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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783.
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
- De Buretto en 10-21-21
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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Washington's Revolution
- The Making of America's First Leader
- De: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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George Washington was famously unknowable, but Robert Middlekauff penetrates the mystique to reveal the fears, values, and passions that drove him. Rich in psychological details regarding Washington's temperament, idiosyncrasies, and experiences, this audiobook shows us a self-conscious Washington who grew in confidence and experience as a young soldier, businessman, and Virginian gentleman; and was transformed into an American patriot by the revolutionary ferment of the 1760s and 70s.
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Fresh Look at Leader of American Revolution
- De Sean Lannan en 09-02-15
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 29 h y 1 m
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In this Pulitzer Prize - winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed "Vinegar Joe", Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, "one of the historian's most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating epic story."
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A period that directly affected our world today
- De Charlotte en 08-29-12
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George Washington’s Military Genius
- De: Dave R. Palmer
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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George Washington’s military strategy has been called bumbling at worst and brilliant at best. So which is it? Was George Washington a strategic genius or just lucky? So asks Dave R. Palmer in George Washington’s Military Genius. An updated edition of Palmer’s earlier work, The Way of the Fox, George Washington’s Military Genius breaks down the American Revolution into four phases and analyzes Washington’s strategy during each.
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Genius
- De John en 08-08-22
De: Dave R. Palmer
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Embattled Rebel
- Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 5 h y 38 m
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History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to mention a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but that it is too easy to diminish him because of his cause’s failure. Gravely ill throughout much of the Civil War, Davis nevertheless shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy—the quest for independent nationhood—with clarity and force.
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Interesting
- De Jean en 10-18-14
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The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold
- An American Life
- De: Joyce Lee Malcolm
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles. Why did a brilliant military commander, who repeatedly risked his life fighting the British, who was grievously injured in the line of duty, and fell into debt personally funding his own troops, ultimately became a traitor to the patriot cause?
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good story....questionable performance
- De Amazon Customer en 07-12-19
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Generals in the Making
- How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II
- De: Benjamin Runkle
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 18 h y 7 m
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Shakespeare famously wrote that some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Part military history and part group biography, Generals in the Making tells the true story of how George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and their peers became the greatest generation of senior commanders in military history.
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Great survey of the military upbringing of WWII’s most prominent Army generals.
- De Kristi en 05-20-24
De: Benjamin Runkle
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Supreme Command
- Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
- De: Eliot A. Cohen
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show, the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen - Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion - to reveal the surprising answer - the politicians. The generals may think they know how to win, but the statesmen are the ones who see the big picture.
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Dated material
- De Charlotte R. Shover en 11-21-20
De: Eliot A. Cohen
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A Savage War
- A Military History of the Civil War
- De: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 24 h y 1 m
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.
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A Book about Conclusions
- De Terry Masters en 10-18-17
De: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, y otros
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Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life
- De: Albert Louis Zambone
- Narrado por: Tom Taverna
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. When George Washington called for troops to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select group of riflemen and headed north.
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Good Book
- De Rob K en 04-08-20
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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire
- The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- De: Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 21 h y 5 m
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The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing audiobook makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve victory.
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It didn't lose me
- De Matt en 04-28-15
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Washington's Revolutionary War Generals
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- Evan
- 08-18-20
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Good book to see how the Generals interacted with one another. Was surprised how the Contental Congress hinder George Washington in the selection of Generals during the early years of the war. Like all good leaders Wasington understood the strengths and weakness of his Generals an was able to place each in positions of need.
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- MolllyT
- 09-09-20
A great learning opportunity!
American Rev-War, military history
Disclaimers: I am not a military historian nor an academic. Our family used to be Rev War Re-enactors with the Northwest Territory Alliance.
As a Publish or Perish tome it makes for a long but very interesting lecture. It demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of each of these generals as well as their achievements and failures. There is a slant to the political choices made by the congress with a nod to cronyism and a kind of praise for MOST of Washington's choices. All in all I learned much and feel that this book should probably be on reading lists for historians of several varieties.
John Burlinson, narrator, does improve the lecture and keeps away the possibility of snoozing.
I won this audiobook in a giveaway and my sons cannot snatch it from me (LOL).
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- mike s.
- 09-09-20
Well balanced, well done
Very informative and detailed history. I liked the balance of personalities, everyday details and the ability to pull back and give larger context. Well balanced, well done.
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- Deedra
- 01-04-21
Washington's Revolutionary War Generals
Enjoyable and interesting I also found this very educational.It felt like a school course in book form. Narration by John Burlnson was done well.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.'
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- Brad
- 08-31-21
Horrible Narrator
The narrator sounds was recording in a bathroom. Take a listen to the sample, that's what it sounds like. Was a struggle to get to the end. Overall content was interesting but dry. Horrible narration definitely distracted from the story.
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