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In less than 60 minutes of listening to this audiobook, you will have heard the original United States Bill of Rights, the 17 other amendments to the United States Constitution, and much more.

Ana Montes had spent seventeen years spying for the Cubans. She had been raised in a patriotic Puerto Rican household: Her father, a psychiatrist, was a former colonel in the US Army. Her sister worked as a translator for the FBI and helped break up a ring of Cuban spies in Miami. Her brother was also a loyal FBI agent. Montes impressed her bosses but in secret spent her breaks memorizing top-secret documents before sending them to the Cuban government. Retired FBI agent Peter J. Lapp explains the clues that led their team to catch one of the United States’ most dangerous spies.

Hal Mapes was a waist gunner on a B-17, and was one of only two men to survive the collision of two bombers in the sky over Chartres, France. As a POW, he took part in the 80-plus day march across Germany near the end of the war. "Best diet I was ever on," he would say more than 50 years later. "We didn't have anything to eat."

El 11 de septiembre de 1973 fue consumado en Chile un golpe de estado que daría inicio a uno de los episodios más oscuros de la historia de esa nación sudamericana. Las fuerzas armadas (coludidas con el servicio de inteligencia estadounidense) en su afán de derrocar al gobierno democrático de tendencia socialista no sólo provocarían la muerte del presidente Salvador Allende, sino el inicio de una cruenta dictadura que duraría 17 años.