Fallout
Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
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Roy Samuelson
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Steve Sheinkin
About this listen
New York Times best-selling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, taking listeners on a terrifying journey into the Cold War and our mutual assured destruction.
As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance, spy planes fly above, armed submarines swim deep below, and undercover agents meet in the dead of night.
The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed toward each other, with fingers literally on the trigger. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third - and final - world war.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 742
Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962, when their fates helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the cold war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bridge of Spies
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By: Giles Whittell
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Truth Worth Telling
- By: Scott Pelley
- Narrated by: Scott Pelley
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 349
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 304
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 306
A 60 Minutes correspondent and former anchor of the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley writes as a witness to events that changed our world. In moving, detailed prose, he stands with firefighters at the collapsing World Trade Center on 9/11, advances with American troops in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, and reveals private moments with presidents (and would-be presidents) he’s known for decades. Pelley also offers a resounding defense of free speech and a free press as the rights that guarantee all others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great listen... worth your time
- By Christina on 05-26-19
By: Scott Pelley
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The Bastard Brigade
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- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 921
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 816
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During World War II, in the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research; Hitler, with just a few pounds of uranium, would have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. So they assembled a rough and motley crew of geniuses—dubbed the Alsos Mission—and sent them careening into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome
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By: Sam Kean
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One Minute to Midnight
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- Narrated by: Bob Walter
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- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 734
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis.
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4 out of 5 stars
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On the verge of annihilation.
- By MikeCG on 01-22-09
By: Michael Dobbs
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Night of the Assassins
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- By: Howard Blum
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
The year is 1943, and the three Allied leaders - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting, and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath. And so, a plan is devised - code name Operation Long Jump - to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very inaccurate background.
- By Anna Goforth on 04-19-22
By: Howard Blum
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A Brotherhood of Spies
- The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
- By: Monte Reel
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 65
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On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA concocted a cover story for President Eisenhower to deliver, assuring him that no one could have survived a fall from that altitude. But against all odds, pilot Francis Gary Powers emerged from the wreckage and was seized by the KGB. Award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lessons Learned
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By: Monte Reel
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Betrayal in Berlin
- The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
- By: Steve Vogel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Its code name was “Operation Gold”, a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Book
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By: Steve Vogel
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Road to Surrender
- Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
- By: Evan Thomas
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who oversaw J. Robert Oppenheimer under the Manhattan Project; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why they decided to drop the atomic bombs
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By: Evan Thomas
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Enola Gay
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- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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Beyond
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- Narrated by: David Rintoul
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Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - 10 times faster than a rifle bullet - Yuri Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows, he sees the Earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing, he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A remarkable story on many levels
- By Dipam on 03-22-22
By: Stephen Walker
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,879
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,170
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,091
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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4 out of 5 stars
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- By Leslie Rathjens on 03-05-20
By: Erik Larson
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Executive Actions
- By: Gary Grossman
- Narrated by: John McLain
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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An assassin takes aim at a Presidential candidate during a primary stump speech. The instant he pulls the trigger, the outcome of the election is irrevocably changed. But Democrat Teddy Lodge, an upcoming media sweetheart, isn't killed. His wife is. As a result, Lodge emerges as the man to beat and the greatest threat to the incumbent President, Morgan Taylor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My highest possible recommendation for this novel!
- By Wayne on 08-12-16
By: Gary Grossman
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Night Fighter
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- By: William H. Hamilton Jr., Charles W. Sasser
- Narrated by: Bill Thatcher
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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One month after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, when President John F. Kennedy pressed Congress about America’s “urgent national needs”, he named expanding US special operations forces along with putting a man on the moon. Captain William Hamilton was the officer tasked with creating the finest unconventional warriors ever seen. Merging his own experience commanding Navy Underwater Demolition Teams with expertise from Army Special Forces and the CIA, and working with his subordinate, Roy Boehm, he cast the mold for sea-, air-, and land-dispatched night fighters.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK story
- By dexter on 03-16-20
By: William H. Hamilton Jr., and others
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The Brilliant Disaster
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- By: Jim Rasenberger
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in 1961 remains one of the most ill-fated blunders in American history, with echoes of the event reverberating even today. Despite the Kennedy administration’s initial public insistence that the United States had nothing to do with the invasion, it soon became clear that the complex operation had been planned and approved by the best and brightest minds at the highest reaches of Washington, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President John F. Kennedy himself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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US Government Perspective
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By: Jim Rasenberger
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Above and Beyond
- By: Casey Sherman
- Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
From the authors of the best-selling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the strategic wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the U-2 aerial spy program. On October 27, 1962, Kennedy, strained from back pain, sleeplessness, and days of impossible tension, was briefed about a missing spy plane.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator’s mispronunciations detracted from the story
- By Stephen E. Smith on 08-01-18
By: Casey Sherman
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Red Line
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- By: Joby Warrick
- Narrated by: Barrett Leddy
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
In 2012, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, Pres. Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line”. Assad did it anyway, killing hundreds of civilians and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular war. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons, Obama leapt at the out. So begins an electrifying race to find, remove, and destroy 1,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An excellent story for Three Quarters of the Book
- By D. MacLean on 05-11-21
By: Joby Warrick
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The Arsenal of Democracy
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- By: A. J. Baime
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,556
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The Arsenal of Democracy tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a “bomber an hour”. Critics scoffed: Ford didn’t make planes; they made simple, affordable cars. But bucking his father’s resistance, Edsel charged ahead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Misleading title
- By Kindle Customer on 12-01-14
By: A. J. Baime
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Aviation Mastery
- By: Jason Schappert
- Narrated by: Jason Schappert, Michael J McMurray
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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What if we showed up everyday to be a better version of ourselves? Not losing ground, but gaining more each day. More knowledge, more understanding, more real-world skills. That is my reason for this book and my reason behind the MzeroA Online Ground School. My goal throughout this book is to keep you inspired throughout the process of pursuing Aviation Mastery. This book is filled with the science of learning and the science of aviation safety from my experience of now over 10,000 hours as a pilot and flight instructor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good message, but nothing new
- By JWilly on 07-11-24
By: Jason Schappert
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V2
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 323
Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny of the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ho-Hum
- By Pete Harrell on 11-30-20
By: Robert Harris
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Alias Anna
- A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
- By: Susan Hood, Greg Dawson
- Narrated by: Aimée B. Dawson
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna’s son).
