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But Not in Shame
- The Six Months After Pearl Harbor
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 18 h y 19 m
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December 7, 1941 - at exactly 7:55 am on a seemingly peaceful Sunday morning, the United States was plunged into the greatest war in history!
What were the events which determined the Pearl Harbor catastrophe? What were the last few days on Wake Island like? What really occurred on the infamous Bataan Death March, and why did it happen? How did MacArthur make his dramatic escape from Corregidor? And what is the story behind the greatest capitulation in American history, General Wainwright’s forced surrender of the Philippines?
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,816
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,403
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,388
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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Sicily '43
- The First Assault on Fortress Europe
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: Al Murray
- Duración: 19 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 150
On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion 11 months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation HUSKY, as it was known, was enormously complex, involving dramatic battles on land, in the air, and at sea. Yet, despite its paramount importance to ultimate Allied victory, and its drama, very little has been written about the 38-day Battle for Sicily.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing, great narration, interesting topic
- De ItalCali en 08-02-21
De: James Holland
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Saipan
- The Battle that Doomed Japan in World War II
- De: James H. Hallas
- Narrado por: Tim Dixon
- Duración: 22 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 353
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 313
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 311
The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple Heart Ridge, Death Valley, and Hell's Pocket, under a commander known as "Howlin' Mad." Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar, fighters downing Japanese aircraft, submarines sinking carriers. Marine-army rivalry. Fanatical Japanese defense and resistance. A turning point of the Pacific War. James Hallas reconstructs the full panorama of Saipan in a way that no recent chronicler of the battle has done.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- De Patrick en 03-08-20
De: James H. Hallas
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Sand and Steel
- The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
- De: Peter Caddick-Adams
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 37 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 69
Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Details, details, details
- De Mike From Mesa en 11-11-21
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Normandy '44
- D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 24 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 519
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 463
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 458
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent account of Normandy but be weary...
- De S. H. Moore en 02-22-20
De: James Holland
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The Fleet at Flood Tide
- America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,303
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,161
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,156
With its thunderous assault on the Mariana Islands in June 1944, the United States crossed the threshold of total war. In this tour de force of dramatic storytelling, distilled from extensive research in newly discovered primary sources, James D. Hornfischer brings to life the campaign that was the fulcrum of the drive to compel Tokyo to surrender—and that forever changed the art of modern war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hornfischer's Philosophical Summary Up to VJ Day
- De Hollywood Dave en 01-08-17
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War Stories II
- Heroism in the Pacific
- De: Oliver North, Joe Musser
- Narrado por: Joel Leffert
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, popular host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, provided an insightful look at Operation Iraqi Freedom in the first hard-hitting book based on his show. Now in this second book, North shares the accomplishments of the heroic men who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another winner
- De Kindle Customer en 04-20-05
De: Oliver North, y otros
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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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Guadalcanal Diary
- 2nd Edition
- De: Richard Tregaskis
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 337
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 335
This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles; crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. One of only two on-location news correspondents, he lived alongside the soldiers: sleeping on the ground - only to be awoken by air raids - eating meager rations, and braving some of the most dangerous battlefields of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW, GREAT TRUTH FOR THOSE POOR BOY'S
- De Andrea Longwith en 02-28-17
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Guadalcanal Marine
- De: Kerry L. Lane
- Narrado por: Kenneth Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
In Guadalcanal Marine, Lt. Col. Kerry L. Lane recounts the dark reality of combat experienced by the men of the 1st Marine Division fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester. With 80 gripping photographs and his text, he brings to life the struggles of his companions as they achieve these two astonishing victories.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I want to give a very honest review.
- De Jfm en 07-12-15
De: Kerry L. Lane
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The Longest Day
- June 6, 1944
- De: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,062
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,055
> 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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In Mortal Combat
- Korea, 1950-1953
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 27 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves, employing scrupulous archival research and interviews as the bases for the drama and accuracy of his writing. In Mortal Combat reveals Mao's prediction of the date and place of MacArthur's Inchon landing, Russia's indifference to the war, Mao's secret leadership of the North Korean military, and the true nature of both sides' treatment and repatriation of POWs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slightly disappointed
- De Patrick en 09-02-19
De: John Toland
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Bloody Okinawa
- The Last Great Battle of World War II
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Technical
- De J.Brock en 07-16-21
De: Joseph Wheelan
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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
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,975
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,962
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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Taking Berlin
- The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market-Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies’ top battlefield commander.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great until personal politics showed up
- De UP North en 12-16-22
De: Martin Dugard
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,796
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,425
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,410
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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D-Days in the Pacific
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Gary Dikeos
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Although most people associate the term D-day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II there were more than one hundred D-days. The largest - and last - was the invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, which brought together the biggest invasion fleet ever assembled, far larger than that engaged in the Normandy invasion. D-Days in the Pacific tells the epic story of the campaign waged by American forces to win back the Pacific islands from Japan.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Terrific one volume history of the Pacific war.
- De Bill en 12-01-12
De: Donald L. Miller
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Battle: The Story of the Bulge, John Toland's first work of military history, recounts the saga of beleaguered American troops as they resisted Hitler's deadly counter offensive in World War II's Battle of the Bulge - and turned it into an Allied victory. It is a gripping work, painstakingly researched and imbued with such vivid detail that listeners will feel as though they themselves witnessed these events. This is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in this tumultuous era of our world's history.
