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Unlikely Warrior
- A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army
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An astounding memoir about a Jewish teenager forced to become a German soldier.
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- Cathy Quesada
- 11-07-22
An excellent book
Although at times very sad this book is an honest and wonderful account of a young man’s experiences and a terrible time of our world’s history.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-18-22
Great read
I personally hung on every word. Would highly recommen this on your list of books
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-05-22
Very intersting read
This was a well written personal account. What amazing things had to happen for this guy to survive..He had to maintain such a strong will and have his wits to get through everything he endured.
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- Art Guzman
- 12-21-21
Interesting read
I did not know that Jewish men could serve in the German military. How that was possible was never explained. I wished more topics had been addressed. Narrator was very good. Really made the book.
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- Quiltraveler
- 04-26-21
Held my interest
I especially enjoyed the author's personal account of the post war chaos for released POWs.
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- Elizabeth A. Kinsley
- 04-16-21
surprised
The story is amazing !
It is an audio page-turner. I recommend this to anyone who ever wonders about being in a real war without the tint of Hollywood glasses.
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- donna bedwell
- 01-05-21
Excellent!
I really enjoyed this very informative memoir of boy of Jewish descent in Hitler’s army. Well written and performed. Left me wondering about his father, but guess that wasn’t really any of my business. Great read.
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- Cody A. Connell
- 10-04-20
what a different war story.
the narrator was great. the true story was a great look at the life of a soldier that was a little different than the other soldiers.
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- Jessica
- 09-16-20
Wow, must listen!!
This is a fascinating historical account of a Austrian Jew serving in the German army taken prisoner by the Russians and making his way back home.
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- Ashley Mason
- 09-14-20
Great!
It felt like I was actually in Germany and Russia during ww2 and the narrator was GREAT. I highly recommend this book is you and your kids are into ww2. Great for kids and adults!
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The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep, and took bits of dirty uniform and airborne soil particles in with them. Soldier after soldier came in with the most dreaded kinds of casualty: awful, deep, ragged wounds to their heads, faces, and abdomens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Incredible
- By Austin Bow on 08-30-19
By: Emily Mayhew
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My Brother's Voice
- How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust: A True Story
- By: Stephen Nasser, Sherry Rosenthal
- Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Story5 out of 5 stars 147
Stephen 'Pista' Nasser was 13 years old when the Nazis whisked him and his family away from their home in Hungary to Auschwitz. His memories of that terrifying experience are still vivid, and his love for his brother Andris still brings a husky tone to his voice when he remembers the terrible ordeal they endured together. Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly direct and optimistic language of a young boy, will help every listener to understand that the Holocaust was real.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking Journey through a Survival Story...
- By Frequent_Amazon_User on 07-17-16
By: Stephen Nasser, and others
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We Will Not Go to Tuapse
- From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45
- By: Fernand Kaisergruber
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4 out of 5 stars 83
Until recent years, very little was known of the tens of thousands of foreign nationals from Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, and Spain who served voluntarily in the military formations of the German army and the German Waffen-SS. In Kaisergruber's book, the listener discovers important issues of collaboration, the apparent contributions of the volunteers to the German war effort, their varied experiences, their motives, the attitude of the German High Command and bureaucracy, and the reaction to these in the occupied countries. Â
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why did it end at Cherkassy?
- By DAVIS J BEAM III on 03-28-18
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Swansong 1945
- A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
- By: Walter Kempowski, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove, Christine Williams
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4 out of 5 stars 51
Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday on April 20, American and Soviet troops meeting at the Elbe on April 25, Hitler's suicide on April 30, and finally the German surrender on May 8.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important, Tragic, Poignant...
- By Amazon Customer on 07-31-15
By: Walter Kempowski, and others
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The Kindly Ones
- By: Jonathan Littell
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 39 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 280
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Story4 out of 5 stars 206
The chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Office politics in hell
- By Maine Colonial 🌲 on 04-02-13
By: Jonathan Littell
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- By: Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski - translator
- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story5 out of 5 stars 132
In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....
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4 out of 5 stars
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The bar of manhood
- By Rhea on 09-22-13
By: Witold Pilecki, and others
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
- By: Emily Mayhew
- Narrated by: Kelly Birch
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep, and took bits of dirty uniform and airborne soil particles in with them. Soldier after soldier came in with the most dreaded kinds of casualty: awful, deep, ragged wounds to their heads, faces, and abdomens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Incredible
- By Austin Bow on 08-30-19
By: Emily Mayhew
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My Brother's Voice
- How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust: A True Story
- By: Stephen Nasser, Sherry Rosenthal
- Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Story5 out of 5 stars 147
Stephen 'Pista' Nasser was 13 years old when the Nazis whisked him and his family away from their home in Hungary to Auschwitz. His memories of that terrifying experience are still vivid, and his love for his brother Andris still brings a husky tone to his voice when he remembers the terrible ordeal they endured together. Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly direct and optimistic language of a young boy, will help every listener to understand that the Holocaust was real.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking Journey through a Survival Story...
- By Frequent_Amazon_User on 07-17-16
By: Stephen Nasser, and others
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One Soldier's War
- By: Arkady Babchenko, Nick Allen - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 405
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 366
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 365
In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an 18-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naĂŻve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Real, Brutal, & Honest
- By Patrick on 05-09-16
By: Arkady Babchenko, and others
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A Woman in Berlin
- Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
- By: Anonymous, Philip Boehm - translator
- Narrated by: Isabel Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 232
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 208
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" ( Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brutal Honesty
- By Jordan J. on 07-12-17
By: Anonymous, and others
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
- A True Story of World War II
- By: Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labor camp, E715, near the site of Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, great story
- By Anonymous User on 08-12-11
By: Denis Avey, and others
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War in the Shadow of Auschwitz
- Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Death Camps
- By: John Wiernicki
- Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In 1943 Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details life in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil. The author begins by remembering his aristocratic youth, an idyllic time shattered by German invasion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true account of WWII horrors
- By Texas78132 on 02-03-17
By: John Wiernicki
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Adventures in My Youth
- A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941-45
- By: Armin Scheiderbauer
- Narrated by: James A. Gillies
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 616
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 615
The author could be described as a veteran in every sense of the word, even though he was only age 21 when the war ended. Armin Scheiderbauer served as an infantry officer with the 252nd Infantry Division, German army, and saw four years of bitter combat on the Eastern Front, being wounded six times. This is an outstanding personal memoir, written with great thoughtfulness and honesty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartfelt, vivid and sober story
- By Alek on 01-07-18
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Presumed Innocent
- By: Scott Turow
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,886
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,142
Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of crimes. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case - that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover.
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5 out of 5 stars