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On Wave and Wing
- The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina - at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world - and the dominance of the Kidö Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; and much more.
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Outstanding
- De Patrick en 02-14-19
De: Craig L. Symonds
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Bloody Sixteen
- The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 During the Vietnam War
- De: Peter Fey
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam, and accounted for a quarter of all the naval aircraft lost during Rolling Thunder. The Johnson administration's policy of gradually applied force meant that Oriskany arrived on station just as previous restrictions were lifted and bombing raids increased.
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Great Listen!
- De MeathookWX en 09-21-18
De: Peter Fey
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Islands of Destiny
- De: John Prados
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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Acclaimed WWII historian and military intelligence expert John Prados offers a provocative reassessment of the Allies’ battle for the Solomon Islands - a turbulent, dramatic campaign that, he argues, was the true turning point of the Pacific conflict.
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- De Eric en 01-15-17
De: John Prados
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The Cactus Air Force
- Air War Over Guadalcanal
- De: Eric Hammel, Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrado por: Adam Henderson
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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In The Cactus Air Force, Pacific War expert Thomas McKelvey Cleaver worked closely with Eric to build on his collection of diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts to create a vivid narrative of the struggle in the air over the island of Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15, 1942.
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Excellent Book!
- De Eric Peterson en 09-16-22
De: Eric Hammel, y otros
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Storm over Leyte
- The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy
- De: John Prados
- Narrado por: Ricard Ferrone
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine, and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf - the greatest naval battle in history.
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Startling revelations to a 72 year battle!
- De Chiefkent en 07-31-16
De: John Prados
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Tin Cans and Greyhounds
- The Destroyers That Won Two World Wars
- De: Clint Johnson
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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In Tin Cans and Greyhounds, author Clint Johnson brings listeners inside the quarter-inch hulls of destroyers to meet the men who manned the ships' five-inch guns and fought America's wars from inside a "tin can" - risking death by cannon shell, shrapnel, bomb, fire, drowning, exposure, and sharks.
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a lengthy history lessonn
- De SCOTTY en 09-14-19
De: Clint Johnson
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Coral Sea and Midway
- The History of the World War II Battles That Turned the Tide in the Pacific Theater
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Ken Teutsch
- Duración: 2 h y 48 m
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The growing buzz of aircraft engines disturbed the Japanese military construction personnel hauling equipment ashore on the beige coral sand of Tulagi Island at 8:20 AM on May 4th, 1942. Offshore, the large IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) minelayer Okinoshima, flagship of Admiral Shima Kiyohide, lay at anchor, along with two destroyers, Kikuzuki and Yutsuki, and transport ships.
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The Consummate Treatise
- De Sam en 11-23-20
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The Burning Shore
- How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
- De: Ed Offley
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom of the channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on the German submarine U-701. In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen's rampage along the American coast and of US Lieutenant Harry J. Kane's quest to bring him down.
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Ugh, Perhaps a Second Listen is Required?
- De Matthew en 09-05-15
De: Ed Offley
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Shattered Sword
- The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
- De: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 24 h y 44 m
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Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's best-selling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.
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Shattered Myths - These authors got it right?
- De Ol'BlueEyes en 05-13-19
De: Jonathan Parshall, y otros
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Intrepid
- The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship
- De: Bill White, Robert Gandt
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Intrepid brings the history of the U.S.S. Intrepid to life in a stirring tribute complete with personal recollections of those who served on the ship and vivid descriptions of the deadly conflicts she endured. It is a story of the people who sailed in her, fought to keep her alive, and perished in her defense, a story which powerfully captures the human element in the history of American heroism.
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Ok read but needed more something...
- De Luis en 01-24-09
De: Bill White, y otros
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- De: Ian W. Toll
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.
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Astonishingly good.
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-01-12
De: Ian W. Toll
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The Silver Waterfall
- How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
- De: Brendan Simms, Steven McGregor
- Narrado por: David DeVries
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so much so that it was quickly described as “a miracle.” This new history demonstrates that luck, let alone miracles, had little to do with it. In The Silver Waterfall, Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor show how the efforts of America’s peacetime navy combined with creative innovations made by designers and industrialists were largely responsible for the victory.
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Read "The Silver Waterfall"
- De Tiffany Gemas en 06-17-22
De: Brendan Simms, y otros
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Kangaroo Squadron
- American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II
- De: Bruce Gamble
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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In early 1942, while the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single US Army squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. Based in Australia with inadequate supplies and no ground support, the squadron's pilots and combat crew endured tropical diseases while confronting numerically superior Japanese forces. Yet the outfit, dubbed the Kangaroo Squadron, proved remarkably resilient and successful.
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5 star History!
