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    Breaking Stalin's Nose , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min
    Celebrated artist and author Eugene Yelchin drew on his own experience growing up in Soviet Russia to pen this Newbery Honor Book. Breaking Stalin’s Nose follows 10-year-old Sasha Zaichik, who wants nothing more than to be a Young Pioneer in Stalin’s Communist Party. But when his father, a member of the State Security police, is arrested the night before the Young Pioneer ceremony, Sasha is left to re-evaluate everything he’s been taught about Stalin and what it truly means to be a good comrade. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Turetsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005809/bk_reco_005809_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Stalin's Gold: A Frank Merlin Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    December 1938. Moscow. Josef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a happy man. He asks his henchman, Beria, to track it down. September 1940. London. Above the city the Battle of Britain rages, and the bombs rain down. On the streets below, DCI Frank Merlin and his officers investigate the sudden disappearance of Polish RAF pilot Ziggy Kilinski while also battling an epidemic of looting unleashed by the chaos and destruction of the Blitz. Kilinski’s fellow pilots, a disgraced Cambridge don, Stalin’s spies in London, members of the Polish government in exile and a ruthless Russian gangster are amongst those caught up in Merlin’s enquiries. Sweeping from Stalin’s Russia to Civil War Spain, from Aztec Mexico to pre-war Poland, and from Hitler’s Berlin to Churchill’s London, a compelling story of treasure, grand larceny, treachery, torture and murder unfolds. Eventually, as Hitler reluctantly accepts that the defiance of the RAF has destroyed his chances of invasion for the moment, a violent shoot-out in Hampstead leads Merlin to the final truth...and Stalin to his gold. Stalin’s Gold is the latest in the Frank Merlin Series and follows on from Princes Gate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Addis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023060/bk_adbl_023060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Appraisal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
    When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family’s Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs.  Soon there are also dead bodies and a complicated history that leads her to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of Stalin’s notorious gulags. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tandy Cronyn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/004204/bk_howe_004204_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Lace Weaver , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 862min
    1941, Estonia. As Stalin’s brutal Red Army crushes everything in its path, Katarina battles to protect her grandmother’s precious legacy - the weaving of gossamer lace shawls stitched with intricate patterns that tell the stories passed down through generations.  Meanwhile Lydia is suffocating in her prison of privilege in Moscow. Yearning for freedom and to discover her beloved mother’s Baltic heritage, she escapes to Estonia. Soon these two young women find themselves in a fight for life, liberty and love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/004279/bk_howe_004279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Stalin's Barber , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1169min
    Avraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become Stalin’s personal barber at the Kremlin, where he is entitled to live in a government house with other Soviet dignitaries. In the intrigue that follows, Avraham, now known as Razan, is not only barber to Stalin but also to the many Stalin look-alikes that the paranoid dictator circulates to thwart possible assassination attempts - including one from Razan himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fleet Cooper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015610/bk_adbl_015610_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Stalin's Had It Now! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 406min
    'So you lot want to be pilots? Bloody hell, Stalin’s had it now!' were the withering words of the corporal as he eyed his young National Service recruits for the first time. This autobiographical account, written 60 years later, tells of 'the most exciting years' of James Stevenson’s life when, aged 18, he learnt to be a jet fighter pilot with the RAF in Canada. The book is based on carefully preserved letters James wrote home in the 1950s - but also includes some youthful exploits not suitable to reveal to his parents. Not to mention strictly forbidden pretend dogfights in the air. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Stevenson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002381/bk_isis_002381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Museum of Abandoned Secrets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1837min
    In 2003, television journalist Daryna Goshchynska unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin’s secret police. Intrigued by Olena’s story, Daryna sets out to make a documentary of the woman’s extraordinary life and death - and unwittingly opens a door to the past that will change the course of the future. Spanning 60 tumultuous years of contemporary Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center are three disparate women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past - secrets that refuse to stay hidden. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004268/bk_brll_004268_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Soviet Invasion of Hungary in 1956: The History and Legacy of the Hungarian Uprising and the Military Operations That Put It Down , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min
    For 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union. As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century, Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later remarked of Lenin, “Their worst misfortune was his birth...their next worst his death”. Before World War II, Stalin consolidated his position by frequently purging party leaders (most famously Leon Trotsky) and Red Army leaders, executing hundreds of thousands of people at the least. And in one of history’s greatest textbook examples of the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Stalin’s Soviet Union allied with Britain and the United States to defeat Hitler in Europe during World War II.As it turned out, however, the Soviets would not cede any of the territory the Red Army took while pushing the Wehrmacht back to Berlin in the latter stages of World War II, ensuring that the Iron Curtain would envelop much of Central and Eastern Europe. In almost no time at all, most of these countries were transformed into authoritarian, communist, one-party states, and opponents were exiled or jailed.In 1955, Moscow had brought together all the satellites as part of the Warsaw Pact, a collective security organization to challenge the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which had been founded in 1949 by the United States and Western European allies. Nonetheless, the mid-1950's were tumultuous for the Soviet Bloc. Several countries saw Stalin’s death and the apparent change of direction, even the softening of policy under Khrushchev, as an opportunity to pursue a reformist path. In East Germany, Poland, and Hungary, demonstrations against the communist regimes induced uncertainty, and Hungarian leaders attempted to incorporate the protestors and orientate themselves towards the West, leading to a notorious Soviet invasion.Only occasionally did the peoples of the so-called Eastern Bloc attempt to b ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Platt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194447/bk_acx0_194447_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America’s Top Secrets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 775min
    On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his journey from Moscow to enrol at a top American university. He was concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent education. Recognising Russia was 100 years behind the encircling capitalist powers, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had sent Shumovsky on a mission to acquire America’s vital secrets to help close the USSR’s yawning technology gap. The road to victory began in the classrooms and laboratories of MIT - Shumovsky’s destination soon became the unwitting finishing school for elite Russian spies. The USSR first transformed itself into a military powerhouse able to confront and defeat Nazi Germany. Then, in an extraordinary feat that astonished the West, in 1947 American ingenuity and innovation exfiltrated by Shumovsky made it possible to build and unveil the most advanced strategic bomber in the world. Following his lead, other MIT-trained Soviet spies helped acquire the secrets of the Manhattan Project. By 1949, Stalin’s fleet of TU-4s, now equipped with atomic bombs, could devastate the United States on his command. Appropriately codenamed BLÉRIOT, Shumovsky was an aviation spy. Shumovsky’s espionage was so successful that the USSR acquired every US aviation secret from his network of agents in factories and at top secret military research institutes. In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the listener on a journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation. She pieces together every aspect of Shumovsky’s life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives, exposing how even Shirley Temple and Franklin D. Roosevelt unwittingly advanced his schemes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Trinder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003884/bk_hcuk_003884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Secrets Revealed: Eidel's Story, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 277min
    Hitler has surrendered. The Nazi flags, which once hung throughout the city, striking terror in the hearts of Polish citizens, have been torn down. It seems that Warsaw should be rejoicing in its new-found freedom. But Warsaw is not free. Instead it is occupied by the Soviet Union, held tightly in Stalin’s iron grip.  Communist soldiers, in uniform, now control the city. Where once people feared the dreaded swastika, now they tremble at the sight of the hammer and sickle.  It is a treacherous time.  And, in the midst of all of this danger, Ela Dobinski, a girl with a secret that could change her life, is coming of age.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juliet Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148002/bk_acx0_148002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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