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How to Survive Five Years as a Prisoner of War
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Edward Lyme
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On VE Day in 1945, Edward Lyme was one of the many soldiers who thronged London's Piccadilly Circus to celebrate the end of the long war in Europe. Having been captured during the Defence of Calais in 1940, he had spent the previous five years in another sort of circus - the stalags of Germany and Poland.
But Edward Lyme was not passive during his captivity and made several escapes. He scavenged for food and hid in barns - he was even incarcerated in a chimney for several days. One escape led him to finding himself nearly enrolled by a gang of Eastern European desperados, led by a virago of a woman who kept a murder roster pinned to her door. Throughout all of this, he never lost his sense of the absurd. Laced with the humor and sense of comradeship that sustained so many POWs, Soldier in the Circus is the story of an ordinary soldier's survival.
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Until recent years, very little was known of the tens of thousands of foreign nationals from Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, and Spain who served voluntarily in the military formations of the German army and the German Waffen-SS. In Kaisergruber's book, the listener discovers important issues of collaboration, the apparent contributions of the volunteers to the German war effort, their varied experiences, their motives, the attitude of the German High Command and bureaucracy, and the reaction to these in the occupied countries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why did it end at Cherkassy?
- De DAVIS J BEAM III en 03-28-18
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- De: Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski - translator
- Narrado por: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....
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4 out of 5 stars
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The bar of manhood
- De Rhea en 09-22-13
De: Witold Pilecki, y otros
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
- A True Story of World War II
- De: Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labor camp, E715, near the site of Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, great story
- De Anonymous User en 08-12-11
De: Denis Avey, y otros
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The Escape Artists
- A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Neal Bascomb, a New York Times best-selling author, delivers the spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageous - and ingenious - breakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Kathleen Wadworth en 04-08-24
De: Neal Bascomb
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The Railway Man
- De: Eric Lomax
- Narrado por: Bill Paterson
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From hatred to forgiveness
- De 9S en 05-04-12
De: Eric Lomax
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Swansong 1945
- A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
- De: Walter Kempowski, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove, Christine Williams
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday on April 20, American and Soviet troops meeting at the Elbe on April 25, Hitler's suicide on April 30, and finally the German surrender on May 8.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important, Tragic, Poignant...
- De Amazon Customer en 07-31-15
De: Walter Kempowski, y otros
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Prisoners of the Castle
- An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
- De: Ben Macintyre
- Narrado por: Ben Macintyre
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another chapter of history brought to life by a master
- De Steve en 09-28-22
De: Ben Macintyre
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Shallow Graves in Siberia
- De: Michael Krupa
- Narrado por: Branko Tomovic
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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This is Michael Krupa’s story of how in 1939 he escaped the German invasion of Poland only to be captured by the Red Army, accused of espionage and interrogated in the notorious Lubianka prison. He was then sent to the infamous Pechora Gulag, where most inmates died of overwork and starvation within a year. Amazingly, Kupra then escaped and made the gruelling journey from Siberia to Afghanistan. This is a remarkable true story of survival and also gives a chilling insight into the brutality of Stalinist Russia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Harrowing Story of Survival
- De Curatina en 11-23-11
De: Michael Krupa
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Soldiers and Slaves
- American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
- De: Roger Cohen
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned underground synthetic-fuel factory. This was the only incident of its kind during World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soldiers and Slaves
- De Hilda en 01-29-09
De: Roger Cohen
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Andersonville Diary
- A True Account
- De: John L. Ransom
- Narrado por: Adrian Cronauer
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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Almost 10 times as many men died in the Civil War prison camps of the North and South as were killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. One such camp was Andersonville, where Union soldiers like Brigade Quartermaster John L. Ransom of the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, were subjected to hunger, disease, cruelty, and despair. Captured in November 1863, Ransom kept his spirits and courage up enough to survive and record this compelling true account of his experiences.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It was an awful time
- De Randolph en 10-11-03
De: John L. Ransom
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Leningrad
- The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
- De: Anna Reid
- Narrado por: Peter Drew
- Duración: 15 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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On September 8, 1941, 11 weeks after Hitler's brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The German siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Look at the History We Were Not Taught
- De Chris Reich en 01-27-14
De: Anna Reid
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Naples '44
- De: Norman Lewis
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Naples '44 is an unflinching autobiographical account of a year in Naples after the armistice and Allied landings in Sorrento in 1943. Working as a British counterintelligence officer under the Allied occupation, Lewis documents the rich pageant of life in the city and its surrounding areas. There is suffering and squalor: Criminal gangs are on the rise, along with typhus and black market commerce, and the female population is forced into part-time prostitution. But there is farce and humor, too, witnessed in the Roman uncle paid handsomely simply to appear at funerals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The tragic, violent, shocking yet also life affirming story of Naples in WW2
- De Sally en 12-02-24
De: Norman Lewis
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My Hitch in Hell, New Edition
- The Bataan Death March
- De: Lester I. Tenney, Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale USN - Ret.
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in Japanese prison camps. My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor's epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering. This edition features a new introduction and epilogue by the author.e by the author.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Story I have ever listened to
- De Amazon Customer en 09-03-20
De: Lester I. Tenney, y otros
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Gallipoli 1915
- De: Joseph Murray
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hamilton
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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The Gallipoli Campaign stands out as a landmark in the history of the First World War, and it was perhaps the most controversial action; it certainly ended in tragedy. Joseph Murray was among the 400,000 British and Commonwealth troops taking part, and he served as a naval rating turned soldier in Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division. Gallipoli 1915 is based on a diary he kept at the time and his later letters home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First hand experience from solider
- De Mike en 12-24-22
De: Joseph Murray
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The Road to Kalamata
- De: Mike Hoare
- Narrado por: Mike Hoare
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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Col. Mike Hoare describes how his 4 Commando supported Moise Tshombe's breakaway state of Katanga against both the UN forces, and the Baluba tribesmen who used poison arrows, pit traps, marijuana, spells, jungle drums...and even reorted to ritual torture and cannibalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Paula y Federico Hanhausen en 01-09-25
De: Mike Hoare
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Schindler's List
- De: Thomas Keneally
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 524
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An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden — Schindler’s Jews — to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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really well done
- De Neil H. Greenberg en 03-09-19
De: Thomas Keneally
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Ravensbruck
- Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
- De: Sarah Helm
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 32 h y 39 m
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On a sunny morning in May 1939, a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods 50 miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded in through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Holocaust.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My mother was a Ravensbruck survivor.
- De Stephen Sean Campbell en 07-06-20
De: Sarah Helm
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Sword of Honor
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
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This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At least one chapter missing
- De Sviatoslav en 08-17-15
De: Evelyn Waugh