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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,301
From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared - the entire time it took to liberate Europe - no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment of the 45th "Thunderbird" Division. Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirds fought longest and hardest to defeat Hitler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now I Know What a Hero Really Is
- De Steven en 11-27-12
De: Alex Kershaw
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Strong Men Armed
- The United States Marines Against Japan
- De: Robert Leckie
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 17 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 528
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 461
Written by Robert Leckie, whose wartime exploits are featured in the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg HBO miniseries The Pacific, Strong Men Armed is the perennial bestselling classic account of the U.S. Marines' relentless drive through the Pacific during World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book on the subject
- De j en 12-10-13
De: Robert Leckie
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The Longest Day
- June 6, 1944
- De: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,060
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
> The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Horrendous narration makes it impossible to listen
- De Mary en 03-18-12
De: Cornelius Ryan
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Dünkirchen 1940
- The German View of Dunkirk
- De: Robert Kershaw
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
Dünkirchen 1940 is the first major history on what went wrong for the Germans at Dunkirk. As supreme military commander, Hitler had seemingly achieved a miracle after the swift capitulation of Holland and Belgium, but with just seven kilometres before the panzers captured Dunkirk – the only port through which the trapped British Expeditionary force might escape – they came to a shuddering stop. Only a detailed interpretation of the German perspective – historically lacking to date – can provide answers as to why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome great job on the Germany view of dunkirk
- De Dr Ralph Levy en 05-12-23
De: Robert Kershaw
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The Unknowns
- The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
- De: Patrick K. O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 296
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 278
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 277
Brilliantly researched and vividly told, The Unknowns is a timeless tale of heeding the calls of duty and brotherhood and humanizes the most consequential event of the 20th century, which still casts a shadow a century later. Celebrated military historian and best-selling author Patrick O'Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and recreates the moving ceremony during which it was consecrated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Unknowns
- De Logophile en 05-09-19
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The Darkest Summer
- Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea---and the Marines---from Extinction
- De: Bill Sloan
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months---a period that saw American and UN forces almost driven into the sea by the North Korean invaders, then stage an incredible turn-around that reversed the entire course of the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great intro to Korea
- De I Ate Your Pug For Lunch and It was Tasty en 01-14-11
De: Bill Sloan
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The Ultimate Battle
- Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
- De: Bill Sloan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 909
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 751
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 752
The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the largest land-sea-air battle ever waged by the United States, a battle whose staggering casualties and take-no-prisoners ferocity led Truman to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. From April through June 1945, more than 250,000 American and Japanese lives were lost, including those of nearly 150,000 civilians who either committed suicide or were caught in the crossfire. This book tells a gripping story of heroism, sacrifice, and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Takes you into the mud and death
- De Ron en 02-02-08
De: Bill Sloan
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D-Day
- The Battle for Normandy
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 439
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 440
Renowned historian Antony Beevor, the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents the first major account in more than 20 years of the Normandy invasion and the liberation of Paris. This is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A commendable book
- De Michael en 01-19-10
De: Antony Beevor
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Citizen Soldiers
- The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 21 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,659
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,495
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,483
A masterful biography of the U.S. Army in the European Theater of Operations during World War II, Citizen Soldiers provides a compelling account of the extraordinary stories of ordinary men in their fight for democracy. From the high command on down to the enlisted men, Stephen E. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from men on both sides who were there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading, excellent narration
- De Jeremy en 06-30-11
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The Story of World War II
- De: Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 24 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,795
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,409
Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought - and whose outcome was in greater doubt - than one might imagine. This is the war that Americans on the home front would have read about had they had access to previously censored testimony.
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5 out of 5 stars
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INCREDIBLE! WELL-RESEARCHED, COMPLETE & UNBIASED!
- De The Louligan en 07-15-14
De: Donald L. Miller, y otros
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Challenge for the Pacific
- Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War
- De: Robert Leckie
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 162
From the Japanese soldiers' carefully calculated - and ultimately foiled - attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of 24-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much like a text book
- De Randall en 01-03-18
De: Robert Leckie
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Midnight in the Pacific
- Guadalcanal -- The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 517
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 466
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 463
Published on the 75th anniversary of the battle and utilizing vivid accounts written by the combatants at Guadalcanal, along with marine corps and army archives and oral histories, Midnight in the Pacific is both a sweeping narrative and a compelling drama of individual marines, soldiers, and sailors caught in the crosshairs of history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't start here or you'll be confused.
- De Doctor Bob en 08-13-17
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Rogue Heroes
- The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- De: Ben Macintyre
- Narrado por: Ben Macintyre
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,282
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,979
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,974
Britain's Special Air Service - or SAS - was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a battlefield map of World War II's African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: Given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind enemy lines and sabotage their airplanes and war matériel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Those Who Dared, Won!
- De Matthew en 10-07-16
De: Ben Macintyre
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Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- De: William Craig
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,393
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,220
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,212
On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched by Hitler to capture the industrial city of Stalingrad and press on to the oil fields of Azerbaijan. The Germans were supremely confident; in three years, they had not suffered a single defeat. The Luftwaffe had already bombed the city into ruins. German soldiers hoped to complete their mission and be home in time for Christmas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Unforgettable and Haunting Read
- De Jean en 02-03-16
De: William Craig
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
- Duración: 25 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,323
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,972
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,959
Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities and triumphs of life are laid bare and courage and heroism come to the fore.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an epic story what great men
- De Michael en 02-12-14
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
- How the Allies Won on D-Day
- De: Giles Milton
- Narrado por: Giles Milton
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
Seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the day’s events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needs a map
- De James Lucas en 03-24-19
De: Giles Milton
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Tragedy at Dieppe
- Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
- De: Mark Zuehlke
- Narrado por: John Wray
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's 10th Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo", Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against France. Since 1939, Canadian troops had massed in Britain and trained for the inevitable day of the mass invasion of Europe that would finally occur in 1944.
