-
The Miracle of Dunkirk
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
The Miracle of Dunkirk
Compra ahora por US$15.56
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
Napoleon
- A Life
- De: Andrew Roberts
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 32 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,212
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,369
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,339
Andrew Roberts' Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
What a dynamo!
- De Tad Davis en 01-16-15
De: Andrew Roberts
-
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- De: Ian W. Toll
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 3,813
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,400
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,385
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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Astonishingly good.
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-01-12
De: Ian W. Toll
-
Stalingrad
- The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
- Versión resumida
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 697
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 584
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 581
In August 1942, an overconfident Adolf Hitler would attempt to invade Stalin's namesake city on the Volga. The battle of Stalingrad is extraordinary in every way: the triumphant invader fought to a standstill; then the Soviet trap sprung, surrounding their attackers; and the terrible siege, with Germans starving and freezing, forced to fight on by a disbelieving Hitler.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Audible! Pls provide Michael Tudor Barnes
- De Anand en 07-02-15
De: Antony Beevor
-
Lonely Vigil
- Coastwatchers of the Solomons
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
From the best-selling author of Day of Infamy: In the bloodiest island combat of WWII, one group of men kept watch from behind Japanese lines. The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these coastwatchers kept lookout for squadrons of Japanese bombers headed for Allied positions.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting Subject
- De Martin See en 06-21-21
De: Walter Lord
-
Day of Infamy
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 521
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 447
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 443
Day of Infamy is Walter Lord's gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The listener accompanies Admiral Nagumo's task force as it sweeps toward Hawaii; looks on while warning after warning is ignored on Oahu; and is enmeshed in the panic, confusion, and heroism of the final attack.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Engaging Story, Great Reading
- De Chas en 12-07-04
De: Walter Lord
-
A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,316
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,169
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,165
The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters as the ship met her watery grave. Spectacular in many ways, it's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine a century later. This minute-by-minute account of the sinking is based on over 20 years of research and offers amazing detail of that fateful night.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A gripping story grounded in historical fact
- De Abigail Carney en 05-30-20
De: Walter Lord
-
Napoleon
- A Life
- De: Andrew Roberts
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 32 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,212
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,369
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,339
Andrew Roberts' Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
What a dynamo!
- De Tad Davis en 01-16-15
De: Andrew Roberts
-
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- De: Ian W. Toll
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 3,813
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,400
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,385
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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Astonishingly good.
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-01-12
De: Ian W. Toll
-
Stalingrad
- The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
- Versión resumida
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 697
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 584
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 581
In August 1942, an overconfident Adolf Hitler would attempt to invade Stalin's namesake city on the Volga. The battle of Stalingrad is extraordinary in every way: the triumphant invader fought to a standstill; then the Soviet trap sprung, surrounding their attackers; and the terrible siege, with Germans starving and freezing, forced to fight on by a disbelieving Hitler.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Audible! Pls provide Michael Tudor Barnes
- De Anand en 07-02-15
De: Antony Beevor
-
Lonely Vigil
- Coastwatchers of the Solomons
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
From the best-selling author of Day of Infamy: In the bloodiest island combat of WWII, one group of men kept watch from behind Japanese lines. The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these coastwatchers kept lookout for squadrons of Japanese bombers headed for Allied positions.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting Subject
- De Martin See en 06-21-21
De: Walter Lord
-
Day of Infamy
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 521
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 447
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 443
Day of Infamy is Walter Lord's gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The listener accompanies Admiral Nagumo's task force as it sweeps toward Hawaii; looks on while warning after warning is ignored on Oahu; and is enmeshed in the panic, confusion, and heroism of the final attack.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Engaging Story, Great Reading
- De Chas en 12-07-04
De: Walter Lord
-
A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,316
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,169
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,165
The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters as the ship met her watery grave. Spectacular in many ways, it's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine a century later. This minute-by-minute account of the sinking is based on over 20 years of research and offers amazing detail of that fateful night.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A gripping story grounded in historical fact
- De Abigail Carney en 05-30-20
De: Walter Lord
