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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles - the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg - that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud, and futility.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I thought I knew the battle of the frontiers
- De Anonymous User en 04-02-21
De: Max Hastings
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The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon's Life
- De: Napoleon Bonaparte, R. M. Johnston - editor
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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These are entirely Napoleon Bonaparte's own words, written and spoken, and collected in journal form. A particular focus here has been put on Napoleon's writings that pertain to military and state matters. The dates in terms of the revolutionary calendar have been modernized, and names and titles of individuals mentioned have been maintained with no attempt at uniformity. This production was begun on the 250th year of Napoleon's birth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- De William S. knightly en 09-02-20
De: Napoleon Bonaparte, y otros
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Reminiscences of the Civil War
- De: John Brown Gordon
- Narrado por: Tim Getman
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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Reminiscences of the Civil War is John Brown Gordon’s firsthand account of the war as seen through the eyes of the prominent officer. Gordon was trusted and admired by many, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The work begins with him being elected as the commander of the “Raccoon Roughs” and his recollection of the Battle of Manassas. He also describes the South’s surrender at Appomattox, in which he participated. He recounts his role in individual battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, and Gettysburg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love the personal accounts
- De Marty en 03-22-24
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1776
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,024
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,407
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Front Seat on History
- De Mark en 10-22-05
De: David McCullough
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Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life
- De: Albert Louis Zambone
- Narrado por: Tom Taverna
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. When George Washington called for troops to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select group of riflemen and headed north.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book
- De Rob K en 04-08-20
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The Coming Fury
- The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 1
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 20 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 682
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> The New York Times hailed this trilogy as “one of the greatest historical accomplishments of our time”. With stunning detail and insights, America’s foremost Civil War historian recreates the war from its opening months to its final, bloody end. Each volume delivers a complete listening experience. The Coming Fury (Volume 1) covers the split Democratic Convention in the spring of 1860 to the first battle of Bull Run.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History As It Should Be
- De Bryan en 07-19-11
De: Bruce Catton
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The First World War
- A Complete History
- De: Martin Gilbert
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 33 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 348
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended: Many of the horrors we live with today are rooted in the First World War. The Great War left millions of civilians and soldiers maimed or dead. It also saw the creation of new technologies of destruction: tanks, planes, and submarines; machine guns and field artillery; poison gas and chemical warfare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbiased true facts of the first world war
- De troy a myers en 07-27-20
De: Martin Gilbert
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Washington's Crossing
- De: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,085
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This New York Times best seller is a thrilling account of one of the most pivotal moments in United States history. Six months after the Declaration of Independence, America was nearly defeated. Then on Christmas night, George Washington led his men across the Delaware River to destroy the Hessians at Trenton. A week later Americans held off a counterattack, and in a brilliant tactical move, Washington crept behind the British army to win another victory. The momentum had reversed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Particularly Good Military History
- De William en 10-11-04
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Conquered
- Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
- De: Larry J. Daniel
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a matter of failed leadership.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alas, alas
- De Charles en 08-07-20
De: Larry J. Daniel
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The Fortress
- The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
- De: Alexander Watson
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the fortress city of Przemysl, the Hapsburg Empire's most important bulwark against invasion. For six months, against storm and starvation, the ragtag garrison bitterly resisted, denying the Russians a quick victory. Only in March 1915 did the city fall, bringing occupation, persecution, and brutal ethnic cleansing. In The Fortress, historian Alexander Watson tells the story of the battle for Przemysl, showing how it marked the dawn of total war in Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating story about eastern and Central Europe
- De John D. en 05-10-23
De: Alexander Watson
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The American Heritage History of World War I
- De: S. L. A. Marshall
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 19 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Drawing on a lifetime of military experience, Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, "one of our most distinguished military writers" ( New York Times), delivers this unflinching history of the war that was supposed to end all wars. From the perspective of more than half a century, Marshall examines the blunders and complacency that turned what everyone thought would be a brief campaign and an easy victory into a relentless four-year slaughter that left 10 million dead and 20 million wounded.
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4 out of 5 stars
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WW1 from American point of view
- De Jean en 10-19-12
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The Great Partnership
- Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy
- De: Christian B. Keller
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The Great Partnership has the power to change how we think about Confederate strategic decision-making and the value of personal relationships among senior leaders responsible for organizational survival. Those relationships in the Confederate high command were particularly critical for victory, especially the one that existed between the two great Army of Northern Virginia generals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No real surprises
- De Mike in NC en 12-29-19
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A Worse Place than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
- De: John Matteson
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Intertwining!