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3 out of 5 stars
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Incredible story.
- By Dee on 09-15-24
By: Susan Hood, and others
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Red Hood
- By: Elana K. Arnold
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 41
Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in Seattle. She’s kept mostly to herself. She’s been good. But then comes the night of homecoming, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and between trees, a fury of claws and teeth behind her. A wolf attacks. Bisou fights back. A new moon rises. And with it, questions. About the blood in Bisou’s past, and on her hands as she stumbles home. About broken boys and vicious wolves. About girls lost in the woods - frightened, but not alone.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Promising idea but falls flat
- By Vampyvixen88 on 08-17-21
By: Elana K. Arnold
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What Happens Next
- By: Claire Swinarski
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5
Astronomy-obsessed Abby McCourt should be thrilled about the solar eclipse her small town of Moose Junction is about to witness, but she’s not. After her older sister, Blair, was sent away for an eating disorder, Abby has been in a funk. Desperate to dull the pain her sister’s absence has left, she teams up with a visiting astronomer to help track down his long-lost telescope. Though this is supposed to take Abby’s mind off the distance between her and Blair, what she finds may bring her closer to her sister than she ever thought possible.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Potentially bad message
- By Pink Amy on 09-13-24
By: Claire Swinarski
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Fallout
- By: Todd Strasser
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
It’s the summer of 1962, and Scott and his friends spend their days playing baseball and thinking about girls. But the threat of nuclear war looms over everything they do, and they are haunted by the idea that they could all be dead tomorrow. Even though the possibility of war is all anyone talks about, Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst, building a bomb shelter to protect his family and stocking it with enough supplies to keep them alive for two critical weeks. The neighbors scoff, but then, in the middle of the night in late October, the unthinkable happens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book
- By Lorrena Murphy on 11-03-24
By: Todd Strasser
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Homerooms and Hall Passes: Heroes Level Up
- By: Tom O'Donnell
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
Months after saving suburbia from destruction, our heroes are back to their old lives of dungeon delving and magical quests. All except the wizard Albiorix, who has given up adventuring and uses his time trying (unsuccessfully) to create his own board game. When the party finds its old friend June Westray’s smartphone for sale in a Bríandalörian bazaar, however, they fear the Realm of Suburbia is under threat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Simeon S. on 10-03-23
By: Tom O'Donnell
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Being Mary Bennet
- By: J. C. Peterson
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
For Marnie Barnes, realizing she’s a Mary Bennet is devastating. But she’s determined to reinvent herself, so she enlists the help of her bubbly roommate and opens up to the world. And between new friends, a very cute boy, and a rescue pup named Sir Pat, Marnie finds herself on a path to becoming a new person entirely. But she’s no Lizzy, or even Mary—instead, she’s someone even better: just plain Marnie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Ty on 03-01-23
By: J. C. Peterson
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- KLM
- 11-29-22
Great History
Life is fragile, this confluence of events almost wiped it out. It is easy to go to war, it’s not easy to go to peace.
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- Kate
- 08-13-23
Fantastic!!!
I learned so much that I didn't know... EVERYONE should read this book. We all desperately need to understand history so we never ever repeat this!!!
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- andrew bengtson
- 06-14-24
This was very easy to listen to
Easy to digest. Good Narration. Good insight into the key characters of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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- nightowl
- 08-19-23
Good background on events I was too young to understand at the time.
My earliest memory of public events was JFK’s assassin and my parent’s reaction and the clock on walk of the newsroom when it was announced on TV are the limits of that,
The early cold war story, particularly the resistance in Berlin were not something I learned about in school. This filled some gaps in my education. The narrator went beyond simple recitation and energized the story
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- Rabbi Reuven Silverman
- 03-21-22
Top flight history!
Just well done. Great history with details with excitement and kept you glued. Narrated beautifully!
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- Brendan H.
- 01-04-22
Fantastic Listen
The book does a fantastic job summarizing the events of the Cold war. It is aimed at middle school or high school students, but does an excellent job giving the facts in an interesting and well paced way. I really think any fan of history would enjoy it.
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- Doug Buie
- 12-14-23
Stupidity of leadership on both sides.
A good tell tell story of my generation of fools. It goes on today still.
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- Tyson J Smith
- 10-03-22
Great way to learn history
The author presents the facts about history in such an interesting way that even one not inclined to read history books is captivated!
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- Lady P
- 03-18-22
Incredible storytelling
Steve is so good at bringing a range of complex characters to us in a fashion that we understand the history.
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- jamie
- 12-21-23
The eye-opener of how close the world came to ending 
I like to have this presented historical facts and not boring way. But in an Interesting way. 
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