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The Last 100 Days
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A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people - from Hitler's personal chauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, and Heinrici.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More the sum of the parts
- De Mike From Mesa en 08-27-15
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Infamy
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A revealing and controversial account of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor. Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Toland presents evidence that FDR and his top advisors knew about the planned Japanese attack but remained silent. Infamy reveals the conspiracy to cover up the facts and find scapegoats for the greatest disaster in United States military history. New York Times best-seller.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Revisionist History
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Adolf Hitler
- De: John Toland
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Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the 20th century. Painstakingly documented, it is a work that will not soon be forgotten.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strange Person
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The Flying Tigers
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During World War II, a group of American fighter pilots roamed the skies over China and Burma, menacing the Japanese war effort without letup. Flamboyant, daring, and courageous, they were called the Flying Tigers. The Tigers - who had been recruited from the Army, Navy, and Marines - first saw action as a volunteer group fighting on the side of the Chiang Kai-shek's China against Japan. Trained in the unconventional air-combat tactics of their maverick leader Claire Lee Chennault, they racked up some of the most impressive air victory records of World War II.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not a good book or source
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No Man’s Land
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From freezing infantrymen huddled in bloodied trenches on the front lines to intricate political maneuvering and tense strategy sessions in European capitals, noted historian John Toland tells of the unforgettable final year of the First World War. In this audiobook, participants on both sides, from enlisted men to generals and prime ministers to monarchs, vividly recount the battles, sensational events, and behind-the-scenes strategies that shaped the climactic, terrifying year.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Oddly biased, but worthy account of the period
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Battle: The Story of the Bulge, John Toland's first work of military history, recounts the saga of beleaguered American troops as they resisted Hitler's deadly counter offensive in World War II's Battle of the Bulge - and turned it into an Allied victory. It is a gripping work, painstakingly researched and imbued with such vivid detail that listeners will feel as though they themselves witnessed these events. This is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in this tumultuous era of our world's history.
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A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people - from Hitler's personal chauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, and Heinrici.
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A revealing and controversial account of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor. Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Toland presents evidence that FDR and his top advisors knew about the planned Japanese attack but remained silent. Infamy reveals the conspiracy to cover up the facts and find scapegoats for the greatest disaster in United States military history. New York Times best-seller.
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Captured by History is an autobiography like none other, for few historians have interviewed as many men and women who helped shape the most momentous events of our century than John Toland. Here, for the first time, Toland reveals how he found these key players and how he persuaded them to talk to him. From disgraced Japanese generals to the German doctor who nearly succeeded in assassinating Hitler, Toland’s sources are remarkable for what they reveal about their subjects, along with the secrets and stories they would tell no one else.
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The Dillinger Days
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
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For 13 violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger's daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at Little Bohemia Lodge, along with his countless bank robberies, excited the imagination of a despondent country.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Must have been written by Hoover
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In Mortal Combat
- Korea, 1950-1953
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- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slightly disappointed
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The Rising Sun
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
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5 out of 5 stars
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A political as well as military history
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Given Up for Dead
- America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island
- De: Bill Sloan
- Narrado por: David Cochran Heath
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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On December 8, 1941, just five hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese planes attacked a remote US outpost in the westernmost reaches of the Pacific. It was the beginning of an incredible 16-day fight for Wake Island, a tiny but strategically valuable dot in the ocean. Unprepared for the stunning assault, the small battalion was dangerously outnumbered and outgunned. But they compensated with a surplus of bravery and perseverance, waging an extraordinary battle against all odds.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For want of a nail...
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De: Bill Sloan
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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
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,816
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,403
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,388
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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre But Not in Shame
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- Kevin
- 03-17-20
A True Classic Finally on Audible!
This is one of the best and original accounts of the events between Pearl Harbor and Midway in the Pacific War so it has a special place in my heart. John Toland interviewed many of the key figures and scores of witnesses from these events, and it makes for an exciting listen!
That said, it's important to keep in mind that it's an older account of World War II events written in the early 1960's. Because of this, some of the information, especially about the Battle of Midway, is outdated or has since been proven to be different. With the declassification of more intelligence information in the 1960's and 1970's that Toland didn't have access to, and further in-depth study by historians in the 1980's and 1990's, I'd say this isn't the best source for information on that particular battle.
Overall, it was a riveting listen!
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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- dexter
- 03-03-20
Great story
I read this book back in junior high and high school. (I was the only person to check out the book for 6 yrs) Very insightful. I wish that Tom Weiner could have narrated. I loved his narration of "The Rising Sun" Another great novel by John Toland. Thos story provided many details during those dark early days of World War 2 in the pacific.
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- Jed Summers
- 01-26-24
Not sure why this work was needed
Toland tells the story much better in “Rising Sun.” I recommend that volume much more.
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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- RBGintexas
- 10-21-22
Narrator's acting way too much
Narrator's acting way too much. Making it unlistenable. unfortunately I'm gonna have to return it. He is that bad. someone needs to make it clear non-fiction writing should not be narrated by someone wanting to be an actor.
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