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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
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The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history. Among the finest examples of deeply researched military history, For God and Kaiser is a major account of the Habsburg army. It shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, time and again, was a decisive factor in the story of Europe, the balance of international power, and the defense of Christendom...it was the first pan-European army made up of different nationalities and faiths, counting among its soldiers not only Christians but also Muslims, and Jews.
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excellent insight
- De Nicholas en 08-04-19
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The American Heritage History of World War I
- De: S. L. A. Marshall
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 19 h y 1 m
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Drawing on a lifetime of military experience, Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, "one of our most distinguished military writers" ( New York Times), delivers this unflinching history of the war that was supposed to end all wars. From the perspective of more than half a century, Marshall examines the blunders and complacency that turned what everyone thought would be a brief campaign and an easy victory into a relentless four-year slaughter that left 10 million dead and 20 million wounded.
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WW1 from American point of view
- De Jean en 10-19-12
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Grant
- De: Jean Edward Smith
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 29 h y 7 m
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In this comprehensive biography, Jean Edward Smith reconciles conflicting assessments of Grant's life, arguing that Grant is greatly underrated as a president. Following the turmoil of Andrew Johnson's administration, Grant guided the nation through the post-Civil War era, overseeing Reconstruction of the South and enforcing the freedoms of new African-American citizens. His presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories, for the same strength of character that made him successful on the battlefield also characterized his years in the White House.
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Splendid Biography Inspires New Respect for Grant
- De John David en 10-07-19
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Haig's Enemy
- Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
- De: Jonathan Boff
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne. In Haig's Enemy, Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war - the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare.
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Insightful look inside dysfunctional WW1 Germany
- De J.Brock en 11-04-19
De: Jonathan Boff
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Sickles at Gettysburg
- The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
- De: James A. Hessler
- Narrado por: Bob Neufeld
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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Sickles at Gettysburg by licensed battlefield guide James Hessler, is the most deeply-researched, full-length biography to appear on this remarkable American icon. No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, both personally and professionally, than Major General Daniel E. Sickles. By 1863, Sickles was notorious as a disgraced former Congressman who murdered his wife’s lover on the streets of Washington and used America’s first temporary insanity defense to escape justice.
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Backbiting
- De Anonymous User en 04-08-24
De: James A. Hessler
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The Coming Fury
- The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 1
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 20 h y 14 m
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> The New York Times hailed this trilogy as “one of the greatest historical accomplishments of our time”. With stunning detail and insights, America’s foremost Civil War historian recreates the war from its opening months to its final, bloody end. Each volume delivers a complete listening experience. The Coming Fury (Volume 1) covers the split Democratic Convention in the spring of 1860 to the first battle of Bull Run.
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History As It Should Be
- De Bryan en 07-19-11
De: Bruce Catton
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The Western Front
- A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
- De: Nick Lloyd
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918.
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Incisive Overview
- De J.Brock en 01-19-22
De: Nick Lloyd
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The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
- De: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrado por: Aaron Killian
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century.
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Best book of this early battle
- De Bradley Behrhorst en 09-02-22
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The First World War
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 20 h y 22 m
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The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the 20th century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times - modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society - and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment.
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Best Military History of First World War
- De Stephen F (SPFJR) en 06-13-19
De: John Keegan
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The Great Partnership
- Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy
- De: Christian B. Keller
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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The Great Partnership has the power to change how we think about Confederate strategic decision-making and the value of personal relationships among senior leaders responsible for organizational survival. Those relationships in the Confederate high command were particularly critical for victory, especially the one that existed between the two great Army of Northern Virginia generals.
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No real surprises
- De Mike in NC en 12-29-19
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
- De: Ronald Hutton
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - the only English commoner to become the overall head of state - is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria, and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction.
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Very specialized
- De Draperbart en 04-23-22
De: Ronald Hutton
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The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster
- De: Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction.
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Brilliant! Only Churchill could have done this.
