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Maria Theresa
- Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
- By: Richard Bassett
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe. In this engrossing biography, Richard Bassett traces Maria Theresa's life and complex legacy. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, Bassett reveals her keen sense of moderation and tolerance, innovative ideas on free trade and finance, and studied reluctance to resort to policies of territorial expansion.
By: Richard Bassett
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The Raider
- The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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In The Raider, Cundill Prize-winning historian Stephen R. Platt gives us the first authoritative account of Carlson’s larger-than-life exploits: the real story, based on years of research including newly discovered diaries and correspondence in English and Chinese, with deep insight into the conflicted idealism about the Chinese Communists that would prove Carlson’s undoing in the McCarthy era. Tracing the rise and fall of an unlikely American war hero, The Raider is a story of exploration, of cultural (mis)understanding, and of one man’s awakening to the sheer breadth of the world.
By: Stephen R. Platt
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Masters of Mayhem
- Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz
- By: James Stejskal
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but using audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning, and executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors—this is unconventional warfare.
By: James Stejskal
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
- Ancient Lives
- By: Peter Stothard
- Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youthful ideals and a realist's recognition of the dictatorial world around him. Horace is famed for his fine phrases, lyric sex, and guidance on how to live, but he was a poet maddened by war, and many of his most self-revealing poems have rarely been seen. He could be sublime and obscene, amusing and abusive, a model of moderation and anything but.
By: Peter Stothard
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The Art Spy
- The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
- By: Michelle Young
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?
By: Michelle Young
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Hidden Histories
- 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
- By: Tim Rayborn
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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From ancient civilization to modern times, history is full of mysterious and downright bizarre circumstances. With these crazy and compelling facts, Hidden Histories will change your view of history
By: Tim Rayborn
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Maria Theresa
- Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
- By: Richard Bassett
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe. In this engrossing biography, Richard Bassett traces Maria Theresa's life and complex legacy. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, Bassett reveals her keen sense of moderation and tolerance, innovative ideas on free trade and finance, and studied reluctance to resort to policies of territorial expansion.
By: Richard Bassett
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The Raider
- The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Raider, Cundill Prize-winning historian Stephen R. Platt gives us the first authoritative account of Carlson’s larger-than-life exploits: the real story, based on years of research including newly discovered diaries and correspondence in English and Chinese, with deep insight into the conflicted idealism about the Chinese Communists that would prove Carlson’s undoing in the McCarthy era. Tracing the rise and fall of an unlikely American war hero, The Raider is a story of exploration, of cultural (mis)understanding, and of one man’s awakening to the sheer breadth of the world.
By: Stephen R. Platt
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Masters of Mayhem
- Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz
- By: James Stejskal
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but using audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning, and executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors—this is unconventional warfare.
By: James Stejskal
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
- Ancient Lives
- By: Peter Stothard
- Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youthful ideals and a realist's recognition of the dictatorial world around him. Horace is famed for his fine phrases, lyric sex, and guidance on how to live, but he was a poet maddened by war, and many of his most self-revealing poems have rarely been seen. He could be sublime and obscene, amusing and abusive, a model of moderation and anything but.
By: Peter Stothard
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The Art Spy
- The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
- By: Michelle Young
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?
By: Michelle Young
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Hidden Histories
- 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
- By: Tim Rayborn
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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From ancient civilization to modern times, history is full of mysterious and downright bizarre circumstances. With these crazy and compelling facts, Hidden Histories will change your view of history
By: Tim Rayborn
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The Bose Deception
- By: Anuj Dhar, Chandrachur Ghose
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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What exactly is this controversy about Netaji’s ‘disappearance’? Efforts by the authors led to the declassification of more than 1,300 secret files on Bose. Does new material offer new evidence on Bose’s reported death in 1945? The Bose Deception: Declassified opens a window to this and much more.
