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Sylvain Tesson
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Lire Magazine Best Travel Book
Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’ve got Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and adventure.
The retreat of Napoleon’s Grande Armée from Russia culminated, after a humiliating loss, with the crossing of the River Berezina, a word that henceforth became synonymous with unmitigated disaster for the French and national pride for the Russians. Two hundred years after this battle, Sylvain Tesson and his friends retrace Napoleon’s retreat, along the way reflecting on the lessons of history, the meaning of defeat, and the realities of contemporary Europe. A great book for history buffs and for anyone who has ever dreamed of an adventure that is out of the ordinary.
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The Brandenburgers were Hitler's Special Forces, a band of mainly foreign German nationals who used disguise and fluency in other languages to complete daring missions into enemy territory. Overshadowed by stories of their Allied equivalents, their history has largely been ignored. First published in 1984, de Giampietro's highly-personal and eloquent memoir is a vivid account of his experiences. In astonishing detail, he delves into the reality of life in the unit from everyday concerns and politics to training and involvement in Brandenburg missions.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Memoir of a Liar and War Criminal? Perhaps.
- De Erik en 06-14-21
De: Sepp de Giampietro, y otros
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 114
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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Taking Paris
- The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 241
May 1940: The world is stunned as Hitler's forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual freedom, and love of liberty, has fallen under Nazi control — perhaps forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Incorrectly titled
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-11-22
De: Martin Dugard
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Into the Silence
- The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
- De: Wade Davis
- Narrado por: Enn Reitel
- Duración: 28 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 412
In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather.
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4 out of 5 stars
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He wrote exquisite Eel-agies?
- De Florence en 11-29-12
De: Wade Davis
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Now It Can Be Told
- De: Philip Gibbs
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 19 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
Sir Philip Gibbs served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. In this book he relays the experiences of British soldiers and offers a detailed narrative of the events of World War I, while trying to draw broader conclusions about the nature of war and how it can be prevented in the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unusually worthwhile listen.
- De Alan en 08-19-18
De: Philip Gibbs
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- De: Ed Caesar
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit — completely alone.
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1 out of 5 stars
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this is very misleading as most of it is wwone
- De steve en 12-01-20
De: Ed Caesar
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Taking Berlin
- The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market-Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies’ top battlefield commander.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great until personal politics showed up
- De UP North en 12-16-22
De: Martin Dugard
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Travels in Siberia
- De: Ian Frazier
- Narrado por: Ian Frazier
- Duración: 20 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 425
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 311
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 310
Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the 40-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. The book brims with Mongols, half-crazed Orthodox archpriests, fur seekers, ambassadors of the czar bound for Peking, tea caravans, German scientists, American prospectors, intrepid English nurses, and prisoners and exiles of every kind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Loved This Book
- De Sara en 01-05-14
De: Ian Frazier
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Henry Knox's Noble Train
- The Story of a Boston Bookseller's Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution
- De: William Hazelgrove
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
During the brutal winter of 1775-1776, an untested Boston bookseller named Henry Knox commandeered an oxen train hauling 60 tons of cannons and other artillery from Fort Ticonderoga near the Canadian border. He and his men journeyed some 300 miles south and east over frozen, often treacherous terrain to supply George Washington for his attack of British troops occupying Boston. The result was the British surrender of Boston and the first major victory for the Colonial Army.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful true story
- De Amazon Customer en 03-20-25
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The Railway Man
- De: Eric Lomax
- Narrado por: Bill Paterson
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From hatred to forgiveness
- De 9S en 05-04-12
De: Eric Lomax
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The Amur River
- Between Russia and China
- De: Colin Thubron
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the 10th longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. For 1,100 miles, it forms the tense border between Russia and China. Simmering with the memory of land-grabs and unequal treaties, this is the most densely fortified frontier on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bleak
- De Amazon Customer en 11-03-21
De: Colin Thubron
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We Will Not Go to Tuapse
- From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45
- De: Fernand Kaisergruber
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 98
Until recent years, very little was known of the tens of thousands of foreign nationals from Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, and Spain who served voluntarily in the military formations of the German army and the German Waffen-SS. In Kaisergruber's book, the listener discovers important issues of collaboration, the apparent contributions of the volunteers to the German war effort, their varied experiences, their motives, the attitude of the German High Command and bureaucracy, and the reaction to these in the occupied countries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why did it end at Cherkassy?
- De DAVIS J BEAM III en 03-28-18
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The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
- De: Jakob Walter
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Napoleon’s surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Extraordinary account of Survival during War
- De Neil en 09-03-11
De: Jakob Walter
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- De: T. E. Lawrence
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 25 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,005
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004
Although T. E. Lawrence, commonly known as "Lawrence of Arabia’, died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his role in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War. A reluctant leader, and wracked by guilt at the duplicity of the British, Lawrence nevertheless threw himself into his role, suffering the blistering desert conditions and masterminding military campaigns which culminated in the triumphant march of the Arabs into Damascus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the greatest stories ever told.
- De Stevie en 01-11-13
De: T. E. Lawrence
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Black Dragon River
- A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires
- De: Dominic Ziegler
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with East Asia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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INFORMATIVE
- De JK en 10-14-22
De: Dominic Ziegler
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The Order of the Day
- De: Éric Vuillard, Mark Polizzotti - translator
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 2 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which will lead to the worst possible repercussions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dramatized reading of a moment in history
- De George en 10-29-18
De: Éric Vuillard, y otros
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Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends
- De: Nancy Roberts
- Narrado por: Susan Larkin, Allan Edwards
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's stories of the War Between the States, and she trekked over many battle sites with him during her childhood. After reading about General Joshua Chamberlain's supernatural experience at the Battle of Gettysburg, Roberts began to collect tales of the blue and gray and write them down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not just your typical "ghost" story
- De R Neustel en 09-19-16
De: Nancy Roberts
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One More Day Everywhere
- Crossing Fifty Borders on the Road to Global Understanding
- De: Glen Heggstad
- Narrado por: John Morgan
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
In 2001, martial arts-trained biker Glen Heggstad began a journey from California to the tip of South America on his motorcycle and made it as far as Colombia, where he was kidnapped by local rebels and held captive. Undeterred by more than a month of traumatic incarceration, the 'Striking Viking' finished his trip after being released. Three years later he set out into the world on his bike again, this time searching for truth on his own terms in a world that had become strangled by a climate of fear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A 'true' adventurer
- De Mallik Kovuri en 10-29-16
De: Glen Heggstad