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Fat Leonard
- How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
- De: Craig Whitlock
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Based on reams of confidential documents—including the blackmail files that Francis kept on Navy officers—Fat Leonard is the full, unvarnished story of a world-class con man and a captivating testament to the corrosive influence of greed within the ranks of the American military.
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Needs more visual attachments
- De H. Elliott en 05-26-24
De: Craig Whitlock
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- De Sara en 03-05-16
De: Erik Larson
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Indianapolis
- De: Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights, almost 300 miles from the nearest land, nearly 900 men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other....
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As good as In Harm's Way but different
- De tru britty en 07-13-18
De: Lynn Vincent, y otros
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The Fleet at Flood Tide
- America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower....
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Hornfischer's Philosophical Summary Up to VJ Day
- De Hollywood Dave en 01-08-17
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Shadow Divers
- The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast....
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GRIPPING!
- De Douglas en 07-03-04
De: Robert Kurson
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- De: Ian W. Toll
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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The planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics - on both sides - illuminating the greatest naval war in history....
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Astonishingly good.
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-01-12
De: Ian W. Toll
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Fat Leonard
- How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
- De: Craig Whitlock
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Based on reams of confidential documents—including the blackmail files that Francis kept on Navy officers—Fat Leonard is the full, unvarnished story of a world-class con man and a captivating testament to the corrosive influence of greed within the ranks of the American military.
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Needs more visual attachments
- De H. Elliott en 05-26-24
De: Craig Whitlock
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- De Sara en 03-05-16
De: Erik Larson
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Indianapolis
- De: Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights, almost 300 miles from the nearest land, nearly 900 men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other....
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As good as In Harm's Way but different
- De tru britty en 07-13-18
De: Lynn Vincent, y otros
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The Fleet at Flood Tide
- America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower....
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Hornfischer's Philosophical Summary Up to VJ Day
- De Hollywood Dave en 01-08-17
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Shadow Divers
- The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast....
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GRIPPING!
- De Douglas en 07-03-04
De: Robert Kurson
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- De: Ian W. Toll
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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The planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics - on both sides - illuminating the greatest naval war in history....
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Astonishingly good.
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-01-12
De: Ian W. Toll
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Blind Man's Bluff
- The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
- De: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
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Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables....
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best Cold War documentary...
- De Kojoukhinator Sr. en 11-15-17
De: Sherry Sontag, y otros
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Left for Dead
- Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812....
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Neptune's Inferno
- The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy....
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The WWII Pacific Theater Explodes In My Lazy Chair
- De Rum Runner en 03-01-11
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Ghosts of Honolulu
- A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
- De: Mark Harmon
- Narrado por: Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them....
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Stay away
- De Michele Berry en 11-20-23
De: Mark Harmon
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
- The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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This is an unforgettable narrative that captures the essence of heroism, the power of loyalty, and the way in which the unadorned truth is more stirring than legend itself....
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Outstanding
- De John en 04-17-04
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In Harm's Way
- The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
- De: Doug Stanton
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Interweaving the stories of three survivors - the captain, the ship's doctor, and a young marine - journalist Doug Stanton has brought this astonishing human drama to life....
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Captivating
- De Clarence Sparks en 10-22-16
De: Doug Stanton
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Bernard Cornwell, Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment from Napoleon's daring escape from Elba....
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Not a close run thing!
- De carl801 en 05-13-15
De: Bernard Cornwell
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Leyte Gulf
- A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle
- De: Mark E. Stille
- Narrado por: John Chancer
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War....
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Really nice
- De Kindle Customer en 05-05-24
De: Mark E. Stille
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The Quiet Warrior
- A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
- De: Thomas B. Buell
- Narrado por: Chris Monteiro
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance....
De: Thomas B. Buell
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The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
- De: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway....
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You may knock US down, but you can't knock US out
- De Matthew en 12-04-13
De: Craig L. Symonds
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All the Gallant Men
- An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
- De: Donald Stratton, Ken Gire
- Narrado por: Mike Ortego
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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All the Brave Men is a sailor's moment-by-moment eyewitness account of the Japanese surprise attack that decimated the US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii....
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Absolutely wonderful book!
- De Cris Conerty en 01-15-17
De: Donald Stratton, y otros
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War Beneath the Sea
- Submarine Conflict During World War II
- De: Peter Padfield
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 25 h y 1 m
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This riveting chronicle of submarine warfare is the first to cover all the major submarine campaigns of the war, describing, in detail, the operations of the British, American, Japanese, Italian, and German submarine and anti-submarine forces....
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Fills in the gaps of other submarine books
- De Ben en 05-19-21
De: Peter Padfield
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
- De: David Gibbins
- Narrado por: Kent Klineman
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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Drawing on decades of experience, Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past that tell a new story about the world and its underwater secrets.
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Awful narration and mediocre writing
- De V. Martin en 04-15-24
De: David Gibbins
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Batavia
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Richard Aspel
- Duración: 17 h
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....
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Disaster, Mutiny, Murder, Survival
- De Todd en 02-07-13
De: Peter FitzSimons
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In the Hurricane's Eye
- The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea....
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Even-handed, yet dramatic!
- De LEE en 10-24-18
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Who Can Hold the Sea
- The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Christopher Newton, Sharon Hornfischer
- Duración: 17 h y 56 m
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This landmark account of the US Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on—and under—the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home....
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James D. Hornfisher's last work
- De JWHayn4563 en 05-05-22
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Dark Waters, Starry Skies
- The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943
- De: Jeffrey Cox
- Narrado por: John Chancer
- Duración: 31 h y 15 m
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Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost...
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great but way too much alliteration...
- De Greg en 06-16-23
De: Jeffrey Cox
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Blood in the Water
- How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty
- De: Joan Mellen
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Based on interviews with more than 40 survivors, political insiders, and Soviet archives of the period, investigative writer Joan Mellen presents evidence suggesting complicity between US and Israeli intelligence in the attack on Liberty and the more than 50-year long cover-up....
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I used to think Mullen did good work
- De Ira S. Saposnik en 02-05-19
De: Joan Mellen
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1421
- The Year China Discovered America
- De: Gavin Menzies
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China....
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Would have been a good novel...
- De curtcannon en 05-08-19
De: Gavin Menzies
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Among Heroes: A U.S. Navy SEAL's True Story of Friendship, Heroism, and the Ultimate Sacrifice
- De: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrado por: Charlie Ray
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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From Brandon Webb, Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times best-selling author, comes his account of the eight friends and fellow SEALs who made the ultimate sacrifice....
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Respect
- De Dominick en 05-29-15
De: Brandon Webb, y otros
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The Admirals
- Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
- De: Walter Borneman
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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The Admirals tells the story of how history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power....
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Fantastic Insight In To Another Side Of the War
- De K. Winters en 02-25-13
De: Walter Borneman
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Other Side of the Night
- The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost
- De: Daniel Allen Butler
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg....
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The Other Side of the Night
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-15
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Midnight in the Pacific
- Guadalcanal -- The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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Midnight in the Pacific is both a sweeping narrative and a compelling drama of individual marines, soldiers, and sailors caught in the crosshairs of history....
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Don't start here or you'll be confused.
- De Doctor Bob en 08-13-17
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Into the Deep
- A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic
- De: Robert D. Ballard, Christopher Drew
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery - plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life....
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A Study of the Ego
- De Thomas en 06-08-21
De: Robert D. Ballard, y otros