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Crucible of Hell
- The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945
- Narrado por: Saul David, William Roberts
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From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater - and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them.
With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the empire that had extended its reach southward across the Pacific and was renowned for the fanaticism and brutality of its fighters, who refused to surrender, even when faced with insurmountable odds. Taking down Japan would require an unrelenting attack to break its national spirit, and launching such an attack on the island empire meant building an operations base just off its shores on the island of Okinawa.
The amphibious operation to capture Okinawa was the largest of the Pacific War and the greatest air-land-sea battle in history, mobilizing 183,000 troops from Seattle, Leyte in the Philippines, and ports around the world. The campaign lasted for 83 blood-soaked days, as the fighting plumbed depths of savagery. One veteran, struggling to make sense of what he had witnessed, referred to the fighting as the "crucible of Hell". Okinawan civilians died in the tens of thousands: some were mistaken for soldiers by American troops; but as the US Marines spearheading the invasion drove further onto the island and Japanese defeat seemed inevitable, many more civilians took their own lives, some even murdering their own families. In just under three months, the world had changed irrevocably: President Franklin D. Roosevelt died; the war in Europe ended; America's appetite for an invasion of Japan had waned, spurring President Truman to use other means - ultimately atomic bombs - to end the war; and more than 250,000 servicemen and civilians on or near the island of Okinawa had lost their lives.
Drawing on archival research in the US, Japan, and the UK, and the original accounts of those who survived, Crucible of Hell tells the vivid, heart-rending story of the battle that changed not just the course of WWII, but the course of war, forever.
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"The First Special Service Force created in 1942 was a unique elite unit.... As Saul David makes clear in this stirring account of their heroics, they did much more than their share and established precedents for the US and Canadian Special Forces of today." (James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Battle-Cry of Freedom)
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- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
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The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more months—or years—of fight does the enemy have left. John C. McManus’s magisterial series, described by the Wall Street Journal as being “as vast and splendid as Rick Atkinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberation Trilogy,” returns with this brilliant final volume.
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Disappointing analysis of the end of the war in the Pacific
- De Gregory G. Repetti en 07-18-24
De: John C. McManus
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The Last Battle
- De: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
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The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater. The last offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich, it devastated one of Europe’s historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war’s bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.
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Thanks to Dan Carlin of Hardcore History podcasts.
- De GB en 06-30-12
De: Cornelius Ryan
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With the Old Breed
- At Peleliu and Okinawa
- De: E. B. Sledge
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.
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This is the second audio book of Sledge's work
- De Richard en 10-21-13
De: E. B. Sledge
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Bloody Okinawa
- The Last Great Battle of World War II
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool.
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Very Technical
- De J.Brock en 07-16-21
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Okinawa
- A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
- De: Robert Leckie
- Narrado por: Preston Geer
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing battle strategy and analysis with portraits of the men who fought on both sides to give the listener a complete account of the invasion. Lasting eighty-three days and surpassing D-Day in both troops and material used, the Battle of Okinawa was a decisive victory for the Allies, and a huge blow to Japan. In this stirring account, Leckie provides a complete picture of the battle and its context in the larger war.
De: Robert Leckie
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Speak, Okinawa
- A Memoir
- De: Elizabeth Miki Brina
- Narrado por: Sachi Lovatt
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on US-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers.
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Excellent!!
- De noriko s. cuaron en 03-03-21
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To the End of the Earth
- The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
- De: John C. McManus
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
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The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more months—or years—of fight does the enemy have left. John C. McManus’s magisterial series, described by the Wall Street Journal as being “as vast and splendid as Rick Atkinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberation Trilogy,” returns with this brilliant final volume.
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Disappointing analysis of the end of the war in the Pacific
- De Gregory G. Repetti en 07-18-24
De: John C. McManus
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The Last Battle
- De: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater. The last offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich, it devastated one of Europe’s historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war’s bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.
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Thanks to Dan Carlin of Hardcore History podcasts.
- De GB en 06-30-12
De: Cornelius Ryan
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With the Old Breed
- At Peleliu and Okinawa
- De: E. B. Sledge
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.
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This is the second audio book of Sledge's work
- De Richard en 10-21-13
De: E. B. Sledge
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- 11-12-22
One of the best on Okinawa
Saul David never disappoints. “Crucible of Hell” covers all sides of the battle for Okinawa, and the brutality of the battle. It was the bloodiest battle of the entire Pacific campaign. David uses personal accounts from US marines and the Japanese. Nobody was spared in this one. The only issue with the book is the narrator at times. He still gets a five rating because the book is exceptionally good, but he can be a bit shrill and theatrical when it’s not warranted. But any inconsistency can easily be overlooked. There’s no reason getting irritated over minor issues. This is the best of the best!!
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