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The Eichmann Trial
- By: Deborah E Lipstadt
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance24
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The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before.
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A superb analysis
- By OL on 01-06-21
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The Eichmann Trial
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-03-11
- Language: English
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Rollercoaster
- Europe, 1950-2017
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 26 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall217
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Performance188
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Story188
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety.
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Superb history, great narration - add chapters!
- By Amazon Customer on 30-05-21
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Rollercoaster
- Europe, 1950-2017
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 9
- Length: 26 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Mengele
- Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
- By: David G. Marwell
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance34
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Mengele describes the international search for the Nazi doctor in 1985 that ended in a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the dogged forensic investigation that produced overwhelming evidence that Mengele had died - but failed to convince those who, arguably, most wanted him dead. This is the riveting story of science without limits, escape without freedom, and resolution without justice.
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Minimal info on his background during the war
- By Niceaspies on 26-02-20
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Mengele
- Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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Jet Man
- The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution
- By: Duncan Campbell-Smith
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance66
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Story65
In 1929, a 22-year-old maverick named Frank Whittle - a self-taught aeronautical obsessive and risk-takingly brilliant RAF pilot - presented a blueprint for a revolutionary, jet-powered aircraft engine to the Air Ministry. His idea had the potential to change the course of history, but it was summarily rejected. In this meticulously researched biography, Duncan Campbell-Smith charts Whittle's stoic efforts to build his jet engine in the interwar years.
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Fascinating despite issues
- By Nick Anderson on 19-07-21
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Jet Man
- The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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Speak, Silence
- In Search of W. G. Sebald
- By: Carole Angier
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Bloomsbury presents Speak, Silence by Carole Angier, read by Kristin Atherton. A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands ‘Spectacular’ Observer ‘A remarkable portrait’ Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most...
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Strange book, poorly read.
- By Everyone'sacritic7 on 13-01-22
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Speak, Silence
- In Search of W. G. Sebald
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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After the Flying Saucers Came
- A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon
- By: Greg Eghigian
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Greg Eghigian tells the story of the world's fascination with UFOs and the prospect that they were the work of visitors from outer space. While accounts of great wonders in the sky date back to antiquity, reports of UFOs took place against the unique backdrop of the Cold War and space age. After the Flying Saucers Came traces how a seemingly isolated incident sparked an international drama involving shady figures, questionable evidence, suspicions of conspiracy, hoaxes, new religions, scandals, unsettling alien encounters, debunkers, and celebrities.
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Sensible account of insensible topic
- By PETER S WARING on 21-10-24
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After the Flying Saucers Came
- A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance21
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Story22
The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David...
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Good book, annoying narrator
- By Patrick Donovan on 10-06-16
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-01-11
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- By: John Rapley, Peter Heather
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Story17
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence.
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Great relevant historic lessons for today
- By merchant on 29-05-23
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Stalin: History in an Hour
- By: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance119
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Story115
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was...
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A good short introduction to a monster
- By Wras on 01-05-16
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Stalin: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-01-13
- Language: English
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Anne Frank Remembered
- By: Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance65
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Story65
For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity.
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excellent
- By Mary on 28-04-15
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Anne Frank Remembered
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 18-08-09
- Language: English
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The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle
- By: Richard Vinen
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle by Richard Vinen, read by Charles Armstrong. 'Deeply researched yet highly readable, with fresh and often provocative insights' DAVID REYNOLDS 'A vivid and shrewd reckoning ... setting its assessment in the perspective of today's...
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The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Gertrude Stein
- An Afterlife
- By: Francesca Wade
- Narrated by: Francesca Wade
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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'Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,' wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding—and contested—writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth.
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Fascinating and meticulously researched
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-25
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Gertrude Stein
- An Afterlife
- Narrated by: Francesca Wade
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-05-25
- Language: English
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Vietnam Combat
- Firefights and Writing History
- By: Robin Bartlett
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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1st Lieutenant Robin Bartlett suddenly found himself at the "repo-depo" in Bien Hoa reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. The unit had more helicopter support than any other unit in Vietnam. Immediate support from artillery, helicopter gunships, and ARA was only minutes away to support a firefight. Wounded troops could be medevaced even in dense jungle using "jungle penetrators." It also meant that Bartlett's platoon could deploy through helicopter combat assaults into hot LZs (landing zones) at a moment's notice if an enemy force had been spotted. And they did.
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Vietnam Combat
- Firefights and Writing History
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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Crucible of Hell
- Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: William Roberts, Saul David - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance90
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‘Excellent’ Antony Beevor ‘Saul David is a brilliant historian … In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life’ James Holland From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new...
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Download the book in parts
- By Matt on 06-04-20
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Crucible of Hell
- Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
- Narrated by: William Roberts, Saul David - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- By: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Susan Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance40
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Story40
Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.
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A priceless piece of history
- By Jody B on 26-04-18
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- Narrated by: Susan Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-12-15
- Language: English
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Judgment Before Nuremberg
- The Holocaust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crimes Trial
- By: Greg Dawson
- Narrated by: Gary Dikeos
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance32
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When people think of the Holocaust, they think of Auschwitz, of Dachau; and when they think of justice for this terrible chapter in history, they think of Nuremberg. Not of Russia or the Ukraine, and certainly not a town called Kharkov. But in reality, the first war-crimes trial against the Nazis was in this idyllic, peaceful Ukrainian city, which is fitting, because it is also where the Holocaust actually began.
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Hugely Important Story Damaged by Bad Writing.
- By C. J. Lansdown on 25-11-16
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Judgment Before Nuremberg
- The Holocaust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crimes Trial
- Narrated by: Gary Dikeos
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-11-13
- Language: English
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The Hiding Place
- By: Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall295
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Performance272
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At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell. For the first 50 years of her life, nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was a spinster watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in the tiny house over their shop in Haarlem. Their uneventful days, as regulated as their own watches, revolved around their abiding love for one another. But with the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, everything changed....
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Beautiful, powerful story. A must read/listen
- By M. D. Davies on 07-02-20
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The Hiding Place
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-10-11
- Language: English
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A Native’s Return: 1945-1988
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
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Overall18
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In this last book of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich’s defeat. Having fled Berlin and imminent arrest by the Gestapo in 1940, Shirer returned to Europe in October 1945 to verify the facts of the Fuhrer’s death, thus bringing to a close - or so he thought - his involvement with the Third Reich. He describes his return to his homeland and his ensuing careers as a broadcast journalist and author. He describes the McCarthy years and how the blacklist affected his own network, CBS.
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Grover reads Shirer
- By Mister Peridot on 06-06-20
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A Native’s Return: 1945-1988
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: Twentieth Century Journey, Book 3
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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The Vory
- Russia's Super Mafia
- By: Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall157
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Performance136
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Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment.
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Great
- By edward on 19-06-18
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The Vory
- Russia's Super Mafia
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- By: Giles Whittell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall98
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Performance89
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Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962? Bridge of Spies is the true story of those men - Rudolf Abel, a Soviet Spy who was a master of disguise; Gary Powers, an American who was captured when his spy plane was shot down; and Frederic Pryor, a young American doctor mistakenly identified as a spy. They had been drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and curiosity, rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families, and then all but forgotten.
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Beyond dull.
- By Mr. on 13-04-18
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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-04-12
- Language: English
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