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The Soviet Century

by Moshe Lewin ...

Narrated by Rich Miller ...

Unabridged

16 hours 51 min

This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917, to its fall, offering "a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system" (Ian Kershaw, historian and Hitler biographer).Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible ... Read more

$24.99 USD

This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917, to its fall, offering "a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system" (Ian Kershaw, historian and Hitler biographer).Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible
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歡樂三國志【英雄重聚版有聲書（上）（下）】

by 侯文詠, 蔡康永 ...

Series series 歡樂三國志
Unabridged

41 hours 51 min

《三國演義》誰都可以出，但能「說」得這麼好聽，只有侯文詠與蔡康永！無數粉絲敲碗許願……＼有聲書終於上市！／＼走到哪聽到哪！／HowHow**：「我人生幾乎有一半以上的時間在聽《歡樂三國志》。」**博恩：「我小時候睡覺前都要聽《歡樂三國志》。」w如果呂布生在現代，絕對會成為「話題王子」？！w對現代人來說，和曹操這種愛才的老闆工作，肯定非常愉快！w諸葛亮若像我們一樣，必須在兩、三天內決定是否接下一份工作，他可能無法找到劉備這個對的老闆……那是一個遠比我們所處更動盪、更匱乏的時代。儘管如此，《三國演義》裡的角色擁有的夢想、努力的精神，卻遠比我們這個時代大部分人都還要精采。我們一再被某些角色... ... Read more

$19.99 USD

《三國演義》誰都可以出，但能「說」得這麼好聽，只有侯文詠與蔡康永！無數粉絲敲碗許願……＼有聲書終於上市！／＼走到哪聽到哪！／HowHow**：「我人生幾乎有一半以上的時間在聽《歡樂三國志》。」**博恩：「我小時候睡覺前都要聽《歡樂三國志》。」w如果呂布生在現代，絕對會成為「話題王子」？！w對現代人來說，和曹操這種愛才的老闆工作，肯定非常愉快！w諸葛亮若像我們一樣，必須在兩、三天內決定是否接下一份工作，他可能無法找到劉備這個對的老闆……那是一個遠比我們所處更動盪、更匱乏的時代。儘管如此，《三國演義》裡的角色擁有的夢想、努力的精神，卻遠比我們這個時代大部分人都還要精采。我們一再被某些角色...
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The Zhivago Affair

The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min

In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in ... Read more

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In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in
... Read more
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The Battle of Long Tan

by Peter FitzSimons ...

Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

Unabridged

21 hours 2 min

From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle.4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious.5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south.5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees.It was the afternoon of 18 August 1966, hot, humid with grey monsoonal skies. D Company, 6RAR were four ... Read more

$37.99 USD

From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle.4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious.5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south.5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees.It was the afternoon of 18 August 1966, hot, humid with grey monsoonal skies. D Company, 6RAR were four
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Prisoners of Class

A Historical Memoir of the Khmer Rouge Revolution

by Samoeun Chan ...

Narrated by ElevenLabs George ...

Unabridged

19 hours 14 min

The remarkable early account of life in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, now available in English translation for the first time“...among the earliest, most detailed, and most vividly rendered accounts of the Khmer Rouge revolution…The book, available to English readers for the first time in Matthew Madden’s sparkling translation, is a priceless new addition to the testimonial literature on the Khmer Rouge, ... Read more

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The remarkable early account of life in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, now available in English translation for the first time“...among the earliest, most detailed, and most vividly rendered accounts of the Khmer Rouge revolution…The book, available to English readers for the first time in Matthew Madden’s sparkling translation, is a priceless new addition to the testimonial literature on the Khmer Rouge,
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Stalin, Volume I

Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

by Stephen Kotkin ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

38 hours 47 min

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian Empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the band seizes ... Read more

$35.99 USD

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian Empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the band seizes
... Read more
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The Jakarta Method

Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins ...

Narrated by Tim Paige ...

Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the ... Read more

$27.99 USD

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the
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The Rape of Nanking

The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

by Iris Chang ...

Narrated by Anna Fields ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city’s remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the account of this atrocity was denied by the ... Read more

$16.95 USD

In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city’s remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the account of this atrocity was denied by the
... Read more
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Gulag

A History

by Anne Applebaum ...

Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

Unabridged

27 hours 42 min

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution,
... Read more
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

21 hours 55 min

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan“It is impossible ... Read more

$45.99 USD

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan“It is impossible
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The Romanovs

1613-1918

by Simon Sebag Montefiore ...

Narrated by Simon Russell Beale ...

Unabridged

28 hours 41 min

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon ... Read more

$32.50 USD

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon
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Shattered Sword

The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully ...

Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

Unabridged

24 hours 44 min

Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese
... Read more
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Vietnam

A History

by Stanley Karnow ...

Narrated by Edward Holland ...

Unabridged

27 hours 43 min

In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America’s war in Vietnam. The book’s central theme is that America’s leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the decision-making process in Washington and Asia and recounts ... Read more

$29.95 USD

In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America’s war in Vietnam. The book’s central theme is that America’s leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the decision-making process in Washington and Asia and recounts
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Stalingrad

by David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House ...

Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

Abridged

18 hours 39 min

Tantor Audio presents the complete audio version of the long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Stalingrad is an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy. ... Read more

$23.49 USD

Tantor Audio presents the complete audio version of the long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Stalingrad is an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy.
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China

A History

by John Keay ...

Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

Unabridged

25 hours 31 min

Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's authoritative history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's authoritative history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through
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Eat the Buddha

Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

by Barbara Demick ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

11 hours 18 min

A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy“A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”—The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Sehgal, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Economist • Ou... ... Read more

$20.00 USD

A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy“A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”—The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Sehgal, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Economist • Ou...
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The Long Game

China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

by Rush Doshi ...

Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

Unabridged

18 hours 24 min

In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.Taking listeners behind the Party's closed doors, he uncovers Beijing's long, methodical game to displace America ... Read more

$25.99 USD

In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.Taking listeners behind the Party's closed doors, he uncovers Beijing's long, methodical game to displace America
... Read more
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The Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu, Translated by Suematsu Kencho ...

Narrated by Elaine J Sepani ...

Unabridged

6 hours 57 min

Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji in the 11th century to entertain the other women in the court. It follows the romantic exploits of the title character, an emperor’s son, as he navigates life within aristocratic society and eventually outside of it. Praised for its psychological insight into the characters’ motivations, the book greatly influenced Japanese culture and ... Read more

$21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji in the 11th century to entertain the other women in the court. It follows the romantic exploits of the title character, an emperor’s son, as he navigates life within aristocratic society and eventually outside of it. Praised for its psychological insight into the characters’ motivations, the book greatly influenced Japanese culture and
... Read more
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Road to Disaster

A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam

by Brian VanDeMark ...

Narrated by Ron Butler ...

Unabridged

23 hours 12 min

""The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering.""—Robert DallekMany books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the ... Read more

$45.99 USD

""The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering.""—Robert DallekMany books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the
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京都歷史迷走

by 胡川安 ...

Narrated by 胡川安 ...

Unabridged

2 hours

以京都為名，縱為時間，橫為空間，傳統與現代交錯出充滿立體感的聲音行旅。《和食古早味》、《東京歷史迷走》的胡川安，重新演繹這個深受旅人歡迎，卻又神祕的古代城市，告訴你在地人知道的京都：傳統的古都，曾是日本的流行中心！各地的諸侯都想瞭解京都、渴望京都所象徵的權力，直到天皇遷都…給京都這座平安城帶來巨大的改變；走入現代化的京都國立博物館與代表京都學問之首的京都大學，無不展現這座古都的深度；還有平安神宮、伏見稻荷大社、清水寺、南禪寺自古就是人們參拜旅行的熱門景點，即使是一千年後的現代，觀光客仍然絡繹不絕；和食、和菓子藝術，是自成一格的飲食，連結土地與季節，宗教與社會，建立京都豐厚的飲食文化！京都，擁有專屬的漫步速度、角度和深度京都，擁有許多在地人才知道的這些、那些事看似靜懿悠然的古都，其實在日本歷史上是個不斷流動著的城市！這裡是值得你閉上眼聆聽欣賞的京都，傳統與現代，在人們的心目中 ... Read more

$9.53 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

以京都為名，縱為時間，橫為空間，傳統與現代交錯出充滿立體感的聲音行旅。《和食古早味》、《東京歷史迷走》的胡川安，重新演繹這個深受旅人歡迎，卻又神祕的古代城市，告訴你在地人知道的京都：傳統的古都，曾是日本的流行中心！各地的諸侯都想瞭解京都、渴望京都所象徵的權力，直到天皇遷都…給京都這座平安城帶來巨大的改變；走入現代化的京都國立博物館與代表京都學問之首的京都大學，無不展現這座古都的深度；還有平安神宮、伏見稻荷大社、清水寺、南禪寺自古就是人們參拜旅行的熱門景點，即使是一千年後的現代，觀光客仍然絡繹不絕；和食、和菓子藝術，是自成一格的飲食，連結土地與季節，宗教與社會，建立京都豐厚的飲食文化！京都，擁有專屬的漫步速度、角度和深度京都，擁有許多在地人才知道的這些、那些事看似靜懿悠然的古都，其實在日本歷史上是個不斷流動著的城市！這裡是值得你閉上眼聆聽欣賞的京都，傳統與現代，在人們的心目中
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Krakatoa

The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

by Simon Winchester ...

Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

Unabridged

12 hours 1 min

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an ... Read more

$28.99 USD

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an
... Read more
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The Hong Kong Diaries

by Chris Patten ...

Narrated by Chris Patten ...

Unabridged

25 hours 41 min

Brought to you by Penguin.In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as ... Read more

$21.84 USD

Brought to you by Penguin.In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as
... Read more
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45

by Barbara W. Tuchman ...

Narrated by Pam Ward ...

Unabridged

29 hours 2 min

In this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed “Vinegar Joe,” Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, “one of the historian’s most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating ... Read more

$38.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed “Vinegar Joe,” Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, “one of the historian’s most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating
... Read more
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Nagasaki

The Last Witnesses

by M. G. Sheftall ...

Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Embers
Unabridged

14 hours 48 min

The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender, ... Read more

$27.00 USD

The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender,
... Read more

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