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History of the 318 Field Hospital has been timely written for the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into WWI, the Great War. The story will take you from the early days in Georgia, Camp Oglethorpe, as the medical specialist begins to learn about army life, to the Camp Lee, Virginia, experience, where nonspecialists learn quickly how to become soldiers.
Experience the journey across the Atlantic Ocean and into the northeast corner of France where men heard and saw the rigors of a horrific scene from their field hospital. You won't forget this firsthand account, from the story written by the solders, as they use humor to cover up what they actually saw and felt. As it is sometimes called, “humor in uniform”, will help you see their journey to and back from war, as they record life in the army.
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Facing the Mountain
- A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Louis Ozawa
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,314
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,167
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,158
In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Tbone McCoy en 06-13-21
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Tank Driver
- With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day
- De: J. Ted Hartman
- Narrado por: J. Scott Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Tank Driver is the story of a young man’s combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hartman gives a riveting account of the shifting tides of battle and the final Allied breakout. He tells about the concentration camps, the spectacle of defeated Germans, and the encounter with Russian soldiers in Austria that marked combat’s end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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World War 2 from the eyes of a soldier
- De Ian en 08-31-19
De: J. Ted Hartman
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Indestructible
- The Unforgettable Memoir of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima
- De: Jack H. Lucas, D.K. Drum
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 73
On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima - one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater in World War II - Private Jack Lucas, who was only 17, and three other Marines engaged in a close-proximity firefight with Japanese soldiers. When two enemy grenades landed in their trench, Lucas jumped on one and pulled the other under his body to save the lives of his comrades. Lucas was blown into the air as his body was torn apart by 250 entrance wounds. He was so severely wounded that his team left him for dead. Miraculously, he survived.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Really About Iwo Jima
- De Barbara en 02-25-21
De: Jack H. Lucas, y otros
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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
- A Memoir and a Reckoning
- De: Alex Halberstadt
- Narrado por: Alex Halberstadt
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family’s formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens’ lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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some depth and some historical narration
- De turgan@monomood.com en 09-21-21
De: Alex Halberstadt
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Hiroshima
- De: John Hersey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 975
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 843
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 847
A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 - the day the city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. Told through the memories of six survivors, Hiroshima is a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart and your compassion. In this new edition, Hersey returns to Hiroshima to find the survivors - and to tell their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hiroshima, the days and years that followed
- De Julia en 04-15-15
De: John Hersey
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The Long Gray Line
- The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
- De: Rick Atkinson
- Narrado por: Adam Barr, Rick Atkinson
- Duración: 28 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 102
A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the 25-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved - from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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His First Book-It Stands With All the Others
- De Richard Bretzing en 07-22-21
De: Rick Atkinson
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Into the Forest
- A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
- De: Rebecca Frankel
- Narrado por: Natalie Pela
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 238
In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story with an added benefit
- De Scottsville Stu en 12-30-21
De: Rebecca Frankel
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Tailspin
- De: John Armbruster
- Narrado por: Brandon Pollock
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 70
World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. His nine children knew little of their dad's war story. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's amazing fall, he's desperate to learn more. Finally, Gene agrees.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Triumph, Tragedy, History
- De Bill54494 en 12-12-22
De: John Armbruster
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A Train Near Magdeburg
- A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust
- De: Matthew Rozell
- Narrado por: Nick Cracknell
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 152
From the author of The Things Our Fathers Saw in the World War II eyewitness history series comes this book, offering the true story behind an iconic photograph taken at the liberation of a death train, deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. It's brought to life by the history teacher who discovered it and went on to reunite hundreds of Holocaust survivors with the actual American soldiers who saved them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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important story
- De Amazon Customer en 04-04-20
De: Matthew Rozell
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Bringing Mulligan Home
- The Other Side of the Good War
- De: Dale Maharidge
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign he'd served in it was a single black and white photograph of himself and another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement workshop. After Steve Maharidge's death, his son Dale, now an adult, began a 12-year quest to understand his father's preoccupation with the photo. What had happened during the battle for Okinawa, and why had his father remained silent about his experiences and the man in the picture, Herman Mulligan? In his search for answers, Maharidge sought out the survivors of Love Company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good book
- De chris en 02-10-16
De: Dale Maharidge
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By Chance Alone
- A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
- De: Max Eisen
- Narrado por: Douglas E. Hughes
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
In the spring of 1944 gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor “Max” Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard, and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At 15 years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and he was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer. More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen’s story of survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read
- De Suszanne Guymer en 07-17-19
De: Max Eisen
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No Surrender
- A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
- De: Christopher Edmonds, Douglas Century
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives - then and now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Personal and impactful
- De Rodney en 10-10-19
De: Christopher Edmonds, y otros
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My Name Is Selma
- The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor
- De: Selma van de Perre
- Narrado por: Rachel Bavidge
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 132
Selma van de Perre was 17 when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. While her father was summoned to a work camp and eventually hospitalized in a Dutch transition camp, her mother and sister went into hiding - until they were betrayed in June 1943 and sent to Auschwitz.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable
- De slp 4 me en 05-11-21
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I Want You to Know We're Still Here
- A Post-Holocaust Memoir
- De: Esther Safran Foer
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer, Esther Safran Foer
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but…
- De mk en 08-23-21
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999
- The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
- De: Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead - foreword
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 650
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 590
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 587
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women - many of them teenagers - were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece for Nazis to take them as slave labor. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few survived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don’t think you can ever fully understand
- De Shelley en 02-25-20
De: Heather Dune Macadam, y otros
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The Long Way Home
- An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War
- De: David Laskin
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
The United States has always been a nation of immigrants---never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million---nearly one out of every five men---were immigrants. In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, author of the prizewinning history The Children's Blizzard, tells the stories of 12 of these immigrant heroes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Incredible story of immigration and war
- De Daryl en 01-06-14
De: David Laskin
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Mukiwa
- A White Boy in Africa
- De: Peter Godwin
- Narrado por: Peter Godwin
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 108
In unforgettable tales of innocence lost under African skies, we follow Godwin's awakening to the often savage struggle between Whites and Blacks, his horror when he is forced to fight in a civil war he detests, and his experiences as a journalist covering the country's violent transition to Black rule as Rhodesia's colonial era comes to an end and the new state of Zimbabwe is born from its bloody ashes. Mukiwa is a poignant, compelling memoir and an invaluable addition to the literature of southern Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating, poignant memoir.
- De Nakaale en 10-04-20
De: Peter Godwin