The Fate of the Generals
MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines
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Jonathan Horn
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In the tradition of Hampton Sides’s bestseller Ghost Soldiers comes a World War II story of bravery, survival, and sacrifice—the vow Douglas MacArthur made to return to the Philippines and the oath his fellow general Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright made to stay with his men there whatever the cost.
For the doomed stand American forces made in the Philippines at the start of World War II, two generals received their country’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor. One was the charismatic and controversial Douglas MacArthur, whose orders forced him to leave his soldiers on the islands to starvation and surrender but whose vow to return echoed around the globe. The other was the gritty Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who became a hero to the troops whose fate he insisted on sharing even when it meant becoming the highest-ranking American prisoner of the Japanese.
In The Fate of the Generals, bestselling author Jonathan Horn brings together the story of two men who received the same medal but found honor on very different paths. MacArthur’s journey would require a daring escape with his wife and young child to Australia and then years of fighting over the thousands of miles needed to make it back to the Philippines, where he would fulfill his famous vow only to see the city he called home burn. Wainwright’s journey would take him from the Philippines to Taiwan and Manchuria as his captors tortured him in prisons and left him to wonder whether his countrymen would ever understand the choice he had made to surrender for the sake of his men.
A story of war made personal based on meticulous research into diaries and letters including boxes of previously unexplored papers, The Fate of the Generals is a vivid account that raises timely questions about how we define honor and how we choose our heroes, and is destined to become a classic of World War II history.
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Based on new research conducted across Europe and in the United States, The Celts reveals when and how we came to call much of Europe "Celtic," why this idea mattered in the past, and why it still matters today, as the tide of nationalism is once again on the rise.
De: Ian Stewart
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Into the Ice
- The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
- De: Mark Synnott
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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New York Times bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with Alex Honnold. He’s scaled Mount Everest. He's pioneered big-wall first ascents, including the north-west face of the mile-high Great Trango Tower, and skied monster first descents. But in 2022, he realized there was a dream he’d yet to achieve: to sail the Northwest Passage in his own boat—a feat only four hundred or so sailors have ever accomplished—and in doing so, try to solve the mystery of what happened to legendary nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin and his ships, HMS Erebus and Terror.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent listen!!!
- De Anonymous User en 04-18-25
De: Mark Synnott
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The Illegals
- Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
- De: Shaun Walker
- Narrado por: Paul Thornley
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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More than a century ago, the new Bolshevik government began sending Soviet citizens abroad as deep-cover spies, training them to pose as foreign aristocrats, merchants, and students. Over time, this grew into the most ambitious espionage program in history. Many intelligence agencies use undercover operatives, but the KGB was the only one to go to such lengths, spending years training its spies in language and etiquette, and sending them abroad on missions that could last for decades. These spies were known as “illegals.”
De: Shaun Walker
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The Rebel Romanov
- Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
- De: Helen Rappaport
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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In 1795, Catherine the Great of Russia was in search of a bride for her grandson Constantine, who stood third in line to her throne. In an eerie echo of her own story, Catherine selected an innocent young German princess, Julie of Saxe-Coburg, aunt of the future Queen Victoria. Though Julie had everything a young bride could wish for, she was alone in a court dominated by an aging empress and riven with rivalries, plotting, and gossip—not to mention her brute of a husband. She longed to leave Russia and her disastrous marriage, but her family in Germany refused to allow her to do so.
De: Helen Rappaport
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38 Londres Street
- On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia
- De: Philippe Sands
- Duración: 12 h
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In this intimate legal and historical detective story, the world-renowned lawyer and acclaimed author of East West Street traces the footsteps of two of the twentieth century’s most merciless criminals—accused of genocide and crimes against humanity—testing the limits of immunity and impunity after Nuremberg.
De: Philippe Sands
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Journeys of the Mind
- A Life in History
- De: Peter Brown
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 30 h y 20 m
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The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half-millennium" now known as late antiquity was crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age.
De: Peter Brown
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Wainwright: The Biography
- De: Hunter Davies
- Narrado por: Stephen Thorne
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three television series, Wainwright remained an intensely private person. With full access to Alfred Wainwright's private letters and unpublished material, Hunter Davies reveals a man more passionate, witty and generous than readers of his guides have come to expect.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Revered as a passionate fell walker BUT
- De R. Rogers en 03-24-15
De: Hunter Davies
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Dividing Lines
- How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality
- De: Deborah N. Archer
- Narrado por: Diana Blue
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Our nation's transportation system is crumbling. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Dividing Lines, before we can think about rebuilding and repairing, we must consider the role race has played in transportation infrastructure, from the early twentieth century and into the present day.
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Sorrowful Mysteries
- The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century
- De: Stephen Harrigan
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Sorrowful Mysteries is a detailed and extraordinarily compassionate examination of the appearance of Our Lady of Fátima, an attempt to unravel and put into perspective the lives of the three children, how this life-altering event changed them and the world they knew, and how it intersected with so many of the signal moments of the twentieth century—pandemics, revolutions, world wars, assassinations, and even skyjackings.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Axe to grind
- De DPM en 04-22-25
De: Stephen Harrigan