By: Anuj Dhar, and others
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Díaz (Spanish Edition)
- La otra historia [The Other Story]
- By: José Luis Trueba Lara
- Narrated by: Gerardo Quiroz
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Díaz. La otra historia nos narra en primera persona —quién mejor que uno mismo para confesar sus pecados y presumir sus victorias— la vida de Porfirio, el hijo de un cura franciscano que murió de cólera, el seminarista que colgó los hábitos para estudiar leyes, el joven incestuoso que amó profundamente a su sobrina, el masón de la logia Cristo Rey que fue escalando bajo la mirada escrutadora de Benito Juárez, el político agreste a quien su querida Carmelita convirtió en "don Porfirio", el gran militar y patriota que murió exiliado en París.
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Tipu Sultan
- By: Vikram Sampath
- Narrated by: ERROL RODRIGUES, Meher Acharia Dar
- Length: 37 hrs and 35 mins
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Over two centuries have passed since his death on 4 May 1799, yet Tipu Sultan’s contested legacy continues to perplex India and her contemporary politics. A fascinating and enigmatic figure in India’s military past, he remains a modern historian’s biggest puzzle as he simultaneously means different things to different people, depending on how one chooses to look at his life and its events.
By: Vikram Sampath
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Octavio Paz (Spanish Edition)
- By: Enrique Krauze
- Narrated by: Sergio Alberto Bustos de la Tijera
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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"Recuerdo la mañana en que conocí a Octavio Paz. Fue el 11 de marzo de 1976, en el Panteón Jardín, cuando un grupo de amigos despedíamos al gran ensayista Daniel Cosío Villegas [...] Me acerqué a él para proponerle la publicación en su revista Plural de un ensayo mío sobre el ilustre liberal recién desaparecido. Días después, mi nombre apareció junto al suyo, pero nunca sospeché que ese vínculo sería permanente."
By: Enrique Krauze
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Arnhem’s Last Para
- By: John Humphreys, Stuart Tootal
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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John Humphreys was just a boy soldier in the Royal Engineers when war was declared in 1939. By the war's end he had jumped into Arnhem with the Parachute Regiment to spearhead the attack on the bridge. For days Humphreys and the rest of his squad held on, outnumbered and outgunned by the German army fighting to the last bullet and refusing to surrender. But the Bridge Too Far is only the climax of Humphreys’ remarkable war. Twice captured as a prisoner of war, he twice escaped from the enemy to make his way back to Allied lines in order to rejoin the fight.
By: John Humphreys, and others
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On James Baldwin
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.
By: Colm Toibin
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Eastern Inferno
- The Journals of a German Panzerjäger on the Eastern Front, 1941–43
- By: Mason Kunze - editor, Christine Alexander - editor
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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This book presents the remarkable personal journals of German soldier Hans Roth. Writing as events transpired, he recorded the mystery and tension as the Germans deployed on the Soviet frontier in June 1941. In these journals, battles are described in "you are there" detail, as Roth wrote privately, as if to keep himself sane, knowing that his honest accounts of the horrors in the East could never pass through Wehrmacht censors.
By: Mason Kunze - editor, and others
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En carn i ossos
- By: Núria Cadenes
- Narrated by: Alex Pardo, Mireia Maymí
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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Dotze narracions punyents basades en fets reals… i una que ben bé ho podria ser. Quan la realitat reclama convertir-se en matèria literària se li ha de fer cas. I per això han pres forma aquests 12 + 1 relats ordenats en cronologia històrica que es llegeixen, és clar, des de l’ara mateix. La manipulable por de les masses? Per exemple. O la violència contra les dones, o les guerres que sempre castiguen els pobres, o la corrupció política, o la injustícia dels aparells de justícia.
By: Núria Cadenes
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Decoding The Diary of a Young Girl
- With Typical Questions and Answers
- By: Steven Smith
- Narrated by: Brittany Hardy
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is more than a historical document—it is a timeless exploration of the human spirit, capturing resilience, hope, and the complexities of identity in the face of unimaginable adversity. This in-depth analysis examines Anne’s personal journey during her two years in hiding, revealing the universal struggles of adolescence, the moral implications of war, and the enduring power of her words. Through her vivid reflections, Anne grapples with themes of self-discovery, family dynamics, and the search for meaning in a world torn apart by hatred and intolerance.
