Propaganda Girls
The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
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Samara Naeymi
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Lisa Rogak
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“Naeymi's mesmerizing narration takes listeners into the heart-stopping intrigue and action of nations at war and into the souls of women with cool demeanors and spines of steel.”—AudioFile
The incredible untold story of four women who spun the web of deception that helped win World War II.
Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer, was of course one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII.
As members of the OSS, their task was to create a secret brand of propaganda produced with the sole aim to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Working in the European theater, across enemy lines in occupied China, and in Washington, D.C., Betty, Zuzka, Jane, and Marlene forged letters and “official” military orders, wrote and produced entire newspapers, scripted radio broadcasts and songs, and even developed rumors for undercover spies and double agents to spread to the enemy. And outside of a small group of spies, no one knew they existed. Until now.
In Propaganda Girls, bestselling author Lisa Rogak brings to vivid life the incredible true story of four unsung heroes, whose spellbinding achievements would change the course of history.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’s right to speak. Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: “Who do you think you are?” Now a prizewinning scholar of Black history, Jones delves into her family’s past for answers. In every generation since her great-great-great-grandmother survived enslavement to raise a free family, color determined her ancestors’ lives.
De: Martha S. Jones
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Expect Great Things!
- How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
- De: Vanda Krefft
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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It’s a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series Mad Men would have attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City. The iconic institution was in its heyday in the 1950 and '60s synonymous with supplying secretaries—always properly attired in heels, ladylike hats, and white gloves—to male executives. In Expect Great Things! Vanda Krefft turns the notion of a “Gibbs girl” on its head, showing us that while the school was getting women who could type 90 words per minute into the C-suite, its more subversive mission was to get them out of the secretarial pool.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting women's "micro" history book!
- De NMwritergal en 03-07-25
De: Vanda Krefft
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Taking Manhattan
- The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Russell Shorto
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Richness of Early American History w/all its nooks and crannies.
- De adnil en 03-25-25
De: Russell Shorto
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A Genocide Foretold
- Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Ali Nasser
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation, and violence.
De: Chris Hedges
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Speaking of War
- De: Phillip Meilinger
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 17 h y 29 m
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Speaking of War: Quotes on Conflict serves as a heavy jumbo reference book documenting pithy, humorous, droll, or even ironic commentary surrounding and describing the machinations of warfare over the millenia. Culled from military historians, scholars, politicians, reporters, authors, generals and soldiers, the work is separated by categories for ease of use. Covered here are all forms of war in all mediums—land, sea and air, conventional and unconventional—and occurring all over the world. There is a great deal of history here, so readers must be careful: they might learn something. ...
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Typhoid Mary
- An Urban Historical
- De: Anthony Bourdain
- Narrado por: Nathan Osgood
- Duración: 4 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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This is a tale of pursuit through the kitchens of New York City at the turn of the century. By the late nineteenth century, it seemed that New York City had put an end to the outbreaks of typhoid fever that had so frequently decimated the city's population. That is until 1904, when the disease broke out in a household in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Authorities suspected the family cook, Mary Mallon, of being a carrier. But before she could be tested, the woman, soon to be known as Typhoid Mary, had disappeared.
De: Anthony Bourdain
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The Trouble of Color
- An American Family Memoir
- De: Martha S. Jones
- Narrado por: Martha S. Jones
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’s right to speak. Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: “Who do you think you are?” Now a prizewinning scholar of Black history, Jones delves into her family’s past for answers. In every generation since her great-great-great-grandmother survived enslavement to raise a free family, color determined her ancestors’ lives.
De: Martha S. Jones
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Trespassers at the Golden Gate
- A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
- De: Gary Krist
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. The woman fired a single bullet into his chest. “I did it and I don’t deny it,” she said when arrested shortly thereafter. “He ruined me and my daughter.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating story
- De evboy en 03-17-25
De: Gary Krist
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The Colfax Massacre
- The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
- De: LeeAnna Keith
- Narrado por: Gwen Steel
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but extinguished the campaign for racial equality.
De: LeeAnna Keith
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
- De: Mary Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 50 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime’s death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. With intelligence and passion she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her.
De: Mary Chesnut, y otros
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The Rebel Empresses
- Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
- De: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrado por: Tamsin Kennard
- Duración: 19 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France became two of the most famous women on the planet. Not only were they both young and beautiful—becoming cultural and fashion icons of their time—but they played a pivotal role in ruling their realms during a tempestuous era characterized by unprecedented political and technological change. Fearless, adventurous, and independent, Elisabeth and Eugénie represented a new kind of empress—one who rebelled against tradition and anticipated and embraced modern values.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book!
- De Kayleigh en 03-04-25
De: Nancy Goldstone
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Vatican Spies
- From the Second World War to Pope Francis
- De: Yvonnick Denoël, Alan McKay - translator
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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"Officially" the Vatican has no espionage service; but does no one carry out intelligence operations on its behalf? During the Second World War and Cold War, Rome was teeming with spies. A band of undercover monsignors and priests hunted for Vatican "moles," led clandestine diplomacy, investigated assassinations of priests and other scandals threatening the Church, and conducted high-risk missions behind the Iron Curtain.
De: Yvonnick Denoël, y otros
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Spell Freedom
- The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
- De: Elaine Weiss
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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The acclaimed author of the “stirring, definitive, and engrossing” (NPR) The Woman’s Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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They kept on keepin’ on!
- De Janie en 03-15-25
De: Elaine Weiss
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Do Not Cry When I Die
- A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
- De: Renee Salt, Kate Thompson
- Narrado por: Renee Salt, Kate Thompson, Maria Louis, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
When German soldiers invaded Poland in September 1939, it began a six-year journey for then-ten-year-old Renee Salt and her mother Sala. Until their liberation in 1945, Renee and Sala were imprisoned in ghettos and concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. The only light in the darkness and brutality for Renee was the unwavering grasp of her mother’s hand in hers–enduring, against all odds. It was this unbreakable bond, along with a few miracles, that kept Renee alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accuracy and detail of the Holocaust
- De Lisa Pollack en 03-25-25
De: Renee Salt, y otros
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He Leadeth Me
- An Extraordinary Testament of Faith
- De: Walter J. Ciszek S.J., Daniel L. Flaherty S.J.
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
He Leadeth Me is a deeply personal story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some twenty-three agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. In He Leadeth Me, he relates how it was only through an utter reliance on God’s will that he managed to endure.
De: Walter J. Ciszek S.J., y otros
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The Fifteen
- Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America
- De: William Geroux
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.
De: William Geroux
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Story of a Murder
- The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen
- De: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5
On February 1, 1910, the vivacious, diamond-adorned music hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly vanished from her home, causing alarm among her friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies’ Guild. Their demands for an investigation would lead to the unearthing of a gruesome secret and trigger a fevered international manhunt for Belle’s husband, medical fraudster Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit too verbose
- De Pamela Y. S. en 03-29-25
De: Hallie Rubenhold
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Hidden Histories with Nova Reid
- De: Nova Reid
- Narrado por: Nova Reid
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
Nova Reid, author of The Good Ally, delves into the untold stories of extraordinary, unsung Black women who created and shaped pivotal moments in world history, British culture and society. Through powerful storytelling, personal insights and new research, Nova delves into the lives of pioneers, journalists and rule-breakers who made vital contributions to civil rights, yet have been mythologised, are unknown or erased from history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Informative
- De SaSa en 03-23-25
De: Nova Reid
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The Girl from Greenwich Street
- A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America’s First Murder Trial
- De: Lauren Willig
- Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. But privately, quietly, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good research
- De NightOwl en 03-30-25
De: Lauren Willig