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A New York Times Editors’ Choice
“Riveting.”—The New York Times
From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II
In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route. They flew fickle, untested aircraft through monsoons and enemy fire, with inaccurate maps and only primitive navigation technology. The result was a litany of both deadly crashes and astonishing feats of survival. The most chaotic of all the war’s arenas, the China-Burma-India theater was further confused by the conflicting political interests of Roosevelt, Churchill and their demanding, nominal ally, Chiang Kai-shek.
Caroline Alexander, who wrote the defining books on Shackleton’s Endurance and Bligh's Bounty, is brilliant at probing what it takes to survive extreme circumstances. She has unearthed obscure memoirs and long-ignored records to give us the pilots’ and soldiers’ eye views of flying and combat, as well as honest portraits of commanders like the celebrated “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell and Claire Lee Chennault. She assesses the real contributions of units like the Flying Tigers, Merrill’s Marauders, and the British Chindits, who pioneered new and unconventional forms of warfare. Decisions in this theater exposed the fault-lines between the Allies—America and Britain, Britain and India, and ultimately and most fatefully between America and China, as FDR pressed to help the Chinese nationalists in order to forge a bond with China after the war.
A masterpiece of modern war history.
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“A clear and engaging narrative. . . . A thorough, but never dull, history for the reader curious about the reality of World War II.”—The New York Journal of Books
“Alexander’s vivid retelling of this aerial feat is matched only by her exquisite rendering of the pilots’ fear.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
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In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. They came with in eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack, and the crew was stranded on the floes.
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Wonderful Story - Listen To Others As Well
- De Mark M. en 11-13-18
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The Liberation Line
- The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II
- De: Christian Wolmar
- Narrado por: Christian Wolmar
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert on trains and transportation.
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Logistics matters
- De Project Manager en 08-08-24
De: Christian Wolmar
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The Infernal Machine
- A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Steven Johnson
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Steven Johnson’s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries—from Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.
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Very enjoyable and very informative
- De FocusOnWildlife en 06-08-24
De: Steven Johnson
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The War That Killed Achilles
- The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
- De: Caroline Alexander
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Few warriors, in life or literature, have challenged their commanding officer and the rationale of the war they fought as fiercely as did Homer's hero Achilles. Today, the Iliad is celebrated as one of the greatest works in literature, the epic of all epics; many have forgotten that the subject of this ancient poem was war - not merely the poetical romance of the war at Troy, but War, in all its enduring devastation.
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Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed
- De Darwin8u en 07-29-15
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Operation Typhoon
- Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
- De: David Stahel
- Narrado por: Philip Battley
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged.
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Exhausting the Blitzkrieg
- De Rodney W. Schmisseur en 05-19-24
De: David Stahel
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Fighting the Night
- Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life
- De: Paul Hendrickson
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Paul Hendrickson
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In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author’s father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait out the war at the home of her small-town Ohio parents.
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next to nothing about actually flying
- De D. Selove en 07-30-24
De: Paul Hendrickson
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Patton's Prayer
- A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
- De: Alex Kershaw
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
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General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans to reinforce. The sprint to Berlin had become a muddy, bloody stalemate, costing thousands of American lives. Patton seethed, desperate for some change, any change, in the weather.
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Well done!
- De Richard beaudoin en 08-19-24
De: Alex Kershaw
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Paradise of the Damned
- The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
- De: Keith Thomson
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic.
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Fat Leonard
- How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
- De: Craig Whitlock
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
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All the admirals in the US Navy knew Leonard Glenn Francis—either personally or by his legendary reputation. He was the larger-than-life defense contractor who greeted them on the pier whenever they visited ports in Asia, ready to show them a good time after weeks at sea while his company resupplied their ships and submarines. On the surface, with his flawless American accent, he seemed like a true friend of the Navy. What the brass didn’t realize, until far too late, was that Francis had seduced them by exploiting their entitlement and hubris.
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Multiple levels of justice
- De Anonymous User en 06-27-24
De: Craig Whitlock
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Massacre in the Clouds
- An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
- De: Kim A. Wagner
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called ‘Battle of Bud Dajo’ was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a “brilliant feat of arms” according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain, saw the massacre for what it was, but they were the exception and the U.S. military authorities successfully managed to bury the story.
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.
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Even though I have read a lot of books about this disaster. This has been the most comprehensive and enjoyable.
- De Andy en 05-25-24
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The Eagle in the Mirror
- De: Jesse Fink
- Narrado por: Jerome Pride
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The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Charles Howard "Dick" Ellis came to New York at the beginning of World War II as deputy to William Stephenson at British Security Coordination (BSC) and helped set up for William Donovan the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), what would eventually evolve into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Ellis allegedly received prior warning of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and, through the conduit of Stephenson, relayed that warning to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Left for Dead
- Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
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The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard abandoned in the Falklands for eighteen months.
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Great history
- De Pullman en 07-31-24
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Aces Falling
- War Above the Trenches, 1918
- De: Peter Hart
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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At the beginning of 1918, the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their enemies, as each side struggled to keep control of the air. This audiobook charts the rise and fall of the WWI aces in the context of the vast battles that were taking place in 1918. It shows the vital importance of reconnaissance, and how large formations of aircraft became the norm - bringing an end to the era of the old, heroic 'lone wolves'.
