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They Thought They Were Free
- The Germans, 1933-45
- By: Milton Mayer
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of 10 Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany.
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A must listen/read!
- By The Introcentric on 22-04-21
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They Thought They Were Free
- The Germans, 1933-45
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
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Language of War, Language of Peace
- Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
- By: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East. Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the borders, checkpoints and so-called "Separation Barrier".
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Great book
- By Happy Consumer on 21-10-21
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Language of War, Language of Peace
- Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 18-12-15
- Language: English
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My Train to Freedom
- A Jewish Boy’s Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism
- By: Ivan A. Backer
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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The breathtaking memoir by a member of "Nicky's family", a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project. My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest Ivan Backer.
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My Train to Freedom
- A Jewish Boy’s Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-03-16
- Language: English
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Roosevelt and the Holocaust
- How FDR Saved the Jews and Brought Hope to a Nation
- By: Robert L. Beir, Brian Josepher
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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There is a great debate among historians about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's actions during the Holocaust. Was FDR the hero that defeated the Germans, or did he turn a blind eye to the plight of the Jews as long as he possibly could? In Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Robert Beir analyzes specific actions and legislation to get at the truth behind Roosevelt's role in the Holocaust. Beir has a unique perspective. He is a Jew who was raised during the extreme anti-Semitism of the Great Depression. Having witnessed the fruits of the New Deal firsthand, Beir became a Roosevelt scholar.
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Roosevelt and the Holocaust
- How FDR Saved the Jews and Brought Hope to a Nation
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-06-13
- Language: English
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Blood and Money
- War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
- By: David McNally
- Narrated by: Tim Getman
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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In most accounts of the origins of money, we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development as one of violence and human bondage. Money's emergence and its transformation are shown to be intimately connected to the buying and selling of slaves and the waging of war.
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Very Insightful but a little preachy in places
- By Anonymous User on 16-08-21
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Blood and Money
- War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
- Narrated by: Tim Getman
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-09-20
- Language: English
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Sex and War
- How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
- By: Malcom Potts, Thomas Hayden
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Human beings have been battling one another since time immemorial. But why war and terrorism? Why are men almost always the killers, and why are war and sex so inextricably linked? Why do we kill members of our own species intentionally, when few other animals do so?
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Evolutionary psychology
- By Potts on 10-05-18
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Sex and War
- How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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Britain’s Brown Babies
- The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War
- By: Lucy Bland
- Narrated by: Katherine Margaret
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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This book reveals the little-known history of the mixed-race children born to Black American servicemen and White British women during the Second World War. Of the three million American soldiers stationed in Britain in 1942-45, about 240,000 were African American. Their relationships with British women resulted in the birth of an estimated 2,000 children. Britain’s Brown Babies presents the stories of more than 50 of these children against the backdrop of shifting government policy and attitudes of the time.
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interesting and heart wrenching
- By Mrs H Pamment on 15-03-24
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Britain’s Brown Babies
- The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War
- Narrated by: Katherine Margaret
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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The Outlaw Sea
- A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
- By: William Langewiesche
- Narrated by: William Langewiesche
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean, that vast expanse of international waters, begins just a few miles out and spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.
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This is a fascinating book - incredible
- By Mr. on 18-07-12
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The Outlaw Sea
- A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
- Narrated by: William Langewiesche
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-04-04
- Language: English
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Price Wars
- How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World
- By: Rupert Russell
- Narrated by: Ben Deery
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis—the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Russell lays out just how these crises are connected and how many such events plunged the 2010s into a decade of turmoil.
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Strong, important main argument; some fluff
- By E N Cuentro on 22-07-22
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Price Wars
- How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World
- Narrated by: Ben Deery
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-01-22
- Language: English
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A More Unbending Battle
- The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
- By: Peter Nelson
- Narrated by: Jarvis Hooten
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below better than when the shells exploded in the trenches...