-
Band of Brothers
- E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Tim Jerome
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 10,538
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,391
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 9,369
Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory, Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company, which kept getting the tough assignments. Easy Company was responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Band of Brothers is the account of the men of this remarkable unit.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
High Expectations Met
- De Audrey en 02-12-13
-
Incredible Victory
- The Battle of Midway
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 140
On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. They had fewer ships, slower fighters, and almost no battle experience. But because their codebreakers knew what was coming, the American navy was able to prepare an ambush of its own.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Very informative
- De Jim Walters en 08-27-18
De: Walter Lord
-
The Battle of Britain
- Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 26 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 784
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 705
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 699
The Battle of Britain paints a stirring picture of an extraordinary summer when the fate of the world hung by a thread. Historian James Holland has now written the definitive account of those months based on extensive new research from around the world, including thousands of new interviews with people on both sides of the battle.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
The battle up to The Battle of Britain
- De Chiefkent en 11-07-17
De: James Holland
-
D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
- Duración: 25 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 3,323
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,972
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,959
Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities and triumphs of life are laid bare and courage and heroism come to the fore.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
What an epic story what great men
- De Michael en 02-12-14
-
King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,911
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,590
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,591
In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and firearms. Correctly concluding that only slave labor could account for these cargoes, Morel almost singlehandedly made this slave-labor regime the premier human rights story in the world.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Fascinating
- De Edith en 01-20-11
De: Adam Hochschild
-
Ghost Soldiers
- The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: James Naughton
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
- Versión resumida
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,377
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,046
At once a gripping depiction of men at war and a compelling story of redemption, Ghost Soldiers joins such landmark works as Flags of Our Fathers and The Greatest Generation Speaks in preserving the legacy of World War II for future generations.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Ghost soldiers
- De Zach en 09-07-03
De: Hampton Sides
-
The Last Battle
- De: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,651
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,490
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,485
The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater. The last offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich, it devastated one of Europe’s historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war’s bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Thanks to Dan Carlin of Hardcore History podcasts.
- De GB en 06-30-12
De: Cornelius Ryan
-
Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,849
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12,303
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,279
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- De Sara en 03-05-16
De: Erik Larson
-
The Good Shepherd
- De: C.S. Forester
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,631
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,417
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,412
A convoy of 37 merchant ships is ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas during the most critical days of World War II, when the German submarines had the upper hand and Allied shipping was suffering heavy losses. In charge is Commander George Krause, an untested veteran of the US Navy. Hounded by a wolf pack of German U-boats, he faces 48 hours of desperate peril trapped the bridge of the ship. Exhausted beyond measure, he must make countless and terrible decisions as he leads his small fighting force against the relentless U-boats.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Good Shepherd
- De BookReader en 07-16-20
De: C.S. Forester
-
Matterhorn
- A Novel of the Vietnam War
- De: Karl Marlantes
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 21 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,378
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,069
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,066
Why we think it’s a great listen: A performance so poignant, we gave Bronson Pinchot (yes, Balki from Perfect Strangers) our inaugural Narrator of the Year award.... In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a fire support base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company to further his civilian political ambitions. But two people stand in his way.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
A First For Me . . . And The Last
- De Glen en 05-24-10
De: Karl Marlantes
-
Into the Bright Sunshine
- Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
- De: Samuel G. Freedman
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 7
-
Narración:3 out of 5 stars 6
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Important history for today’s generation
- De Nancy M en 09-29-23
-
Code Talker
- The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
- De: Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 672
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 600
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 597
His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn’t stop Chester from answering the call to defend his country after Pearl Harbor, for the Navajo have always been warriors, and his upbringing on a New Mexico reservation gave him the strength to excel as a marine. This is the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Wrong narrator!
