• To Hell and Back

• Europe, 1914-1949
• Autor: Ian Kershaw
• Sprecher: Leighton Pugh
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 6 Min.
• Ungekürztes

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In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world had collapsed into a chaotic savagery beyond any comparison.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Des Krieges Hunde entfesseln

• Von doktorFaustus Am hilfreichsten 09.03.2017

• Heart of Europe

• A History of the Holy Roman Empire
• Autor: Peter H. Wilson
• Sprecher: Napoleon Ryan
• Spieldauer: 34 Std. und 3 Min.
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The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire quipped that it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter H. Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• interesting book, weird German pronunciation

• Von A customer Am hilfreichsten 01.03.2018

• Zeit der Zauberer

• Das große Jahrzehnt der Philosophie, 1919-1929
• Autor: Wolfram Eilenberger
• Sprecher: Frank Arnold
• Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 58 Min.
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Die Jahre 1919 bis 1929 markieren eine Epoche unvergleichlicher geistiger Kreativität, in der Gedanken zum ersten Mal gedacht wurden, ohne die das Leben und Denken in unserer Gegenwart nicht dasselbe wäre. Die großen Philosophen Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer und Martin Heidegger prägten diese Epoche und ließen die deutsche Sprache ein letztes Mal vor der Katastrophe des Zweiten Weltkriegs zur Sprache des Geistes werden.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Möhrchen auf dem Zauberberg

• Von doktorFaustus Am hilfreichsten 06.10.2018

• AI Superpowers

• China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
• Autor: Kai-Fu Lee
• Sprecher: Mikael Naramore
• Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 28 Min.
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In his provocative new book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - one of the world’s most respected experts on artificial intelligence - reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US, the leader in AI, at an astonishingly rapid pace. Building upon his longstanding US-Sino technology career (working at Apple, Microsoft, and Google) and his much-heralded New York Times Op-Ed from June 2017, Dr. Lee predicts that Chinese and American AI will have a stunning impact on not just traditional blue-collar industries but will also have a devastating effect on white-collar professions.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Mind Opening Book

• Von Daniel Am hilfreichsten 26.10.2018

• Hitler

• A Biography
• Autor: Ian Kershaw
• Sprecher: Damian Lynch
• Spieldauer: 44 Std. und 7 Min.
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Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Super Buch –Hörbuch aber mit technischen Schwächen

• Von Friedrich Am hilfreichsten 01.04.2017

• Bloodlands

• Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
• Autor: Timothy Snyder
• Sprecher: Ralph Cosham
• Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 16 Min.
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Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required listening for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.

• The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

• Autor: Francis Fukuyama
• Sprecher: Jonathan Davis
• Spieldauer: 22 Std. und 34 Min.
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Excellent.

• Von André Am hilfreichsten 12.08.2018

• The Square and the Tower

• Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
• Autor: Niall Ferguson
• Sprecher: John Sackville
• Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 12 Min.
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What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global best-selling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of looking at the world. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks-leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati?

• How Democracies Die

• What History Reveals About Our Future
• Autor: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
• Sprecher: Fred Sanders
• Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 24 Min.
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Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today. Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition. All three steps are being taken around the world - not least with the election of Donald Trump - and we must all understand how we can stop them.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Demokratie keine Selbstverständlichkeit

• Von Ingo Am hilfreichsten 14.09.2018

• The Habsburg Empire

• A New History
• Autor: Pieter M. Judson
• Sprecher: Michael Page
• Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 9 Min.
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Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning to the far-flung empire. By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads along with scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. A rising standard of living throughout the empire deepened the legitimacy of Habsburg rule.

• Fear

• Trump in the White House
• Autor: Bob Woodward
• Sprecher: Robert Petkoff
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 20 Min.
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With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One, and the White House residence.

• 2 out of 5 stars

• chapters not in correct order

• Von Roman Am hilfreichsten 20.10.2018

• The Fifth Risk

• Autor: Michael Lewis
• Sprecher: Victor Bevine
• Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 10 Min.
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"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis’ brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders.

• The Foundations of Western Civilization

• Autor: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Thomas F. X. Noble
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 51 Min.
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What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• very interesting overview

• Von Martin Pfemeter Am hilfreichsten 07.12.2017

• Crashed

• Autor: Adam Tooze
• Sprecher: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
• Spieldauer: 25 Std. und 27 Min.
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In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be about to bring the entire system to its knees.  

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Insightful Analysis

• Von Ed Am hilfreichsten 18.10.2018

• The Road to Unfreedom

• Autor: Timothy Snyder
• Sprecher: Timothy Snyder
• Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 9 Min.
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Road to Unfreedom, written and read by Timothy Snyder. The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already present in the West. And if Moscow's drive to dissolve Western states and values succeeds, this could become our reality, too. In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West.