Shawna Hanley
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The Ukrainian Night
- An Intimate History of Revolution
- De: Marci Shore
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents, and children, Shore's book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian's reflections on what revolution is and what it means.
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Enlightened
- De Shawna Hanley en 03-19-25
- The Ukrainian Night
- An Intimate History of Revolution
- De: Marci Shore
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
Enlightened
Revisado: 03-19-25
I found this book unable to put down. Simply stunning. All around. Kudos to the author. I will reread it too. I’ve recommended to all my friends.
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present.
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Should be required reading for every citizen
- De Amazon Customer en 02-27-20
- Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
Fascinating peek into Russian spy games
Revisado: 07-18-24
This was a very interesting and well written book. I knew it was bad, but didn’t know how bad. We need to ban all Russians from entering our country at least until Putin is removed from his perch.
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The Pope at War
- The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
- De: David I. Kertzer
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial popes in Church history, especially now as the Vatican prepares to canonize him.
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Intellectually dishonest
- De ReviewAmazon384 en 04-08-23
- The Pope at War
- The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
- De: David I. Kertzer
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
Really great book!
Revisado: 07-04-24
I went into this knowing nothing about it beforehand. I was happily surprised to hear this very well written accounting of the history of.
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Stalin, Volume II
- Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- De: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 49 h y 44 m
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Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history.
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If you want the almost literal play by play account
- De Benjamin Casey en 06-22-18
- Stalin, Volume II
- Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- De: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
A deep, rich, well written book
Revisado: 06-10-24
Kotkin is a helluva writer and historian. This was truly a quite enjoyable read! Thank you
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
- American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Alex Wyndham
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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At the conference held in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: The US Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory, in order to "shuttle-bomb" the Germans from the Eastern front. Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign troops during the Russian Revolution, balked at the suggestion of foreign soldiers on Soviet soil.
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A good book, not great, but good.
- De Shawna Hanley en 05-01-24
- Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
- American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Alex Wyndham
A good book, not great, but good.
Revisado: 05-01-24
I enjoyed this book, but the story is a bit boring. He did a good job with it.
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
- Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
Phenomenal book!!!
Revisado: 04-29-24
This was well written. A really comprehensive review of what occurred. I’m rooting for Ukraine. Fk Russia.
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Deputy Mayor Putin
- De: Maeve McQuillan
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw, Gwilym Lee
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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How did a once faceless bureaucrat, a man whose own wife said he was born under the sign of the vampire, become the idealized face of Russian manhood and its authoritarian leader? Deputy Mayor Putin examines the man behind the myth. We will explore how Putin’s formative years shaped and drove him and how the supporting cast of characters he gathered along the way helped him get to the Kremlin’s inner sanctum.
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Interesting
- De Lexi en 03-02-24
- Deputy Mayor Putin
- De: Maeve McQuillan
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw, Gwilym Lee
Interesting little booklet
Revisado: 03-06-24
A very concise yet short history of the DEVIL. From a deputy mayor to a mass murderer. putler.
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Iron Curtain
- The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 26 h y 39 m
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At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete.
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Important story, imperfectly executed
- De jackifus en 12-08-12
- Iron Curtain
- The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
Really great
Revisado: 02-01-24
The details were excellent, great coverage of those times. Anne always nails it, and she did it again
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Return of History
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 11 h
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Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war—and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences.
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Plokhy delivers as always!
- De Kristinka en 05-20-23
- The Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Return of History
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
Excellent
Revisado: 11-07-23
Great book, I highly recommend all read it in these extremely trying times we are experiencing
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The Man with the Poison Gun
- A Cold War Spy Story
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of the entire Cold War. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change its modus operandi abroad and helped end the career of Aleksandr Shelepin, one of the most ambitious and dangerous Soviet leaders.
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Long…but excellent
- De Shawna Hanley en 10-16-23
- The Man with the Poison Gun
- A Cold War Spy Story
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
Long…but excellent
Revisado: 10-16-23
This man has a magical ability to tell a story. I’ve read tons of his stuff
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