood for nearly 30 years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Informative
- De Corey en 05-18-25
De: Frederick Taylor
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- De: Adam Rutherford
- Narrado por: Greg Patmore
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America. With disarming wit and scientific precision, Rutherford explains why eugenics still figures prominently in the twenty-first century, despite its genocidal past. And he confronts insidious recurring questions, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of the idea, and the scientific impossibility of its realization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent 2023 update on genetics
- De Roy en 01-11-25
De: Adam Rutherford
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Palestine 1936
- The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
- De: Oren Kessler
- Narrado por: Shawn K. Jain
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict. The revolt was the crucible in which Palestinian identity coalesced, uniting all in a single struggle for independence. Yet the rebellion would ultimately turn on itself. British forces' aggressive counterinsurgency took care of the rest, finally quashing the uprising on the eve of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who is this narrator?
- De Rachel S. en 09-23-24
De: Oren Kessler
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Sheridan’s Secret Mission
- How the South Won the War After the Civil War
- De: Robert Cwiklik
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White league intent on erasing their postwar gains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great history book, not so great editing
- De Bailesie en 03-06-24
De: Robert Cwiklik
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The Hamilton Scheme
- An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
- De: William Hogeland
- Narrado por: William Hogeland
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name and imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man's most dramatic battles and hardest-won achievements—as well as downplaying unsettling aspects of his legacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unknown to me
- De J. D. Howard en 10-21-24
De: William Hogeland
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The Lighthouse of Stalingrad
- The Epic Siege at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II
- De: Iain MacGregor
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II were sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets’ hard-won victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the Volga River. To Russians, it is a pivotal landmark of their nation’s losses, with more than two million civilians and combatants either killed, wounded, or captured during the bitter fighting from September 1942 to February 1943. Both sides endured terrible conditions in brutal, relentless house-to-house fighting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story. New facts and analysis
- De N. Wirth en 12-19-22
De: Iain MacGregor
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Last Mission to Tokyo
- The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice
- De: Michel Paradis
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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Michel Paradis’ Last Mission to Tokyo, a “superb” (The Wall Street Journal) and “engrossing...richly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) account of a key but underreported moment in World War II: The Doolittle Raids and the international war crimes trial in 1945 that defined the Japanese American relations and changed legal history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bait and switch
- De Julia K Olsen en 08-17-20
De: Michel Paradis
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The Palace
- From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
- De: Mr. Gareth Russell
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James’s version of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare’s plays, and Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ball. The Palace takes us on “an entertaining journey into the past” (Kirkus Reviews) as it reveals the ups and downs of royal history and illustrates what was at play politically, socially, and economically at the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gareth Russell is a true talent
- De clandstu en 12-13-23
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This Is Berlin
- Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany
- De: William Shirer
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 21 h y 41 m
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This collection of William L. Shirer’s radio broadcasts tells the vivid story of WWII and brings the suspense of the times to life for today’s audience. As the first journalist hired by CBS to cover the war in Europe, Shirer compiled two and a half years’ worth of wartime broadcasts including Hitler’s invasion of Austria, the armistice between France and Nazi forces in June of 1940, daily roundups of news from Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London and Rome, documenting the conditions of these countries under invasion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another banger from Willy and Grover
- De Garrett Webster en 04-08-24
De: William Shirer
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Stolen
- The Astonishing Odyssey of Five Boys Along the Reverse Underground Railroad
- De: Richard Bell
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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Philadelphia, 1825: Five young, free Black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the US. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have been a fact based novel
- De Cate F. en 01-11-21
De: Richard Bell
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Butch Cassidy
- The True Story of an American Outlaw
- De: Charles Leerhsen
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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For more than a century the life and death of Butch Cassidy have been the subject of legend, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. But who was Butch Cassidy, really? Charles Leerhsen, best-selling author of Ty Cobb, sorts out the facts from folklore and paints a “compelling portrait of the charming, debonair, ranch hand-turned-outlaw” (Ron Hansen, author of The Kid) of the American West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story beautifully told
- De Marc Marschark en 10-15-20
De: Charles Leerhsen
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Those Who Forget
- De: Geraldine Schwarz
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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During World War II, Géraldine Schwarz’s German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; they were merely Mitlaüfer - those who followed the current. Decades later, while delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Schwarz discovers that in 1938, her grandfather took advantage of Nazi policies to buy a business from a Jewish family for a low price. Weaving together the threads of three generations of her family story with Europe’s process of post-war reckoning, Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what it purports to be
- De DPM en 10-10-20
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Unsinkable
- Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
- De: James Sullivan
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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In the best-selling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating...gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett - a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II, later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Poorly researched.
- De Kindle Customer en 02-05-21
De: James Sullivan
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The Storm on Our Shores
- One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II
- De: Mark Obmascik
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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The heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive story of two World War II soldiers - a Japanese surgeon and an American sergeant - during a brutal Alaskan battle in which the sergeant discovers the medic's revelatory and fascinating diary that changed our war-torn society’s perceptions of Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finished in Two Days
- De Tim en 04-12-19
De: Mark Obmascik
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- De: Patrick Joyce
- Narrado por: Philip Bird
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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“What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support.” For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life—the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago—is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry, social historian Patrick Joyce aims to tell the story of this lost world and its people, and how we can commemorate their way of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Respect & remembrance, thoughtfully told
- De Phyllis Hill en 06-03-24
De: Patrick Joyce
Comprehensive history
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