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  • Lydbog

    The Golden Thirteen

    How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold

    af Dan Goldberg ...
    Fortalt af Sam Manual ...

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    8 timer 50 min

    The inspiring story of the 13 courageous Black men who integrated the U.S. Navy during World War II—leading desegregation efforts across America and anticipating the civil rights movement.Featuring previously unpublished material from the U.S. Navy, this little-known history of forgotten civil rights heroes uncovers the racism within the military and the fight to serve.Through oral histories and ... Læs mere

    160,35 kr.

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    Above the Reich

    Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words

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    12 timer 54 min

    Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a bookThey are voices lost to time. Beginning in the late 1970s, five veteran airmen sat for private interviews. Decades after the guns fell silent, they recounted in vivid detail the most dangerous missions that made the difference in the war. Ed Haydon dueled with the ... Læs mere

    180,40 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Mussolini and Hitler

    The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

    Fortalt af Matthew Waterson ...

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    12 timer 27 min

    From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally.Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and ... Læs mere

    200,36 kr.

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    Anything for a Vote

    Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns

    Fortalt af Tom Perkins ...

    Uforkortet

    9 timer 3 min

    Today's political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative campaigning. But history reveals that smear campaigns are as American as apple pie. Anything for a Vote is an illustrated look at 200-plus years of dirty tricks and bad behavior in presidential elections, from George Washington to Barack Obama and John McCain. Let the name-calling begin!• 1836: ... Læs mere

    144,24 kr.

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    They Fought Alone

    The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France

    af Charles Glass ...
    Fortalt af Allan Corduner ...

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    10 timer 21 min

    **“Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone is a must-read for those whose passion is the Resistance literature of World War II.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of FranceFrom the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces**As far as ... Læs mere

    160,35 kr.

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    A Voyage Long and Strange

    Rediscovering the New World

    af Tony Horwitz ...
    Fortalt af John H. Mayer ...

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    17 timer 16 min

    On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists ... Læs mere

    200,44 kr.

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    Captive Paradise

    A History of Hawaii

    Fortalt af Joe Barrett ...

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    13 timer 33 min

    In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough comes the first full-scale narrative history of Hawaii, an epic tale of empire, industry, war, and culture.The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its discovery by Captain Cook in the late eighteenth century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take ... Læs mere

    184,01 kr.

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    A Blueprint for War

    FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America

    af Susan Dunn ...
    Fortalt af Suzanne Toren ...

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    8 timer 17 min

    In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the ruthless onslaught of the Nazi army and air force. Great Britain stood alone, a fragile bastion between Germany and American immersion in war. In ... Læs mere

    159,95 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Robert’s Rules of Writing, Second Edition

    111 Unconventional Lessons That Every Writer Needs to Know

    Fortalt af Robert Masello ...

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    6 timer 35 min

    Although there's no shortage of books on writing and publishing, there's none quite like Robert's Rules of Writing. Drawing on his many years of experience as an award-winning journalist, TV writer, and the author of over twenty books, Robert Masello addresses all the issues that confront, and all the problems that beset, writers of all stripes.Whether you're working on a novel or a script, a ... Læs mere

    128,20 kr.

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    Marie-Antoinette

    The Making of a French Queen

    af John Hardman ...
    Fortalt af Jonathan Cowley ...

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    17 timer 47 min

    A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queenWho was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on Marie-Antoinette's story.Hardman shows ... Læs mere

    200,36 kr.

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    The Common Wind

    Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

    Fortalt af Earl McLean ...

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    7 timer 33 min

    The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "history from below." Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind ... Læs mere

    160,27 kr.

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    The Winter Army

    The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors

    Fortalt af Brian Troxell ...

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    9 timer 29 min

    WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION'S ULLR AWARD, the epic story of the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy’s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory.At the start of World War II, the US Army had two cavalry divisions—and no mountain troops. The German Wehrmacht, in ... Læs mere

    214,75 kr.