By: Steven Smith
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Odessa 1919: Fleeing Ukraine
- By: Ronald French
- Narrated by: B Fike
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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A true saga that tells of the flight of Paul, his wife Sophia and two young daughters, Tamara, and Isa from their beautiful Black Sea home in Odesa*. He is a wealthy farm-estate owner and holds the sole Mercedes agency for south Russia. The invasion of Russia by Germany in 1914, followed by the Russian revolution in 1919 means they lose everything. In Spring 1919 Lenin announces the Red Terror. This aims at the extermination of all bourgeoisie. Paul and family must flee for their lives.
By: Ronald French
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Der blinde Fleck
- By: Stephan Lebert, Louis Lewitan
- Narrated by: Thomas Dehler
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Der blinde Fleck in der eigenen Familiengeschichte. Die Schoah und das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs liegen weit zurück, es leben nur noch wenige Zeitzeugen und Zeitzeuginnen. Ihre Vergangenheit jedoch hinterlässt bis heute Spuren in den Familien. Geprägt durch eine Katastrophe, die sie nicht selbst erlebt haben, haben viele Nachkommen der Täter, Komplizen, Handlanger, Mitläufer und Opportunisten seelische Wunden, deren Ursachen sie oft nur vage kennen: zwischenmenschliche Kälte, Schuldgefühle, Ängste, Einsamkeit, ein Gefühl der Entwurzelung.
By: Stephan Lebert, and others
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Cowboy from Prague
- An Immigrant's Pursuit of the American Dream
- By: Charles Ota Heller
- Narrated by: Daniel O'Driscoll
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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After losing 25 members of their family in the Holocaust, the author and his parents escape a brutal Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, transforming themselves in a single day from one of their native country’s wealthiest families to stateless refugees with all their assets contained in three suitcases. Young Charlie’s father orders him to speak English without an accent and to become a “100% American.”
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The Oswald Puzzle
- Reconsidering Lee Harvey Oswald
- By: Larry J. Hancock
- Narrated by: Kellen Boyle
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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Among the many enigmas in the saga of the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald remains among the most enigmatic. The Warren Commission painted a portrait of a lone malcontent, but still could find no motive for his alleged actions. Some conspiracy books attempt to turn Oswald into a deep cover intelligence agent, always on assignment whether defecting to the Soviet Union or distributing pro-Castro pamphlets. Other authors ignore Oswald altogether.
By: Larry J. Hancock
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The Bergdoll Boys
- America's Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers
- By: Timothy W. Lake, Louis Erwin Bergdoll - introduction
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette, Louis Erwin Bergdoll, Timothy W. Lake
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
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Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and hiding from their war duty, the fugitives are so reviled by nationalistic Americans that two older brothers change their names to avoid infamy.
By: Timothy W. Lake, and others
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Ostpreussisches Tagebuch
- Aufzeichnungen eines Arztes aus den Jahren 1945 - 1947
- By: Hans Graf von Lehndorff
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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"Mögen diese Blätter mithelfen, ein Stück Vergangenheit zu begreifen und dem Leben dienstbar zu machen, das täglich seine Forderungen an uns stellt." Hans Graf von Lehndorff. Die Aufzeichnungen Hans Graf von Lehndorffs aus den Jahren 1945 bis 1947 schildern die Schrecken der Flucht, die Belagerung der zur Festung erklärten Stadt Königsberg, den drückenden Dienst in Lazaretten und Lagern sowie die ersten Nachkriegsjahre unter Willkür und Wirren polnischer und russischer Herrschaft.
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He Sets the Captive Free
- By: Corrie ten Boom
- Narrated by: Miki Michaelsen
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Excerpt from the book: I know how it feels to be behind a door that can be opened only from the outside, for I have been a prisoner in three different prisons. I learned a great deal in prison as this was a very difficult class in the schoolroom of life. When you are in a difficult class with a good teacher, you learn much—and my teacher was very good. It was Jesus Himself! “I wish I could share with you what I learned during my imprisonment, but I am old and I cannot travel much now. Since we cannot speak personally together, I have decided to visit you through this little book.
