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Takeover Cover
Author: Timothy W. Ryback |
Release Date: March 26, 2024
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruinIn the summer of 1932, the Weimar Re...
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Author: Stephen L. Moore | Narrator: Johnny Heller
Release Date: December 05, 2023
A gripping true-life thriller about the first US submarine to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier—and the sub’s tragic twist of fateIn 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accidentally sinks to the bottom of the sea duri...
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November 1942 Cover
Author: Peter Englund | Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Release Date: November 21, 2023
An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through itAt the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second Worl...
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Justicia Global Cover
Author: Ernesto Che Guevara |
Release Date: November 14, 2023
A Spanish-language edition of three speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto Che Guevara offers a...
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Author: Ernesto Che Guevara | Narrator: Ignacio Rodriguez de Anca, Gustavo Dardes, Irene Machado and Ernesto Baez
Release Date: November 14, 2023
En una carta a su madre en 1954, un joven Ernesto Guevara escribió "Las Américas serán el teatro de mis aventuras de una manera mucho más significativa de lo que yo hubiera creído". En America Latina se narra la his...
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Author: Gary J. Bass | Narrator: Simon Vance
Release Date: October 17, 2023
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to NurembergIn the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the ...
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Cuba Cover
Author: Sergio Guerra Vilaboy and Oscar Loyola Vega |
Release Date: October 17, 2023
Una concisa y legible perspectiva de Cuba, revisada a fondo y escrita por cubanos para cualquier persona interesada en comprender rápidamente la turbulenta historia del país insular. Cuba: una breve historia abarca el período pre...
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Author: Daniel Finkelstein | Narrator: Daniel Finkelstein
Release Date: September 19, 2023
An epic and uplifting World War II family history of resistance that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering under Hitler and Stalin, and the near-miraculous survival stories of the author's mother and ...
Author: Florian Illies | Narrator: Jacqui Bardelang
Release Date: September 19, 2023
“An enthralling and insightful cultural history—one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair.” —Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book Rev...
Author: Jeremy Eichler | Narrator: Jeremy Eichler and Sherrill Milnes
Release Date: August 29, 2023
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime pastIn 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal &ldq...
Author: Ernie Pyle | Narrator: David Chrisinger and Michael Brainard
Release Date: May 30, 2023
The classic, human-scale account of the soldiers who fought in World War II, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ernie Pyle—America’s most famous and most loved war correspondent—featuring a new introduction by David Chrisinger, the autho...
Author: Sarah Watling | Narrator: Sarah Watling
Release Date: May 09, 2023
An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live—and to create—with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War“Now, as certainly as never before, we are determined or comp...