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The Somme
- The Darkest Hour on the Western Front
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With never-before-revealed firsthand accounts of World War I survivors, this is a comprehensive look at the Battle of Somme, one of the largest of the war, which took place on July 1, 1916. Listeners will be stunned by immediacy of Peter Hart's writing - it vividly evokes the battlefields, the trenches, and the fear of the soldiers fighting in the war. Especially striking are, of course, the personal testimonies of survivors. Mark Ashby's clear-as-a-bell narration adds a bit of calm to this gripping audiobook experience.
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The Somme: these words conjure the image of war rigidly fought by traditional means even when catastrophe clearly loomed. Relying on personal testimonies never before published, this study of those who survived the first day of battle (July 1, 1916) captures this epic conflagration from all angles. Follow the action as soldiers crawl across No Man’s Land in the face of German guns, struggle with the conditions in the trenches, and survey the scene from the air as the RFC tries to control the skies above the battlefield.
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Alongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during World War I stands as one of history’s greatest clashes. Yet it is also one of the most complex and misunderstood. Conventional wisdom holds that the battle began in February 1916 and lasted until December, when the victorious French wrested all the territory they had lost back from the Germans. In fact, says historian John Mosier, from the very beginning of the war until the armistice in 1918, no fewer than eight distinct battles were waged for the possession of Verdun.
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A good book ruined by its reader
- De E. Keenan en 01-12-14
De: John Mosier
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The Face of Battle
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it.
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Amazing! But probably better in print.
- De D. Martin en 04-20-13
De: John Keegan
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Blood Red Snow
- The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- De: Günter K. Koschorrek
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.
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One of the best personal accounts coming out of WW2
- De Sonia Lopez en 12-09-19
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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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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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Insightful look inside dysfunctional WW1 Germany
- De J.Brock en 11-04-19
De: Jonathan Boff
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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
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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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stop doing accents on quotes
- De Eric en 02-01-15
De: Peter Hart
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Burning Steel
- A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45
- De: Peter Hart
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable--the sheer nerve-wracking tension of serving in highly inflammable Sherman tanks, the sudden impact of German shells, the desperate scramble to bail out, and the awful fate of those who couldn't. Even if they made it out of the tank, they were still vulnerable to being brutally cut down by German infantry.
De: Peter Hart
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The Napoleonic Wars
- De: Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 35 h y 10 m
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The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.
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No description of battles
- De John Gaston en 01-15-21
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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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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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Nothing new on the Eastern front basically!
- De philippe jacob en 03-28-20
De: David Stahel
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The Fall of Carthage
- The Punic Wars 265-146BC
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, namely the ascendancy of Rome. An epic of war and battle, this is also the story of famous generals and leaders: Hannibal, Fabius Maximus, Scipio Africanus, and his grandson Scipio Aemilianus, who would finally bring down the walls of Carthage.
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Captivating
- De Jean en 03-25-19
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The First World War
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 20 h y 22 m
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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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Best Military History of First World War
- De Stephen F (SPFJR) en 06-13-19
De: John Keegan
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Hitler's Empire
- How the Nazis Ruled Europe
- De: Mark Mazower
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 27 h y 8 m
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Drawing on an unprecedented range and variety of original research, Hitler's Empire sheds new light on how the Nazis designed, maintained, and lost their European dominion - and offers a chilling vision of what the world would have become had they won the war. Mark Mazower forces us to set aside timeworn opinions of the Third Reich, and instead shows how the party drew inspiration for its imperial expansion from America and Great Britain.
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Page Turning Scholarship
- De philip en 06-08-19
De: Mark Mazower
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Somme
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- J.Brock
- 06-29-19
Unfathomable horror
There is no battle, or rather battles, that compare to the Somme. The death toll is unconscionable on both sides. Peter Hart brings the battle full circle, making the reader feel like a stunned bystander. And with this, taking it in is slightly more possible. Mark Ashby’s narration is spot on, not overly morose, but just right. The Somme is humanity at its worst, best, and somewhere in the middle.
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- Eric Erwin
- 05-22-23
Good history of an important battle
Balanced and well presented, this narrative is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of the words and stories of the combatants- both British and German
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- Jean
- 06-30-14
A fateful day
Peter Hart is the oral historian of Britain’s Imperial War Museum. Hart has written a well research book and has dissected the battle in detail. Hart mixes facts and figures with direct quotations from participants to help establish “the face of battle”. This narrative/analytical backdrop contextualizing the personal experiences makes for dramatic reading of the battle. Because of his job at the War Museum Hart has unrivaled access to relevant source material. The author vividly presents the run up to the “big push” expected to end the war, instead resulted in the disaster of the first day July 1, 1916. The British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, the greatest one day lost in the history of the British Army. Hart does make a point that General Douglas Haig (British Army) wanted to start the 1916 campaign in Belgium but French General Joffre the overall commander insisted on the Somme. The battle lasted for four deadly months.
The British had only a small army as it always relied upon its navy to fight its wars. Prior wars in Europe the British primarily control the ocean and relied on its allies to fight on land. In World War One the British had to quickly build an army so it depended heavily on its colonies to man the army. The 1st Newfoundland Regiment of the Canadian Army was virtually wiped out at Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the battle July 1, 1916. The Canadian army lost 24,713 men at the Somme. Most people have never heard of Delville Wood, but if you mention it in South Africa you will find it is still a place of fame, only 780 out of 3153 men in the South African Regiment survived the battle. A comprehensive study of the battle of the Somme (1916) found that a million combatants were killed/wounded. The British Army learned to fight in the campaign with numerous innovations such as walking artillery fire, and tanks were used for the first time.
The Somme occupies a hallowed place in British memory comparable to Gallipoli for Australians or Gettysburg for Americans, but on a much bigger scale. With just under a half million causalities this was the costliest battle the British Army has ever fought. As I listened to this as an audio book, I used the internet for maps and pictures of the battle of the Somme. I understand the actual book contained many pictures and maps. Mark Ashby did an excellent job narrating the book. This is a must read book for anyone studying the battle of the Somme.
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- JC
- 10-14-21
Amazing Book
I enjoyed the book both for education and it's immersive experience. The authors use of diary entries and down to earth narrative way really made the battle of the somme come to life in a unique way!
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- John
- 08-07-22
Devastated
What an incredible story surrounding the Battle of the Somme. I knew of it from general history but this book really places things into perspective at the lowest levels. Reviewing the aloof nature of the generals, the desperation of the officer corp and the sullen morbid fate in the infantry this was an experience just to read. Will read again but not soon. Got to calm down from the first read before jumping in again. I highly recommend if you are a history buff or retired military.
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- Lucas
- 12-04-22
Simply Brilliant.
This is more than a recount of the battle of The Somme, with exquisite taste the author has used the letters, journals, and official papers of those in the battle to tell the story. These make up the bulk of the book and the authors voice is sparse. Simply brilliantly done. Bravo!
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- Sam Watts
- 03-01-19
Western Front’s bloodiest battle
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this while driving back and forth to work. World War I has captivated my imagination ever since I read the autobiography of Harry Patch, “The Last Tommy”. Peter Hart captures the misery, the horror, and the soldiers perspective of this battle. I highly recommend this book.
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- Travis Dill
- 04-07-20
Unending horror
This book feels like you are listening to someone bashing their head against a brick wall repeatedly hoping to break through.
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- Marie McConkey
- 01-05-18
The human aspect of war
this book does an excellent job of bringing the numbers to life. I would highly recommend it!
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- Bow
- 07-07-16
The Somme kaleidoscope
An intense moment in history layed before you by the world treasure that is Peter Hart.
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