- De Peter H. Christensen en 09-02-21
De: John Matteson
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War at Saber Point
- Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion
- De: John Knight
- Narrado por: Ian Putnam
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
The British Legion was one of the most remarkable regiments, not only of the American Revolution, but of any war. A corps made up of American Loyalists, it saw its first action in New York and then engaged in almost every battle in the Southern colonies. Relying on firsthand accounts - letters, diaries, and journals - War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion is the enthralling story of those forgotten Americans and the young Englishman who led them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for Revolutionary War buffs
- De FDal en 12-23-21
De: John Knight
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
- De: Ronald Hutton
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - the only English commoner to become the overall head of state - is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria, and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very specialized
- De Draperbart en 04-23-22
De: Ronald Hutton
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Hymns of the Republic
- The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
- De: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 675
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 586
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 584
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives, defining the nation and one of history’s great turning points. Now, S.C. Gwynne’s Hymns of the Republic addresses the time Ulysses S. Grant arrives to take command of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later. He breathes new life into the epic battle between Lee and Grant; the advent of 180,000 black soldiers in the Union army; Sherman’s March to the Sea; the rise of Clara Barton; and much more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Questionable
- De Stafford Lewis en 05-16-20
De: S. C. Gwynne
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- De: John Hussey
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 34 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent: Where is Volume 2
- De History Reader en 12-11-20
De: John Hussey
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Napoleon
- A Life
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 27 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 520
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 466
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 464
The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 04-01-19
De: Adam Zamoyski
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The Napoleonic Wars
- De: Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 35 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 292
The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No description of battles
- De John Gaston en 01-15-21
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The First Total War
- Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
- De: David A. Bell
- Narrado por: Trenton Bennett
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships—in the age of Napoleon. In a sweeping, evocative narrative, Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in the blood-soaked fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to central European battlefields where tens of thousands died in a single day. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not wild about the narrator.
- De ChuckinTexas en 01-15-24
De: David A. Bell
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Phantom Terror
- Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789 - 1848
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 22 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Phantom Terror explores this troubled, fascinating period, when politicians and cultural leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were forced to choose sides and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary spirit embodied in the newly omnipotent central states. The turbulent political situation that coalesced during this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and to the collapse of order in World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Mike Johnson en 07-14-15
De: Adam Zamoyski
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Napoleon
- Soldier of Destiny
- De: Michael Broers
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 20 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Written with great energy and authority - and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself - the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clarity
- De Tad Davis en 03-25-19
De: Michael Broers
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- De: John Hussey
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 34 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent: Where is Volume 2
- De History Reader en 12-11-20
De: John Hussey
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Napoleon
- A Life
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 27 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 520
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 466
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 464
The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 04-01-19
De: Adam Zamoyski
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The Napoleonic Wars
- De: Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 35 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 292
The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No description of battles
- De John Gaston en 01-15-21
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The First Total War
- Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
- De: David A. Bell
- Narrado por: Trenton Bennett
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships—in the age of Napoleon. In a sweeping, evocative narrative, Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in the blood-soaked fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to central European battlefields where tens of thousands died in a single day. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not wild about the narrator.
- De ChuckinTexas en 01-15-24
De: David A. Bell
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Phantom Terror
- Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789 - 1848
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 22 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Phantom Terror explores this troubled, fascinating period, when politicians and cultural leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were forced to choose sides and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary spirit embodied in the newly omnipotent central states. The turbulent political situation that coalesced during this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and to the collapse of order in World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Mike Johnson en 07-14-15
De: Adam Zamoyski
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Napoleon
- Soldier of Destiny
- De: Michael Broers
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 20 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Written with great energy and authority - and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself - the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clarity
- De Tad Davis en 03-25-19
De: Michael Broers
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Napoleon
- A Concise Biography
- De: David A. Bell
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 149
David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility that Napoleon represented. Bell emphasizes the importance of the French Revolution in understanding Napoleon's career. The revolution made possible the unprecedented concentration of political authority that Napoleon accrued. Without the political changes brought about by the revolution, Napoleon could not have fought his wars. Without the wars, he could not have seized and held onto power. Though his virtual dictatorship betrayed the ideals of liberty and equality, his life and career were revolutionary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect introduction to Napoleon
- De DJP en 10-17-20
De: David A. Bell
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Bernard Cornwell, Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,003
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,702
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,690
From the New York Times best-selling author comes the definitive history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of Napoleon's last stand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not a close run thing!
