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    The Tudor Crown

    A BBC Radio 4 Drama Collection

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    Nine gripping dramas that delve into the turbulent, thrilling history of the Tudor eraAffairs and assassinations. Conflict and chaos. Power and plots. The tumultuous Tudor period is one of the most iconic and fascinating chapters in British history. In these ten atmospheric dramas, we get a glimpse into the inner workings of Tudor England – and rediscover the key characters we have grown to love ... Read more

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    Existentialism: Philosophical and Literary Works

    Notes from Underground. Fear and Trembling. Ecce Homo. The Metamorphosis and others

    Unabridged

    27 hours 59 min

    "Existentialism: Philosophical and Literary Works" is a compelling anthology that delves into the realm of existentialist thought, exploring the profound philosophical and literary works that have shaped this influential movement. From the psychological depths of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground" to the existential dilemmas of Søren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling," and the ... Read more

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  • One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass ... Read more

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    Under a White Sky

    The Nature of the Future

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    AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021The New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction and Field Notes from a Catastrophe returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment in Under a White Sky.That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are hum. ... Read more

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  • Soldiers

    German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying

    On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Netizel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and ... Read more

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  • Taste of War

    World War II and the Battle for Food

    A New York Times Notable Book of 2012Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of Germany and Japan - ambitions which sowed the seeds of war - informed by a desire for self ... Read more

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  • Pandora’s Box

    A History of the First World War

    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”—Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn ... Read more

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  • Absolute Destruction

    Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

    In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures ... Read more

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  • Krupp

    A History of the Legendary German Firm

    by Harold James ...
    A history of the steel and arms maker that came to symbolize the best and worst of modern German historyThe history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present ... Read more

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  • Architects of Annihilation

    Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

    Architects of Annihilation follows the activities of the demographers, economists, geographers and planners in the period between the disorderly excesses of the November 1938 pogrom and the fully-effective operation of the gas chambers at Auschwitz in summer 1942. The authors, both journalists and historians, argue that this group of intellectuals, often combining academic, civil service and Party ... Read more

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