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Ministers at War
- Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet
- By: Jonathan Schneer
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
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In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the king reluctantly appointed prime minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great 20th-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years as he worked tirelessly first to rally his country and then to defeat Hitler.
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Welcome addition to the literature of World War II
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By: Jonathan Schneer
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The War That Ended Peace
- The Road to 1914
- By: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
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From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
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Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the 20th century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our time.
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Superb - Review of Both Volume I & Volume II
- By Wolfpacker on 01-23-09
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- How Europe Went to War in 1914
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- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
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Very interesting take on a complex problem
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Hitler
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- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
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This masterful biography by one of Germany’s best known journalists was the leading nonfiction best seller in Germany. Fest shows Hitler as the receptacle of the dreads and resentments of a shaken social order, gifted with an uncanny instinct for all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Though a warped human being, he was neither clown nor puppet, as many liked to think; Hitler appears here as an enormously astute politician, impressing and hypnotizing Germans and foreigners alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Fest uncovers in Hitler a constantly destructive personality....
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By: Joachim C. Fest, and others
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Informative look at the Soviet perspective
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May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to prime minister, and the horrors of Blitzkrieg witness one Western European democracy fall after another in rapid succession. Facing this horror, with pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, Churchill wonders what words could capture the public mood when the invasion of Britain seems mere hours away. It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched and wonderfully written new book, The Darkest Hour.
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Gripping
- By Jean on 12-06-17
By: Anthony McCarten
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Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the 20th century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of "a National Home for the Jewish people", and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. Now the entire fascinating story of the document is revealed in this impressive work of modern history.
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From the Zionist Point of View
- By Sam Peter on 10-11-19
By: Jonathan Schneer
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The Death of Democracy
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Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In this dramatic audiobook, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. Benjamin Carter Hett is one of America’s leading scholars of 20th-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of the feckless politicians of the Weimar Republic show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it.
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I can't trust the author's account of these events
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The China Mission
- By: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
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As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission - this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III.
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A Previously Untold Story of a Failed Mission
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Nixon and Mao
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Margaret MacMillan brings her extraordinary gifts to two of the most important countries today, the United States and China, and one of the most significant moments in modern history: Richard Nixon's week in China in February 1972, which opened relations between America and China (closed since the communists came to power in 1949).
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Incisive
- By Roy on 08-23-10
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Big man, big book
Very lRge book, yet rarely felt that way. Well written book about a fascinating man.
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- Tedsky
- 12-05-22
The characteristics of a great and charismatic leader
DeGaulle’s struggle to make France a power even under the heel of Germany after the invasion of France in World War II is a story studded with anecdotes, passionate arguments, tactics of war and elements of great character, without which France would not have achieved what it did after World War II. The reader was exceptional.
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- Anonymous
- 05-19-19
Great biography
De Gaulle is one of the most interesting and strange persons from the 20th century, and doubtless the most important Frenchman in the last two centuries.
This is an excellent book (provided you're the type interesting in 40 hour long biographies) and the reader is the best there is.
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- Jean
- 02-09-19
A Masterly Study
This is a long book at 928 pages or 41 hours and 35 minutes in audiobook format. Julian Jackson covers De Gaulle from childhood to death. The book is well written and meticulously researched. I have read a lot of books about World War I, but I do not recall any author mentioning the role De Gaulle played in the Great War. Jackson covers in detail De Gaulle’s role as a lieutenant in the WWI.
Jackson appears to have done a good job in writing an unbiased biography of De Gaulle. The author covers in-depth De Gaulle’s role in World War II. I must admit that when I started reading this book most of my knowledge about De Gaulle was based on my readings by Churchill and Eisenhower. It was good to obtain an unbiased viewpoint of De Gaulle. I learned about his role in WWII and as president of France. I still do not have a high opinion of him. One of his comments I cannot seem to get out of my mind is as follows: “It is not the role of government to obtain proposals or seek consensus but to give orders”. That statement seems to really bother me. I also noted he tried to do away with political parties but was unsuccessful.
I enjoyed the book and learning about De Gaulle and also about the civil war with Algeria that De Gaulle triggered. If you are interested in De Gaulle or French history, you should give the book a try.
Julian Jackson is a British historian. James Adams does a good job narrating the book. I enjoyed his British accent. Adams is a British audiobook narrator who now lives in the United States.
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- Robert Pigott
- 05-11-19
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It’s so distracting to have a narrator who is so clueless as to much French pronunciation. The producer seems to have assumed that because Mr. Adams has down the difficult French “r,” he was up to the task. He mangles most vowels. He has a wonderful voice and would be fabulous narrating, say, Dickens or Trollope.
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- Edward C.
- 02-24-24
DeGaulle was maddening, Jackson’s book is enlightening
Once Paris was liberated, and especially after V-E Day, it turned out that everyone in France was in the Resistance. The truth was much different and far darker, reality that France has never acknowledged in any meaningful way.
Charles DeGaulle, on the other hand, played an honorable role even if he drove Churchill and Roosevelt to distraction. Apart from a number of chapters on obscure French philosophers and novelists, this excellent biography is well worth listening to.
Despite France being an unimportant (yet incredibly insecure) country after World War II, DeGaulle made it a player on the world stage for good and ill. Great material worth listening to and first-rate narration.
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- John P. Dyer
- 06-06-19
A very important history of Degaulle
I confess rhat I knew little of DeGaulle before listening to Jacksom' history. Degaulle remains a complex man of the 19th century who left an indelible imprint on modern France. He is, above all, a portrait of France in the 20th century.
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- alta westfall
- 05-04-23
Excellent Source of History
Jackson’s biography provided an unbiased well-documented account of this enigmatic force in 20th Century history.
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- John Strange
- 01-29-24
De Gaulle , Political Life
This is not a biography so much as an examination of De Gaulle's political life and goals. The details of his actions and exertions for France are recounted in detail, from the minor to the momentous. I admit that a lot of the political intrigues and maneuvering seem moot but I suppose may be of interest to someone very interested in what I regard as minutiae.
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- Alex Troy
- 07-29-19
Comprehensive with all the drawbacks
This biography is an admirable work of scholarship, but most will find its voluminous details of De Gaulle‘s life tedious.
The author is confident De Gaulle was a great man. Having listened for 41 hours, I am unpersuaded.
The case for the General is that he ”saved France’s honor,” as Mr. Jackson puts it. A fairer epitaph would be that De Gaulle wove a fig leaf behind which the French could crouch for decades and avoid confronting the truth about WWII and the occupation.
The account of the student uprisings in May 1968 is well done. Those days had the General with packed bags, ready for exile.
Ultimately, De Gaulle’s story has a tragic quality. His vision of France was unsuited to its capabilities. As a result, so much of his maneuvering and posturing has the character of shadow boxing.
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