- De Kindle Customer en 06-26-20
De: Chester Nez, y otros
Resumen del Editor
On May 24, 1940, Hitler's armies were on the brink of a shattering military victory. Only 10 miles away, 400,000 Allied troops were pinned against the coast of Dunkirk. But just 11 days later, 338,000 men had been successfully evacuated to England. How did it happen? Walter Lord's remarkable account of how "the miracle of Dunkirk" came about is based on hundreds of interviews with survivors of all nations who fought among the sand dunes of northern France.
Reseñas de la Crítica
Más títulos del mismo
Related to this topic
-
The Longest Day
- June 6, 1944
- De: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,060
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
> The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Horrendous narration makes it impossible to listen
- De Mary en 03-18-12
De: Cornelius Ryan
-
Lonely Vigil
- Coastwatchers of the Solomons
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
From the best-selling author of Day of Infamy: In the bloodiest island combat of WWII, one group of men kept watch from behind Japanese lines. The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these coastwatchers kept lookout for squadrons of Japanese bombers headed for Allied positions.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting Subject
- De Martin See en 06-21-21
De: Walter Lord
-
Tragedy at Dieppe
- Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
- De: Mark Zuehlke
- Narrado por: John Wray
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's 10th Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo", Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against France. Since 1939, Canadian troops had massed in Britain and trained for the inevitable day of the mass invasion of Europe that would finally occur in 1944.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
When To Throw The Book At Someone
- De Nicholas Robinson en 05-12-23
De: Mark Zuehlke
-
The Far Shore
- De: Edward Ellsberg
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Thousands of men desperately struggling through the surf, blood spilling into the sea and mud, bullets whizzing by their ears - this is the Far Shore of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Here, we see D-Day through the eyes of an experienced engineer, brought out of a brief retirement to help make this invasion and eventual Allied victory possible: Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Loved every one of his books.
- De John DiMarco en 10-10-19
De: Edward Ellsberg
-
Dunkirk
- De: Joshua Levine
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble, Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 88
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
I am so pissed
- De SCOTT en 07-04-17
De: Joshua Levine
-
D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
- Duración: 25 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 3,323
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,972
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,959
Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities and triumphs of life are laid bare and courage and heroism come to the fore.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
What an epic story what great men
- De Michael en 02-12-14
-
The Longest Day
- June 6, 1944
- De: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,060
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
> The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Horrendous narration makes it impossible to listen
- De Mary en 03-18-12
De: Cornelius Ryan
-
Lonely Vigil
- Coastwatchers of the Solomons
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
From the best-selling author of Day of Infamy: In the bloodiest island combat of WWII, one group of men kept watch from behind Japanese lines. The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these coastwatchers kept lookout for squadrons of Japanese bombers headed for Allied positions.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting Subject
- De Martin See en 06-21-21
De: Walter Lord
-
Tragedy at Dieppe
- Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
- De: Mark Zuehlke
- Narrado por: John Wray
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's 10th Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo", Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against France. Since 1939, Canadian troops had massed in Britain and trained for the inevitable day of the mass invasion of Europe that would finally occur in 1944.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
When To Throw The Book At Someone
- De Nicholas Robinson en 05-12-23
De: Mark Zuehlke
-
The Far Shore
- De: Edward Ellsberg
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Thousands of men desperately struggling through the surf, blood spilling into the sea and mud, bullets whizzing by their ears - this is the Far Shore of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Here, we see D-Day through the eyes of an experienced engineer, brought out of a brief retirement to help make this invasion and eventual Allied victory possible: Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Loved every one of his books.
