"Young Stalin is a gripping read. Montefiore's research, especially in the Georgian archives, is brilliant. The book provides a wealth of serious and scurrilous detail, creating a memorable portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest monsters."
Telegraph
"On practically every page of Young Stalin there is a reason to smile with satisfaction at the thrust of revelation and often a reason to gasp or even to chuckle. As quasi-academic populist biography goes, therefore, this is as good as it gets."
Independent
"A brilliantly researched and readable portrait anyone who wants to understand Stalinism and to understand the shaping of one of history's bloodiest dictators must read this original and thought-provoking book."
Guardian
Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest, and finally embracing revolutionary idealism as his Messianic mission in life. Equal parts scholar and terrorist, a mastermind of bank robberies, extortion, piracy, and murder, he was so impressive in his brutality that Lenin made him, along with Trotsky, his chief henchman.
Here is Stalin the supreme dictator in the making-his psychology, his loves and hatreds, his intellectual interests, his knowledge of the world-learning how to triumph in the Kremlin and create the USSR in his profoundly flawed image. Based on exhaustive research and astonishing new evidence, Young Stalin is a brilliant prehistory of the USSR from the perspective of those who would bring it into being.
Written By : Benedict Flynn
Performed By : John Shrapnel
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 1 hour 20 minutes
Biographical Arts & Drama Poetry
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Here is a brief account of Dante's life, compiled from various sources (including his first biographer, Boccaccio) by Benedict Flynn. More...
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Written By : Benjamin Franklin
Performed By : Grover Gardner
Publisher : In Audio
Length : 5 hours 59 minutes
Autobiography Royalty and Heads of State American Biographical Pre 1900
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The story of a remarkable scientist, statesman and diplomat and one of the founding fathers of America. More...
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Written By : Jeremy Siepmann
Performed By : Jeremy Siepmann
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 4 hours 45 minutes
Arts & Drama Biographical Music Related
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The story of Beethoven, widely believed to be the greatest composer who ever lived. More...
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Written By : Neville Jason
Performed By : Neville Jason
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 4 hours
Arts & Drama Biographical
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This first audio-biography of Marcel Proust tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses. More...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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