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Title: Undercover Tales of World War II

Author: William B. Breuer

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

"Most of these surreptitious events would have been rejected by Hollywood film producers as implausibleyet they happened and helped to shape the outcome of the war."

Going beyond the well-known history, this book offers World War II buffs and history fans something altogether different. Just beneath the surface of the traditional perspectives and legendary events lurks a vast and shadowy world of virtually untraceable maneuvers, deceptive appearances, and confidences betrayed. Breuer deftly uncovers 70 covert operations and insidious plots, including:

In the vivid, fast-paced tradition of Unexplained Mysteries of World War II, this far-reaching treasury of vanishing spies, mysterious kidnappings, and bizarre subplots is a unique and riveting addition to World War II literature.

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Title: Spy Wars

Subtitle: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games

Author: Tenent H Bagley

Narrator: Tenent H Bagley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-10

Publisher: Caravan

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the Nosenko affair has inspired debate for more than 40 years. Was Nosenko a bona fide defector with the real information about Lee Harvey Oswald's stay in Soviet Russia, or was he a KGB loyalist, engaged in a complex game of deception?

Critic Reviews:

"[H]e vividly recounts the chess match between the rival intelligence agencies during the opening salvoes of the Cold War, and its as cloak-and-dagger as any LeCarre fan could hope--double-agents, miniature cameras hidden behind neckties, microfilm, and other trappings of the spy game abound in this fascinating and fast-paced real-life thriller." (Amazon.com review)

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Title: Miami Babylon

Subtitle: Crime, Wealth, and Power - A Dispatch from the Beach

Author: Gerald Posner

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

From its beginnings in the 1890s, Miami Beach has been a place made by visionaries and hustlers. During Prohibition, Al Capone had to muscle into its bootlegging and gambling businesses. After December 1941, when the Beach was the training ground for half a million army recruits, even the war couldn't stop the party.

After a short postwar boom, the city's luck gave out. The big hotels went bankrupt, the crime rate rose, and the tourists moved on to Disney World and the Caribbean. Even after the Beach hosted both national political conventions in 1972, nobody would have imagined that this sandy backwater of run-down hotels and high crime would soon become one of the country's most important cultural centers. But in 1981, 125,000 Cubans arrived by the boatload.

The empty streets of South Beach, lined with dilapidated hotels, were about to be changed irrevocably by the culture of money that moved in behind cocaine and crime. Gerald Posner takes us inside the intertwined lives of the politicians, financiers, nightclub owners, and real-estate developers who have fed the Beach's unquenchable desire for wealth, flash, and hype: the German playboy who bought the entire tip of South Beach with $100 million of questionable money; the mayoral candidate who said, "If you can't take their money, drink their liquor, mess with their women, and then vote against them, you aren't cut out for politics"; the Staten Island thug who became king of the South Beach nightclubs and, when his empire unraveled, saved himself by testifying against the mob; the campaign manager who calls himself the "Prince of Darkness" and got immunity from prosecution in a fraud case by cooperating with the FBI against his colleagues; and the former Washington, D.C., developer who played hardball with city hall and became the Beach's first black hotel owner.

Critic Reviews:

"[A] thoroughly entertaining analysis of one of the original American pleasure domes and the good times that continue to roll." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: The Dardanelles Disaster

Subtitle: Winston Churchill's Greatest Defeat

Author: Dan Van Der Vat

Narrator: Erik Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Here is the riveting account of young Churchill's greatest - and almost career-ending - defeat.

The British Navy's disastrous attempt to pass through the Dardanelles to Constantinople was a turning point in the history of World War I. Acclaimed naval military expert Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles prolonged the war by two years, led to the Russian Revolution, forced Britain to the brink of starvation, and contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East.

With a narrative rich in human drama, The Dardanelles Disaster highlights all the diplomatic clashes from Whitehall to the Hellespont, Berlin to Constantinople, and St. Petersburg to the Bosporus. Van der Vat analyzes Churchill's response to the obstacles he faced and describes the fateful actions of the Turkish, German, and British governments.

With never-before published information on Colonel Geehl's minelaying operation, which won the battle for the Germans, The Dardanelles Disaster is essential listening for everyone interested in great naval history, Churchill's early career, and World War I. The repercussions of that battle are felt more strongly than ever today.

Critic Reviews:

"General readers will find enlightening this extended demonstration of the contributions command can make to catastrophe." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Trapped!

Subtitle: The Story of Floyd Collins

Author: Robert K. Murray, Roger W. Brucker

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The sensationalism and hysteria of the rescue attempt in early 1925 of caver Floyd Collins generated America's first true media spectacle and one of the seminal events of the century.

The crowds that gathered outside Sand Cave in Kentucky turned the rescue site into a carnival. Collins's situation was front-page news throughout the country, hourly bulletins interrupted radio programs, and Congress recessed to hear the latest word.

With a new epilogue revealing additional information about the Floyd Collins story that has come to light since the book was first published, Trapped! is both a tense adventure and a brilliant historical recreation of the past.

Critic Reviews:

"This gripping account of the 1925 entrapment of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave simultaneously thrills and terrifies any reader." (Kentucky Living)

"The story of Floyd Collins' entrapment in a Kentucky cave makes for chilling and exciting reading." (Library Journal)

"The tension and confusion of the days of rescue attempts are made real." (Augusta Chronicle)

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Title: The World Crisis - 1911-1918, Part Two

Subtitle: 1915

Author: Winston Churchill

Narrator: Christian Rodska

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Rich with personal insights, this second part of Churchill's magisterial book covers the year 1915 and includes the chapters 'The Deadlock in the West', 'The First Defeat of the U-boats', 'The Battle of Suvla Bay [in Gallipoli', and 'The Abandonment of the Dardanelles'.