- De John M en 10-30-08
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Frederick the Great
- A Military History
- De: Dennis Showalter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this enigmatic man's personality and his role as politician, warrior, and king.
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Thrashed insensibly by over writing
- De Jeff Lacy en 09-27-20
De: Dennis Showalter
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Moscow 1812
- Napoleon’s Fatal March
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon's invasion of Russia—history's first example of total war—had turned into an epic military disaster. Over 400,000 French and Allied troops perished and Napoleon was forced to retreat.
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Excellent Work
- De Dave en 09-19-23
De: Adam Zamoyski
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Bernard Cornwell, Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author comes the definitive history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of Napoleon's last stand.
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Not a close run thing!
- De carl801 en 05-13-15
De: Bernard Cornwell
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The Napoleonic Wars
- De: Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 35 h y 10 m
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The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.
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- De John Gaston en 01-15-21
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The Longest Afternoon
- The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
- De: Brendan Simms
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
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In 1815 deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe--Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington's on the other.
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The Germans Won Waterloo
- De Michael en 07-08-15
De: Brendan Simms
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The First Total War
- Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
- De: David A. Bell
- Narrado por: Trenton Bennett
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships—in the age of Napoleon. In a sweeping, evocative narrative, Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in the blood-soaked fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to central European battlefields where tens of thousands died in a single day. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction.
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Not wild about the narrator.
- De ChuckinTexas en 01-15-24
De: David A. Bell
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All the King's Men
- The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo
- De: Saul David
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Saul David's comprehensive history, All the King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo, read by the actor Sean Barrett. "The British soldier," wrote a Prussian officer who served with Wellington, "is vigorous, well fed, by nature highly brave and intrepid, trained to the most vigorous discipline, and admirably well-armed...
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A grand epic
- De Mark Henman en 09-03-12
De: Saul David
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Moscow 1812
- Napoleon’s Fatal March
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon's invasion of Russia—history's first example of total war—had turned into an epic military disaster. Over 400,000 French and Allied troops perished and Napoleon was forced to retreat.
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Excellent Work
- De Dave en 09-19-23
De: Adam Zamoyski
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Bernard Cornwell, Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author comes the definitive history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of Napoleon's last stand.
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Not a close run thing!
- De carl801 en 05-13-15
De: Bernard Cornwell
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The Napoleonic Wars
- De: Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 35 h y 10 m
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The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.
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No description of battles
- De John Gaston en 01-15-21
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The Longest Afternoon
- The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
- De: Brendan Simms
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
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In 1815 deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe--Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington's on the other.
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The Germans Won Waterloo
- De Michael en 07-08-15
De: Brendan Simms
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The First Total War
- Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
- De: David A. Bell
- Narrado por: Trenton Bennett
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships—in the age of Napoleon. In a sweeping, evocative narrative, Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in the blood-soaked fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to central European battlefields where tens of thousands died in a single day. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction.
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Not wild about the narrator.
- De ChuckinTexas en 01-15-24
De: David A. Bell
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All the King's Men
- The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo
- De: Saul David
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Saul David's comprehensive history, All the King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo, read by the actor Sean Barrett. "The British soldier," wrote a Prussian officer who served with Wellington, "is vigorous, well fed, by nature highly brave and intrepid, trained to the most vigorous discipline, and admirably well-armed...
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A grand epic
- De Mark Henman en 09-03-12
De: Saul David
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Napoleon
- A Life
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 27 h y 10 m
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The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 04-01-19
De: Adam Zamoyski
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The Wandering Army
- The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War
- De: Huw J. Davies
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe.
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A Standard for Historical Writing
- De Dennis Jameson en 02-04-23
De: Huw J. Davies
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The Rothschilds
- A Family Portrait
- De: Frederic Morton
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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No family in the past two centuries has been as constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. To this day they remain one of the most powerful and wealthy families in the world. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life.
