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The name Patton has almost become synonymous with general; the two words have become nearly interchangeable in American history. When the name General Patton comes to mind, we are automatically inundated with themes of strength and tough resolution.
Patton was a man who seemed to embody the old American ethos of the rugged individual who shattered all expectations, decimated the status quo, and pulled himself up by his bootstraps, succeeding when all odds were against him just because he was audacious enough to try. In his exploits, Patton seems to loom larger than them all.
Inside, you will hear about....
- A Patent for Patton
- In Between War
- This Means War
- Operation Husky
- Invasion of Normandy
- The Battle of the Bulge
- Man of Controversy
- The Last Days of Patton
- And much more!
But Patton was not some comic book superhero, he was a real person and just as flawed as the rest of us. He had his hopes and fears, he made his mistakes, and he lived his life. In order to understand Patton, you can’t focus on just one side of this larger-than-life personality; you have to take in the whole picture. This audiobook allows you to do just that.
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Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America's most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Claims to be balanced... glosses over flaws
- De Us 5 Camp en 07-03-18
De: Arthur Herman
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,554
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing new here
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-13-16
De: Winston Groom
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My Fellow Soldiers
- General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
- De: Andrew Carroll
- Narrado por: Andrew Carroll
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Andrew Carroll's intimate portrait of General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I, is a revelation. Given a military force that on the eve of its entry into the war was downright primitive compared to the European combatants, the general surmounted enormous obstacles to build an army and ultimately command millions of US soldiers. But Pershing himself - often perceived as a harsh, humorless, and wooden leader - concealed inner agony from those around him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t pass this up
- De PineappleSmoothy en 03-29-18
De: Andrew Carroll
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Patton, Montgomery, Rommel
- Masters of War
- De: Terry Brighton
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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In the Second World War, the United States, Great Britain, and Germany each produced one land-force commander who stood out from the rest: George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel. All were arrogant, publicity seeking, and personally flawed, yet each possessed a genius for command and an unrivaled enthusiasm for combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent ... Patton, Montgomery, Rommel
- De John VandenBrook en 01-10-10
De: Terry Brighton
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book EVERYONE should read once.
- De Darwin8u en 04-17-12
De: Henry Adams
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Desert Fox
- The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
- De: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 367
This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany - when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend - through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during World War II, after he attempted a failed coup against Hitler. Rommel was a man of contradictions: a soldier who wrote a best-selling book about World War I, a commander who went from commanding Hitler's bodyguard to trying to kill him, and a serious military mind who was known for participating in practical jokes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Detail, Amazing Story!
- De Al888 en 05-19-19
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After Hitler
- The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe
- De: Michael Jones
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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With the world at war, 10 days can feel like a lifetime.... On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in Western Europe until May 8 and in Russia a day later, on the ninth. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brutal, protracted conflict coalesce into its unlikely endgame? After Hitler shines a light on 10 fascinating days after that infamous suicide that changed the course of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The slow end to World War II in Europe
- De Mike From Mesa en 04-10-16
De: Michael Jones
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Patton
- Blood, Guts, and Prayer
- De: Michael Keane
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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No one in the history of warfare was less likely to follow that advice than George S. Patton, Jr. His place was in front of his men, and he paid the price, when he lay bleeding to death in a bomb crater in France. Patton’s survival that day at the end of World War I was nothing short of miraculous. It confirmed the powerful sense of destiny that guided him through three decades of war and made him a military legend. Patton has been venerated and despised but rarely understood. In Patton: Blood, Guts, and Prayer, Michael Keane penetrates the fog of legend and reveals as compelling a human character as any in American history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A different view of Patton
- De Jean en 06-19-13
De: Michael Keane
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Roosevelt's Centurions
- FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
- De: Joseph E. Persico
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 24 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph E. Persico reveals how, during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the levers of wartime power like no president since Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Declaring himself "Dr. Win-the-War", FDR assumed the role of strategist in chief, and, though surrounded by star-studded generals and admirals, he made clear who was running the war. FDR was a hands-on war leader, involving himself in everything from choosing bomber targets to planning naval convoys to the design of landing craft.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Superficial description of World War II
- De Mike From Mesa en 06-23-13
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The Korean War
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings, preeminent military historian, takes us back to the bloody, bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring and Hard Hitting
- De David Ewing en 08-06-07
De: Max Hastings
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The Yanks Are Coming!
- A Military History of the United States in World War I
- De: H. W. Crocker
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Best-selling military historian H. W. Crocker III turns his guns on the epic story of America's involvement in the First World War with TheYanks Are Coming!. The year 2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of the Great War, and in Crocker's sweeping, American-focused account, listeners will learn: How George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, "Wild Bill" Donovan, Harry S. Truman, and many other American heroes earned their military spurs in during World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, all but forgotten part of US history
- De RMF5630 en 12-10-14
De: H. W. Crocker
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Fierce Patriot
- The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
- De: Robert O'Connell
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting biography
- De Jean en 07-19-14
De: Robert O'Connell
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Inferno
- The World at War, 1939-1945
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 31 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 450
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 388
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- De David en 04-05-21
De: Max Hastings
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Last Hope Island
- Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
- De: Lynne Olson
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 18 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 496
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 451
A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times best-selling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Expected--More What I Needed to Know
- De DanD en 06-25-17
De: Lynne Olson
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Prevail
- The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
- De: Jeff Pearce, Richard Pankhurst - foreword
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean for a white-knuckle showdown with Italian ships, riots broke out in major cities all over the United States.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is not a history, it's a package of anecdotes
- De M2 en 02-03-15
De: Jeff Pearce, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre George Patton: A Life from Beginning to End
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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- Barriecat
- 09-06-19
Over already?
Fairly good content but read as if in a rush to finish. Also much too short.
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- Jason
- 05-17-19
Way too short
This is only one hour long and doesn't seem to cover much more than you'd quickly read in a wikipedia article.
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