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A MUST READ for students of military aviation
- De B Taub en 03-03-20
De: Peter Hart
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Skies of Thunder
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Riveting History of The Hump and Burma Campaigns
This book is an exciting and detailed history of the strategic airlift over The Hump and the Burma campaigns fought by British, American and Chinese armies against the Japanese in the China Burma India (CBI) theater during World War II. The author describes how the Burma Road was built to supply the Chinese army during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Japan blockaded supplies from the sea. The Japanese invasion of Burma (now Myanmar) in December, 1941 and subsequent seizure of the Burma Road drove the allies under US leadership to develop the world’s first strategic airlift from Assam, India to Kunming, China in order to establish an aerial supply stream
The route known as The Hump was over rugged, mountainous territory that was often at 12,000 to 14,000 ft with peaks to 17,000 ft. The region had extreme weather with highly turbulent air, crosswinds, severe icing at required altitudes and poor visibility that required instrument flying sometimes immediately after takeoff. Aircraft used and their merits/flaws are described. Pilots initially flew reliable DC-3/C-47’s that had limited cargo capacity and poor performance above 17,000 ft. Subsequent hastily developed aircraft (e.g., C-46, C-87) with higher ceilings and greater cargo capacities had major initial reliability issues that increased crash rates and crew casualties. The perils faced by crews parachuting from crippled aircraft into jungles and highlands are graphically described.
Major ground battles against fierce Japanese army units in Burma and India are reviewed that involve famous fighting units including the Chindits formed under Orde Wingate and Merrill’s Marauders led in fact by Charles Hunter. Amazingly innovative fighting tactics developed by units such as the 1st Air Commando under Col. Phil Cochran are described. Construction and fighting efforts on the Ledo Road and the campaigns to recapture the airfield at Myitkyina are summarized. Troops in these actions were faced with horrendous fighting conditions and diseases such as malaria, dysentery, respiratory disease, foot rot, and leeches.
The peculiarly convoluted politics and difficult, variably-effective leaders with illogical chains of command are described that contributed to disorganization and to units acting at cross purposes. Command, control and logistics were so disorderly at times that long-suffering troops and commanders often remarked that CBI stood for “Confusion Beyond Imagination.”
U.S. military leaders such as Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault who received favorable press treatment in the early years of the war to bolster the army’s image on the home front get a more complete examination and much more critical assessment in this book.
Of greatest interest is the view provided by the book of Chiang Kai-shek. The strategic airlift over The Hump was initiated because President Roosevelt (FDR) wanted to show material and equipment/aircraft support for Chiang and to keep China in the war against Japan. Several incidents are described where Chiang used this leverage to extort favorable decisions and additional supplies from FDR. This leverage ended when US Forces captured Saipan for B-29 bases and FDR died.
There are discussions at several points in the book that critically examine the magnitude of benefit derived by the Allies against Japan by The Hump and the Northern Burma campaigns. There is also an assessment of the percentage of supplies successfully shipped to China over The Hump that actually were used to support Chinese combat against the Japanese. Theft, corruption and black market sales of the materials were profligate. Chiang may have been more interested in hoarding supplies and funds during the war to fight the communists and warlords who would challenge his rule after the war than in fighting Japanese.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-23-24
Exciting adventures of World War Two
They were heroes doing their duty. My father was one of them. May they rest in peace. This book gives more detail than any other I have read but did not know of the time my father and crew landed on the enemy airfield. They told their radar operators when the got back to their correct airfield they had been flying real low as they did not want to fill out reports explaining their mistake and to explain why the radar operators had lost them on radar. Radar was not as advanced then.
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- Peter Ryers
- 06-25-24
Incredibly detailed
Difficulty with geography; incredibly detailed to the point of confusion; wonderful writing; wonderful scholarship. Recommended for those with interest in this neglected theater of war
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- dctphoto
- 07-01-24
Terrible reader.
Couldn’t stand listening to the reader for more than a minute or two. Like he was dictating a telegraph.
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- Douglas S.
- 06-07-24
Missing In Action
Learned a lot but w/o maps showing all the places discussed a lot of value is lost. If the book has good maps in it buy it instead of the recording.
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- Curious
- 05-22-24
The Challenges of Human and Political Folly
This memorandum to file chronicles the interesting, unfortunate, careless, at times abusive and disturbing use of human resources and might in Asia during WWII. The author has discovered interesting happenings, given biographical snapshots of many players and several cultures, and weaves them into a difficult-to-stop listening audiobook. Still resonating are the revelations about events and main characters washed clean and portrayed so differently in textbooks. It’s a good book and worth reading. The narration is clear and easy to follow.
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- Landon Thorne
- 06-10-24
An Extraordinary Window Into a Forgotten War
Caroline Alexander has an exceptional talent for humanizing her stories. Her research is deep and poignant. Skies of Thunder tells the story of a little understood but critical campaign of WWII with all its warts and twisted characters. There's insight that has relevance even for the times we live in. A must read.
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- James Messelbeck
- 06-06-24
Terrific terrific peripheral detail for the enormous WW ll mural
Enjoyed another perspective regarding Stilwell after reading Touchman biography. Would have enjoyed more regarding indigenous peoples experiences living adjacent to US troops
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- BarryPeters
- 08-13-24
Descriptive assembly of information.
Not what I expected as a story. It’s more of an assembly of diaries than an engrossing story - some interesting facts but little texture of characters. The narrative was choppy and writing disappointing.
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