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Engaging read but dubious sentiment
- De T.G. en 04-23-20
De: Frederic Morton
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Ends of War
- The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox
- De: Caroline E. Janney
- Narrado por: Ed Cunningham
- Duración: 12 h
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The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight.
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- De inkycloak en 11-12-23
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Sharpe's Tiger
- The Siege of Seringapatam, 1799
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the first exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam.
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Give us Farley!
- De Samantha Maxwell en 06-04-22
De: Bernard Cornwell
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England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest
- De: Jennifer Paxton, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Professor Jennifer Paxton
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest takes you through the mists of time to the rugged landscape of the British Isles. Over the course of 24 sweeping lectures, Professor Jennifer Paxton of The Catholic University of America surveys the forging of a great nation from a series of warring kingdoms and migrating peoples. From Germanic tribes to Viking invasions to Irish missionaries, she brings to life an underexamined time and place.
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Wonderful
- De Anonymous User en 12-10-22
De: Jennifer Paxton, y otros
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Gotham
- A History of New York City to 1898
- De: Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 67 h y 25 m
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In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. The events and people who crowd this audiobook guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America....
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- De Stephen F (SPFJR) en 09-29-18
De: Edwin G. Burrows, y otros
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- De: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 33 h y 25 m
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.
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Best Single-Volume History of the 30 Years' War
- De Amazon Customer en 10-09-23
De: Peter H. Wilson
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Blood, Dust and Snow
- Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front
- De: Friedrich Sander, Robin Schafer - editor translator, Roger Moorhouse - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephan Goldbach
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed firsthand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment. This regiment made up the core of the 6th Panzer-Division, one of Hitler's top armored formations, which was involved in most of the major campaigns on the Eastern Front; campaigns such as Operation Barbarossa and Operation Winter Storm.
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Great Insights
- De Jarvin Nightwind en 09-18-23
De: Friedrich Sander, y otros
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Bismarck's War
- The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
- De: Rachel Chrastil
- Narrado por: Sarah Borges
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But it also produced brutal military innovations and a precarious new imbalance of power that together set the stage for the devastating world wars of the next century. In Bismarck’s War, historian Rachel Chrastil chronicles events on the battlefield in full.
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It's rare I don't finish a book...
- De Chris Corsini en 09-26-23
De: Rachel Chrastil
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The Burgundians
- A Vanished Empire: A History of 1111 Years and One Day
- De: Bart van Loo, Nancy Forest-Flier - translator
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 21 h y 12 m
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At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness.
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Extraordinary story, expertly told and skillfully narrated
- De Daniel Vergara en 03-01-24
De: Bart van Loo, y otros
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Founding Partisans
- Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
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To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.
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Very educational
- De Mark Mears en 02-21-24
De: H. W. Brands
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
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Very full analysis
This is a pretty heavy academic analysis however he grabbed my interest, kept my attention and I learnt a great deal. I would recommend this two people with patience
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- Alex Horgan
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All-round excellent piece of history.
This must be the definitive work for the 100 Days Campaign. The book is highly detailed whilst still retaining a good flow that keeps it from becoming too dry.
Excellent performance from the narrator.
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- Rodney W. Schmisseur
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Amazing work - flows from pen to voice to ear
This might be my favorite Audible title and I am true latecomer to Napoleonic’s.
The story is immense. It’s told piece-by-piece, in a fluid and luxurious narrative. There is rich detail but it doesn’t seem to bury the listener. The English and French are vibrant - Ric Jerrom’s German perhaps falls short at times but it hardly detracts from the narrative.
There are maps! The narrative calls out to the maps! They’re functional, helpful, and assist putting the countless towns, hamlets, and crossroads into the listener’s understanding.
The narrative is warm and captivating- you’re drawn deep into the tale. Ric Jerrom does an outstanding job. He’s one of those narrative voices that can draw you to a work you might otherwise skip by.
I have come back to multiple sections, most just to enjoy another listen, rarely for loss of attention. I’ve listened to this for hours, late into the night. A true “page-turner”.
