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The story of World War II is often told as a grand narrative, as if it were fought by supermen or decided by fate. Here Kennedy uncovers the real heroes of the war, highlighting for the first time the creative strategies, tactics, and organizational decisions that made the lofty Allied objectives into a successful reality. In an even more significant way, Engineers of Victory has another claim to our attention, for it restores “the middle level of war” to its rightful place in history.
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- De: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 25 h y 52 m
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World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina - at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world - and the dominance of the Kidö Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; and much more.
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Outstanding
- De Patrick en 02-14-19
De: Craig L. Symonds
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Intelligence in War
- Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence. In his characteristically wry and perceptive prose, Keegan offers us nothing short of a new history of war through the prism of intelligence.
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Military history more than history of intelligence
- De D. Littman en 01-10-04
De: John Keegan
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The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
- The War in The West, Volume 1
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 27 h y 44 m
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For seven decades, our understanding of World War II has been shaped by a standard narrative built on conventional wisdom, propaganda, the dramatic but narrow experiences of soldiers on the ground, and an early generation of historians. For his new history, James Holland has spent over 12 years unearthing new research, recording original testimony, and visiting battlefields and archives that have never before been so accessible.
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Good Book painfully read
- De richard en 01-21-16
De: James Holland
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The Second World War: A Captivating Guide to World War II and D-Day
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
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Explore how the Second World War began, the aftermath, and the events in between, while also getting an in-depth look into the extraordinary military operation called D-Day. The Second World War was one of the most traumatic events in human history. Across the world, existing conflicts became connected, entangling nations in a vast web of violence. D-Day was one of the most extraordinary achievements not only of the Second World War but in the whole of military history.
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Very Well Written
- De Jack en 01-03-18
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Islands of Destiny
- De: John Prados
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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Acclaimed WWII historian and military intelligence expert John Prados offers a provocative reassessment of the Allies’ battle for the Solomon Islands - a turbulent, dramatic campaign that, he argues, was the true turning point of the Pacific conflict.
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Way too much detail
- De Eric en 01-15-17
De: John Prados
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Eagle Against the Sun
- The American War With Japan
- De: Ronald H. Spector
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 23 h y 26 m
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Spector reassesses US and Japanese strategy and offers some provocative interpretations. He shows that the dual advance across the Pacific by MacArthur and Nimitz was less a product of strategic calculation and more a pragmatic solution to bureaucratic, doctrinal, and public relations problems facing the Army and Navy. He also argues that Japan made its fatal error not in the Midway campaign but in abandoning its offensive strategy after that defeat and allowing itself to be drawn into a war of attrition.
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OK as an overview, but too little detail
- De Mike From Mesa en 03-21-22
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The Storm of War
- A New History of the Second World War
- De: Andrew Roberts
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 28 h y 36 m
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The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people. Why did the Axis lose? And could they, with a different strategy, have won? Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the war - the grand strategy and the individual experience, the cruelty and the heroism - as never before.
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A very interesting book with some shortcomings.
- De Mike From Mesa en 10-24-11
De: Andrew Roberts
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D Day: A Captivating Guide to the Battle for Normandy
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 1 h y 58 m
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D-day, the Allied invasion of German-held Normandy, was one of the most extraordinary achievements not only of the Second World War, but in the whole of military history. Millions of Allied personnel were involved in launching the greatest sea-borne invasion ever undertaken. Incredible acts of cunning and of courage ensured success in an operation that changed the face of the war, opening a vast new front. It led to the liberation of France and the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The author is great.......
- De Alberta Augustine en 11-25-17
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Hubris
- The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
- De: Alistair Horne
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than 50 years, and in this wise and masterly work he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris.
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I Never Heard W ll Explained this Way!
- De John en 09-01-16
De: Alistair Horne
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Storm over Leyte
- The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy
- De: John Prados
- Narrado por: Ricard Ferrone
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine, and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf - the greatest naval battle in history.
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Startling revelations to a 72 year battle!
- De Chiefkent en 07-31-16
De: John Prados
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American Heritage History of World War II
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose, C. L. Sulzberger
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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In planes and foxholes, in deserts and jungles, on ships and beaches, Ambrose shines a light on the people involved - the leaders, the fighters, the victims. With chapters on the atrocities of the Holocaust and revelations about the secret war of espionage, Ambrose's analysis also offers insight into the events that precipitated the Cold War.
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Excellent overview of WWII
- De Laura Kernen en 11-15-18
De: Stephen E. Ambrose, y otros
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South Pacific Cauldron
- World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds
- De: Alan Rems
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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Unlike most other World War II accounts, this work covers the South Pacific operations in detail. The audiobook includes many now-forgotten operations that deserve to be well remembered. Significantly, the official Australian history of World War II correctly observed that Australia's part in the Pacific war is barely mentioned in American histories. This volume finally brings the major Australian contribution to the fore.
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A little dry but informative
- De Damien en 02-20-15
De: Alan Rems
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War at the End of the World
- Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea 1942-1945
- De: James P. Duffy
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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One American soldier called it "a green hell on Earth". Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps - New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined to seize the island as a cornerstone of the empire's strategy to knock Australia out of the war.
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Worth your time
- De Bob 2.0 en 07-09-23
De: James P. Duffy
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Enlightening. Amazing, Great Narration
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No the defendant work on all navies fighting in World War II.
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Wonderful book. Superb narration.
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The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War.
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Epic Account, Masterful in Its Scope, Power and Resonance
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Revolutionary Spring
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As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past. Revolutionary Spring is a new understanding of 1848 that offers chilling parallels to our present moment.
