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John McLain
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Edward Ellsberg
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The story of the greatest invasion in history, as told by a master military engineer.
Thousands of men desperately struggling through the surf, blood spilling into the sea and mud, bullets whizzing by their ears - this is the Far Shore of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Here, we see D-Day through the eyes of an experienced engineer, brought out of a brief retirement to help make this invasion and eventual Allied victory possible: Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg.
The final book in Ellsberg's World War II trilogy, The Far Shore takes the listener right up to the front lines. In Under the Red Sea Sun and No Banners, No Bugles, Rear Admiral Ellsberg cleaned up impressive wrecks in the Red Sea and North Africa. He answers the call to action despite his advancing age and failing heart, to once again do the impossible. Ellsberg is tasked with floating the artificial harbors that are key to Operation Overlord.
Ellsberg, a celebrated writer in addition to his gifts as a naval engineer, pulls no punches in this firsthand account of the preparations and bravery necessary to win on D-day.
©1960 Edward Ellsberg and Lucy Buck Ellsberg (P)2014 Audible Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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De: Edward Ellsberg
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,053
Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities and triumphs of life are laid bare and courage and heroism come to the fore.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an epic story what great men
- De Michael en 02-12-14
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The Fleet at Flood Tide
- America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,341
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With its thunderous assault on the Mariana Islands in June 1944, the United States crossed the threshold of total war. In this tour de force of dramatic storytelling, distilled from extensive research in newly discovered primary sources, James D. Hornfischer brings to life the campaign that was the fulcrum of the drive to compel Tokyo to surrender—and that forever changed the art of modern war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hornfischer's Philosophical Summary Up to VJ Day
- De Hollywood Dave en 01-08-17
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Tragedy at Dieppe
- Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
- De: Mark Zuehlke
- Narrado por: John Wray
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's 10th Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo", Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against France. Since 1939, Canadian troops had massed in Britain and trained for the inevitable day of the mass invasion of Europe that would finally occur in 1944.
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5 out of 5 stars
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When To Throw The Book At Someone
- De Nicholas Robinson en 05-12-23
De: Mark Zuehlke
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity
- Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
- De: Robert Kershaw
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
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When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on June 6, 1944, it lost 96 percent of its effective strength. Sixteen teams of US engineers arriving in the second wave were unable to blow the beach obstacles, as first wave survivors were still sheltering behind them. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good introduction to first hours of D-Day.
- De Barry Davis en 10-19-24
De: Robert Kershaw
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The Longest Day
- June 6, 1944
- De: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,116
> The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Horrendous narration makes it impossible to listen
- De Mary en 03-18-12
De: Cornelius Ryan
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No Banners, No Bugles
- De: Edward Ellsberg
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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The unheralded story of how salvage helped the Allies win back North Africa. By the time America joined World War II, Edward Ellsberg had already earned his place as one of the world’s great marine salvage engineers, and his best-selling accounts of raising doomed submarines and histories of classic diving operations had made him a literary star.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story, horrible narration.
- De Monk en 02-17-17
De: Edward Ellsberg
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Neptune
- The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
- De: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrado por: Craig L. Symonds
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Seventy years ago, more than 6000 Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a 50-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the soldiers have become immortal: Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, and especially Omaha, the scene of almost unimaginable human tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Whys of D-Day
- De Mike From Mesa en 02-09-15
De: Craig L. Symonds
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- De: Ian W. Toll
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,957
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,531
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,516
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishingly good.
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-01-12
De: Ian W. Toll
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Utmost Savagery
- The Three Days of Tarawa
- De: Colonel Joseph H. Alexander United States Marine Corps (Ret.)
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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On November 20, 1943, in the first trial by fire of America’s fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, 5,000 men stormed the beaches of Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress barely the size of the 300-acre Pentagon parking lots. Before the first day ended, one-third of the marines who had crossed Tarawa’s deadly reef under murderous fire were killed, wounded, or missing. In three days of fighting, four Americans would win the Medal of Honor and six thousand combatants would die.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Definitive Battle History of Tarawa
- De Iain en 02-23-11
De: Colonel Joseph H. Alexander United States Marine Corps (Ret.)
