1972, The Longest Year in History, Volume 2
BLAKE LEE MAHON
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
In 1972: The Longest Year in History, Volume 2, Blake Lee Mahon plunges the reader into the heart of a world unravelling between May and August of the most pivotal year of the twentieth century. This volume chronicles a season where détente and destruction walked side by side—while Nixon signed arms control treaties in Moscow, American warplanes unleashed the heaviest bombing of the Vietnam War, mining Haiphong Harbor and igniting Operation Linebacker. The global stage was a paradox: superpowers promised peace at the nuclear level while fueling proxy wars below. At the same time, terrorism gained a new vocabulary—the Japanese Red Army and PFLP at Lod Airport, the IRA's Bloody Friday, and impending tragedy in Munich—proving that attention had become the most valuable weapon. The world's leaders negotiated survival in marble halls while cities, airports, and Olympic villages became battlefields of ideology.
Yet this was also a season of profound transformation and fragile hope. The first Earth Summit in Stockholm gave voice to the planet itself, inaugurating a global environmental conscience, while Title IX and landmark court rulings redefined justice and equality. Idi Amin's brutal expulsion of Uganda's Asian community revealed how quickly a nation could be remade through cruelty and decree. Above the chaos, machines rose: Venera 8 pierced the violent atmosphere of Venus, and Landsat 1 looked back at Earth, forcing humanity to confront the damage it could no longer deny. And as Munich prepared to welcome the world with glass, hope, and innocence, a darker truth lurked—the world had learned to see everything, but not yet to protect it. This is the story of a year that refused to end, a summer where history did not unfold—it detonated.
Duration - 11h 21m.
Author - Blake Lee Mahon.
Narrator - Digital Voice Matt G.
Published Date - Wednesday, 22 January 2025.
Copyright - © 1999 BLAKE LEE MAHON ©.
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In 1972: The Longest Year in History, Volume 2, Blake Lee Mahon plunges the reader into the heart of a world unravelling between May and August of the most pivotal year of the twentieth century. This volume chronicles a season where détente and destruction walked side by side—while Nixon signed arms control treaties in Moscow, American warplanes unleashed the heaviest bombing of the Vietnam War, mining Haiphong Harbor and igniting Operation Linebacker. The global stage was a paradox: superpowers promised peace at the nuclear level while fueling proxy wars below. At the same time, terrorism gained a new vocabulary—the Japanese Red Army and PFLP at Lod Airport, the IRA's Bloody Friday, and impending tragedy in Munich—proving that attention had become the most valuable weapon. The world's leaders negotiated survival in marble halls while cities, airports, and Olympic villages became battlefields of ideology. Yet this was also a season of profound transformation and fragile hope. The first Earth Summit in Stockholm gave voice to the planet itself, inaugurating a global environmental conscience, while Title IX and landmark court rulings redefined justice and equality. Idi Amin's brutal expulsion of Uganda's Asian community revealed how quickly a nation could be remade through cruelty and decree. Above the chaos, machines rose: Venera 8 pierced the violent atmosphere of Venus, and Landsat 1 looked back at Earth, forcing humanity to confront the damage it could no longer deny. And as Munich prepared to welcome the world with glass, hope, and innocence, a darker truth lurked—the world had learned to see everything, but not yet to protect it. This is the story of a year that refused to end, a summer where history did not unfold—it detonated. Duration - 11h 21m. Author - Blake Lee Mahon. Narrator - Digital Voice Matt G. Published Date - Wednesday, 22 January 2025. Copyright - © 1999 BLAKE LEE MAHON ©.
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1972, The Longest Year in History, Volume 2 (THE LONGEST YEAR TRILOGY, #2)
Duration:00:27:02
Chapter 1 – Nixon in Moscow: Détente on Display
Duration:00:37:39
Chapter 2 – SALT I and the ABM Treaty: Codifying Restraint
Duration:00:37:50
Chapter 3 – Mining Hải Phòng: Escalation in Vietnam
Duration:00:41:09
Chapter 4 – Operation Linebacker and the Summer War
Duration:00:43:49
Chapter 5 – Watergate: The Break-In
Duration:00:40:54
Chapter 6 – Watergate: Cover-Up in Motion
Duration:00:35:49
Chapter 7 – Terror Without Borders: Lod Airport Massacre
Duration:00:38:37
Chapter 8 – The IRA’s Bloody Friday
Duration:00:36:15
Chapter 9 – Stockholm and the Environment
Duration:00:38:18
Chapter 10 – Rights and Law in America
Duration:00:37:04
Chapter 11 – Uganda’s Crisis: Amin Expels the Asians
Duration:00:37:19
Chapter 12 – Space and Peace in a Summer of Crisis
Duration:01:52:49
Appendix I – Primary Documents and Texts
Duration:00:48:06
Appendix II – Chronology of Events (May–August 1972)
Duration:00:28:00
Appendix III – Profiles of Key Figures
Duration:00:12:27
Appendix IV – Statistical and Military Data
Duration:00:27:56