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- America and the First World War
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It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended: Many of the horrors we live with today are rooted in the First World War. The Great War left millions of civilians and soldiers maimed or dead. It also saw the creation of new technologies of destruction: tanks, planes, and submarines; machine guns and field artillery; poison gas and chemical warfare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbiased true facts of the first world war
- De troy a myers en 07-27-20
De: Martin Gilbert
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The First World War
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 20 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the 20th century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times - modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society - and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Military History of First World War
- De Stephen F (SPFJR) en 06-13-19
De: John Keegan
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- De: G. J. Meyer
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 27 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 150
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On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book!
- De Jodi Bernard en 07-11-23
De: G. J. Meyer
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Poland 1939
- The Outbreak of World War II
- De: Roger Moorhouse
- Narrado por: Roger Moorhouse
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Always Overlooked
- De C. G. Telcontar en 05-27-21
De: Roger Moorhouse
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 29 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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In this Pulitzer Prize - winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed "Vinegar Joe", Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, "one of the historian's most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating epic story."
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4 out of 5 stars
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A period that directly affected our world today
- De Charlotte en 08-29-12
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The Great War
- A Combat History of the First World War
- De: Peter Hart
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 22 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horrible Listen
- De Eric Ring en 11-16-21
De: Peter Hart
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Fire and Movement
- The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
- De: Peter Hart
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering excitement; pathos and comic relief; occasional cowardice and much selfless courage - all culminating in the climax of the First Battle of Ypres. And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war's first year, for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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stop doing accents on quotes
- De Eric en 02-01-15
De: Peter Hart
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The Western Front
- A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
- De: Nick Lloyd
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 90
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The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incisive Overview
- De J.Brock en 01-19-22
De: Nick Lloyd
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The Coming Fury
- The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 1
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 20 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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> The New York Times hailed this trilogy as “one of the greatest historical accomplishments of our time”. With stunning detail and insights, America’s foremost Civil War historian recreates the war from its opening months to its final, bloody end. Each volume delivers a complete listening experience. The Coming Fury (Volume 1) covers the split Democratic Convention in the spring of 1860 to the first battle of Bull Run.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History As It Should Be
- De Bryan en 07-19-11
De: Bruce Catton
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Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II
- American Military Experience, Book 1
- De: Dennis R. Okerstrom
- Narrado por: Charles Henderson Norman
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II is a thoroughly researched narrative of the Allied joint project to invade Burma by air. Beginning with its inception at the Quebec Conference of 1943 and continuing through Operation Thursday until the death of the brilliant British General Orde Wingate in March 1944, less than a month after the successful invasion of Burma, Project 9 details all aspects of this covert mission.
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The Mighty Endeavor
- American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II
- De: Charles B. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 22 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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From the first landings at Casablanca straight through to the crossing of the Elbe River and V-E Day, this book tells the gripping story of the European theater of operations battles of World War II that American soldiers, sailors, and airmen took part in and of the strategy behind them. The book's core is its account of such famous and dramatic episodes as the landings in North Africa, Kasserine Pass, Salerno and Anzio; D-day; the liberation of Paris; the Battle of the Bulge; the crossing of the Rhine; and the race across Germany.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great background on US Armed Forces in the ETO and MTO
- De Dan McGrew en 05-16-17
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Russia
- Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: Rob Heaps
- Duración: 21 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Enough Context
- De Amazon Customer en 02-14-23
De: Antony Beevor
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Retreat from Moscow
- A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941-1942
- De: David Stahel
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Germany's winter campaign of 1941-1942 has commonly been seen as its "first defeat". In Retreat from Moscow, David Stahel argues that, in fact, it was its first strategic success in the east. Though the Red Army managed to push the Wehrmacht back from Moscow, the Germans lost far fewer men (one to six), frustrated their enemy's strategic plan, and emerged in the spring unbroken and poised to recapture the initiative.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Nothing new on the Eastern front basically!
- De philippe jacob en 03-28-20
De: David Stahel
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Defeat into Victory
- Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
- De: Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim, David W. Hogan Jr. - introduction
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 23 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top notch
- De Benjamin en 05-21-22
De: Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim, y otros
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World War One
- A Short History
- De: Norman Stone
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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In 1914, a new kind of war came about, bringing with it a new kind of world. World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs. The scale of devastation was unlike anything the world had seen before: 14 million combatants died, a further 20 million were wounded, and four empires were destroyed. Even the victors' empires were fatally damaged.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well told, well narrated; needs maps
- De Tad Davis en 09-23-09
De: Norman Stone
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The Fortress
- The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
- De: Alexander Watson
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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In September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the fortress city of Przemysl, the Hapsburg Empire's most important bulwark against invasion. For six months, against storm and starvation, the ragtag garrison bitterly resisted, denying the Russians a quick victory. Only in March 1915 did the city fall, bringing occupation, persecution, and brutal ethnic cleansing. In The Fortress, historian Alexander Watson tells the story of the battle for Przemysl, showing how it marked the dawn of total war in Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating story about eastern and Central Europe
- De John D. en 05-10-23
De: Alexander Watson
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Three Armies on the Somme
- The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
- De: William Philpott
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 26 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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On July 1, 1916, British and French forces launched the first attack on the German armies lined up along the Somme in what was to become the defining battle of World War I. To this day, July 1 is often remembered for being the bloodiest day in British military history. Indeed, the British suffered some 62,000 casualties in that one day of fighting alone. As gruesome as that statistic is, it's just one of the many dark legacies left by the Somme Offensive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An insightful and exhaustive analysis of the Somme
- De Anthony en 06-07-12
De: William Philpott
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- A History of the First World War
- De: Jorn Leonhard, Patrick Camiller - translator
- Narrado por: David de Vries
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In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany's leading historian of the 20th century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora's Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy, the everyday tactics of dynamic movement and slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers.
