First World War Memoir

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    • By: Shannon McKenna Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Shannon McKenna Schmidt reveals the adventures, secrets, and dangers of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's determination to not hide from the pain of war, but to reveal the truth of it to herself and to the American people.

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    • Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.

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    • The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency
    • By: Richard Harris Smith
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services - America's first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA....

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    • A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
    • By: Ray Lambert, Jim DeFelice
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • An extraordinary and unforgettable new firsthand account of D-Day....

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    • From Normandy to Victory with the 1st Infantry Division in World War II
    • By: Ernest Albert "Andy" Andrews Jr., David B. Hurt
    • Narrated by: Todd Ethridge
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Ernest "Andy" Andrews's company, part of the 1st Infantry Division, departed England on the evening of June 5 on the USS Henrico. Fighting in Normandy, Andy was nicked by a bullet and evacuated to England in late July when the wound became infected....

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    • The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
    • By: Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII....

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    • An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
    • By: Kenneth Whyte
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 27 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century - a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man....

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    • By: Guy Sajer
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue and constant deprivation....

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    • The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
    • By: Erwin Bartmann, Derik Hammond
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 866 ratings
    • Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis....

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    • America and the First World War
    • By: Gary Mead
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • More than three million American men, many of them volunteers, joined the AEF in the first twenty months of US involvement in the First World War. Of these, over 50,000 were killed on European soil. These were the Doughboys....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Murali Ranganathan, Nariman Karkaria
    • Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-22
    • Language: English
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    • Nariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Gujarat, had always wanted to see the world. So he left home as a teenager with fifty rupees in his pocket to do just that. After working in Hong Kong and Peking for a few years, in 1914, when war was in the air, he decided to volunteer for the British Army.

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    • And the First World War
    • By: Christina Croft
    • Narrated by: Jack Wynters
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Almost a century after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Kaiser Wilhelm II is still viewed as either a warmonger or a madman....

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    • By: Lord Dunsany
    • Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • The great fantasy writer Lord Dunsany wrote very little in the way of fantasy after the onset of the First World War. This was partly because he was busy, having volunteered in 1915 and becoming a Captain in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Derry.

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    • The Story of Testament of Youth
    • By: Mark Bostridge
    • Narrated by: Jilly Bond
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In the midst of her studies at Oxford, when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a VAD (voluntary aid detachment) nurse....

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    • One American’s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War’s Greatest Battle
    • By: Art Shaw, Robert L. Wise
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In celebration of the 75th anniversary, a riveting first-hand account of the Battle of Okinawa from the first officer ashore, who served at the front for the battle’s entire 82-day duration, heroism that earned him a Bronze Star....

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    • An Intimate History of the First World War
    • By: Peter Englund, Peter Graves - translator
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Renowned historian Peter Englund presents an intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of 20 men and women from around the globe - a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like....

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    • A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse
    • By: Mike Yorkey, Walt Larimore MD
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • What makes Second Lieutenant Phil Larimore’s story special is what happened in World War II’s closing days and the people—and horses—he interacted with in this Forrest Gump-like tale that is emotional, heartbreaking, and inspiring....

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    • A Tale of War and Empire
    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier—his great-uncle Harry....

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    • The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
    • By: Susan Quinn
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 582 ratings
    • A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives....

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