- De carl801 en 05-13-15
De: Bernard Cornwell
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- De: Colin Jones
- Narrado por: Sasha Higgins
- Duración: 18 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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The day of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By midnight at the close of the day, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off. The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these twenty-four hours.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really interesting but. . .
- De Alan M en 08-14-23
De: Colin Jones
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Kutuzov
- A Life in War and Peace
- De: Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 28 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armee during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but securing national identity. Many Russians consider Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov the greatest figure of the 19th century, ahead of Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, even Tolstoy himself. As award-winning author Alexander Mikaberidze shows in this fascinating, often startling, and wholly humanizing new biography, Kutuzov's story is far more compelling and complex than the myths that have encased him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easy flowing but detailed and comprehensive
- De Mark L. Tseselsky en 12-25-23
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The Longest Afternoon
- The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
- De: Brendan Simms
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In 1815 deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe--Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington's on the other.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Germans Won Waterloo
- De Michael en 07-08-15
De: Brendan Simms
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Trafalgar
- The Biography of a Battle
- De: Roy Adkins
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost tangible, the crews of the British, French and Spanish ships did their best to carry out their allotted tasks. For over five hours they were in constant danger from a terrifying array of iron and lead missiles fired from enemy guns, as well as the deadly wooden splinters smashed from the ships' hulls by the cannon-balls.
De: Roy Adkins
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Bismarck's War
- The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
- De: Rachel Chrastil
- Narrado por: Sarah Borges
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But it also produced brutal military innovations and a precarious new imbalance of power that together set the stage for the devastating world wars of the next century. In Bismarck’s War, historian Rachel Chrastil chronicles events on the battlefield in full.
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1 out of 5 stars
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It's rare I don't finish a book...
- De Chris Corsini en 09-26-23
De: Rachel Chrastil
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To Lose a Battle
- France 1940
- De: Alistair Horne
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 24 h y 22 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne's narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German rivalry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent overview of Fall of France
- De Amazon Customer en 03-24-24
De: Alistair Horne
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The Battle of Leipzig: The History and Legacy of the Biggest Battle of the Napoleonic Wars
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Phillip J. Mather
- Duración: 1 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Two military setbacks, on a scale unprecedented in history, were required before the high tide of Napoleon's success began to ebb towards the final denouement of the Hundred Days and the famous Battle of Waterloo. The failed Russian invasion set the stage for the second defeat at Leipzig, which essentially sealed the fate of Napoleon's empire. The four-day Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, dubbed the "Battle of the Nations", essentially determined the course the Napoleonic Wars took from that moment forward.
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Napoleon
- De: J. Christopher Herold
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Napoleon Bonaparte's rise from common origins to the pinnacle of power, as well as his defeat at Waterloo, still influences our daily lives, from the map of Europe to the metric system. Here's the fascinating story of the great soldier-statesman.
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3 out of 5 stars
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modern and cynical history of Napoleon
- De Mavs en 06-21-18
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Retreat from Moscow
- A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941-1942
- De: David Stahel
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Germany's winter campaign of 1941-1942 has commonly been seen as its "first defeat". In Retreat from Moscow, David Stahel argues that, in fact, it was its first strategic success in the east. Though the Red Army managed to push the Wehrmacht back from Moscow, the Germans lost far fewer men (one to six), frustrated their enemy's strategic plan, and emerged in the spring unbroken and poised to recapture the initiative.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Nothing new on the Eastern front basically!
- De philippe jacob en 03-28-20
De: David Stahel
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All the King's Men
- The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo
- De: Saul David
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Saul David's comprehensive history, All the King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo, read by the actor Sean Barrett. "The British soldier," wrote a Prussian officer who served with Wellington, "is vigorous, well fed, by nature highly brave and intrepid, trained to the most vigorous discipline, and admirably well-armed...
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5 out of 5 stars
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A grand epic
- De Mark Henman en 09-03-12
De: Saul David
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Dave
- 09-19-23
Excellent Work
This book is a very well thought out, researched, and written. Dark subject matter, but a purist’s history book.
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