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Team America
- Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
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- Duración: 31 h y 53 m
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Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur. They either worship him or despise him. Now, in this superb book, one of our most outstanding writers, after a meticulous three-year examination of the record, presents his startling insights about the man. The narrative is gripping, because the general's life was fascinating. It is moving, because he was a man of vision. It ends, finally, in tragedy, because his character, though majestic, was tragically flawed.
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A Great American
- De Charlotte A. Hu en 05-19-13
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The Education of Henry Adams
- De: Henry Adams
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
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As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, The Education of Henry Adams recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion, and the growth of the United States as a world power.
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A Book EVERYONE should read once.
- De Darwin8u en 04-17-12
De: Henry Adams
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
- De: Jean Edward Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 28 h y 22 m
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Author of the best-seller FDR, Jean Edward Smith is a master of the presidential biography. Setting his sights on Dwight D. Eisenhower, Smith delivers a rich account of Eisenhower’s life using previously untapped primary sources. From the military service in WWII that launched his career to the shrewd political decisions that kept America out of wars with the Soviet Union and China, Smith reveals a man who never faltered in his dedication to serving America, whether in times of war or peace.
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Good, although biased, biography
- De Mike From Mesa en 10-15-12
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The Nightingale's Song
- De: Robert Timberg
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors, Timberg probes the fault line between those who fought the war and those who used money, wit, and connections to avoid battle.
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Too Long
- De Tom Carroll en 11-15-18
De: Robert Timberg
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When Tigers Ruled the Sky
- The Flying Tigers: American Outlaw Pilots over China in World War II
- De: Bill Yenne
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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In 1940 Pearl Harbor had not yet happened, and America was not yet at war with Japan. But China had been trying to stave off Japanese aggression for three years - and was desperate for aircraft and trained combat pilots. General Chiang Kai-shek sent military aviation advisor Claire Chennault to Washington, where President Roosevelt was sympathetic but knew he could not intervene overtly. Instead he quietly helped Chennault put together a group of American volunteer pilots.
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A Well Written Historical Perspective
- De Donald Hill en 11-21-17
De: Bill Yenne
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My Country, My Life
- Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace
- De: Ehud Barak
- Narrado por: Ehud Barak, Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 20 h y 38 m
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In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history - Ehud Barak - set himself a challenge as daunting as any he had faced on the battlefield: to secure a final peace with the Palestinians. He would propose two states for two peoples, with a shared capital in Jerusalem. He knew the risks of failure. But he also knew the risks of not trying: letting slip perhaps the last chance for a generation to secure genuine peace. It was a moment of truth.
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Unbelievably Fantastic Book
- De Amazon Customer en 08-15-18
De: Ehud Barak
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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
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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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Nothing new here
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-13-16
De: Winston Groom
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The Brilliant Disaster
- JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba
- De: Jim Rasenberger
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in 1961 remains one of the most ill-fated blunders in American history, with echoes of the event reverberating even today. Despite the Kennedy administration’s initial public insistence that the United States had nothing to do with the invasion, it soon became clear that the complex operation had been planned and approved by the best and brightest minds at the highest reaches of Washington, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President John F. Kennedy himself.
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US Government Perspective
- De Kindle Customer en 05-25-11
De: Jim Rasenberger
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Hit the Target
- Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe
- De: Bill Yenne
- Narrado por: Corey M. Snow
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Army formed its first air force designated to operate overseas, the Eighth. Within four months they had set up base in England. Three months later they were bombing German targets in occupied Europe. The Eighth was the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing. It was a major change in tactics - and the men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and blood.
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Lots of history, kinda boring.
- De Annie en 11-12-23
De: Bill Yenne
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Patton
- De: Alan Axelrod
- Narrado por: Brian Emerson
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George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command.
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Odd Reading, Great Book
- De Chris Reich en 01-23-09
De: Alan Axelrod
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
- De: William Manchester
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 41 h y 19 m
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Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the 20th century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our time.
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Superb - Review of Both Volume I & Volume II
- De Wolfpacker en 01-23-09
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The Fourth Star
- Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
- De: David Cloud, Greg Jaffe
- Narrado por: Richard McGonagle
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military's brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century.
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Learning from the Military
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: David Cloud, y otros
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Brute
- The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine
- De: Robert Coram
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 12 h
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From the earliest days of his 34-year military career, Victor "Brute" Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps. He went on daring spy missions, was badly wounded, pioneered the use of amphibious vehicles, and masterminded the invasion of Okinawa. In Korea, he was a combat hero and invented the use of helicopters in warfare.
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Leaves a deep impression while also entertaining
- De PaulaD en 04-26-15
De: Robert Coram
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Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history. Facing demands from Washington to mount an early offensive, he had first to revive the depressed morale of the thousands of sailors, soldiers, and Marines who served under him. And of course, he also confronted a formidable and implacable enemy in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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In March 1943, in their first fight with the Germans, American soldiers in North Africa were pushed back 50 miles by Rommel’s Afrika Korps and nearly annihilated. Only the German decision not to pursue them allowed the Americans to maintain a foothold in the area. General Eisenhower, the supreme commander, knew he needed a new leader on the ground, one who could raise the severely damaged morale of his troops. He handed the job to a new man: Lieutenant General George Patton.
