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In this first in-depth study of this operation, military historian and Vietnam veteran James H. Willbanks traces the details of battle, analyzes what went wrong, and suggests insights into the difficulties currently being incurred with the training of indigenous forces.
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"This is a well-written and informative book. A good read for those interested in the Vietnam War." (Military)
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“A stand out work, one that will be of great importance in the world of professional academic historians and will be of great interest to a broader military history readership.” (Andrew A. Wiest, author of Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN)
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 218
Unimpeachably sourced, Cobra II describes how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency that followed. The brutal aftermath in Iraq was not inevitable and was a surprise to the generals on both sides; Cobra II provides the first authoritative account as to why. It is a book of enduring importance and incisive analysis, a comprehensive account of the most reported yet least understood war in American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative military account of the War in Iraq
- De Graham en 09-02-07
De: Michael R. Gordon, y otros
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The Frozen Chosen
- The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
- De: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the US Marine Corps to be the Corps' finest hour. Fourteen Medals of Honor, a record for any American battle, and 85 Navy Crosses attest to the intensity of the battle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating story, very bad narration
- De Mat J Monk en 03-31-17
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Third Reich Victorious
- Alternate Histories of World War II
- De: Peter G. Tsouras
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
This book is a stimulating and entirely plausible insight into how Hitler and his generals might have defeated the Allies, and a convincing sideways look at the Third Reich's bid at world domination in World War II. What would have happened if, for example, the Germans captured the whole of the BEF at Dunkirk? Or if the RAF had been defeated in the Battle of Britain?
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3 out of 5 stars
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A fresh look at WW2 - false but makes one wonder.
- De Eggert Eggertsson en 09-05-15
De: Peter G. Tsouras
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Case Red
- The Collapse of France
- De: Robert Forczyk
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 149
Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British formations fighting the Germans alongside their French allies. After mounting a vigorous counterattack at Abbeville and then engaging a tough defense along the Somme, the British were forced to conduct a second evacuation from the ports of Le Havre, Cherbourg, Brest, and St. Nazaire. Case Red captures the drama of the final three weeks of military operations in France in June 1940.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Forczyk's best offering
- De S.C. James en 01-30-18
De: Robert Forczyk
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South Pacific Cauldron
- World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds
- De: Alan Rems
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Unlike most other World War II accounts, this work covers the South Pacific operations in detail. The audiobook includes many now-forgotten operations that deserve to be well remembered. Significantly, the official Australian history of World War II correctly observed that Australia's part in the Pacific war is barely mentioned in American histories. This volume finally brings the major Australian contribution to the fore.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A little dry but informative
- De Damien en 02-20-15
De: Alan Rems
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Hell to Pay
- Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
- De: D. M. Giangreco
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
U.S. planning for the invasion and military occupation of Imperial Japan began two years before the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hell to Pay brings to light the political and military ramifications of the enormous casualties and loss of material projected by both sides in the climatic struggle to bring the Pacific War to a conclusion through a brutal series of battles on Japanese soil.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is a good piece of history.
- De David en 08-09-14
De: D. M. Giangreco
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Blitzkrieg
- Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940
- De: Lloyd Clark
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
In the spring of 1940, the Germans launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest military thinking, and new technology. It was a stunning victory, altering the balance of power in Europe in one stroke, and convincing the entire world that the Nazi war machine was unstoppable. But as Lloyd Clark, a leading British military historian and academic, argues, much of our understanding of this victory, and blitzkrieg itself, is based on myth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good and detailed about the Fall of France
- De Arthur en 03-15-17
De: Lloyd Clark
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Rising Sun Victorious
- Alternate Histories of the Pacific War
- De: Peter G. Tsouras
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents - chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside - that can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the strategic link between the United States and Australia had been severed? What if Vice Admiral Nagumo had launched a third attack on Pearl Harbor? What if the US Navy's gamble at Midway had backfired?
