30 Results for : provocateurs
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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min
In Paris at the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art stepped out of her frame and into a sensational mystery. On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than 24 hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including fingerprinting, tried to trace the thieves, a burgeoning international media hyped news of the heist. No story captured the imagination of the world quite like this one. Thousands flocked to the Louvre to see the empty space where the painting had hung. They mourned as if Mona Lisa were a lost loved one, left flowers and notes, and set new attendance records. For more than two years, Mona Lisa's absence haunted the art world, provoking the question: Was she lost forever? A century later, questions still linger. Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the case of the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed. R. A. Scotti's riveting, ingeniously realized account is itself a masterly portrait of a world in transition. Combining her skills as a historian and a novelist, Scotti turns the tantalizing clues into a story of the painting's transformation into the most familiar and lasting icon of all time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathe Mazur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001805/bk_rand_001805_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Cold Six Thousand , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1458min
The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid.... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. In The Cold Six Thousand, his most ambitious and explosive novel yet, he puts the whole of the 1960s under his blistering lens. The result is a work of fierce, epic fiction, a speedball through our most tumultuous time. It begins in Dallas. November 22, 1963. The heart of the American Dream detonated. Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got $6,000 in cash and no idea that he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around Kennedy's assassination, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's ride: Dallas back to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches....Tedrow stands witness, as the icons of an iconic era mingle with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. His story is ground zero in Ellroy's stunning vision: historical confluence as American nightmare.The Cold Six Thousand is a masterpiece. Please note: This 2001 recording represents the technology of the time when it was produced. This is currently the best available source audio from the publisher. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Wasson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000132/bk_rand_000132_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Savage Liberty: A Mystery of Revolutionary America: The Bone Rattler Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1011min
The fifth in Eliot Pattison's Bone Rattler series, Savage Liberty - a fast-paced mystery built around historical figures and set against the haunting backdrop of dying woodland tribes - follows exiled Scotsman Duncan McCallum on a thrilling journey down the road to revolution. When a ship arriving from London explodes in Boston Harbor, both the peace of the colonial city and Duncan McCallum's life are shattered. Summoned by his new friend John Hancock to a beach awash with the bodies of the victims, Duncan discovers that the ship was deliberately sabotaged, apparently to cover the theft by French agents provocateurs of a secret document being carried to the Sons of Liberty. Hancock refuses to let him take his evidence to the authorities, for this is 1768 and relations with the government are so sour that officials are being hanged in effigy. Fearing that the intrigues of Hancock and the Sons might set the colonies ablaze, Duncan relentlessly pursues the truth, only to be falsely charged with treason and murder. To escape the hangman's noose and restore his honor, Duncan has no choice but to follow a northbound trail of violence and deception while being relentlessly hounded by bountymen and vengeful soldiers. With the help of unexpected new friends, including Ethan Allen, aged natives, and outlawed Jesuits, he survives scalp hunters, imprisonment, and his own spiritual crisis only to realize he cannot resolve the terrible crimes until he first understands the emerging truths about freedom in the American colonies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Antony Ferguson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011683/bk_blak_011683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1725min
The Russians were playing Donald Trump and his allies long before the 2016 election - and continue to do so to this day. That much, and more, is made clear in this masterfully narrated audiobook of the US Senate's Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities.Narrated by C. James Moore - a former US Senate staff member and investigator - the report makes it inescapably clear that Vladimir Putin, through his army of oligarchs, his network of spies, operatives, and provocateurs, all boosted by his devoted influencers across the world, was (and still is) eager to infiltrate, deceive, and disrupt the American electoral process to benefit the Trump campaign and sow political and social chaos across our nation. If not for the fact that it is all true and frightening, this audiobook would be a blockbuster spy thriller.From Russian "lawyers" and NRA-infiltrating spies like Natalia Veselnitskaya and Maria Butina, to Russian financiers, real-estate moguls, and entertainment stars like the father-son team of Aras and Emin Agalarov, to Oleg Deripaska and other Russia-aligned oligarchs in Ukraine, the narrative of Russian duplicity and manipulation fills every minute of this must-hear report. With the eager help of Trump advisors like Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos, and Trump family members, Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik and master oligarch Oleg Deripaska sought to gain influence within Trump's sphere. This important audiobook, produced by Mike Vendetti - who brought you the audiobook of the Mueller Report - delivers a nearly minute-by-minute account of Russia's duplicity and eagerness to subvert our nation's most sacred right. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/003103/bk_mike_003103_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Invading Tibet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 295min
In 1904 a force of 2,500 British Imperial troops invaded Tibet. Their mission was to march on the fabled capital of Lhasa and seize its ruler and spiritual head, the Dalai Lama, and compel him to expel foreign provocateurs. All this was but another strategic deployment in the Great Game being played by the major European powers as part of their international one-upmanship and global jousting. The soldiers were accompanied by London journalist Edmund Candler, who reported the experiences of the invaders (and published them in a book afterward: The Unveiling of Lhasa). As Candler notes, the further into the country they march, the odder things get, and the less certain they become of their mission. Tibet seems a cryptic place, full of magic and menace, rocks and snow, and natives that look like clay. Most of the time it is as if they, the Westerners, are invading nothing. Tibet seems an awesome emptiness bounded by soaring mountains, yet something is there, awaiting them. But it is more like a rendezvous - an appointment with a metaphysical reality far greater than the Europeans' mechanistic concept. The Tibetan troops who resist are easily dispatched by the invaders' superior weapons, yet it is the English who are unnerved. The fallen defenders do not cry out, they do not weep. The deeper the British trek, the more penetrated and undone the soldiers feel. The commanding officer grows sick and weaker the further they advance, as if he himself were violated by the incursion. Some of the men under his command become contentious, others lust for punitive combat with no quarter given. Yet, as Candler observes, the enemy they most often engage is themselves. Unlike the rest, Candler is enthralled - mesmerized by the extraordinary terrain and events; it is obvious to him that no objective awaits the invasion force in Lhasa, despite what the officers insist. Yet he continues on with them, drawn by the ineffable beauty and mystery of this fabled ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Antony Ferguson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010576/bk_adbl_010576_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements
How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements: ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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All Told
All Told - My Art and Life Among Athletes Playboys Bunnies and Provocateurs: ab 18.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The South Korean Film Renaissance
The South Korean Film Renaissance - Local Hitmakers Global Provocateurs: ab 21.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Dystopia's Provocateurs
Dystopia's Provocateurs - Peasants State and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands: ab 17.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Medienkunst in der Schweiz/ Media Arts in Switzerland
Medienkunst in der Schweiz/ Media Arts in Switzerland - Pioniere Bastler Provakateure/ Pioneers Tinkerers Provocateurs: ab 9.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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