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This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At least one chapter missing
- De Sviatoslav en 08-17-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
- De: Emily Mayhew
- Narrado por: Kelly Birch
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep, and took bits of dirty uniform and airborne soil particles in with them. Soldier after soldier came in with the most dreaded kinds of casualty: awful, deep, ragged wounds to their heads, faces, and abdomens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Incredible
- De Austin Bow en 08-30-19
De: Emily Mayhew
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Gallipoli 1915
- De: Joseph Murray
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hamilton
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
The Gallipoli Campaign stands out as a landmark in the history of the First World War, and it was perhaps the most controversial action; it certainly ended in tragedy. Joseph Murray was among the 400,000 British and Commonwealth troops taking part, and he served as a naval rating turned soldier in Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division. Gallipoli 1915 is based on a diary he kept at the time and his later letters home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First hand experience from solider
- De Mike en 12-24-22
De: Joseph Murray
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Put Out More Flags
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Upper-class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad, and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life - his sister, his mother, and his mistress. When Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for more action and adventure. So Basil follows the call to arms and sets forth to enjoy his finest hour - as a war hero. Basil's instincts for self-preservation come to the fore as he insinuates himself into the Ministry of Information and a little-known section of Military Security.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wickedly Funny
- De Chelz en 07-25-19
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Daughters of Mars
- De: Tom Keneally
- Narrado por: Jane Nolan
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour, and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Here, new outrages - gas, shell-shock - present themselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting WWI novel with an Australian bent
- De Sarah Gamp en 03-09-13
De: Tom Keneally
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Swansong 1945
- A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
- De: Walter Kempowski, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove, Christine Williams
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday on April 20, American and Soviet troops meeting at the Elbe on April 25, Hitler's suicide on April 30, and finally the German surrender on May 8.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important, Tragic, Poignant...
- De Amazon Customer en 07-31-15
De: Walter Kempowski, y otros
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Hiroshima Diary
- The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- De: Michihiko Hachiya MD
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 107
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Skip the 30min intro.
- De EErele en 05-09-15
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Andersonville Diary
- A True Account
- De: John L. Ransom
- Narrado por: Adrian Cronauer
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Almost 10 times as many men died in the Civil War prison camps of the North and South as were killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. One such camp was Andersonville, where Union soldiers like Brigade Quartermaster John L. Ransom of the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, were subjected to hunger, disease, cruelty, and despair. Captured in November 1863, Ransom kept his spirits and courage up enough to survive and record this compelling true account of his experiences.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It was an awful time
- De Randolph en 10-11-03
De: John L. Ransom
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We Band of Angels
- The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
- De: Elizabeth M. Norman
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 439
We Band of Angelsis the story of women searching for adventure, caught up in the drama and danger of war. On the same day the Japanese Imperial Navy launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, it also struck American bases in the Far East, chief among them the Philippines. That raid led to the first major land battle for America in World War II and, in the end, to the largest defeat and surrender of American forces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very moving tribute!
- De mark nelsen en 05-17-17
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Rose
- My Life in Service to Lady Astor
- De: Rosina Harrison
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 275
In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her new position as personal maid to the infamously temperamental Lady Nancy Astor, who sat in Parliament, entertained royalty, and traveled the world. "She's not a lady as you would understand a lady" was the butler's ominous warning. But what no one expected was that the iron-willed Lady Astor was about to meet her match in the no-nonsense, whip-smart girl from the country.
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1 out of 5 stars
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AWFUL!! I was very disappointed.
- De The Louligan en 08-12-13
De: Rosina Harrison
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Helga's Diary
- A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
- De: Helga Weiss, Neil Bermel - translator
- Narrado por: Emily Bevan
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In 1938, when her diary begins, Helga is eight years old. Alongside her father and mother and the 45,000 Jews who live in Prague, she endures the Nazi invasion and regime: Her father is denied work, schools are closed to her, she and her parents are confined to their flat. Then deportations begin, and her friends and family start to disappear.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New Perspective
- De Caroline D. Hayes en 02-21-15
De: Helga Weiss, y otros
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Goodnight from London
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 847
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In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Light story
- De Bev Holdgate en 08-10-17
De: Jennifer Robson
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We Will Not Go to Tuapse
- From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45
- De: Fernand Kaisergruber
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Until recent years, very little was known of the tens of thousands of foreign nationals from Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, and Spain who served voluntarily in the military formations of the German army and the German Waffen-SS. In Kaisergruber's book, the listener discovers important issues of collaboration, the apparent contributions of the volunteers to the German war effort, their varied experiences, their motives, the attitude of the German High Command and bureaucracy, and the reaction to these in the occupied countries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why did it end at Cherkassy?
- De DAVIS J BEAM III en 03-28-18
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Mrs. Tim of the Regiment
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
Vivacious, young Hester Christie tries to run her home like clockwork, as would befit the wife of British Army officer, Tim Christie. However hard Mrs Tim strives for seamless living amidst the other army wives, she is always moving flat-out to remember groceries, rule lively children, side-step village gossip and placate her husband with bacon, eggs, toast and marmalade. Left alone for months at a time whilst her husband is with his regiment, Mrs Tim resolves to keep a diary of events large and small in her family life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life as a military wife
- De Jerri C en 03-09-13
De: D. E. Stevenson
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Clara Callan
- De: Richard B. Wright
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey, Joanna P. Adler
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Two sisters, small-town Ontario, 1934. Canadian author Richard Wright tells their story, from the ordinary to the extraoridinary with an eye for the commonplace and poignant sense of the larger undercurrents that change people's lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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charming intimate refreshing
- De L en 09-10-04
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Daddy-Long-Legs
- De: Jean Webster
- Narrado por: Kate Forbes
- Duración: 4 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Jerusha Abbott is the oldest orphan in the John Grier Home. Every day she helps scrub and dress the younger children - all 97 of them. Soon she will graduate from high school and be on her own. Where will she go, and how will she support herself? When an anonymous wealthy donor decides to send her to college, Jerusha can hardly believe her good fortune. All she must do in return is send him a letter once a month. With all the excitement of college life - classes, parties, new friends, and a special gentleman - Jerusha can hardly stop writing!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Greg and Sara Masarik en 04-06-15
De: Jean Webster
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The Women Who Wrote the War
- The Riveting Saga of World War II's Daredevil Women Correspondents
- De: Nancy Caldwell Sorel
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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Nancy Sorel’s portrait pays homage to these unsung heroes. They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa; from San Francisco and all points east. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought to the battlefields of World War II a fresh optic, and reported back home what they witnessed with a new sensibility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nonfiction Account of WW2 Female News Reporters
- De DHackney en 08-30-13
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Dorothea's War
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Laurie
- 05-04-16
Diary
This is a diary, so it does not read like a novel or non fiction. The writing is not the main interest of the book, but the glimpse into WW I nursing and an emerging world for women are remarkable. Dorothea Crewdson was a remarkable and brave young woman.
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