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Get the Summary of Bastian Obermayer & Frederik Obermaier's The Panama Papers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super-rich hide billions of dollars in complex financial networks. Thus began the ground-breaking investigation that saw an...
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#1 I was a teenager who was very interested in the world. I lost interest in church, and became very interested in the world. I was labeled a delinquent, and had to appear in juvenile court. I barely lied my way out of the sentence and into six months of probation instead.
#2 I had made a commitment to Christ, but I had lost my friends as a result. I was alone, and I...
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Get the Summary of Michael Bhaskar's Human Frontiers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The history of humanity is the history of big ideas that expand our frontiers-from the wheel to space flight, cave painting to the massively multiplayer game, monotheistic religion to quantum theory. And yet for the past few decades, apart from a rush of new gadgets and the explosion of digital technology,...
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#1 The first Allied airborne operation was codenamed Operation Colossus, and it took place in September 1943. It involved the British Special Air Service dropping into the heart of Mussolini's Fascist Italy to blow up the country's life-giving watercourse, the Aqueduct Pugliese.
#2 The mission was successful, and the aqueduct was destroyed. However, the mission commander,...
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#1 The Allied invasion of Italy was led by the US VI Corps, which was made up of American and British divisions. The Germans had made the advance tortuous, and the British soldiers were extremely tired. But they continued their struggle, taking tiny bites out of the terrain.
#2 The Italian Campaign, with its distrust, frustration, dispute, and resentment, had brought...
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Get the Summary of C. E. Lucas Phillips' Escape of the Amethyst in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
C. E. Lucas Phillips's Escape of the Amethyst was written with the full assistance of Commander J. S. Kerans, DSO RN, who took over control of the Amethyst, and utilises a wealth of Admiralty records, much of which was previously classified as Secret, to provide a vivid account of this extraordinary moment in the...
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#1 The broadcast was in the king's former living quarters, a small suite in the Augusta Tower. Windsor greeted the technicians affably and went into the sitting room, where the microphones stood on a table with a chair facing them and an evening newspaper beside them. He read a few lines aloud to test the voice levels.
#2 When the Duke of Windsor joined the Royal Family,...
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#1 A storm in 1850 killed two hundred people in the British Isles. The archipelago was a relatively new addition to the UK, having been annexed from Norway in the sixteenth century. The wind's destructive force also proved an impetus of discovery, as some of the villagers who lived on the western coast of Orkney discovered a five-thousand-year-old settlement at the Bay...
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#1 On April 19, 1775, the men of Lexington, Massachusetts, were preparing for a British attack. They were part-time warriors called militia, and they had been designated minutemen by the royal government.
#2 The Lexington militia were ready for the British, but they were not prepared for the British light infantry companies that arrived. The captain turned to his men...
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#1 Ronald's life was turned upside down when his father died and his mother remarried. They moved constantly, which contributed to Ronald's lack of social skills. He was expelled from school at age 16 for his violent outbursts.
#2 Ronald's life was completely turned around when he entered military school. He thrived under the strict order and pressure of the school's...
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Get the Summary of Mark Dice's “The True Story of Fake News” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped?
What are the real-world effects of fake...
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#1 The Russian Civil War was a crucial period in the history of the Soviet Union, as it was here that the Red Army was formed, led by Communist commanders. The war was also central to the attitude towards war held by Soviet leaders and future commanders of the Red Army.
#2 The civil war played a major role in defining the character of the new Communist state....
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#1 The stories about the poison pills at NASA were jokes. There were no situations in which you would ever consider making an early exit, and even if there were, you had lots of easier ways to do it than poison pills.
#2 The people in Houston felt bad about all this, and came on the line to say so. Apollo 13, we've got lots and lots of people working on this. We'll get...
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Book Preview: #1 Australia was originally an island, but it became a continent when it broke off from Antarctica 35 million years ago. It is currently on a collision course with Indonesia, but inhabitants of both countries should not be alarmed as it is moving at seven centimetres a year.
#2 Australia is a large country that is home to many different types of terrain and climates....
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#1 The American South was facing a problem during the nineteenth century. The rich were realizing that the money wasn't in farming, but in factories and manufacturing goods. The plantation owners were in danger of being judged by their Northern counterparts.
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#1 The effects of war on the national well-being were not always positive. In 1862, there were many sides to see, and not all of them were positive. The Federal government had finally nerved itself to remove General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac, and the deep significance of this act was not lost on various Northern leaders of the Democratic...
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#1 In 2010, Dawna's next-door neighbor, Matt Hoffman, began to change. He became more irritable and moody. He would catch squirrels and take them into his house to butcher them and eat them. His girlfriend began to fear for her safety.
#2 Hoffman's girlfriend and son moved out of his house, and he began to spend more and more time in a hammock in a tree. He seemed to...
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Get the Summary of Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe's Astor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered...
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#1 The English have a pathological interest in the weather, which is why they constantly talk about it. English weather-speak is a form of code that helps us overcome our natural reserve and communicate with each other.
#2 The English have a distinct tradition of talking about the weather, and it is not always clear when it is meant literally and when it is meant metaphorically....
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Get the Summary of Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles & Keith Harriston's Say Their Names in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and 46 seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, state, and...
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