By: Corrie ten Boom
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Collected works of Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography and Other Writings
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Stacey Patterson, Peter Coates
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Benjamin Franklin is the only one of America's founding fathers to have signed all three of their foundational documents: The Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the 1783 Treaty of Paris. These documents underpinned the establishment of the United States of America as a sovereign country. In addition to being a prominent politician, Benjamin Franklin was a prolific writer, fervent naturalist, and determined inventor. This collection of writing reflects Franklin's varied activities and manifold talents.
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Cleopatra VII: She Bowed to No One
- By: History Uncensored, Joseph Allen Paine
- Narrated by: Grace Noble, Joseph Allen Paine
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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“I will not be triumphed over.” Step into a realm where ambition sparks and kingdoms teeter on the edge—where Cleopatra VII is more than a distant legend. She’s a fearless ruler forging her destiny against Rome’s unstoppable might. Whether you know her from Hollywood whispers or dusty textbooks,this immersive audiobook dismantles every cliché and pulls you into the raw heart of an empire’s final stand. Inside This Audiobook: A Ruthless Court: Assassins. Rivals. Political vipers hiding behind marble columns.
By: History Uncensored, and others
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The Fall of Kabul: The Catastrophic Afghanistan Withdrawal of 2021
- Military Series, Book 5
- By: Mary Baker
- Narrated by: Charlie Brogan
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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On August 15, 2021, the world watched in horror as Kabul fell to the Taliban without a fight—erasing 20 years of blood, sweat, and sacrifice in a matter of hours. The sight of Taliban fighters posing in the abandoned U.S. embassy and driving U.S. military Humvees through the streets was a humiliation of historic proportions. How did this happen? How did the United States, the world’s greatest military power, leave Afghanistan in such a disgraceful, chaotic, and deadly manner?
By: Mary Baker
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Family Declassified
- Uncovering My Grandfather's Journey from Spy to Children's Book Author
- By: Katherine Fennelly
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Why do people keep deep secrets about their lives and ancestry? In Family Declassified, Katherine Fennelly applies her expertise as a social science researcher to answer this question regarding her maternal grandfather, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who arrived in the US one hundred years ago.
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Mike Burke: Of the New York Yankees
- By: William A. Cook
- Narrated by: Bill Hemberger
- Length: 7 hrs
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Mike Burke arguably led one of the most interesting lives in twentieth century America. It seems that it was his destiny to have a rendezvous with history at every turn in his seventy years. The people that became his friends, associates and adversaries read like a who’s – who of America in the middle years of the twentieth century.
By: William A. Cook
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Mein Großvater, der Täter
- Eine Spurensuche
- By: Lorenz Hemicker
- Narrated by: Oliver Dupont
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Im Spätherbst des Jahres 1941 ermorden die SS und ihre Helfer über 27.000 Juden im Wald von Rumbula. Die Gruben, in denen die Menschen erschossen werden, konstruiert der SS-Offizier Ernst Hemicker. Verurteilt wird er dafür nie. Lorenz Hemicker wächst Jahrzehnte später mit einer vagen Ahnung auf, welches Verbrechens sich sein Großvater schuldig gemacht hat. Er kennt nur ein paar Sätze, die sein Vater bei jeder sich bietenden Gelegenheit im Freundes- und Bekanntenkreis wiederholt.
By: Lorenz Hemicker
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De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842
- By: Pierre-Jean de Smet
- Narrated by: Carol Pelster
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Sound interesting? Listen to De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 and learn about the Catholic priest and missionary.
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Jahrhundertfrau
- Die Geschichte eines Lebens
- By: Martina Mühlbauer
- Narrated by: Suzanne von Borsody
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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1932 zieht Erna aus einem kleinen Ort im Weserbergland nach Berlin - in die Metropole voller Versprechungen. Doch dem neunzehnjährigen Mädchen bleibt nicht viel Zeit, um die Sehnsucht nach einem aufregenden Leben in der Großstadt zu stillen. Viel zu schnell müssen die unbeschwerten Stunden den Stunden der Angst und der Trauer weichen. Erna versucht ihre aufrechte Haltung im Angesicht der Tyrannei zu bewahren. Schwerverletzt überlebt sie den Krieg und findet zwischen Trümmern und Tod ein neues Leben.