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Europe's Last Summer
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The early summer of 1914 was the most glorious Europeans could remember. But, behind the scenes, the most destructive war the world had yet known was moving inexorably into being, a war that would continue to resonate into the 21st century.
The question of how the Great War of 1914 began has long vexed historians. In a gripping narrative, Fromkin shows that hostilities were started deliberately and that two wars were waged, one serving as pretext for the other.
Shedding light on such current issues as preventive war and terrorism, Fromkin provides detailed descriptions of the negotiations and incisive portraits of the diplomats, generals, and rulers as he reveals why diplomacy was destined to fail.
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- De smarmer en 04-06-14
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A Peace to End All Peace
- The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
- De: David Fromkin
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.
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Still A Great Book On The Topic
- De Nostromo en 02-03-19
De: David Fromkin
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1941: The Year Germany Lost the War
- De: Andrew Nagorski
- Narrado por: Michael David Axtell
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Best-selling historian Andrew Nagorski takes a fresh look at the decisive year 1941, when Hitler’s miscalculations and policy of terror propelled Churchill, FDR, and Stalin into a powerful new alliance that defeated Nazi Germany.
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Interesting but problematic
- De Thor Olson en 06-14-19
De: Andrew Nagorski
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Japan 1941
- Countdown to Infamy
- De: Eri Hotta
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?
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Japanese viewpoint
- De Jean en 01-01-14
De: Eri Hotta
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Hitler
- A Global Biography
- De: Brendan Simms
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 29 h y 17 m
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Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive war with the United States precisely because he considered it such a potent adversary.
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A good biography with a different viewpoint
- De Timothy en 10-10-19
De: Brendan Simms
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The End of Tsarist Russia
- The March to World War I and Revolution
- De: Dominic Lieven
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 18 h y 54 m
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World War I and the Russian Revolution together shaped the 20th century in profound ways. In The End of Tsarist Russia, acclaimed scholar Dominic Lieven connects for the first time the two events, providing both a history of the First World War's origins from a Russian perspective and an international history of why the revolution happened.
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A good book done in by bad narration.
- De James en 05-25-16
De: Dominic Lieven
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Churchill
- The Prophetic Statesman
- De: James C. Humes
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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James C. Humes reveals the astonishingly accurate predictions of Britain's most famous prime minister and how his critics' perceptions of them shaped his political career. Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years before the assassination of a Serbian archduke plunged Europe into war? Who could have predicted the rise of al-Qaeda nearly eight decades before anyone had heard of Osama bin Laden? Winston Churchill did.
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The voice in the wilderness--Are we listening yet?
- De Jean en 12-16-12
De: James C. Humes
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Hitler
- Downfall: 1939-1945
- De: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 29 h y 26 m
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From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 comes a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself. Volker Ullrich offers fascinating new insight into Hitler's character and personality, vividly portraying the insecurity, obsession with minutiae, and narcissistic penchant for gambling that led Hitler to overrule his subordinates and then blame them for his failures.
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Had to return because of narration
- De Thomas C en 03-26-21
De: Volker Ullrich, y otros
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Our Man in Tokyo
- An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
- De: Steve Kemper
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war.
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What a great inside look at Japan, before 1941!
- De Charlie Ortiz en 11-20-23
De: Steve Kemper
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Saving Freedom
- Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
- De: Joe Scarborough
- Narrado por: Joe Scarborough
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans and Democrats behind America’s most dramatic foreign policy shift since George Washington delivered his farewell address. How did one of the least prepared presidents to walk into the Oval Office become one of its most successful?
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An engaging review of a remarkable president
- De Mark A en 11-29-20
De: Joe Scarborough
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Hitler
- A Biography
- De: Ian Kershaw
- Narrado por: Alan Robertson
- Duración: 46 h y 15 m
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Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.
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An Excellent Read
- De Rodney en 09-19-13
De: Ian Kershaw
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The Duel
- The 80-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler
- De: John Lukacs
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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This is a day-by-day account of the 80-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler, poised on the edge of absolute victory, and Churchill, threatened by imminent invasion and defeat.
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The most aggravating history lecture ever
- De Sidney en 12-31-08
De: John Lukacs
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A Peace to End All Peace
- The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
- De: David Fromkin
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The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.
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Still A Great Book On The Topic
- De Nostromo en 02-03-19
De: David Fromkin
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The King and the Cowboy
- Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret Partners
- De: David Fromkin
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
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In The King and the Cowboy, renowned historian David Fromkin reveals how two unlikely world leaders - Edward the Seventh of England and Theodore Roosevelt - recast themselves as respected political players and established a friendship that would shape the course of the 20th century in ways never anticipated.
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Okay book; bad narration
- De Ron L. Caldwell en 07-06-09
De: David Fromkin
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
- The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- De: Richard Miles
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased.
