The Eastern Front
A History of the Great War 1914-1918
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Nick Lloyd
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The first major history in fifty years of the often overlooked Eastern Front of the First World War
Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as eyewitness reports, diary entries, and memoirs, Lloyd moves from the great battles of 1914 to the final collapse of the Central Powers in 1918, showing how a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spiraled into a massive conflagration that pulled in Germany, Russia, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria. Lloyd narrates the repeated invasions of Serbia as well as the great battles between Russian, German, and Austrian forces at Tannenberg, Komarow, Gorlice-Tarnow, and the Masurian Lakes. All along, he takes us into the strategy of the generals who decided the war's course, from the Germans Ludendorff and Hindenburg to the Austro-Hungarian chief, Conrad von Hötzendorf, to the brilliant Russian Brusilov.
Perhaps the most radical aspect of the struggle in the east was that the violence was not confined to combatants. The Eastern Front witnessed calculated attacks against civilians that ripped the ethnic and religious fabric of numerous societies, paving the way for the horrors of the Holocaust. Lloyd's magisterial, definitive account of the war in the east will fundamentally alter our understanding of the cataclysmic events that reshaped Europe and the world.
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exhausting the Blitzkrieg
- De Rodney W. Schmisseur en 05-19-24
De: David Stahel
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To Besiege a City
- Leningrad 1941–42
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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At a huge cost, the Red Army and the civilian population of Leningrad ultimately endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against constant bombing, shelling, and starvation. Throughout the siege, Soviet forces tried to break the German lines and restore contact with the garrison. To Besiege a City charts the first of these offensives which began in January 1942 and was followed by repeated assaults.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De E. Ronakov en 09-30-23
De: Prit Buttar
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The Price of Glory
- Verdun 1916
- De: Alistair Horne
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 42
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Epic Account, Masterful in Its Scope, Power and Resonance
- De Ted Shealy en 05-01-24
De: Alistair Horne
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The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
- Modern War Studies
- De: Robert M. Citino
- Narrado por: Tom Beyer
- Duración: 25 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this book, Citino charts the path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a "war of movement," inexorably led to Nazi Germany's defeat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The fake English with a pseudo German accent,
- De Neil en 11-29-24
De: Robert M. Citino
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Bagration 1944
- The Great Soviet Offensive
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 20 h y 28 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, there were two consistent trends. The Red Army battled to learn how to fight and win, while involved in a struggle for its very survival. But by 1944 it had a leadership that was able to wield it with lethal effect and with far more effective equipment than before. By contrast, the Wehrmacht had commenced a slow process of decline after the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler became increasingly unwilling to delegate decision-making to commanders in the field, which had been crucial to earlier success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Impressive amount of detail, as expected from the author.
- De Zoran Jovic en 03-30-25
De: Prit Buttar
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Hero City
- Leningrad 1943–44
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege. Prit Buttar tells the story of how the siege was finally broken. The Red Army had suffered multiple setbacks in the preceding two years but achieved a partial success by breaking the blockage in early 1943. However, this was followed by further failed attempts to lift the siege completely. This compelling history uses original Russian source material to vividly describe the deprivations visited upon those trapped. But it also details the tactical successes and strategic failures of both sides.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great Prit Buttar book
- De Gary en 10-13-24
De: Prit Buttar
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War on the Eastern Front
- The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945
- De: James Lucas, Robert Kershaw - foreword
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
Dawn on Sunday, June 22, 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle. A posting to the Eastern Front during the Second World War was rightly regarded with dread by the German soldiers. They saw epic battles such as Stalingrad and Kursk, and yet it was a daily war of attrition which ultimately proved fatal for Hitler's ambition and the German military machine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read for WW2 Buffs
- De Terry W. en 03-05-21
De: James Lucas, y otros
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Collision of Empires
- The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 21 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 288
The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires - Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany - remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely expose of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front - a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book non-fiction book ever on the Eastern Front in 1914
- De HistoricalReader en 01-31-18
De: Prit Buttar
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The Reckoning
- The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 20 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 110
Prit Buttar retraces the ebb and flow of the various battles and campaigns fought throughout the Ukraine and Romania in 1944. January and February saw Army Group South encircled in the Korsun Pocket. Although many of the encircled troops did escape, in part due to Soviet intelligence and command failures, the Red Army would endeavour to not make the same mistakes again. Indeed, in the coming months the Red Army would demonstrate an ability to learn and improve, reinventing itself as a war-winning machine, demonstrated clearly in its success in the Iasi-Kishinev operation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional
- De Amazon Customer en 04-25-21
De: Prit Buttar
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To Lose a Battle
- France 1940
- De: Alistair Horne
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 24 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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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4 out of 5 stars
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You're going to need a French dictionary and a map
- De Mike From Mesa en 06-17-24
De: Alistair Horne
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The Battle for Moscow
- De: David Stahel
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous accounts, only failed at the gates of Moscow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Stahel
- De abulbulian en 06-15-24
De: David Stahel
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Passchendaele
- Requiem for Doomed Youth
- De: Paul Ham
- Narrado por: Robert Meldrum
- Duración: 17 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 171
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 156
From Paul Ham, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History, comes the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century. Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very compelling - good story, good narration
- De DPM en 11-25-16
De: Paul Ham
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Meat Grinder
- The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942–43
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Nathan Osgood
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops called the campaign 'The Meat Grinder'. Though millions of men would fight and die there, the Rzhev Salient does not have the name recognition of Leningrad or Moscow. It has been largely ignored by Western historians – until now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A totally absurd effort in racist German Bashing with some grudging respect for the German soldier and German Army.
- De Anonymous User en 05-01-24
De: Prit Buttar
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Into the Reich
- The Red Army’s advance to the Oder in 1945
- De: Prit Buttar
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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In January 1945, the Red Army launched a powerful offensive across the Vistula River to drive the Wehrmacht out of Poland, with the intention of securing a start line for an operation that would ultimately result in the capture of Berlin and the end of the war. But, as Prit Buttar expertly reveals, there were other issues at play. Stalin was determined to push the boundaries of the Soviet Union further west, restoring land lost by the tsars and securing vast industrial and mineral wealth.
De: Prit Buttar
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Somme
- Into the Breach
- De: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 19 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial year. Despite this, this book shows the extent to which the Allied armies were in fact able repeatedly to break through the German front lines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A gentle look at a horrific subject
- De J Beachboard en 02-27-17
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Red Road from Stalingrad
- Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
- De: Mansur Abdulin
- Narrado por: Alex Hyde-White
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story. His vivid firsthand account of a ruthless war on the Eastern Front gives rare insight into the reality of the fighting and into the tactics and mentality of the Red Army's soldiers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memoir of a Soviet soldier fighting the Nazis
- De Ladybug en 09-16-21
De: Mansur Abdulin
This is an eloquent account of a conflagration whose consequences we are still grappling with
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Great overview of a neglected part of the First World War
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Excellent history of WWI on the Eastern Front
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The sense of tragic inevitabilities and complexities of the entire conflict is made painfully clear
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Exceptional
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