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Very educational
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Iron and Blood
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German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking Europe across the last five centuries, Wilson finds little unique or preordained in German militarism or warfighting. Iron and Blood takes as its starting point the consolidation of the Holy Roman Empire, which created new mechanisms for raising troops but also for resolving disputes diplomatically.
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The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America’s most distinguished soldier - statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Set against the backdrop of five major conflicts - two world wars, Palestine, Korea, and the Cold War - Marshall's education in military, diplomatic, and political power, replete with their nuances and ambiguities, runs parallel with America's emergence as a global superpower.
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Henry Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders—Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher—through the distinctive strategies of statecraft that he believes they embodied. To each of these studies, Kissinger brings historical perception, public experience and, because he knew each of the subjects and participated in many of the events he describes, personal knowledge.
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Architects of World Order
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Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era US Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle.
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Evan Review
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Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history. Facing demands from Washington to mount an early offensive, he had first to revive the depressed morale of the thousands of sailors, soldiers, and Marines who served under him. And of course, he also confronted a formidable and implacable enemy in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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In March 1943, in their first fight with the Germans, American soldiers in North Africa were pushed back 50 miles by Rommel’s Afrika Korps and nearly annihilated. Only the German decision not to pursue them allowed the Americans to maintain a foothold in the area. General Eisenhower, the supreme commander, knew he needed a new leader on the ground, one who could raise the severely damaged morale of his troops. He handed the job to a new man: Lieutenant General George Patton.
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Very educational
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From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac.
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OUTSTANDING! I'M PROUD TO BE A BLACK AMERICAN!!
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.
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> 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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Horrendous narration makes it impossible to listen
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At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness.
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Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people.
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Team America
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- C. Lawson
- 03-22-24
Insight to our greatest general
I liked seeing how they thought. Behind-the-scenes was an interesting listen. Separated truth from myth.
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- Creasy Bear
- 02-16-24
The very best
Robert O’Connell is the best military historian you’ve never heard of. His biography of General Sherman was excellent and Team America is another book that will keep you listening and listening and listening.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-06-22
Outstanding
Very well-done, especially given it ambitiously tries to cover three icons. Only complaint is there may be a little to much emphasis on their sex lives. Disregard the review that implies it is somehow negative about them and the USA. It is very balanced. A good history doesn't require "The Star-Spangled Banner" playing in the background. Well worth a credit.
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- OCastro
- 05-02-24
Men born to Lead
I liked that the biographies were not sugar coated but showed the humanity of each individual here mentioned. They were full of flaws but endowed with virtue, blood, sweat and tears.
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- Evan
- 08-22-22
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Good book on the four of the most famous Generals in American History. It is amazing how these happen to be had come up the ranks of the US Army to be available for command at critical period in our history. Each was different in personality,strengths and weaknesses but had the understanding of what goals were to win. I highly recommend the book.
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- B Thomas
- 06-22-22
Well told modern take on giants
Page turner even when you think you know the stories. Great read or listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-08-23
Great historical perspective…..
…..on our real “Four Horsemen”. Concise details on their backgrounds, military careers, and post-military lives. Great listen!
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- Subway
- 06-29-22
AVOID. Don't waste your credits here.
NOT a serious book. Author has a strange, childish fascination with the puppet/cartoon movie "Team America," and routinely refers back to it, even placing quotes from the movie alongside those from the book's principals. I enjoyed watching that movie, but have never foolishly mistaken it for a yardstick of national leadership. Couple that with incessant sophomoric sports analogies and you can readily grasp the intellectual level of the book and author.
Nothing new here of any value. Book contains nothing that hasn't already appeared in a slew of secondary sources for many decades. Factual errors are not difficult to find. There is one new thing I should point out, though - - for many years, serious biographers have accepted the well-known fact of Patton's dyslexia. This guy has decided on his own, without medical evidence, that Patton actually had ADHD instead. A new diagnosis over 120 years since Patton's childhood, determined by someone lacking medical credentials. Take that for what it's worth, along with the remainder of the book. And the author can scarcely mention Patton without working in a direct insult. Why feature the man in a book if you can't discuss him respectfully? Finally, the author's chummy habit of addressing the objects of his book by their first names or nicknames only gets increasingly annoying. Occasional attempts at analysis are generally shallow, facile, and largely irrelevant.
The reader does a good job with the material given him, though he likes to put on phony accents when reading quotes.
NOT recommended. Look elsewhere for serious works of history.
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- EHDR Maintenence
- 06-18-22
dissappinted
While this book may shed some light on historical facts, it takes a decidedly negative view of the people involved. It seems more of a long-winded tear down of historical figures than anything else. It runs down the path of our modern revisionist thinking to villainize the heroes of the past and create a kind of negative attitude in the minds of this present generation, an attitude of the past is a lie, forget about those losers. Truth is all heroes are flawed mortal men and women who in spite of their imperfections, failures, still rose to the challenges before them and accomplished great things, lead great victories to restore peace and freedom to the world. Who rebuilt Europe after the destruction of WW II? it's was the USA. who prevented the USSR from taking over all of Germany after the war? The USA. Are we perfect? Of course not. But we used to celebrate the best in people. This generation only wants to tear them down, focus on the sins, the faults, the short comings. Too bad. It could have been a great book.
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- HunterA
- 12-21-22
Great book couple of discrepancies
I enjoyed the book, learned a trove of knowledge from it. However, did notice a couple discrepancies in a few different historical accounts. Obviously everyone has their own biases about history, would get again.
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