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Outstanding! This is THE book on Carthage.
- De Haakon B. Dahl en 01-21-13
De: Richard Miles
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The Fall of the Ottomans
- The Great War in the Middle East
- De: Eugene Rogan
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict.
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Great Book About A Little Known Part of WWI
- De Nostromo en 06-08-15
De: Eugene Rogan
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Paris 1919
- Six Months That Changed the World
- De: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 25 h y 47 m
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Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world. At the close of WWI, between January and July of 1919, delegates from around the world converged on Paris under the auspices of peace. New countries were created, old empires were dissolved, and for six months, Paris was the center of the world.
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Good book, well narrated
- De W. F. Rucker en 02-07-09
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The Ottoman Endgame
- War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
- De: Sean McMeekin
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 19 h y 4 m
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An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East. Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, was World War I - a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he calls the "wars of the Ottoman succession", we know far less than we think.
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WWI from a different perspective
- De Michael L Krogh en 11-09-15
De: Sean McMeekin
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A Peace to End All Peace
- The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
- De: David Fromkin
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.
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Still A Great Book On The Topic
- De Nostromo en 02-03-19
De: David Fromkin
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The King and the Cowboy
- Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret Partners
- De: David Fromkin
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 6 h
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In The King and the Cowboy, renowned historian David Fromkin reveals how two unlikely world leaders - Edward the Seventh of England and Theodore Roosevelt - recast themselves as respected political players and established a friendship that would shape the course of the 20th century in ways never anticipated.
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Okay book; bad narration
- De Ron L. Caldwell en 07-06-09
De: David Fromkin
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
- The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- De: Richard Miles
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased.
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Outstanding! This is THE book on Carthage.
- De Haakon B. Dahl en 01-21-13
De: Richard Miles
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The Fall of the Ottomans
- The Great War in the Middle East
- De: Eugene Rogan
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict.
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Great Book About A Little Known Part of WWI
- De Nostromo en 06-08-15
De: Eugene Rogan
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Paris 1919
- Six Months That Changed the World
- De: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 25 h y 47 m
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Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world. At the close of WWI, between January and July of 1919, delegates from around the world converged on Paris under the auspices of peace. New countries were created, old empires were dissolved, and for six months, Paris was the center of the world.
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Good book, well narrated
- De W. F. Rucker en 02-07-09
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The Ottoman Endgame
- War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
- De: Sean McMeekin
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 19 h y 4 m
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An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East. Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, was World War I - a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he calls the "wars of the Ottoman succession", we know far less than we think.
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WWI from a different perspective
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Enemies and Neighbors
- Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
- De: Ian Black
- Narrado por: Michael Page
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In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral histories to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting - to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age from both sides.
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Decent historical compilation, poor framing
- De Dan Harris en 07-08-20
De: Ian Black
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Whispers in the Tall Grass
- De: Nick Brokhausen
- Narrado por: George Spelvin
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On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and Observations Group as it was innocuously called. The small recon companies that were the center of its activities conducted some of the most dangerous missions of the war, infiltrating areas controlled by the North Vietnamese in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The companies never exceeded more than 30 Americans, yet they were the best source for the enemy's disposition.
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OUTSTANDING
- De James en 12-21-19
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The Cold War
- A World History
- De: Odd Arne Westad
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues that the conflict must be understood as a global ideological confrontation with roots in the industrial revolution and with continuing implications for the world today.
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A lenghy treatise on the Cold War
- De Donald Hill en 11-21-17
De: Odd Arne Westad
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The First World War
- De: Hew Strachan
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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A century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. Even more than World War II, the First World War continues to shape the politics and international relations of our world.
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Outstanding narrative of the military action
- De Tad Davis en 04-30-17
De: Hew Strachan
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- De: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to "open" China even as China's imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country's decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China's advantage.
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
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De: Stephen R. Platt
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Vanished Kingdoms
- The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
- De: Norman Davies
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There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Davies peers through the cracks in the mainstream accounts of modern-day states to dazzle us with extraordinary stories of barely remembered pasts, and of the traces they left behind. This is Norman Davies at his best: sweeping narrative history packed with unexpected insights. Vanished Kingdoms will appeal to all fans of unconventional and thought-provoking history, from listeners of Niall Ferguson to Jared Diamond.
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needs a good editor.
- De Ryan Anderson en 09-25-21
De: Norman Davies
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The Birth of Classical Europe
- A History from Troy to Augustine
- De: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann
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To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level, from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a “classical Europe,” using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new audio book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past - one filled with great leaders and writers....
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Excellent overview of the Classical World
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A People’s History of the World
- From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
- De: Chris Harman
- Narrado por: Napoleon Ryan
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Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild-from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the 20th century. In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism.