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The Americans at D-Day
- The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion
- De: John C. McManus
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 558
June 6, 1944, was a pivotal moment in the history of World War II. On that day the climactic and decisive phase of the war in Europe began. Those who survived the intense fighting on the Normandy beaches found their lives irreversibly changed. That day ushered in a great change for the United States as well, because on D-day America began its march to the forefront of the Western world. By the end of the Battle of Normandy, almost one out of every two soldiers involved was an American.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De Byron Sarchet en 01-15-21
De: John C. McManus
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Dünkirchen 1940
- The German View of Dunkirk
- De: Robert Kershaw
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Dünkirchen 1940 is the first major history on what went wrong for the Germans at Dunkirk. As supreme military commander, Hitler had seemingly achieved a miracle after the swift capitulation of Holland and Belgium, but with just seven kilometres before the panzers captured Dunkirk – the only port through which the trapped British Expeditionary force might escape – they came to a shuddering stop. Only a detailed interpretation of the German perspective – historically lacking to date – can provide answers as to why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, Dunkirk makes sense!
- De MortonC en 06-15-24
De: Robert Kershaw
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The Ultimate Battle
- Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
- De: Bill Sloan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 754
The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the largest land-sea-air battle ever waged by the United States, a battle whose staggering casualties and take-no-prisoners ferocity led Truman to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. From April through June 1945, more than 250,000 American and Japanese lives were lost, including those of nearly 150,000 civilians who either committed suicide or were caught in the crossfire. This book tells a gripping story of heroism, sacrifice, and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Takes you into the mud and death
- De Ron en 02-02-08
De: Bill Sloan
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Neptune's Inferno
- The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,360
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,035
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,032
With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal. Neptune’s Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The WWII Pacific Theater Explodes In My Lazy Chair
- De Rum Runner en 03-01-11
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The Aleutian Islands Campaign
- The History of Japan's Invasion of Alaska During World War II
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: David Zarbock
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
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Fought over bitterly cold flecks of rock and tundra scattered across the remote waters marking the boundary between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the Aleutian Islands campaign represented one of the strangest encounters of World War II. Curving southwestward from the southwest coast of Alaska like the tail of a stingray, the rugged, volcanic Aleutians belong to both the United States and Russia.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Read by a robot
- De shurtz en 03-06-19
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The Dead and Those About to Die
- D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
- De: John C. McManus
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 735
A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division’s harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Detailed Account of D-Day
- De Pamela Dale Foster en 07-04-14
De: John C. McManus
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War Stories II
- Heroism in the Pacific
- De: Oliver North, Joe Musser
- Narrado por: Joel Leffert
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, popular host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, provided an insightful look at Operation Iraqi Freedom in the first hard-hitting book based on his show. Now in this second book, North shares the accomplishments of the heroic men who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another winner
- De Kindle Customer en 04-20-05
De: Oliver North, y otros
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Tin Can Titans
- The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron
- De: John Wukovits
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,429
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,285
When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it was the most battle-hardened US naval squadron of the war. But it was not the squadron of ships that had accumulated such an inspiring résumé; it was the people serving aboard them. Through diaries, personal interviews with survivors, and letters written to and by the crews during the war, preeminent historian of the Pacific theater John Wukovits brings to life the human story of the squadron and its men.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Captivating
- De Jean en 09-23-17
De: John Wukovits
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Far Shore
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Kenneth C. Barr
- 08-15-16
The story of the Mulberry and this the best description
If. the battle for France thatI have readThank you Admiral Ellsberg! for your excellent prose!
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- Gen A. L. Sanderson
- 10-28-15
Best description of D-Day I have ever read.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes. The entire book is interesting, but the angle of Mulberry was unique.
What did you like best about this story?
The vivid description of what the troops experienced on Omaha Beach was the best I have ever read anywhere.
What about John McLain’s performance did you like?
A great voice for a narrator. Easy to listen to.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Mulberry
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- John DiMarco
- 10-10-19
Loved every one of his books.
Incredible man defining the dedication of our military during most critical era of our lifetime
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- James I. McLallen
- 07-26-16
A classic
This is an excellent book. I have read it several times over the years. Great technical descriptions.
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