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3 out of 5 stars
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- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,859
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,590
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,578
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Narrated by: Ken Burns, Tom Hanks, Josh Lucas, and others
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- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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3 out of 5 stars
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 875
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent listen except for one thing, just ONE!
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- Unabridged
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 600
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In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America's war in Vietnam. The book's central theme is that America's leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the decision-making process in Washington and Asia and recounts the political and military events that occurred after the Americans arrived in Vietnam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Coldest Winter
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- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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5 out of 5 stars
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In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating.
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Military History of First World War
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- By: Karl Marlantes
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,478
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,284
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Matterhorn
- By Zachary on 04-20-10
By: Karl Marlantes
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SOG
- The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
- By: John L. Plaster
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,171
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,070
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,057
John Plaster’s riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is “a true insider’s account...this eye-opening report will leave readers feeling as if they’ve been given a hot scoop on a highly classified project” (Publishers Weekly). Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most secret elite US military unit to serve in the Vietnam War - so secret that its very existence was denied by the government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More, give me more.
- By Lee Ward on 03-06-19
By: John L. Plaster
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Baseball
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just OK
- By Richard on 05-18-11
By: Geoffrey C. Ward, and others
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The American Civil War
- By: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Gary W. Gallagher
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- Original Recording
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Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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By: Gary W. Gallagher, and others
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The National Parks
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- By: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
- Narrated by: Ken Burns
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- Unabridged
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America's national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation's most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this evocative narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 stars from this National Park junkie
- By Katie on 04-01-13
By: Dayton Duncan, and others
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Uncommon Valor
- The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America’s Most Decorated Green Beret
- By: Stephen L. Moore
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 298
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Story5 out of 5 stars 265
Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert US military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army's Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, and far more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pass this one by
- By WE Cleghorn on 01-21-21
By: Stephen L. Moore
Publisher's Summary
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart - the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.
More than 40 years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to divide us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: US and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level officials in America and Vietnam, antiwar protestors, POWs, and many more. The book plunges us into the chaos and intensity of combat, even as it explains the rationale that got us into Vietnam and kept us there for so many years. Rather than taking sides, the book seeks to understand why the war happened the way it did, and to clarify its complicated legacy. Beautifully written, this is a tour de force that is certain to launch a new national conversation.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- J. R.
- 10-06-19
Depressing but true
It was ok. I felt this story was sad and interesting at the same time. I knew it was originally to stop the spread of communism but Westmoreland and McNamara had personal gains and ignored the lives of the solders.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- mcsmall
- 10-12-17
Documentary History
The abridged audio book is derived from an a major new US TV series.It includes some interviews from that series and is therefore slightly different from the average audio book.It tells the disastrous story almost entirely from an American as opposed to a Vietnamese perspective.
It provides a useful history but some of the editing is poor with some parts being repeated
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