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Five weeks, twenty-five thousand miles, and an arduous secret journey of a brave First Lady.
August 1943. As World War II consumes much of the globe, Americans at home have no idea the extent of the horror their servicemen face. What they also don’t know is that Eleanor Roosevelt has boarded a military transport plane, heading to the Pacific theater on a mission to discover and report first hand accounts of the war. Anticipating familiar backlash from those who would prefer a prim and proper First Lady, as well as to help ensure her safety, Eleanor and the rest of the White House keep the journey a closely guarded secret—that is, until news breaks ten days later that she had left the country on a risky expedition.
The First Lady of World War II follows Eleanor on this rigorous and daring trek to Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia, through the South Pacific and into territory still under enemy air attack. Presenting a lesser-known part of Eleanor’s time as First Lady, author Shannon McKenna Schmidt reveals the adventures, secrets, and dangers of one fascinating woman’s determination to not hide from the pain of war, but to reveal the truth of it to herself and to the American people.
This audio program includes an archival recording of a speech given by Eleanor Roosevelt in Wellington, New Zealand, on August 29, 1943.
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Dead Reckoning
- The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor
- De: Dick Lehr
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
“AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL.” At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center frantically typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on the American navy stationed in Hawaii. In a little over two hours, the Japanese killed more than 2,400 Americans and propelled the US’s entry into World War II. Dead Reckoning is the story of the mission to avenge that devastating strike.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Half Soap Opera, target audience 20 something male
- De Donald L. Hogan en 03-20-21
De: Dick Lehr
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,722
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10,026
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,947
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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4 out of 5 stars
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- De Leslie Rathjens en 03-05-20
De: Erik Larson
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Forgotten
- The Untold Story of D-day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
- De: Linda Hervieux
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 253
In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy aircraft. One member of the 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an award he would never receive because the nation's highest decoration was not given to black soldiers in World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What I did not know
- De Elvis C. en 08-07-18
De: Linda Hervieux
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Our Mothers' War
- American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
- De: Emily Yellin
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30
Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Sam I en 02-04-22
De: Emily Yellin
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Taking Paris
- The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
May 1940: The world is stunned as Hitler's forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual freedom, and love of liberty, has fallen under Nazi control — perhaps forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Incorrectly titled
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-11-22
De: Martin Dugard
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Countdown 1945
- The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
- De: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
- Narrado por: Chris Wallace
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,872
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,858
April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents—and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months to follow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chris Wallace killed it!
- De Gaming Pancakes en 06-11-20
De: Chris Wallace, y otros
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Enola Gay
- Mission to Hiroshima
- De: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 71
Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold. Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor reader
- De Dee en 04-17-22
De: Gordon Thomas, y otros
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line
- Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
- De: Major General Mari K. Eder US Army (Ret.)
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunn
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII - in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ending very poorly done
- De Jacqueline Bailey en 10-03-21
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Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
- De: Starr Smith, Walter Cronkite
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II - and they were legion - Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field. Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning turn in The Philadelphia Story in 1940, had enlisted several months earlier.
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3 out of 5 stars
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After-action intelligence report
- De David en 04-20-18
De: Starr Smith, y otros
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Taking Berlin
- The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market-Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies’ top battlefield commander.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great until personal politics showed up
- De UP North en 12-16-22
De: Martin Dugard
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You Don't Belong Here
- How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
- De: Elizabeth Becker
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 90
Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book for Vietnam buffs
- De Penelopatty en 03-27-21
De: Elizabeth Becker
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Inferno
- De: Joe Pappalardo
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen I
- De Amazon Customer en 06-21-21
De: Joe Pappalardo
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The Generals
- Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
- De: Winston Groom
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,535
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,392
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,390
Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest achievement: leading the allies to victory in World War II.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing new here
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-13-16
De: Winston Groom
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The Crowded Hour
- Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
- De: Clay Risen
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
The “gripping” (The Washington Post) story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century. Both a portrait of these men, few of whom were traditional soldiers, and of the Spanish-American War itself, The Crowded Hour dives deep into the daily lives and struggles of Roosevelt and his regiment. Using diaries, letters, and memoirs, Risen illuminates an influential moment in American history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dissapointed
- De Bill en 09-13-19
De: Clay Risen
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The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- De: Sam Kleiner
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 447
Sam Kleiner’s The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the group of young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending China. Led by legendary army pilot Claire Chennault, these men left behind an America still at peace in the summer of 1941 using false identities to travel across the Pacific to a run-down airbase in the jungles of Burma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This really happened.
- De Jason en 07-26-20
De: Sam Kleiner
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April 1945
- The Hinge of History
- De: Craig Shirley
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 17 h y 5 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
Acclaimed historian and New York Times best-selling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing.
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-22
De: Craig Shirley
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The Jersey Brothers
- A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home
- De: Sally Mott Freeman
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 18 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 482
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 481
They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments. Bill is picked by Roosevelt to run his first map room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only carriers to escape Pearl Harbor and by the end of 1942 the last one left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest and least distinguished of the three, is shuffled off to the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brothers Unbroken
- De Gillian en 05-12-17