JOHN A.
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Triple
- A Novel
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 647
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 570
As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Triple poorly performed
- By Jpop on 03-13-21
- Triple
- A Novel
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
Niddle East intrigue
Reviewed: 08-11-24
A real page turner! Breathless.’-
Kept me listening extened my walk s day after day.
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1921
- A Novel of the Irish Century (Irish Century Series, Book 2)
- By: Morgan Llywelyn
- Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
The year 1921 is the year of the Irish Civil War and the year of the separation of Ireland into two nations, south and north. The central character is Henry Mooney, a journalist (based upon the author's grandfather), who struggles for truth in his reporting during the terrible conflict, and falls in love with an Englishwoman in Ireland in the midst of political and military horrors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical fiction.
- By T. J. Mathews on 04-11-25
- 1921
- A Novel of the Irish Century (Irish Century Series, Book 2)
- By: Morgan Llywelyn
- Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
History of Ireland brought to life
Reviewed: 03-30-24
I like the way it tied events happening outside Ireland during the story from hydropower to the rise of Hitler
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Trinity
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 34 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,074
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 933
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 931
From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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FINALLY!!!!
- By Meaghan Bynum on 04-02-18
- Trinity
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: John Keating
The words live
Reviewed: 01-18-24
The narration the best ever. I love audio books but this the best of all!
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Thinking the Twentieth Century Part 2
- By: Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Here is the final book of unparalleled historian Tony Judt. Where Judt’s masterpiece Postwar redefined the history of modern Europe by uniting the stories of its eastern and western halves, Thinking the Twentieth Century unites the century’s conflicted intellectual history into a single soaring narrative. The 20th century comes to life as the age of ideas - a time when, for good or for ill, the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book both deep and baste
- By JOHN A. on 01-07-24
- Thinking the Twentieth Century Part 2
- By: Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
A book both deep and baste
Reviewed: 01-07-24
Tony Judt is a brilliant erudite thinker and a fine writer. Having listened to Postwar with pleasure and profit, I came to this unusual book of conversations. The only criticism I have is that there need to be two readers with clearly different voices so that the listener knows when it’s Judt who’s speaking and when it’s Snyder. I love the mix of personal and historical, intellectual and emotional in this unusual book. I feel very sad to keep remembering that Tony Judt is no longer in our world. May his memory and writing endure as blessings.
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Truman
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 641
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 634
Distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough tells one of the greatest American stories in this stirring audio adaptation of Truman - a compelling, classic portrait of a life that shaped history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Abridged Version is a Disappointment
- By David on 01-03-08
- Truman
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
His integrity elevated the presidency
Reviewed: 12-20-23
I will be 90 in a few months and the Truman presidency was the first I was old enough to appreciate in real time. This biography moved me in its recall of those early years of my political comprehension and confirmed my life long admiration of HST.
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Fatherland
- A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
- By: Burkhard Bilger
- Narrated by: Burkhard Bilger
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a window into a little-explored aspect of WWII
- By Marjorie on 09-23-23
- Fatherland
- A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
- By: Burkhard Bilger
- Narrated by: Burkhard Bilger
Authentic German Accent
Reviewed: 12-07-23
It presented a story of a literate middle aged WW1 veteran during WW2 as uncovered by his American grandson seeking to understand his grandfathers role as state official.
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Paris Reborn
- Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
- By: Stephane Kirkland
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Traditionally known as a dirty, congested, and dangerous city, 19th Century Paris was transformed in an extraordinary period from 1848 to 1870, when the government launched a huge campaign to build streets, squares, parks, churches, and public buildings. The Louvre Palace was expanded, Notre-Dame Cathedral was restored and the French masterpiece of the Second Empire, the Opra Garnier, was built.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why Paris looks the way it does today
- By Neil Chisholm on 11-28-13
- Paris Reborn
- Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
- By: Stephane Kirkland
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
How Paris became a special, beautiful city
Reviewed: 08-19-17
This well written book has helped me finally understand how Paris got the special ordered, but also grand and charming, look that it has. The urban planning project called "les grandes traveaux" gets rooted in its historical, political contest, with focus on the Second Empire of Napolean III and his Prefect for Paris, Baron Haussmann. Having heard this book well read, I am now able to better understand the layout of boulevards and placement of iconic structures. I recommend this book for tourists like me, who want to enrich their time in Paris, as well as for others who approach its material from more abstract directions.
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