- De John DiMarco en 10-10-19
De: Edward Ellsberg
-
Dunkirk
- De: Joshua Levine
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble, Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 88
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
I am so pissed
- De SCOTT en 07-04-17
De: Joshua Levine
-
D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
- Duración: 25 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 3,323
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,972
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,959
Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities and triumphs of life are laid bare and courage and heroism come to the fore.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
What an epic story what great men
- De Michael en 02-12-14
-
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)
- The Liberation Trilogy, Volume 1
- De: Rick Atkinson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 26 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,535
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,244
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,236
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern learner can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Fascinating book, great performance
- De Ted en 05-30-16
De: Rick Atkinson
-
Ship of Ghosts
- The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of of Her Survivors
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Mark Cashman
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 364
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 260
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 256
Renowned as FDR's favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. But the men of the Houston fought back with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, willpower, and the undying faith that their country would prevail.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
interesting read
- De Laurie en 05-11-07
-
The Fleet at Flood Tide
- America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,302
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,160
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,155
With its thunderous assault on the Mariana Islands in June 1944, the United States crossed the threshold of total war. In this tour de force of dramatic storytelling, distilled from extensive research in newly discovered primary sources, James D. Hornfischer brings to life the campaign that was the fulcrum of the drive to compel Tokyo to surrender—and that forever changed the art of modern war.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Hornfischer's Philosophical Summary Up to VJ Day
- De Hollywood Dave en 01-08-17
-
Day of Infamy
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 521
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 447
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 443
Day of Infamy is Walter Lord's gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The listener accompanies Admiral Nagumo's task force as it sweeps toward Hawaii; looks on while warning after warning is ignored on Oahu; and is enmeshed in the panic, confusion, and heroism of the final attack.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Engaging Story, Great Reading
- De Chas en 12-07-04
De: Walter Lord
-
Dünkirchen 1940
- The German View of Dunkirk
- De: Robert Kershaw
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
Dünkirchen 1940 is the first major history on what went wrong for the Germans at Dunkirk. As supreme military commander, Hitler had seemingly achieved a miracle after the swift capitulation of Holland and Belgium, but with just seven kilometres before the panzers captured Dunkirk – the only port through which the trapped British Expeditionary force might escape – they came to a shuddering stop. Only a detailed interpretation of the German perspective – historically lacking to date – can provide answers as to why.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Awesome great job on the Germany view of dunkirk
- De Dr Ralph Levy en 05-12-23
De: Robert Kershaw
-
Undefeated
- America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor
- De: Bill Sloan
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Abandoned by their government, the men and women of the American garrison struggled against impossible military odds, rampant disease, and slow starvation to delay inevitable surrender by the largest American military force ever. Rather than picturing these defenders as little more than helpless victims of an overwhelmingly powerful and sadistic enemy-as most previous books about the Philippines campaign have done- Undefeated credits American troops with the unexcelled heroism and indomitable spirit they displayed under the worst imaginable conditions.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Mesmerizing
- De Amazon Customer en 03-30-17
De: Bill Sloan
-
Landing on the Edge of Eternity
- Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
- De: Robert Kershaw
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 70
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 64
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 63
When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on June 6, 1944, it lost 96 percent of its effective strength. Sixteen teams of US engineers arriving in the second wave were unable to blow the beach obstacles, as first wave survivors were still sheltering behind them. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Worthwhile Listen
- De Robert en 06-19-23
De: Robert Kershaw
-
Crete 1941
- The Battle and the Resistance
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle around.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Engrossing
- De Jean en 02-01-16
De: Antony Beevor
-
The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 41 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,861
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,538
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,533
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A political as well as military history
- De Mike From Mesa en 07-30-15
De: John Toland
-
December 7, 1941
- The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
- De: Gordon Prange
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
With all the dramatic listenability of a novel, Prange provides a richly detailed, chronological account of the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Advertising in Army, Navy, Air Force Times, Military History, and World War II magazines.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
History in the first person
- De Walter Fiarman en 06-11-15
De: Gordon Prange
-
The Americans at D-Day
- The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion
- De: John C. McManus
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 616
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 554
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 546
