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D-Day Girls
- The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
- Narrado por: Sarah Rose
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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National Best Seller
The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II
“Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery) - and all of it true.” (Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake)
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To "set Europe ablaze," in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France. In D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently declassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. There’s Andrée Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOE’s unflappable “queen”. Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligence - laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.
Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit, D-Day Girls is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courage - and the energy of politically animated women - can accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.
Praise for D-Day Girls
“Rigorously researched...[a] thriller in the form of a non-fiction book.” (Refinery29)
“Equal parts espionage-romance thriller and historical narrative, D-Day Girls traces the lives and secret activities of the 39 women who answered the call to infiltrate France.... While chronicling the James Bond-worthy missions and love affairs of these women, Rose vividly captures the broken landscape of war.” (The Washington Post)
“Gripping history...thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller, this is a mesmerizing story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism.” (Publishers Weekly)
Reseñas de la Crítica
“Inspiring and empowering - there were countless moments that gave me full-body chills. I have never read a book like this. Even if you think you don’t like nonfiction, pick up this book.” (Sarah J. Maas on NBC’s Today)
“Comprehensive and compelling... Readers get to know these amazing women as individuals as their duties unfold against the backdrop of the war.... Rose smoothly integrates developing events with biographical details and glimpses into French wartime society, creating a digestible and easy-to-follow story. This satisfying mix of social history and biography...should engage a wide audience.” (Booklist)
“Rose delivers a swift moving...expert blow-by-blow account.... A readable spy thriller that fights against the idea of ‘the original sin of women at war.’” (Kirkus Reviews)
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- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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May 1940: The world is stunned as Hitler's forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual freedom, and love of liberty, has fallen under Nazi control — perhaps forever.
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Incorrectly titled
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-11-22
De: Martin Dugard
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The Volunteer
- One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz
- De: Jack Fairweather
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a young Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: intentionally get captured and transported to the new camp to report back on what was going on there. But gathering information was not his only task: he was to execute an attack from inside - where the Germans would least expect it. The name of the camp was Auschwitz.
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It is impossible to hear of the atrocities of Auschwitz without being. Forced to consider man’s infinite cruelty
- De Marge Greenwald en 07-15-19
De: Jack Fairweather
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Checkmate in Berlin
- The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
- De: Giles Milton
- Narrado por: Giles Milton
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before.
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Excellent history of the early days of the Cold War
- De Matt en 08-28-21
De: Giles Milton
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Three Ordinary Girls
- The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
- De: Tim Brady
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 7 h
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May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad.
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Communist fan fiction
- De Rodney en 03-12-23
De: Tim Brady
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The Bastard Brigade
- The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- De: Sam Kean
- Narrado por: Ben Sullivan
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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During World War II, in the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research; Hitler, with just a few pounds of uranium, would have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. So they assembled a rough and motley crew of geniuses—dubbed the Alsos Mission—and sent them careening into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club.
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Awesome
- De Solar red en 07-12-19
De: Sam Kean
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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Sonia Purnell
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and - despite her prosthetic leg - helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.
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Maybe it’s the narrator?
- De Andrea en 09-18-19
De: Sonia Purnell
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War of Shadows
- Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
- De: Gershom Gorenberg
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets.
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Interesting history: mediocre narration.
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 06-12-22
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Che Guevara
- A Revolutionary Life
- De: Jon Lee Anderson
- Narrado por: Armando Durán
- Duración: 36 h y 44 m
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Che Guevara was a dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson traces Che's extraordinary life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and his assassination in the Bolivian jungle.
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Encompassing and Fair Look at an Historical Man
- De Matt en 08-10-11
De: Jon Lee Anderson
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Scholars of Mayhem
- My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
- De: Daniel C. Guiet, Timothy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made the trip. Daniel was admonished never to touch the box, but one day he couldn't resist. What he found astonished him: a .45 automatic and five full clips; three slim knives; a length of wire with a wooden handle at each end; thin pieces of paper with random numbers on them; several passports with his father's photograph, each bearing a different name.
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Better than fiction!
- De M. Galloway en 04-04-21
De: Daniel C. Guiet, y otros
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- De Leslie Rathjens en 03-05-20
De: Erik Larson
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line
- Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
- De: Major General Mari K. Eder US Army (Ret.)
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunn
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII - in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.
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Ending very poorly done
- De Jacqueline Bailey en 10-03-21
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The Saboteur
- The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
- De: Paul Kix
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur - and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain's Special Operations Executive.
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Brave outstanding young man
- De paula wright en 06-02-20
De: Paul Kix
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Shadow Warriors of World War II
- The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE
- De: Gordon Thomas, Greg Lewis
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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They were told that the only crime they must never commit was to be caught. Women of enormous cunning and strength of will, the Shadow Warriors' stories have remained largely untold - until now. In a dramatic tale of espionage and conspiracy in World War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II unveils the history of the courageous women who volunteered to work behind enemy lines.