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Like the revolutions, it got off to a good start
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This Kind of War
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Great narrative, frustrating redundancy
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
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War Without Mercy
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War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War - race - while writing what John Toland has called "a landmark book...a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan."
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War without Mercy
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Kelly
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Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
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Memoir of a Legend
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World War II at Sea
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Outstanding
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The Fall of Carthage
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- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
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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
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The Third Reich at War
- De: Richard J. Evans
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Evans interweaves a broad narrative of the war’s progress with viscerally affecting personal testimony from a wide range of people - from generals to front-line soldiers, from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives. The Third Reich at War lays bare the dynamics of a nation more deeply immersed in war than any society before or since. Fresh insights into the conflict’s great events are here, from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler’s suicide in the bunker.
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Masterful
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- De: John Toland
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
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A political as well as military history
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De: John Toland
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Strategy
- A History
- De: Lawrence Freedman
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
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In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.
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Comprehensive 'Tour de Force' on Strategy
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Engineers of Victory
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Blessed are the problem solvers
This is a wonderful review of the importance of organization, defined processes and a culture of encouragement in tackling big problems... well researched and organized for consumption, I enjoyed this book and highly recommend... cheers
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- 07-14-22
Less of a Gadget book, more a top level strategy
The title implies it focuses on individual inventions but the actual narrative is focused on the problems planners of the war faced and what innovations were created to overcome those problems as well as small asides to the gadget when there was an interesting story or something important to the overall theme of middle management working in tandem with overall command
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- 02-05-21
Logistics, Not Strategy, Tactics, or Technology
A good overview of five major actions in the Second World War--but from the view of the logistical "problem solvers", not the big name generals. I expected, though, that Kennedy would be writing more on the technical problems, and the stories of how they were solved. Instead, Kennedy mentions the technical and strategic innovations and the problems they solved, without saying much about how those solutions were developed, or the technical details of how they worked. I will say that I feel better equipped to learn more about the War.
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- Jason Minahan
- 04-30-15
Dry
Dry, but some interesting points.
Would probably disagree about some of the blanket statements "strategic bombing worked".
Really like hearing about Ramsay and the "funnies".
Not as much tech content as I would've liked.
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- Bryan
- 10-23-14
Another aspect of the Great Battles of WW2
What made the experience of listening to Engineers of Victory the most enjoyable?
A very clearly organized presentation of what went on behind the scenes to enable success to be achieved by the Allies. This narrative includes the many blunders that occurred along the way and most of all how luck played a major part in the final outcome.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Engineers of Victory?
The very detailed descriptions of the events leading up to the creation of the various weapons and the technology that gave the Allied Powers the tools needed to achieve the result.
What about Stephen Hoye’s performance did you like?
This was good. A clear and at times dramatic presentation of the story. Not at all boring while dealing with a number of unusual factors that are not highlighted by other historians
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
No particular part. Rather the entire story demonstrated how victory was achieved notwithstanding the many and different viewpoints about what should be done and where the resources should be concentrated. The jealousy between different services and the claims and counter claims were all brought into context with the overall strategy. The leaders at the time were far from perfect but their combined wisdom achieved the results where it counted most. A fantastic description of how the different views, hopes and desires of various Nations forming the Allied Coalition could actually agree on common goals and, as a result, get to the final victory.
Any additional comments?
Well worth a listen for anyone interested in the history of WW 2 who would like to explore behind the headlines about the detail of how it was all made possible. A great story and well worth a listen.
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- Aaron Sigritz
- 11-23-22
Excellent Work by an Excellent Author
I don’t understand the negative reviews. I’ve followed Paul Kennedy since first reading The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers 35 years ago. This book is not up to the level of that masterpiece, and is quite good. Having worked in logistics, civil engineering, project management, and for the DoD, I believe his narrative and analysis are beneficial and insightful. If you want to understand the global strategic challenges the US has faced, and faces today, read this and any other work by Paul Kennedy.
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- Mortimer
- 07-14-15
A Better Way of Getting Things Done
I am surprised at some of the reviews of this book. The definition of engineering can be "a calculated manipulation or direction" To me, the title does not suggest anything but what the author accomplishes in this book: a description and analysis of the major issues the allies had to overcome to achieve victory. It is not, as one reviewer mentioned, just another rehash of WW II.
I find that most wars and their component battles have been overly described (though I would except Rick Atkinson's from this). I can't even count the number of books describing the Battle of the Bulge and the Bastogne segment of it. I found this text to be a refreshing alternative to the typical descriptions. I suppose that you could just read it as another WW II book, but his description and analysis of the primary problems that the Allies had to find solutions to departs from the typical formula. As he says, the Germans didn't fail to try hard enough to win, but the Allies simply found "a better way of getting things done."
I also find that his frank and honest assessment of the uninspired, sometimes downright backward, thinking of the British and Americans almost brought about failure rather than victory.
I think that this book is an excellent read, and something different for anyone interested in the history of World War II.
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- James T. Hopper
- 03-09-15
Great overview of WWII.
A great read for the details between the creation of the technologies and middle management that lead to the successful
battles of WWII.
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- Eclectic_Nils
- 01-31-21
How WW2 was really won, and lost
A fascinating insight into the backroom boys, and sometimes girls, who turned the tide of the war and brought victory by intelligent and relentless application of overwhelming force, and the leaders who empowered and unleashed it. Fortunately the opposing sides were found lacking in several crucial qualities or the outcome may have been very different.
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- ZS
- 06-03-24
Not much about engineering.
Most of the book was about the war, very little was about the engineering of the weapons of war. It was a good book, but disappointed it didn't cover more of the actual engineering.
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