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The Life of Captain Flora Sandes
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The only woman to serve as a soldier in the First World War, the Englishwoman Flora Sandes became a hero and media sensation when she fought for the Serbian Army and pursued a distinguished career in its ranks as officer. This account charts her incredible story, from her tomboyish childhood in genteel Victorian England, her mission to Serbia as a Red Cross volunteer and subsequent military enrolment, her celebrity lecture tours of Europe, her marriage to a fellow officer, her survival of a Gestapo prison during the Second World War, and on to her final years in Suffolk.
A fascinating character of her times and an inspiration to women the world over, Flora Sandes is brought to life and restored to her rightful place in history by this authorised biography - compiled with the help of her family, and using hitherto unused private papers and photographs.
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Nancy Sorel’s portrait pays homage to these unsung heroes. They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa; from San Francisco and all points east. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought to the battlefields of World War II a fresh optic, and reported back home what they witnessed with a new sensibility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nonfiction Account of WW2 Female News Reporters
- De DHackney en 08-30-13
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Swansong 1945
- A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
- De: Walter Kempowski, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove, Christine Williams
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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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...
- De Amazon Customer en 07-31-15
De: Walter Kempowski, y otros
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We Band of Angels
- The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
- De: Elizabeth M. Norman
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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We Band of Angelsis the story of women searching for adventure, caught up in the drama and danger of war. On the same day the Japanese Imperial Navy launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, it also struck American bases in the Far East, chief among them the Philippines. That raid led to the first major land battle for America in World War II and, in the end, to the largest defeat and surrender of American forces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very moving tribute!
- De mark nelsen en 05-17-17
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Caught in the Revolution
- Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge
- De: Helen Rappaport
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eyewitness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ordinary People; Chaotic Times
- De David en 03-18-17
De: Helen Rappaport
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Spain in Our Hearts
- Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book very well written and narrated
- De James750 en 05-12-16
De: Adam Hochschild
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Trail of Hope
- The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents
- De: Norman Davies
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of the Polish II Corps or "Anders Army", and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Allied forces. Complete with firsthand accounts from the men and women who lived through it, this is a unique record of one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of Polish peoples and never giving up hope for free Poland.
- De Peter Chmiel en 09-24-19
De: Norman Davies
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Leningrad
- The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
- De: Anna Reid
- Narrado por: Peter Drew
- Duración: 15 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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On September 8, 1941, 11 weeks after Hitler's brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The German siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Look at the History We Were Not Taught
- De Chris Reich en 01-27-14
De: Anna Reid
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- De: Byron Farwell
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 23 h y 24 m
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The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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There are no winners in war, only victims.
- De LtTora en 07-19-20
De: Byron Farwell
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Hell and Good Company
- The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Christian Coulson
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause--defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war--and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Awkward approach to a civil war
- De sabas en 01-17-17
De: Richard Rhodes
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Avenue of Spies
- A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
- De: Alex Kershaw
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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The leafy Avenue de Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris' hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son, Phillip, at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping, inspirational, and informative!!
- De Constance M. Specht en 09-26-15
De: Alex Kershaw
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To End All Wars
- A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 464
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World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of personalities
- De Tad Davis en 06-09-11
De: Adam Hochschild
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Leningrad
- De: Michael Jones
- Narrado por: Simon Shepherd
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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In 1941 Hitler's armies blocked the last roads leading into Leningrad. What followed was one of the most horrific sieges in history. When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great narration and a enthralling story line.
- De nathanfisch en 10-19-21
De: Michael Jones
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Heroines of Mercy Street
- De: Pamela D. Toler PhD
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned wartime hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War were nurses who gave their time freely and willingly to save lives and aid the wounded.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More of a history lesson.....
- De Wendy en 04-17-16
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The Railway Man
- De: Eric Lomax
- Narrado por: Bill Paterson
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From hatred to forgiveness
- De 9S en 05-04-12
De: Eric Lomax
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The Good Man of Nanking
- The Diaries of John Rabe
- De: Edwin Wickert
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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This unique and gripping document contains the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now being honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe mobilized the remaining Westerners in Nanking and organized an "International Safety Zone" which guaranteed safety to all unarmed Chinese by virtue of Germany's pact.
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4 out of 5 stars
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why is it narrated by a woman?
- De Anonymous User en 11-10-20
De: Edwin Wickert
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Panzer Commander
- The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
- De: Hans von Luck, Stephen E. Ambrose - introduction
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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A stunning look at World War II from the other side.... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel's 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland, Belgium, Normandy on D-Day, the disastrous Russian front - von Luck fought there with some of the best soldiers in the world. German soldiers. Awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Knight's Cross, von Luck writes as an officer and a gentleman.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reads like Forrest Gump ( a fiction )
- De Randall en 11-08-16
De: Hans von Luck, y otros
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MacArthur's Spies
- The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
- De: Peter Eisner
- Narrado por: Peter Eisner
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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A thrilling story of espionage, daring, and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War II. On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by US forces. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost, and a jewel of a city. Tokyo saw its conquest of the Philippines as the key in its plan to control all of Asia, including Australia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must For Travelers To Manila
- De Pete Andresen en 06-20-17
De: Peter Eisner
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Hero of the Empire
- The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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At age 24 Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal, he had to do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Far More Than Simply, Hero of the Empire!
- De Matthew en 09-21-16
De: Candice Millard