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Richard Aspel
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Cameron Forbes
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The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world’s most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads.
Cameron Forbes, acclaimed author of Hellfire, tells the story of the war and Australia’s involvement in it in a riveting narrative.
From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea’s unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, The Korean War reveals the conflict on all its levels – human, military and geopolitical.
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This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world.
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The Curtain to World War Two
- De Michael en 03-01-16
De: Peter Harmsen
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Kokoda
- De: Paul Ham
- Narrado por: Peter Byrne
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
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It was a war without mercy, fought back and forth along 90 miles of river crossings, steep inclines and precipitous descents, with both sides wracked by hunger and disease, and terrified of falling into enemy hands. Defeat was unthinkable: the Australian soldier was fighting for his homeland against an unyielding aggressor; the Japanese ordered to fight to the death in a bid to conquer ‘Greater East Asia’.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pulls no Punchs
- De daryl en 10-03-10
De: Paul Ham
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Vietnam
- An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Duración: 33 h y 33 m
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Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the US in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A more nuanced view than Ken Burns' companion book
- De Vu en 10-21-18
De: Max Hastings
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Stalingrad
- The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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In August 1942, an overconfident Adolf Hitler would attempt to invade Stalin's namesake city on the Volga. The battle of Stalingrad is extraordinary in every way: the triumphant invader fought to a standstill; then the Soviet trap sprung, surrounding their attackers; and the terrible siege, with Germans starving and freezing, forced to fight on by a disbelieving Hitler.
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Audible! Pls provide Michael Tudor Barnes
- De Anand en 07-02-15
De: Antony Beevor
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Crete 1941
- The Battle and the Resistance
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle around.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing
- De Jean en 02-01-16
De: Antony Beevor
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Douglas MacArthur
- American Warrior
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 39 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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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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Forty-Seven Days
- How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I
- De: Mitchell Yockelson
- Narrado por: Napoleon Ryan
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne stands as the deadliest clash in American history: More than a million untested American soldiers went up against a better-trained and more experienced German army, costing more than 26,000 deaths and leaving nearly 100,000 wounded. Yet, in 47 days of intense combat, those Americans pushed back the enemy and forced the Germans to surrender, bringing the First World War to an end - a feat the British and the French had not achieved after more than three years of fighting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive history of The First Army in WWI
- De Bruce Miller en 03-08-18
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Retribution
- The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 27 h y 41 m
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In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan. By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan’s defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained to be seen. The ensuing drama–that ended in Japan’s utter devastation–was acted out across the vast stage of Asia.
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A superb study by one of the world's finest histor
- De Easton Reader en 12-22-16
De: Max Hastings
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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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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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Amazing Detail, Amazing Story!
- De Al888 en 05-19-19
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Snow & Steel
- The Battle of the Bulge 1944-45
- De: Peter Caddick-Adams
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Tim Reynolds
- Duración: 31 h y 40 m
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Between December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg defending against an advancing German army amid freezing temperatures, deep snow, and dense fog. Operation Herbstnebel - Autumn Mist - was a massive German counter-offensive that stunned the Allies in its scope and intensity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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fascinating and thorough, painful narration
- De richard en 01-05-15
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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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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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We Are Soldiers Still
- A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
- De: Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (USA Ret.), Joseph L. Galloway
- Narrado por: Joseph L. Galloway
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway revisit their relationships with 10 American veterans of the battle, as well as Lt. Gen. Nguyen Hu An, who commanded the North Vietnamese Army troops on the other side, and two of his old company commanders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must listen for lovers of history
- De Borgnimbblefoot en 08-24-08
De: Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (USA Ret.), y otros
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- De: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Duración: 31 h y 15 m
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More than 40 years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to divide us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The usual Vietnam info delivered in the old prose
- De Kevin Warren en 10-26-17
De: Geoffrey C. Ward, y otros
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Thirteen Soldiers
- A Personal History of Americans at War
- De: John McCain, Mark Salter
- Narrado por: John McCain
- Duración: 13 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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John McCain’s evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of 13 remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Insightful
- De Majorie en 11-21-14
De: John McCain, y otros
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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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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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A Storm in Flanders
- The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
- De: Winston Groom
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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Novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought - and thought about - war. This is Groom's account of what would become the most dreaded place on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love, love, love this book!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-16-16
De: Winston Groom
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Korean War
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-07-12
Great read
What did you love best about The Korean War?
Was interesting to get a bit of the Australians side of the Korean War. Enjoyed listening to it.
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- Patrick
- 01-21-17
Disappointed
The narrator needed to spend some time learning how to pronounce Chinese names, otherwise interesting subject
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- Steven
- 06-12-12
The Forgotten War Remembered
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This book is excellent value for anyone interested in military history and tales of personal commitment.
Any additional comments?
It is important not to think that WWI, WWII and Vietnam are the only times that soldiers fought for our nation. This war was every bit as important as the others even though it sometimes seems to be forgotten by many people.
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- Michael
- 01-18-18
One of the worse war histories produced
Opinionated, badly performed especially when it comes to American accents and full of colloquialisms. To fill the book out, history from past to Iraq in the early 21st Century are used to create context. This book is a mess as was the war but this book should not be rated as history.
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