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- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
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As I write, I can clearly recall the stinging heat of a burning Blenheim, smells, tastes, expressions, sounds of voices and, most of all, fear gripping deep in me.
Flying Officer Alastair Panton was just 23 when his squadron deployed across the Channel in the defence of France. They were desperate days.
Pushed back to the beaches as the German blitzkrieg rolled through the Low Countries and into France, by June 4th 1940 the evacuation of the Allies from Dunkirk was complete. A little over two weeks later France surrendered.
Flying vital, dangerous, low-level missions throughout the campaign in support of the troops on the ground, Panton's beloved but unarmed Bristol Blenheim was easy meat for the marauding Messerschmitts. At the height of fighting he was losing two of his small squadron's crews to the enemy every day.
Discovered in a box by his grandchildren after his death in 2002, Alastair Panton's Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer is a lost classic. One of the most moving, vivid and powerful accounts of war in the air ever written. And an unforgettable testament to the courage, stoicism, camaraderie and humanity of Britain's greatest generation.
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She was from the hills of Yorkshire, country born and bred. He was a city boy. By the stream where they fished they were two young people falling in love. Overhead, the bombers roared, threatening to blow their idyllic world, so young, so fresh, to smithereens.
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Historical romance set in WWII England.
- De Stan en 06-19-12
De: Nevil Shute
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Fur Volk and Fuhrer
- The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
- De: Erwin Bartmann, Derik Hammond
- Narrado por: James Foster
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis. Convinced he was growing up in the best country in the world, he dreamt of joining the Leibstandarte, Hitler's elite Waffen SS unit. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, and just 17-years-old, Erwin fulfilled his dream on Mayday 1941, when he gave up his apprenticeship at the Glaser bakery in Memeler Strasse and walked into the Lichterfelde barracks in Berlin as a raw, volunteer recruit.
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- De marykk en 05-22-17
De: Erwin Bartmann, y otros
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Fighter Pilot
- The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
- De: Robin Olds, Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 2 m
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A larger-than-life hero with a towering personality, Robin Olds was a graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army. In World War II, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—a double ace with twelve aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend.
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Top Notch Audiobook
- De R. A. Frank en 10-08-10
De: Robin Olds, y otros
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Sword of Honor
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
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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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At least one chapter missing
- De Sviatoslav en 08-17-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Coffin Corner Boys
- De: Carole Engle Avriett, Captain George W. Starks
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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As a young band of brothers flies over German-occupied France, they come under heavy fire. Their B-17 is shot down and the airmen - stumbling through fields and villages - scatter across Europe. Some struggled to flee for safety. Others were captured immediately and imprisoned. Now, for the first time, their incredible story of grit, survival, and reunion is told. Join George as he retraces his steps to freedom and discover the amazing stories of sacrifice and survival and how 10 young American boys plus their French helpers became heroes.
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Not what I was expecting.
- De Doug Riehle en 06-03-20
De: Carole Engle Avriett, y otros
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The Last Jump
- A Novel of World War II
- De: John E. Nevola
- Narrado por: Mike Ortego
- Duración: 23 h y 25 m
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The Last Jump is a war story, a mystery, a love tale, and a tribute to the people who won World War II. Fact and fiction intermix seamlessly to unravel a secret passionately guarded by four aging soldiers. The reader is transported back in time to an imperfect America, with all is incredible virtues and vexing shortcomings struggling with racial and gender issues while fighting for its very survival. It was time when Americans stood shoulder to shoulder to free the world from tyranny.
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Good Story, Too Preachy
- De Michael Brown en 09-15-17
De: John E. Nevola
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
- A True Story of World War II
- De: Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labor camp, E715, near the site of Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could.
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Great, great story
- De Anonymous User en 08-12-11
De: Denis Avey, y otros
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Dadland
- De: Keggie Carew
- Narrado por: Pippa Haywood, Robert Bathurst, Tom Golding, y otros
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Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story and get to know who her father really was.
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Superb. Best memoir/history book
- De Readerwith opinions en 11-25-22
De: Keggie Carew
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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
- De: Roger Hall
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. In his droll storytelling style, Hall describes his first parachute jump in support of the French resistance as a comedy of errors that terminated prematurely. Called one of the funniest and most perceptive works ever written about life in the OSS, the book includes a wealth of unforgettable personalities that Hall encountered over the years.
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Fantastic read!
- De Nursey en 01-21-23
De: Roger Hall
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Red Star Against the Swastika
- The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front
- De: Vasily B. Emelianenko
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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This is the extraordinary story of Vasily B. Emelianenko, the veteran pilot of one of the Soviet Union's most contradictory planes of the Second World War - the I1-2. Having flown 80 combat sorties against the Germans, Emelianenko was awarded the highest decoration - the Hero of the Soviet Union. He went on to complete a total of 92 sorties; his plane was shot down three times; and on each occasion, he managed to pilot the damaged aircraft home. Emelianenko's vivid memoirs provide a rare insight into the reality of fighting over the Eastern Front and the tactics of the Red Army Air Force.
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Solid Soviet WW2 bio
- De Alek en 12-19-18
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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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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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Important, Tragic, Poignant...
- De Amazon Customer en 07-31-15
De: Walter Kempowski, y otros
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The Winds of War
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 45 h y 48 m
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Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
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A Masterpiece
- De Robert en 05-24-13
De: Herman Wouk
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- 11-15-23
Excellent short story of the RAF and the short Battle of France
Very good presentation of the heroism of the RAF pilots, crews and ground personnel during the short battle of France.
Definitely worth the listen as Keeble does an excellent narration.
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- Salui
- 06-18-18
Enjoyable and quite interesting recollections of the early months of the war
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the recollections of a British pilot in the early months of World War Two in France. It is performed beautifully
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- 10-16-23
Excellent.
This is a moving, very well written and deeply affecting book. Told without sentimentality, it recalls the drama, tension and futility of that war, at that time. I had wished it was longer… the descriptions in particular of life in their little base in France after a days flying are poignant. The final 5mins left a lump in my throat, and I have found the scenes described have stayed with me for some time.
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