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To End All Wars
- A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
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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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A story of personalities
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A century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. Even more than World War II, the First World War continues to shape the politics and international relations of our world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding narrative of the military action
- De Tad Davis en 04-30-17
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Now It Can Be Told
- De: Philip Gibbs
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Sir Philip Gibbs served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. In this book he relays the experiences of British soldiers and offers a detailed narrative of the events of World War I, while trying to draw broader conclusions about the nature of war and how it can be prevented in the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unusually worthwhile listen.
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A Naval History of World War I
- De: Paul G. Halpern
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
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This book offers for the first time a balanced history of the naval war as a whole covering all participants in all major theaters. The author takes the listener beyond just those World War I operations staged on the North Sea to include the Italians and Austrians in the Adriatic; the Russians, Germans, and Turks in the Baltic and Black Seas; and the French and British in the Mediterranean. The book is also notable for its inclusion of now-forgotten strategies for naval operations that never materialized.
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5 out of 5 stars
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War of Attrition
- Fighting the First World War
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The Great War of 1914-1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, 100 years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Confusing and disorganized
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Pandora’s Box
- A History of the First World War
- De: Jorn Leonhard, Patrick Camiller - translator
- Narrado por: David de Vries
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In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany's leading historian of the 20th century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora's Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy, the everyday tactics of dynamic movement and slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers.
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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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- De: Hew Strachan
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A century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. Even more than World War II, the First World War continues to shape the politics and international relations of our world.
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Now It Can Be Told
- De: Philip Gibbs
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Sir Philip Gibbs served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. In this book he relays the experiences of British soldiers and offers a detailed narrative of the events of World War I, while trying to draw broader conclusions about the nature of war and how it can be prevented in the future.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Confusing and disorganized
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The Last Battle
- Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I
- De: Peter Hart
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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Much has been made of - and written about - August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918 and the lead-up to November. Because of the fixation on the Great War's opening moves and the great battles that followed over the course of the next four years, the endgame seems to come as a stunning anticlimax. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the guns simply fell silent. The Last Battle definitively corrects this misperception. As Hart shows, a number of factors precipitated the Armistice.
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Is it over yet?
- De Rick B en 11-17-20
De: Peter Hart
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The Frozen Chosen
- The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
- De: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the US Marine Corps to be the Corps' finest hour. Fourteen Medals of Honor, a record for any American battle, and 85 Navy Crosses attest to the intensity of the battle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating story, very bad narration
- De Mat J Monk en 03-31-17
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The Western Front
- A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
- De: Nick Lloyd
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
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The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918.
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Incisive Overview
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Kiev 1941
- Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
- De: David Stahel
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II and, for Hitler and Stalin, a battle of crucial importance. For the first time, David Stahel charts the battle's dramatic course and aftermath.
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The book you must read on Hitler's War with Russia
- De Kindle Customer en 05-28-19
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All Expenses Paid
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- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
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John Launer, a United States Army Combat Infantryman in the Vietnam War, details his horrific experiences during that time. Setting the record straight that soldiers were not drug addicts, murderers, and baby killers, Launer documents that American media bias led to the public misunderstanding of the war. The action within is violent, bloody, and never ending, leading many veterans to devastating physical and psychological trauma upon their return home to the USA.
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I loved the details that he experienced
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Countdown to D-Day
- The German Perspective
- De: Peter Margaritis
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 28 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
In December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness. His superior, theater commander, crusty old Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had led the Reich to victory in the early years of the war, is now fed up with the whole Nazi regime. He lives comfortably in a plush villa in a quiet Paris suburb, waiting for the inevitable Allied invasion that will bring about their final defeat.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well worth the length
- De James McNamara Richmond en 02-02-21
De: Peter Margaritis
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The Rules of the Game
- Jutland and British Naval Command
- De: Andrew Gordon, Sir John Woodward - foreword
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 27 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics, but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often-described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely fascinating dissection of naval strategy
- De A personal en 09-25-21
De: Andrew Gordon, y otros
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies
- The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
- De: Jeffrey Cox
- Narrado por: Theodore O'Brien
- Duración: 22 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 90
Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The first months of the war were frightening.
- De michael s en 10-07-22
De: Jeffrey Cox
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Saipan
- The Beginning of the End
- De: Carl W. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
Victory at Saipan was the key that opened the door to the soft underbelly of the Japanese Empire. Yet because the Japanese were aware of this vulnerability, they were willing to throw everything they had against the ever-encroaching American forces and fight to the death to defend this island.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very intellectual
- De Amazon Customer en 08-16-19
De: Carl W. Hoffman
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The First World War
- A Complete History
- De: Martin Gilbert
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 33 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 400
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 350
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended: Many of the horrors we live with today are rooted in the First World War. The Great War left millions of civilians and soldiers maimed or dead. It also saw the creation of new technologies of destruction: tanks, planes, and submarines; machine guns and field artillery; poison gas and chemical warfare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbiased true facts of the first world war
- De troy a myers en 07-27-20
De: Martin Gilbert
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Scarlet Fields
- The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero
- De: John Lewis Barkley
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 45
A reconnaissance man and sniper, John Lewis Barkley served in Company K of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, a unit that participated in almost every major American battle. The York-like episode that earned Barkley his Congressional Medal of Honor occurred on October 7, 1918, when he climbed into an abandoned French tank and singlehandedly held off an advancing German force, killing hundreds of enemy soldiers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story
- De S. H. Moore en 04-03-20
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Haig's Enemy
- Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
- De: Jonathan Boff
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne. In Haig's Enemy, Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war - the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful look inside dysfunctional WW1 Germany
- De J.Brock en 11-04-19
De: Jonathan Boff