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Title: German Reunification

Subtitle: History

Author: iMinds

Narrator: Hamish Hughes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-09

Publisher: iMinds

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Learn about the process of German Reunification with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Reunification in Germany was a slow process. The country was divided between the communist East and the capitalist West from the end of World War Two in 1945 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To understand how momentous a step reunification in Germany was, it is necessary to go back to the start of the division in 1945.

When World War Two ended, the four Allied powers of the US, Britain, France and the Soviet Union divided Germany between themselves. This was to share the load of helping a war-ravaged country rebuild itself. The US, Britain and France were given land in the west of Germany and the Soviet Union was given land in the east of Germany. Due to the influence of the occupying forces, over time West Germany developed into a capitalist state and East Germany developed into a communist state.

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Editorial Reviews:

To outside observers, the course of German reunification appeared to unfold quickly, possessed of an inevitable momentum spurred on by Soviet reforms and economic collapse. As this iMinds history points out, however, the reintegration of East and West German society was a gradual process, wrought with cultural readjustments and crises in manufacturing and unemployment. Storied television actor Hamish Hughes strikes an even clip as he delivers this overview of reunification, a joyous occasion nevertheless fraught with growing pains. With the stoicism of an experienced documentarian, Hughes provides a fluid presentation of significant developments in the unification process - from the opening of the Austro-Hungarian border to merging of the Deutschmark.

Critic Reviews:

"I'm learning all sorts of stuff about stuff I didn't even know I didn't know. And it sticks. In a nutshell: wonderful." (Jonathon Margolis, Financial Times)

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Title: Hell Is Upon Us

Subtitle: D-Day in the Pacific - Saipan to Guam, June to August 1944

Author: Victor Brooks

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 51 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

During the next eight weeks, tens of thousands of men, hundreds of airplanes, and dozens of major warships were locked in mortal combat. When it was over, 60,000 Japanese ground troops and most of the carrier air power of the Imperial Navy were annihilated; Japan's leader, Tojo, was thrown out of office in disgrace; and the newly captured enemy airfields were being transformed into launching bases for the B-29s that would carry the conventional and, later, atomic bombs to Japan, turning the land of the Rising Sun into a charred cinder. After the U.S. victory in the Marianas campaign, the road to Tokyo was clearly in sight.

Critic Reviews:

"This opinionated, profane, and confrontational sailor was a brilliant naval strategist who has rarely received the acclaim he deserves. This is an excellent account of a campaign that guaranteed final victory in the Pacific theater." (Booklist)

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Title: Bay of Pigs

Subtitle: Crime, War & Conflict

Author: iMinds

Narrator: Luca James Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-09

Publisher: iMinds

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Learn about the Bay of Pigs invasion with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.Bay of Pigs refers to the 1961 invasion of Cuba by a force of CIA-backed Cuban exiles attempting to overthrow Fidel Castros left-wing government. In Cuba the invasion is called the Battle of Girón, one of the beaches in the Bay of Pigs, which is on the south coast of Cuba. The invasion was one of the flashpoints of the Cold War and pushed the world towards the brink of nuclear war.

Cuba gained independence from Spain in 1898, but in the decades that followed, American businesses gained control of many industries and landholdings. Cuban governments, such as that of Fulgencio Batista, who effectively ruled from 1933 to 1958, were closely allied to the United States. In 1953, a young lawyer, Fidel Castro, rebelled against Batistas dictatorial regime but was defeated, imprisoned and then exiled. In 1956 Castro returned and launched a guerrilla war.

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Editorial Reviews:

The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 became a turning point in the Cold War, nearly triggering a large-scale nuclear war. iMinds takes a look at the events that led up to the CIA-backed invasion of Cuba, - including the fraught history between Cuba and the United States, the overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, and the rise to power of Fidel Castro - and the circumstances surrounding the skirmish, which would eventually lay the groundwork for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Luca James Lee increases the drama with his exciting performance, making this educational experience a thrillingly tense one as well.

Critic Reviews:

"I'm learning all sorts of stuff about stuff I didn't even know I didn't know. And it sticks. In a nutshell: wonderful." (Jonathon Margolis, Financial Times)

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Title: Brothers in Arms

Subtitle: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder

Author: Gus Russo, Stephen Molton

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 59 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Bobby Kennedy pushed for the murder of Fidel Castro and instead got the death of his beloved brother, a psychic blow from which he himself never recovered. Lee Harvey Oswald killed an admired president and traumatized a nation, but in so doing may have prevented a third world war. Built on 30 years of intense research - including discoveries so significant that they have rekindled CIA and State Department interest in the Kennedy assassination - Brothers in Arms is a vivid, character-driven, almost cinematic narration of a singularly fascinating time. For neophytes, it is the most accessible and informed single volume on the assassination. For the many people who are fascinated by this story, this book provides extraordinary new facts that will force a reconsideration of how and why the Kennedy murder came to pass.

Critic Reviews:

"A serious, intriguing look at the blood feud whose horrible consequences continue." (Kirkus)

"A powerful piece of historical investigative reporting, accessible both to those familiar with the Kennedy assassination and those less involved with the conspiracy theory." (Booklist)

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