June 6, 1944, was a pivotal moment in the history of World War II. On that day the climactic and decisive phase of the war in Europe began. Those who survived the intense fighting on the Normandy beaches found their lives irreversibly changed. That day ushered in a great change for the United States as well, because on D-day America began its march to the forefront of the Western world. By the end of the Battle of Normandy, almost one out of every two soldiers involved was an American.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great Book
- De Byron Sarchet en 01-15-21
De: John C. McManus
-
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
- How the Allies Won on D-Day
- De: Giles Milton
- Narrado por: Giles Milton
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 167
Seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the day’s events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Needs a map
- De James Lucas en 03-24-19
De: Giles Milton
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
-
Day of Infamy
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 521
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 447
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 443
Day of Infamy is Walter Lord's gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The listener accompanies Admiral Nagumo's task force as it sweeps toward Hawaii; looks on while warning after warning is ignored on Oahu; and is enmeshed in the panic, confusion, and heroism of the final attack.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Engaging Story, Great Reading
- De Chas en 12-07-04
De: Walter Lord
-
Incredible Victory
- The Battle of Midway
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 140
On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. They had fewer ships, slower fighters, and almost no battle experience. But because their codebreakers knew what was coming, the American navy was able to prepare an ambush of its own.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Very informative
- De Jim Walters en 08-27-18
De: Walter Lord
-
A Night to Remember
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Fred Williams
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 411
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 352
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 351
The "unsinkable” Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French “sidewalk café,” private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices… but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers and crew on board.
Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the Titanic brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later, she upended and sank. Only 705 survivors were picked up from the half-filled boats of “the ship that God Himself couldn’t sink.”
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Riveting story
- De Tad Davis en 12-31-11
De: Walter Lord
-
Dunkirk
- De: Joshua Levine
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble, Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 88
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
I am so pissed
- De SCOTT en 07-04-17
De: Joshua Levine
-
The Dawn's Early Light
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
At the dawn of the 19th century, the great powers of Western Europe treated the United States like a disobedient child. America's complaints were ignored, until President James Madison declared a second war on Great Britain. British forces would descend on the United States, but America rallied and survived. With stunning detail on land and naval battles, the role Native Americans played in the hostilities, and the larger backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this is the story of the turning points of this strange conflict, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner".
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Fascinating reading
- De CalvinS en 10-01-19
De: Walter Lord
-
A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,316
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,169
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,165
The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters as the ship met her watery grave. Spectacular in many ways, it's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine a century later. This minute-by-minute account of the sinking is based on over 20 years of research and offers amazing detail of that fateful night.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A gripping story grounded in historical fact
- De Abigail Carney en 05-30-20
De: Walter Lord
-
Day of Infamy
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 521
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 447
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 443
Day of Infamy is Walter Lord's gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The listener accompanies Admiral Nagumo's task force as it sweeps toward Hawaii; looks on while warning after warning is ignored on Oahu; and is enmeshed in the panic, confusion, and heroism of the final attack.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Engaging Story, Great Reading
- De Chas en 12-07-04
De: Walter Lord
-
Incredible Victory
- The Battle of Midway
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 140
On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. They had fewer ships, slower fighters, and almost no battle experience. But because their codebreakers knew what was coming, the American navy was able to prepare an ambush of its own.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Very informative
- De Jim Walters en 08-27-18
De: Walter Lord
-
A Night to Remember
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Fred Williams
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 411
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 352
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 351
The "unsinkable” Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French “sidewalk café,” private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices… but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers and crew on board.
Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the Titanic brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later, she upended and sank. Only 705 survivors were picked up from the half-filled boats of “the ship that God Himself couldn’t sink.”
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Riveting story
- De Tad Davis en 12-31-11
De: Walter Lord
-
Dunkirk
- De: Joshua Levine
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble, Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 88
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
I am so pissed
- De SCOTT en 07-04-17
De: Joshua Levine
-
The Dawn's Early Light
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
At the dawn of the 19th century, the great powers of Western Europe treated the United States like a disobedient child. America's complaints were ignored, until President James Madison declared a second war on Great Britain. British forces would descend on the United States, but America rallied and survived. With stunning detail on land and naval battles, the role Native Americans played in the hostilities, and the larger backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this is the story of the turning points of this strange conflict, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner".