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3 out of 5 stars
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victorious
- De Amazon Customer en 05-17-16
De: Peter G. Tsouras
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Armor and Blood
- The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II
- De: Dennis E. Showalter
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 10 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 492
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 442
While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians. Drawing on the masses of new information made available by the opening of the Russian military archives, Dennis E. Showalter at last corrects that error. This battle was the critical turning point on World War II's Eastern Front. In the aftermath of the Red Army's brutal repulse of the Germans at Stalingrad, the stakes could not have been higher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Big Ups to Prof. Showalter and Audible
- De shalte en 08-28-13
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Black Ops, Vietnam
- An Operational History of MACVSOG
- De: Robert M. Gillespie
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Without doubt the most unique U.S. unit to participate in the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization consisting of Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Marine Force Reconnaissance units, the Air Force, and the CIA. Committed to action in Southeast Asia even before the major U.S. build-up in 1965, it also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel, indigenous Montagnards, ethnic Chinese Nungs, and Taiwanese pilots.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Reads like a telephone book
- De Klas Mellbourn en 08-22-16
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Nomonhan, 1939
- The Red Army's Victory that Shaped World War II
- De: Stuart D. Goldman
- Narrado por: John FitzGibbon
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Stuart Goldman convincingly argues that a little-known, but intense, Soviet-Japanese conflict along the Manchurian- Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the outbreak of World War II and shaped the course of the war. The author draws on Japanese, Soviet, and western sources to put the seemingly obscure conflict - actually a small undeclared war - into its proper global geo-strategic perspective.The book describes how the Soviets, in response to a border conflict provoked by Japan, launched an offensive in August 1939 that wiped out the Japanese forces at Nomonhan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nomonhan: Why Japan Demurred
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 08-03-14
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When Titans Clashed
- How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
- De: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
- Narrado por: James Romick
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 65
Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, this new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The largest conflict in human history
- De Eddie en 05-15-22
De: David M. Glantz, y otros
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Rommel
- Leadership Lessons from the Desert Fox
- De: Charles Messenger
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 304
This exciting series opens with “the Desert Fox”, the most famous German field marshal in World War II, Erwin Rommel. A hero of the people of the Third Reich and widely respected by his opponents, Rommel proved himself highly adept at blitzkrieg warfare. He displayed an outstanding ability to seize the initiative and retain it, and here, Charles Messenger draws on the skills behind this ability for the benefit of modern-day leaders.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not particularly new, insightful, or good.
- De William Simkiss en 08-17-21
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A Better War
- The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
- De: Lewis Sorley
- Narrado por: Basil Sands
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing on authoritative materials not previously available, including thousands of hours of tape-recorded allied councils of war, award-winning military historian Lewis Sorley has given us what has long been needed - an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these important years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thought-provoking history of the war 68-75
- De Rodney W. Schmisseur en 02-05-14
De: Lewis Sorley
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The Drive on Moscow, 1941
- Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis of World War II
- De: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson
- Narrado por: Dave Courvoisier
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an equally large Soviet force, but whose soldiers were neither as well trained nor as confident. When the Germans struck, disaster soon befell the Soviet defenders.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Add the maps, lose the accents
- De Carrick en 07-03-14
De: Niklas Zetterling, y otros
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Where the Iron Crosses Grow
- The Crimea 1941-44
- De: Robert Forczyk
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 152
The Crimea was one of the crucibles of the war on the Eastern Front, where first a Soviet and then a German army were surrounded, fought desperate battles, and were eventually destroyed. The fighting in the region was unusual for the Eastern Front in many ways, in that naval supply, amphibious landings, and naval evacuation played major roles, while both sides were also conducting ethnic cleansing as part of their strategy - the Germans eliminating the Jews and the Soviets purging the region of Tartars.
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2 out of 5 stars
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names, places,troop strength and commanders
- De richard en 02-19-15
De: Robert Forczyk
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War at the End of the World
- Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea 1942-1945
- De: James P. Duffy
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
One American soldier called it "a green hell on Earth". Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps - New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined to seize the island as a cornerstone of the empire's strategy to knock Australia out of the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth your time
- De Bob 2.0 en 07-09-23
De: James P. Duffy
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Hitler's Final Push
- The Battle of the Bulge from the German Point of View
- De: Danny S. Parker - editor
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
Notes on one of the most infamous and bloody battles of World War II - from the German perspective. As the Allied armies swept toward the Reich in late 1944, the German high command embarked on an ambitious plan to gain the initiative on the western front and deal a crippling blow to the Allied war effort. As early as August 1944, when the Germans were being crushed in the east and hammered in Normandy, Hitler was talking of an offensive aimed at destroying as many American and British divisions as possible in a massive surprise assault.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what was expected
- De S.C. James en 05-30-16