Susan Kuebler
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Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- By: W. Richard Sonnenfeldt
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4 out of 5 stars 53
In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So much more than expected
- By Kathy on 03-23-12
- Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- By: W. Richard Sonnenfeldt
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
Disappointing
Reviewed: 07-24-23
If you are interested in the Nuremberg trials then this book is not for you. I listened until there was just 51 minutes and still NOTHING about Nuremberg. The author manages to tell us his entire life story up to the present day while barely mentioning Nuremberg. He does tell a fantastic story about his life. In fact it is so fantastic I have started to wonder how much of it actually happened.
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The Nuremberg Trials
- The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity
- By: Paul Roland
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
The Nuremberg Trials were the most important criminal proceedings ever held. They established the principle that individuals will always be held responsible for their actions under international law, and brought closure to World War II, allowing the reconstruction of Europe to begin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Historically Inaccurate
- By Susan Kuebler on 04-23-21
- The Nuremberg Trials
- The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity
- By: Paul Roland
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
Historically Inaccurate
Reviewed: 04-23-21
The author seems to have confused Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy who was tried at Nuremberg, with the commandant of Auschwitz named Rudolf Hoess (also pronounced Hess).
The first RH flew to Great Britain in 1941 and, to the best of my knowledge, had no dealings with the concentration camp. He was tried at the first Nuremberg trial. The second RH was tried in Poland, not Nuremberg, for crimes against humanity.
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The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- By: John Bolton
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,375
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,490
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,476
As President Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is one of the few White House memoirs to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the president, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a necessary read regardless of your politics
- By CriticalEye on 06-23-20
- The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- By: John Bolton
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
A Poor Imitation
Reviewed: 10-13-20
This books reads like something written by a 19th century Tory Party hack who dreams of the gravitas and vocabulary of Churchill without achieving either.
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Team of Vipers
- My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
- By: Cliff Sims
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May, Cliff Sims - introduction
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 768
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 691
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 694
After standing at Donald Trump’s side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as special assistant to the president and director of White House message strategy. He soon found himself pulled into the president’s inner circle as a confidante, an errand boy, an advisor, a punching bag, and a friend. This is the story of what it was really like in the West Wing as a member of the president’s team. It's a story of power and palace intrigue, backstabbing and bold victories, as well as painful moral compromises, occasionally with yourself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Underwhelming and OMG - the performance?
- By Mark Lipscombe on 01-29-19
- Team of Vipers
- My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
- By: Cliff Sims
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May, Cliff Sims - introduction
Trump Betrays Loyal Staff Member
Reviewed: 12-11-19
Area man is shocked, shocked to learn after watching Trump betray his fellow loyalists that “with Trump loyalty is a one-way street” when he gets fired.
One could feel sorry for the author who says he is a Christian and required all swear words in his account be bleeped; except he remained on Trump’s staff after the Access Hollywood tape.
He placed proximity to power above his own morals and scruples. He should have paid closer attention when Trump proclaimed at his campaign rallies “you knew damn well I was a snake when you took me in.”. And yet, in spite of all this, he still maintains his admiration and respect for Trump in the Epilogue to his book. “There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
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Three Days at the Brink
- FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
- By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrated by: Bret Baier
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 618
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 535
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 531
From the number-one best-selling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II - the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin plotted the war's endgame, including the D-Day invasion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A history lesson and SO much more
- By ScottG on 11-18-19
- Three Days at the Brink
- FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
- By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrated by: Bret Baier
Deceptive
Reviewed: 11-02-19
While this book is well-written and somewhat interesting, it is essentially a biography of FDR with little content on the Tehran Summit. The author also attempts a specious argument at the close that FDR’s need to cooperate with the Soviet Union as an ally against Germany is somehow akin to Trump’s reaching out to North Korea. This reader doesn’t buy any that argument.
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The Eichmann Trial
- By: Deborah E Lipstadt
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this one
- By Alan on 04-08-11
- The Eichmann Trial
- By: Deborah E Lipstadt
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Bit of a disappointment
Reviewed: 12-31-18
The details of the actual trial are sandwiched in between a narrative of her own libel trial brought by a Holocaust denier and an unending commentary on Hannah Arendt’s book on the Eichmann trial.
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