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Fascinating reading
- De CalvinS en 10-01-19
De: Walter Lord
-
A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,316
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,169
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,165
The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters as the ship met her watery grave. Spectacular in many ways, it's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine a century later. This minute-by-minute account of the sinking is based on over 20 years of research and offers amazing detail of that fateful night.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A gripping story grounded in historical fact
- De Abigail Carney en 05-30-20
De: Walter Lord
-
Alone
- Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
- De: Michael Korda
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,249
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,144
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,137
An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the 20th century.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Exceptional
- De Jean en 11-11-17
De: Michael Korda
-
The German Aces Speak
- World War II Through the Eyes of Four of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
- De: Anne-Marie Lewis, Jon Guttman, Brigadier General Robin Olds USAF - Ret., y otros
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 783
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 694
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 692
Few perspectives epitomize the sheer drama and sacrifice of combat more perfectly than those of the fighter pilots of World War II. As romanticized as any soldier in history, the World War II fighter pilot was viewed as larger than life: a dashing soul waging war amongst the clouds. In the 65-plus years since the Allied victory, stories of these pilots' heroics have never been in short supply. But what about their adversaries - the highly skilled German aviators who pushed the Allies to the very brink of defeat?
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Not what I hoped for
- De Michael Jacobi en 09-01-20
De: Anne-Marie Lewis, y otros
-
Guadalcanal Diary
- 2nd Edition
- De: Richard Tregaskis
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 387
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 336
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 334
This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles; crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. One of only two on-location news correspondents, he lived alongside the soldiers: sleeping on the ground - only to be awoken by air raids - eating meager rations, and braving some of the most dangerous battlefields of World War II.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
WOW, GREAT TRUTH FOR THOSE POOR BOY'S
- De Andrea Longwith en 02-28-17
-
A Time to Stand
- The Epic of the Alamo
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison, fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years, the garrison's heroic stand has become so clothed in folklore and romance that the truth has nearly been lost. In A Time to Stand, Walter Lord rediscovers and recreates the whole fascinating story.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Okay book. Atrocious narration.
- De Jack en 01-22-20
De: Walter Lord
-
The Secret History of World War II
- Spies, Code Breakers, & Covert Operations
- De: Neil Kagan, Stephen G. Hyslop
- Narrado por: Andrew Reilly
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 918
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 815
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 807
From the authors who created Eyewitness to World War II and numerous other best-selling reference books, this is the shocking story behind the covert activity that shaped the outcome of one of the world's greatest conflicts - and the destiny of millions of people. National Geographic's landmark book illuminates World War II as never before. Seven narrative chapters reveal the truth behind the lies and deception that shaped the "secret war".