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Excellent telling of a story of women's strength, courage and intelligence
- De Ralph's mother en 02-24-17
De: Gordon Thomas, y otros
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
- The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
- De: Rebecca Donner
- Narrado por: Rebecca Donner
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution.
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Riveting narrative non fiction
- De Sarah Q en 10-22-21
De: Rebecca Donner
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In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape.
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Another chapter of history brought to life by a master
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Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching.
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After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Nisei—first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan. Eager to prove their loyalty to America, several thousand Nisei—many of them volunteering from behind barbed wire—were selected by the Army for top-secret training, then were rushed to the Pacific theater. Henderson reveals the harrowing untold story of the Nisei and their major contributions in the war of the Pacific.
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At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private conversations. This mission proved so effective that it would go on to be set up at three further sites - and provide the Allies with crucial insight into new technology being developed by the Nazis. In this astonishing history, Helen Fry uncovers the inner workings of the bugging operation.
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The Unwomanly Face of War
- An Oral History of Women in World War II
- De: Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
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In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women - more than a million in total - were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.
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the best book about war I've ever read
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Alpha Girls
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- De: Julian Guthrie
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In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes listeners behind the closed doors of venture capital, an industry that transforms economies and shapes how we live. We follow the lives and careers of four women who were largely written out of history - until now. These women, juggling work and family, shaped the tech landscape we know today while overcoming unequal pay, actual punches, betrayals, and the sexist attitudes prevalent in Silicon Valley and in male-dominated industries everywhere.
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Inspirational and eye-opening!
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Fatherland
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What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold.
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a window into a little-explored aspect of WWII
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Blood Horses
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One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was...just beauty, you know?" John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, not really - but he spent two years finding out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the Kentucky Derby in pursuit of what Edwin Muir called "our long-lost archaic companionship" with the horse.
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Terrific Debut!
- De Greg M en 01-11-21
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What You Have Heard Is True
- A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- De: Carolyn Forché
- Narrado por: Carolyn Forché
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.
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Beautiful story
- De Norhilda en 05-09-19
De: Carolyn Forché
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre D-Day Girls
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-18-23
Story very good. Hard to complete.
This was hard to finish although I wanted too hear it all. Got mundane at places.
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- Joshua L. Connor
- 12-04-19
Awful narration
The voice of the narrator is awful. Her voice is too cheerful for the subject matter.
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- S. Johnson
- 11-13-19
Fascinating history!
The author does an excellent job of shining light on a daring chapter in history. I thought the story was wonderful and the performance excellent. As others have said, it does help to have the print version to go back to reference people, places, and dates.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-05-23
Mesmerizing account of what women in the military accomplished in WWIi to win the War‼️
I loved reading the overall work these gallant women serving in Britain’s, & France’s military doing clandestine communication field work
in & behind military lines while living in German military controlled France, secretly entering France by boat or parachute to live among the locals with radio’s to report back to London while residing in villages in & around Paris up to the coast before
& after D day- until war ended in
everywhere in Europe ‼️
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- Joshua
- 04-23-19
an excellent story ruined by horrible narration
I get why authors want to narrate their own work, but in this case they could not have chosen a worse reader. the nasal monotone and Prim delivery makes this book a wretched experience. add to this the fact that many of the characters are British and the author has absolutely no idea of how to render what the characters are saying and you wind up with a terrible mess. Only a handful of authors are able to narrate their own work. Audible should know better at never do this again. I wasted a credit on this
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- CCH
- 11-19-19
Poor narration
Narrated by the author, the content was good but the narration was horrible. It almost made me not want to finish.
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- Nancy A. Muldoon
- 12-28-23
Bravery of women
I learned about what brave women did during WWII. I had never heard about their honorable service.
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- Benjamen Alford
- 06-17-19
Overall good
Overall a great story and performance but the quality of the recording is lacking. It’s very quiet so it needs to be turned up rather loud to listen to, normally not an issue but if you are listening on a phone and get an alert it’s going to be way loud.
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- Jillian
- 10-04-23
Females of History, So Good!!
Thank you Sarah, for writing this and reading this. What a great lesson that everyone’s small part was a big impact!
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- anita
- 12-13-20
I don't know
I only write reviews if a book is marvelous, however: I will make an exception....The narrator needs to find another career. I felt like I was in school and my teacher was reading out of my history book. Normally I am very patient with story lines and narrators, but in this case I've tried to listen 4-5xs and I just can't do it. I am 2hrs in and I can't even tell you what this book is about. I've never been this disappointed with an audible book. I do a lot of research before buying a book, when I purchase a book I want it to be semi interesting, I can not find anything good about D-Day Girls. Take my advise from a 5yr audible member choose another book!!!
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