The Chinese Civil War
1945–49
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Christopher Ragland
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Michael Lynch
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In this updated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history.
Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. In this history, bestselling historian Dr Michael Lynch examines how the long struggle between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists exploded into an intense, brutal and ruthlessly fought civil war. Delving into the political background and complex ramifications of the conflict, he assesses Mao and Chiang’s millions-strong armies, their strategies and commanders, and the critical campaigns that won and lost China. By 1949 the Nationalist government was defeated and in exile in Taiwan, and the new People’s Republic of China was ready to emerge as a major Cold War power.
Updated and revised for the new edition, this is a concise study of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and its significant repercussions, the issues around which remain unresolved today.©2022 Osprey Publishing Ltd (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China two full years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bland
- De Rodney en 01-23-14
De: Rana Mitter
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The Iraq War
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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John Keegan, whom the New York Review of Books calls "the best historian of our day", now brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the most controversial war of our time. In exclusive interviews with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks, John Keegan has gathered information about the war that adds immeasurably to our grasp of its causes, complications, costs, and consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Solid, Quick Overview
- De Charles en 12-08-04
De: John Keegan
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The First World War
- De: Hew Strachan
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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A century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. Even more than World War II, the First World War continues to shape the politics and international relations of our world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding narrative of the military action
- De Tad Davis en 04-30-17
De: Hew Strachan
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The End
- The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
- De: Ian Kershaw
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing yet horrifying
- De Liz en 10-14-11
De: Ian Kershaw
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War of Attrition
- Fighting the First World War
- De: William Philpott
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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The Great War of 1914-1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, 100 years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Confusing and disorganized
- De BMC en 08-05-14
De: William Philpott
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Hitler's Soldiers
- The German Army in the Third Reich
- De: Ben H. Shepherd
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 26 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and occupation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thorough and scholarly
- De Mary A. en 03-23-18
De: Ben H. Shepherd
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The Battle for Spain
- The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 600
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Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the 20th century. With new material gleaned from Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible audiobook (Spain's number-one best seller for 12 weeks) provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war - its causes, course, and consequences.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not an Accurate History Book
- De Jose en 10-16-19
De: Antony Beevor
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Hitler's Europe Ablaze
- Occupation, Resistance, and Rebellion during World War II
- De: Ben H. Shepherd - editor, Phillip Cooke - editor
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Local resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred throughout the European continent during World War II, taking a wide range of forms - noncooperation and disinformation, sabotage and espionage, and armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare. It is a key element in the experience and the national memory of those who found themselves under Axis government and control.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Historically questionable.
- De Nestor Perez en 04-22-21
De: Ben H. Shepherd - editor, y otros
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The Vietnam War: History in an Hour
- De: Neil Smith
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 1 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 158
History for busy people. Listen to a concise history of the Vietnam War in just one hour. War, what is it good for? The Vietnam War: History In an Hour gives a gripping account of the most important Cold War-era conflict, fought between the United States and the Viet Cong, the Vietnam People’s Army and their Communist allies. It was one of the most traumatic military conflicts America has ever been involved in – and provoked a backlash of anti-war protests at home.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Garbage
- De Michael en 08-06-12
De: Neil Smith
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Pandora’s Box
- A History of the First World War
- De: Jorn Leonhard, Patrick Camiller - translator
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 39 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany's leading historian of the 20th century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora's Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy, the everyday tactics of dynamic movement and slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent reading of a complex book
- De chris en 02-26-19
De: Jorn Leonhard, y otros
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Deathride
- Hitler vs. Stalin: The Eastern Front, 1941-1945
- De: John Mosier
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
John Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front. The conventional wisdom is that Hitler was mad to think he could defeat the USSR, because of its vast size and population, and that the Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of the war. Neither statement is accurate, says Mosier; Hitler came very close to winning outright.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Speaking the un-speakable
- De Jonathan Gardner en 09-27-10
De: John Mosier
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Jungle of Snakes
- A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq
- De: James R. Arnold
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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The end of the Cold War promised a new era of international peace. But instead, violence has proliferated across the globe, not in the form of a superpower arms race or a clash of armies, but in bitter local conflicts marked by terrorism, insurgency, and guerrilla warfare. Former Central Intelligence Agency director James Woolsey likened the post-Cold-War world to "a jungle full of snakes". The emergence of this new, potentially never-ending struggle has forced our military to reevaluate strategies or risk losing hearts, minds, and soldiers the world over.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Some Lessons
- De Amazon Customer en 10-02-16
De: James R. Arnold
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Supreme Command
- Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
- De: Eliot A. Cohen
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 47 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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5 out of 5 stars
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Dated material
- De Charlotte R. Shover en 11-21-20
De: Eliot A. Cohen
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Korean War
- A Captivating Guide to Korean War History
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 2 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the United States, tells the tale of a conflict between two global superpowers and competing ideologies in a far-flung corner of the globe. The reality is that the wheels of motion that drove the country to war in 1950 began turning long before American boots set foot on Korean soil. The heart of the conflict was a civil war between a population arbitrarily divided by colonization and the global geopolitics at the end of the Second World War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Awful
- De Kyle en 05-14-18
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Spanish Civil War
- A History from Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
- Duración: 1 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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The Spanish Civil War was much more than just an overture to World War II. It was a war born out of schisms in Spanish society between rich and poor, monarchists and Republicans, the right and the left, and between those who supported the church and those who saw it as an instrument of oppression. For all its brutality and horror, the Spanish Civil War was a conflict between ideals often fought by volunteers on each side who truly believed that they were helping to build a better world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Only honest book I have found on the subject.
- De brendan f kelly en 05-18-21
De: Hourly History
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Napoleon's Wars
- An International History, 1803-1815
- De: Charles Esdaile
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 24 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
In the most definitive account to date, respected historian Charles Esdaile argues that the chief motivating factor for Napoleon was his insatiable desire for fame. More than a myth-busting portrait of Napoleon, however, this volume offers a panoramic view of the armed conflicts that spread so quickly out of revolutionary France to countries as remote as Sweden and Egypt.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not bad, nor what I was expecting
- De Judd Bagley en 07-18-09
De: Charles Esdaile
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The Vietnam War
- A Concise International History
- De: Mark Atwood Lawrence
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" ( Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history. Drawing upon the latest research in archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam, Mark Lawrence creates an extraordinary, panoramic view of all sides of the war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Politically Slanting But Enjoyable Narrative
- De Jonathan Hoyle en 04-11-14
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Chinese Civil War
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- J.Brock
- 11-13-22
Just wish it was longer
“The Chinese Civil War” is an excellent book. It’s unbiased and straightforward about the years following WWII when the Chinese communists , led by Mao, gained control of the country. This is a brief flyover of. Book. If only it was three times longer because this is a most tumultuous time in Chinese history. And the world has never been the same. We see the repercussions everywhere today. Cannot recommend more highly!!
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- George Bettasso
- 07-13-24
China civil war 1945-1949.
Well informed interest book on China Civil War 1945 to 1949. Very book to listen to on light reading of the Chinese Civil War if much more in depthwhy? the Chinese nationalist lost and the Chinese communist won. Again those who want a quick and well educated book on the Civil war this is the book to listen and read about.
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