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
War in the Shadows
- De Tim McGreer en 06-09-20
De: Neil Kagan, y otros
-
Lonely Vigil
- Coastwatchers of the Solomons
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
From the best-selling author of Day of Infamy: In the bloodiest island combat of WWII, one group of men kept watch from behind Japanese lines. The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these coastwatchers kept lookout for squadrons of Japanese bombers headed for Allied positions.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting Subject
- De Martin See en 06-21-21
De: Walter Lord
-
Carrier Pilot
- De: Norman Hanson
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 289
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 271
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 269
In 1942, Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy's newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged, and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots, it also proved to be a lethal weapon. Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took the fight to the Japanese. Facing a desperate and determined enemy, Kamikaze attacks, and the ever-present dangers of flying off a pitching carrier deck, death was never far away.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Absorbing
- De Jean en 11-26-17
De: Norman Hanson
-
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- De: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 126
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 114
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 115
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Not what I bargained for
- De Alexander Crowell en 08-21-20
De: Herbert P. Bix
-
Final Harbor
- Silent War Series, Book 1
- De: Harry Homewood
- Narrado por: Corey M. Snow
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 381
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 334
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 329
She was a monster, sleek and gleaming, designed to strike without warning like the dreaded shark. She was the USS Mako, as fearless and bold as any submarine that ever prowled the blue Pacific. Her mission: seek out and destroy the hitherto invincible ships of the Japanese Imperial Navy - and revenge the earlier defeats of a long and dirty war. Here is the story of the men who pitted their lives against impossible odds in the most dangerous branch of the American armed services.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Loved it. Both times I listened
- De Father of 3 en 06-13-17
De: Harry Homewood
-
Tower of Skulls
- A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Vol. 1 (July 1937 - May 1942)
- De: Richard B. Frank
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 26 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 293
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 254
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 250
This story casts penetrating light on how struggles in Europe and Asia merged into a tightly entwined global war. It features not just battles, but also the sweeping political, economic, and social effects of the war, and are graced with a rich tapestry of individual characters from top-tier political and military figures down to ordinary servicemen, as well as the accounts of civilians of all races and ages.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Outstanding
- De Patrick en 03-16-20
De: Richard B. Frank
-
Robert E. Lee and Me
- A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
- De: Ty Seidule
- Narrado por: Ty Seidule
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 738
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 646
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 641
Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the US Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Changing a heart and mind
- De Matt Poe en 02-01-21
De: Ty Seidule
-
Baa Baa Black Sheep
- The True Story of the "Bad Boy" Hero of the Pacific Theatre and His Famous Black Sheep Squadron
- De: Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,217
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,089
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,083
Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all-the fight to survive. The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave a new definition to "hell-raising" - on the ground and in the skies.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Who picked the narrator?
- De D. DAVIS en 08-21-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Miracle of Dunkirk
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Rob
- 08-23-17
What a story !
I wish I would have had a map of France in front of me when I listened to the first couple of chapters. but in spite of that failing, I loved the book !
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 3 personas
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- M.G.S.
- 07-14-17
outstanding!
great story and well read. really offers insight into the people, culture, and decision making of the time.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Eve Grissom
- 05-08-17
Sold On The Miracle Of Dunkirk
The only reasons I purchased this book were because of the movie about Dunkirk that premieres next month and the book's highest average rating. I wasn't sure what to expect due to the topic. The narrator was lively and "personable" as if relaying a story he new rather than reading and the book itself was exceptionally well written. The book itself was history told through macro and micro perspectives which demonstrated how an incredibly botched withdrawal operation did indeed turn out to be a miracle.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 19 personas
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- BritMick
- 09-22-21
some interesting facts
l have enjoyed listening to this book, it helped highlight some of the terrible things that happened during the evacuation process. showing the issues that had to be resolved, and the lack of control between the British and French.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 03-09-22
a compact and excellent book
great story telling! I could not stop listening to this book, exceptionally well written and narrated
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Prsn2335
- 08-03-17
Relentless, Tense and inspiring.
All the chapters are 'nail biting'ly powerful. The final chapter got me goosebumps.
Of course, I started this only after watching Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 1 persona
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Connie
- 06-30-18
World War 2
Fascinating, hope we never have another world War. So many saved but so many lost too.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Emmaus Dan
- 02-15-18
Fascinating information
It was always hard to stop listening. So many interesting stories very fascinating! The performer was awesome.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total4 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Sean
- 03-11-22
effective Short history
overall to really good short history of the miracle at Dunkirk, pretty good pace and Flow. Goes into a great deal of depth especially with the main characters of the operation. would have liked for them to spend a bit more time on the effects of the evacuation. I would have also like to learn more of how the Nazis absolutely ignored it. rather than knocking out the BEF. WELL WRITTEN INSPIRING!
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total4 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- maria
- 08-08-17
heart stopping
I saw the movie and was inspired to learn more about Dunkirk and it's heroes
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 5 personas