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Oh God avoid
- De Robert en 03-28-18
De: Chris Harman
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Iron Kingdom
- The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- De: Christopher Clark
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
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In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia - a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development - ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's legacy is far more complex.
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- De alexyakkavoo en 06-03-20
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The Sleepwalkers
- How Europe Went to War in 1914
- De: Christopher Clark
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 24 h y 54 m
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The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.
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Very interesting take on a complex problem
- De Steve en 01-24-15
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The Second World Wars
- How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
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The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory.
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The story behind the story of WW 2
- De LARRY DINKIN en 02-07-19
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Poland
- The First Thousand Years
- De: Patrice M. Dabrowski
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 25 h y 29 m
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Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental Europe, only to be later wiped off the map for more than a century. Yet even under these constraints, Poles persisted in their desire to wrest from their oppressors a modicum of national dignity and, ultimately, managed to achieve much more than that.
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Easy listen.
- De Pieter Reyneke en 01-11-23
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Europe's Last Summer
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- John W. Trumbull
- 02-12-23
fascinating
The author opened my mind to the intricacies and complications that led to WW1. Prior to his explanation, the archduke was assassinated and the world went to war was the explanation. The details were at times hard to follow, but gave an insight into what is the real complexities that accompany politics: no doubt, a blueprint for our times.
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- Chris Hummel
- 11-16-20
Decent Updating of a Century Old Debate
Incorporating newer (mid 2000s) research, Fromkin argues basically that the war occurred because Austria(-Hungary) wanted a war with Serbia, made possible by Germany's famous "blank check" support and the belief that Germany might keep the Russians out of it. The German military leadership, especially Von Moltke, took the opportunity, now guaranteed Austro-Hungarian support, to pursue a long planned war with Russia (and France). Motivated largely by fear of emerging Russian power and an economic (especially taxation) and social system that had reached its peacetime limits, Germany purposely pursued what would become the Great War in spite of the consequences for civilization. This is more than simply an updating of the self-serving 1919 war guilt argument, with Fromkin largely basing his conclusions on newer secondary literature. He deals with Fischer's conclusions in the 1960s without directly taking up the continuity of German war goals in the World Wars, which is a bit unsatisfying, though not his central purpose. While the central focus on Germany and Austria-Hungary, he also spends time on the British and French situations and admits of broader factors like nationalism, industrialism, militarism and domestic affairs in creating the situation in which the war occurred. Relatively little is said of Russia (including any broader war goals or pan-slavism). His treatment of Kaiser Wilhelm II is especially illuminating, presenting him as blustering, unpredictable, and sometimes immature and belligerent (the common view), but also likely to step back from the brink of war, leading his advisors, generals, and handlers to carefully manage him into war. Though not terribly academic in tone or approach (it has 50 or so often short and sometimes redundant chapters), it is well-narrated and recommended as worthwhile reading along with other works about the origins of the war that continues to shape the modern world .
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- Mr.
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Very entertaining but biased
This is a great reading. Well-written and well read. However, the author is very sure of his opinion, which seems pretty biased, as he not even tries to support with evidence his concept that France, Russia and Great Britain had fight the war because Germany declared war on them.
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- Brett Palmer
- 10-23-20
Unique perspective on WWI's origins
The author outlines the settings leading up to the war. Many of these are understood by students of WWI. The author then describes opportunities each country had to prevent the war and their failings.
Enjoyed the voice of the narrator which is often difficult for historical narratives but this one was very good. Listened to several chapters multiple times.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-07-21
marvelous
Extremely useful , the book with a 100 year perspective ties together a very troubled century
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- J Peter Meents
- 12-10-20
Difficult for a newcomer to the Great War
I have read a great deal about WWI and found this book to be quite interesting, if occasionally dry. This is not a book for someone who is new to the study of the Great War of 2914-1918. The book seems to be exhaustively researched, and so, will be valuable to the more serious student of the war.
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- Brian
- 04-05-22
Why did it turn to war
The shooting of a couple of monarchs not really liked is believed to be the spark to war.
But really misinformation spead about the monarch, a youth movement against the establishment, political leaders play games against each other and thier leaders.
The spreading of Socialist, communist. Bolsheist movements around the world, and weak democracy leaders (like Wilson) had impact on events leading to the summer of 1914.
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- cat mccormick
- 12-04-20
The Great Restart
A must read as to understand what really caused The Great War, and every war since! The great restart started over 100 years ago. Some of this story will send chills down your spine to current events.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-25-21
my ignorance review
In depth review, of the causes of the 1st world War. Anyone looking to study this subject, should start with this book.
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- Larry P
- 07-06-21
a good read well spoken
Learned a lot and book makes some sense of a lot of events, not an accidental war.
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