- De DON COOKE en 03-13-19
De: Bruce Gamble
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Sink 'Em All was originally published in 1951 by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the US Navy commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during World War II. Lockwood, in his leadership role, knew the skippers and crews of the submarines and retells their wartime successes and tragedies with an intimacy and realism often missing in second-hand accounts.
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Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of 99 lives. The tragedy occurred during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Sixty-five thousand tons, 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of 60 tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory that's home to up to 50 aircraft. HMS Queen Elizabeth in the biggest ship in the Royal Navy's history and one of the most ambitious and exacting engineering projects ever undertaken in the UK. But it's her ship's company of 700, alongside an air group of 900 air and ground crew, that are Big Lizzie's beating heart. And How to Build an Aircraft Carrier tells their story.
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Punk’s War reveals the inner workings of the US Navy as only an insider can. An authentic and riveting thriller, it is a highly acclaimed novel of a fighter pilot’s experience in the era just before 9/11. As the US military enters another postconflict period, the themes of leadership during crisis and accomplishing the mission make Punk’s War more relevant than ever.
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre On Wave and Wing
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- Bob Craft
- 07-25-19
Go Navy
I am a United States Navy Veteran that deployed three times on three different aircraft carriers. the nostalgia of hearing about your ships before and after you were aboard them and the aircraft that I maintained, was unexpectedly heart warning. I will most likely listen again to sr if I can retain some of the many facts and stories this book was filled with. Have I been saying Oriskany wrong all these years, I don't know.
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- Marke Turner
- 08-10-22
How come readers of the story cannot pronounce words?!
The fact that this guy can’t say Grumman and Oriskany are just two of many words that he cannot pronounce yet he’s reading a story about Naval aviation. Obviously he has no interest in naval aviation or history because he is mispronouncing words that people who study and are into Naval aviation history know. He can’t pronounce Tarawa, he can’t pronounce Tinian and several other words. And while it’s a great story and he does have a great voice his lack of knowledge and lack of pronunciation makes it very offputting
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- Jean
- 08-05-17
100th Anniversary of the Aircraft Carrier
This book provides an overview of the history of the aircraft carrier. The first plane to launch from a ship was in 1910. The first carrier was launched one hundred years ago in 1917. Tillman proceeds to tell us about the changes to the carrier that have occurred over the past one hundred years. This is a good review to provide a prospective to the current debate regarding the carrier. Has its cost and size gotten too big? Are smaller and more carriers better?
The book is well written and researched. Tillman covers the carrier, the planes and the key battles fought by carriers over the years. Tillman is a well-known naval historian. What country had the first carrier? I am not going to tell; you will need to read the book. You will be surprised by the answer.
The book is nine and a half hours long. Peter Berkrot does a good job narrating the book. Berkrot is an actor, voice-over artist and award-winning audiobook narrator.
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- John Ray
- 09-06-22
Good history detracted by annoying narration
Narration does not sound serious.
This makes it difficult to listen to and absorb.
Would be better narrating Ripley’s Believe it or not, or celebrity lifestyles.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-31-22
Good but leave out personal political opinions.
Great book that drove into the history and gave lots of facts. Tended to bash and state opinions on Republican administration's negatively. Could have done without that. Otherwise, very good book.
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- Gray
- 03-06-17
Good listen... performance... meh...
Enjoyed the info. Well researched. The end of each chapter was the best. The last few chapters and the epilogue made the book...
Narrater left much to be desired. Was like the guy took a break from action movie previews to do this book. The same tone killed me and really made it hard to focus on the story...
Over all very good book. Good and timely summaries. Brought up lots of very good conclusions.
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- AudioFile
- 05-24-21
Horrible production quality
The narrator for this audiobook is so bad that not only does he mispronounced common words such abut sometimes he even manages to mispronounce them in multiple ways.
The publishers of audiobooks to take the time to let subject matter experts listen to the final recording before they are released.
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- Salem Green
- 09-05-17
Nice historical review of Aircraft Carriers
The review of carrier development and history. At times, it's history is overwhelming, and at others it's a good story.
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- Michael Richards
- 08-02-17
WORST NARRATION EVAR. Buy the Kindle or Real Book.
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Sounds like the unholy demon spawn of William Shatner, Casey Casom and Wolfman Jack. No, seriously, listen to it for 5 minutes and tell me if you don't hear the worst characteristics of all three of these men rolled up into this narration. It's a damn shame too because the book and the story seem pretty good. I am still struggling to listen to it though because of the narration. I may have to go buy this one on kindle just so I can read the story without the Wolfman Jack distractions. I can't believe I paid to have this done to me...
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- Geoff Gerrish
- 05-12-21
Great writing, Terrible narrator.
Can't stand this narrator. Reads everything in an overdramatic winded tone, and clearly refuses to do even a little research on say and pronounce basic things. Book is great, go buy the Kindle or hardcopy version though.
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