The battles are not the focus here - Ligny and Quatre Bras are single chapters in the last volume. The story is how we arrive on the field looking at the Windmill of Ligny or the nondescript crossroads at Quatre Bras. Outstanding.
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- Kristopher H.
- 06-18-21
Great but biased
To the author, outstanding book, excellent research, well written. However, please try harder to suppress your British and specially Wellington bias. It really comes to the surface several times throughout the book and is quite annoying. Wellington was not the pure military genius you constantly portrayed him as.
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- J.Brock
- 02-13-21
Belongs Amongst The Greats
"Waterloo: From Elba to Lingy and Quantre Bras Volume I" is another "An Army At Dawn," the first book in Rick Atkinson's WWII Liberation Trilogy. It's also comparable to Shelby Foote's glorious Civil War trilogy, Ian W. Toll's Pacific War Trilogy, and the newest entry off the top of my head, Richard B Frank's "Tower of Skulls: A History of Asia Pacific War Volume 1," which is surely to be one of the best multi-volume works in historical narrative history. There's every chance I"m missing another multi volume work. But these stand out. Regardless,"Waterloo" is in incredible company. So the anticipation for Volume two is very high to say the least.
Hussey goes into such incredible detail and is able to draw it all together into an incredibly clear flowing format. There are so many elements to this story. This is perhaps the military campaign I know the least about too. So it might take another couple of listens to fully grasp it all. So pay close attention not to mention anything. Also take advantage of the PDF maps in the library section. They came in very handy. Ric Jerron's narration is perfection. It completes the first volume. So needless to say I'm anticipating Volume II.
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- Michael S Healy
- 06-02-20
can't wait for vol 2!!!!
I can't wait for vol 2!!!! Extremely fascinating detail about the strategic side of the Waterloo campaign. The author dispels numerous myths passed down as fact.
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- 12-11-20
Excellent: Where is Volume 2
We need Volume 2, you know the volume that actually tells us about the battle of Waterloo. Why the delay, Audible?
Thank you
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- Brendan O'Connor
- 02-01-23
Unable to Follow
Without the battle map it’s almost impossible to picture the landscape and the flow of action….how each General and their required support to the audible movement.
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- 07-15-23
An interesting, but flawed book
This title provides interesting insights into the nature of coalition warfare, and an examination of the operational and orders planning, and diplomatic process required to defeat Napoleon. However, until listening to this title, I had no idea that von Gniesenau was, in fact, Wellington's actual chief adversary in fighting the waterloo campaign. Not Napoleon, not the French, but actually the Prussian general. I exaggerate, but it seems every opportunity is taken to cast Gniesenau in a negative light. It would seem this is done for daring to stand up to the English hero, who was himself known for his mercurial behavior. Never is this clearer than when Gniesenau is consistently judged on the basis of the outcome of an act, while Wellington is judged based upon his intent. At one point, the author even states this standard for Wellington explicitly. In warfare where winning, losing, and surviving are the only things that matter in the end, there can be no clearer indication of an overwhelming bias. In this case, painfully pro-british. Blucher, meanwhile deserving of praise, seems to have the primary good quality of being liked by his fellow British commander. This is all the more jarring when one considers that many of Gniesenau's thoughts, of which the author is highly critical, such as the fact that the British would be unlikely to able to beat the French alone without support, were in fact correct. Gniesenau was also quite correct in his assessment as to how to prosecute a campaign, as even though the waterloo campaign was defensive, the description of how the armies might best operate seems to be in line with how the author described Gniesenau's plan for advance. While the Prussian desire for revenge was not helpful, the why for the Prussians despising the French is understandable. While the overall bias does not cripple the text, it certainly makes a reader wonder whether the choices, thought process and outcomes as conducted by Prussian arms are being weighed fairly. This is unfortunate, as otherwise this book makes for a very enjoyable listen despite the obvious anti-prussian bias.
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