Name: Sean McMeekin by Catskill Review of Books in Hitler
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Description: Sean McMeekin's examination of the myths of October 1917. A Putsch made in Germany, and what about the workers anyway?

Hitler

Jonathon Van Maren interviews historian Frank McDonough about his book Sophie Scholl: The Woman Who Defied Hitler.

Sophie Scholl And The White Rose with Frank McDonough

Despina Stratigakos, author of "Hitler at Home", joins Laurie, and co-host Boris Drayluk, for a wide-ranging discussion about how tasteful interior design operated as propaganda in the Third Reich, the powerful woman at the heart of that effort, Gerdy Troost, and the lessons learned for our own celebrity-saturated politics.

Also, Nicholson Baker, author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids, returns to explain his mysterious relationship to classic Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov's "Speak, Memory".

Radio Hour: Despina Stratigakos "Hitler at Home" & Nicholson Baker on Nabokov's "Speak, Memory"

Listen to an excerpt of Bill O'Reilly's HITLER'S LAST DAYS audiobook, read by Robert Petkoff.

By early 1945 the destruction of the German Nazi state seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their ends, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history.

Hitler's Last Days is a gripping account of the death of one of the most reviled villains of the 20th century - a man whose regime of murder and terror haunts the world even today. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's historical thriller Killing Patton, this audiobook will have young listeners - and grown-ups, too - hooked on history.

Buy the audiobook

Hitler's Last Days by Bill O'Reilly, audiobook excerpt

enguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Stalingrad by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Noble. 

Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.

In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.

The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive to both armies. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline.

An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself, Stalingrad will act as a testament to the vital role of the soviet war effort.

'A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist . . . This is a book that lets the reader look into the face of battle' Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph

'A brilliantly researched tour de force of military history' Sarah Bradford, The Times

Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.


Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/22240/stalingrad/#hBEtVD7bduoCAiom.99

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (Audiobook Extract)Read by Peter Noble

Sean McMeekin's examination of the myths of October 1917. A Putsch made in Germany, and what about the workers anyway?

Sean McMeekin

Eric Lee on the Forgotten Georgian Revolution - the nice one!

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Pale DeRienzo interviews Catskill Review of Books Host Ian Williams about his book "UNTold, the real story of the UN in Peace and War."

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UNTold

Hosted by Ian Williams on Radio Catskill WJFF 90.5 FM Every Friday at 3:30 pm http://www.wjffradio.org/

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