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The Defeat of the Damned
- The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944
- By: Douglas E. Nash Sr.
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
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One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the Third Reich during World War II was the infamous Sondereinheit Dirlewanger, or the "Dirlewanger Special Unit." Formed initially as a company-sized formation in June 1940 from convicted poachers, it served under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Oskar Dirlewanger, one of the most infamous criminals in military history. After assisting in putting down the Warsaw Uprising during 1944, by November of that year it had been enlarged and retitled as the 2. SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger.
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Death of the Wehrmacht
- The German Campaigns of 1942
- By: Robert M. Citino
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year. Building upon his widely respected critique in The German Way of War, Citino shows how the campaigns of 1942 fit within the centuries-old patterns of Prussian/German warmaking and ultimately doomed Hitler's expansionist ambitions.
By: Robert M. Citino
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- By: Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the 'new woman', the 'new man', 'new living' and 'new thinking'. What follows is the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an economic crisis and the transformation of Germany. A triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges.
By: Harald Jähner, and others
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This Land of Promise
- A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
- By: Matthew Lockwood
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
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What makes a home? What makes a refugee? As allegedly record-breaking numbers of migrants attempt to reach Britain and public conversation becomes, often, poisonous, Island Refuge is a powerful account of what has come before and what has been learned by it. Almost every time, we see when we look back, Britain has not been an island refuge from the world, but an island refuge for the world. Not a country burdened by refugees, but instead transformed and strengthened by them.
By: Matthew Lockwood
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Hitler and Poland
- How the Independence of One Country led the World to War in 1939
- By: Norman Ridley
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the end of the First World War, Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland was obliged to plot and negotiate to try and prevent them from realizing their ambitions to eviscerate the country. As well as bitter ethnic battles between Germany and Poland for the political control of Upper Silesia, there were also the burning ambitions of Weimar Germany, and later Nazi Germany, to reclaim lands incorporated into the new state of Poland at Versailles.
By: Norman Ridley
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Operation Mincemeat
- The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Ben Macintyre, bestselling author of Agent Zigzag, weaves together private documents, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat.
By: Ben Macintyre
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The Defeat of the Damned
- The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944
- By: Douglas E. Nash Sr.
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the Third Reich during World War II was the infamous Sondereinheit Dirlewanger, or the "Dirlewanger Special Unit." Formed initially as a company-sized formation in June 1940 from convicted poachers, it served under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Oskar Dirlewanger, one of the most infamous criminals in military history. After assisting in putting down the Warsaw Uprising during 1944, by November of that year it had been enlarged and retitled as the 2. SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger.
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Death of the Wehrmacht
- The German Campaigns of 1942
- By: Robert M. Citino
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year. Building upon his widely respected critique in The German Way of War, Citino shows how the campaigns of 1942 fit within the centuries-old patterns of Prussian/German warmaking and ultimately doomed Hitler's expansionist ambitions.
By: Robert M. Citino
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- By: Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the 'new woman', the 'new man', 'new living' and 'new thinking'. What follows is the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an economic crisis and the transformation of Germany. A triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges.
By: Harald Jähner, and others
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This Land of Promise
- A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
- By: Matthew Lockwood
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
What makes a home? What makes a refugee? As allegedly record-breaking numbers of migrants attempt to reach Britain and public conversation becomes, often, poisonous, Island Refuge is a powerful account of what has come before and what has been learned by it. Almost every time, we see when we look back, Britain has not been an island refuge from the world, but an island refuge for the world. Not a country burdened by refugees, but instead transformed and strengthened by them.
By: Matthew Lockwood
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Hitler and Poland
- How the Independence of One Country led the World to War in 1939
- By: Norman Ridley
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Following the end of the First World War, Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland was obliged to plot and negotiate to try and prevent them from realizing their ambitions to eviscerate the country. As well as bitter ethnic battles between Germany and Poland for the political control of Upper Silesia, there were also the burning ambitions of Weimar Germany, and later Nazi Germany, to reclaim lands incorporated into the new state of Poland at Versailles.
By: Norman Ridley
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Operation Mincemeat
- The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Ben Macintyre, bestselling author of Agent Zigzag, weaves together private documents, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat.
By: Ben Macintyre