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5 out of 5 stars
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When To Throw The Book At Someone
- De Nicholas Robinson en 05-12-23
De: Mark Zuehlke
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The Miracle of Dunkirk
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 823
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 717
On May 24, 1940, Hitler's armies were on the brink of a shattering military victory. Only 10 miles away, 400,000 Allied troops were pinned against the coast of Dunkirk. But just 11 days later, 338,000 men had been successfully evacuated to England. How did it happen? Walter Lord's remarkable account of how "the miracle of Dunkirk" came about is based on hundreds of interviews.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sold On The Miracle Of Dunkirk
- De Eve Grissom en 05-08-17
De: Walter Lord
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, theatre, food, wine and his peccadilloes.
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"Mens cuiusque is est quisque“ or "Mind is the Man”
- De Darwin8u en 11-06-15
De: Samuel Pepys
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
- De: Michael Palin
- Narrado por: Michael Palin
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. The rules were simple. He had to make the journey in 80 days using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg.
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2 out of 5 stars
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music incredibly distracting and annoying
- De LJ en 05-18-19
De: Michael Palin
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 50 h y 17 m
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The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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The Guns at Last Light
- The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
- De: Rick Atkinson
- Narrado por: Rick Atkinson
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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It is the 20th century’s unrivaled epic: At a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his best-selling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted the history of how the American-led coalition fought its way from North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all - the titanic battle in Western Europe. D-Day marked the commencement of the war’s final campaign, and Atkinson’s astonishingly fresh account of that enormous gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Kevin Rendon en 03-28-15
De: Rick Atkinson
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The Battle for North Africa
- El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II (Twentieth-Century Battles)
- De: Glyn Harper
- Narrado por: Douglas R. Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El Alamein. In the first battle, the Eighth Army narrowly halted the advance of the Germans during the summer of 1942. However, the stalemate left Nazi troops within striking distance of the Suez Canal, which would provide a critical tactical advantage to the controlling force. War historian Glyn Harper dives into the story, vividly narrating the events, strategies, and personalities surrounding the battles and paying particular attention to the Second Battle of El Alamein, a crucial turning point in the war that would be described by Winston Churchill as "the end of the beginning."
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4 out of 5 stars
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churns up a lot of well traved turf.
- De Dennis Jameson en 07-26-19
De: Glyn Harper
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- De: Ian W. Toll
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishingly good.
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-01-12
De: Ian W. Toll
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The British Are Coming
- The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
- De: Rick Atkinson
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Rick Atkinson - introduction
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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Abridged edition: Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first 21 months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Start!
- De Darren Sapp en 07-14-19
De: Rick Atkinson
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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo - Volume 1
- De: Bernal Díaz Del Castilllo, John Ingram Lockhart - translator
- Narrado por: David Prickett
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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This memoir is an autobiographical account of the events as witnessed by Bernal Diaz - a Conquistador on that journey - a man from Spain who desperately hoped to carve out a life of riches for himself in the new world and instead found himself on an epic journey of conquest, whilst desperately fighting to stay alive, in previously unknown and unimagined lands. This is a true tale written in his own hand and translated into English. It is a gripping account of the events from the soldiers' viewpoint as each day becomes a battle for survival against incredible odds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First hand account of the Conquest of Mexico
- De eric en 10-30-19
De: Bernal Díaz Del Castilllo, y otros
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Semper Fi
- The Corps, Book 1
- De: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America’s first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the story of the men of the Marine Corps, their loves and loyalties, an elite fraternity united by courage and honor, as they steel themselves for battle, prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Cannot Believe I Passed Up Griffin For Years!
- De Chip Atkinson en 04-02-12
De: W. E. B. Griffin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)
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- Teresa
- 08-22-14
Well Done!
What did you love best about An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)?
This is a superb book and a fine performance! It badly needed A PDF. I'm not at all familiar with the African campaigns. A boatload of information. Fascinating. Well Drawn.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-16-21
Wow!
This is an important and incredibly well done book. I am going to the next book now.
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- KDG
- 07-15-19
Great personalized history
Author did excellent research and presented a well thought through timeline of events. Personalized most of the events, bringing readers into the story even further. I loved the production, it was well edited and flowed very well.
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- GREG G
- 01-22-16
Great Read
I had the feeling that I was a live witness to the events and people portrayed.
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- Evan
- 09-05-20
Evan's Review
If you like US History and WW2 Rick does a great job is going through the events of North Africa Campaign. One important point of the Campaign was we where not ready for War in 1942. I recommend the book along with the other two in the Series.
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- william rowell
- 10-23-21
Great book
Fantastic story from our struggle in the early part of the second world war. Very well written.
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- Harlan R
- 06-24-20
Incredible
Amazing detail and read very well. The little side stories keep it interesting and never distract but add substance to the overall tale.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-08-22
Excellent account
Really enjoyed it, cheers. Seems quite in line with what I’ve been taught, and Atkinson has delivered quite the piece.
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- Hudson Barry
- 01-29-23
America's First Major Act in Europe
Without having read any books specifically about the American campaigns in North Africa, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943) was very helpful to me by filling in a gap in my literary exposure to WWII. I look forward to continuing Mr. Rick Atkinson's trilogy with The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy (1943-1944) which covers another area of WWII of which I know little. The reader, George Guidall, is very good to my ear.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-26-23
Most Excellent
Thoroughly informative, rich in history, I can honestly recommend this work. May we never hear of another such war, as World War Two….
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