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Terrific
- By Brian Murgatroyd on 27-09-21
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A More Unbending Battle
- The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
- Narrated by: Jarvis Hooten
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-12-09
- Language: English
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Abolitionists Mega Collection: Thought Leaders in the Fight to End Slavery Before the Civil War
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass; David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World; The Narrative of Sojourner Truth; The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements; Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade; and more
- By: Frederick Douglass, David Walker, Sojourner Truth, and others
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 53 hrs and 35 mins
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Abolitionism was the movement that strove to end slavery in the United States. The abolitionists saw slavery as a stain and an affliction on the United States and made it their goal to eradicate slave ownership. Abolitionists produced anti-slavery literature, sent petitions to Congress, and ran for political office.
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Abolitionists Mega Collection: Thought Leaders in the Fight to End Slavery Before the Civil War
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass; David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World; The Narrative of Sojourner Truth; The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements; Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade; and more
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 53 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-01-21
- Language: English
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Global Jihad
- A Brief History
- By: Glenn E. Robinson
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Most violent jihadi movements in the 20th century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a new form of jihadism emerged - global jihad - turning to the international arena as the primary locus of ideology and action. With this book, Glenn E. Robinson develops a compelling and provocative argument about this violent political movement's evolution.
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Global Jihad
- A Brief History
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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Preachers of Hate
- Islam and the War on America
- By: Kenneth Timmerman
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The "new" anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make sense of the Arab world.
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Preachers of Hate
- Islam and the War on America
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-11-03
- Language: English
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World War III: Why Humans Can't Have World Peace
- Humanities Circumferencing Predisposition to Warfare
- By: Nicholas Ishak
- Narrated by: Stephen Totemeier
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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At this point, all we can do is hope that we will all one day find happiness by doing what we know to be good, which is possibly subterfuge, paying penance for our inhumanities, the mistakes it takes to grow as a person, as people, evolve as a species. Some are mechanized as sheer predators, and others as sheer prey. Life, all life, seeks to survive. The mechanics of the mind is why we go to war. We are built to survive, love, feel, kill, eat, prey, and play. The cosmic recipe of our existence copulates the need for war.
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World War III: Why Humans Can't Have World Peace
- Humanities Circumferencing Predisposition to Warfare
- Narrated by: Stephen Totemeier
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-01-24
- Language: English
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War Comes to Long An
- Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province
- By: Jeffrey Race
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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This landmark study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural province of Long An up until American intervention in the area, offers a human, balanced, penetrating account of war. Two new forewords by Robert K. Brigham of Vassar College and Jeffrey Record of the Air War College explore the book's enduring influence. A new end chapter offers previously unpublished scholarship on the conflict.
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War Comes to Long An
- Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
- By: Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. From nearly seventy selections of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters emerges a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization—all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action.
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The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
- Narrated by: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Greg Watanabe
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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Japanese American Incarceration
- The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
- By: Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
- Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and exploitation.
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Japanese American Incarceration
- The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
- Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-09-23
- Language: English
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Divisions
- A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military
- By: Thomas A. Guglielmo
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that’s the story many Americans have long told themselves. Divisions offers a decidedly different view. Prizewinning historian Thomas A. Guglielmo draws together more than a decade of extensive research to tell sweeping yet personal stories of race and the military.
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Divisions
- A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 21-12-21
- Language: English
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Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America
- Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- By: Robin C. Sager
- Narrated by: Sally Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing over 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict in Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin from 1840-1860, Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations of cruelty.
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Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America
- Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Narrated by: Sally Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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The Gettysburg Address
- By: Abraham Lincoln
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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With this audio, you will here the original Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln in less than 60 minutes, plus much more. To improve your understanding of the Address, we have included original readings and commentary related to its subject, such as the Emancipation Proclamation and Pericles' Funeral Oration
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This was agony to listen to. I pity his students.
- By Gloria on 20-02-14
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The Gettysburg Address
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-08-07
- Language: English
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