Train Wreckers and Ghost Killers
Allied Marines in the Korean War
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Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
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Leo Daugherty
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FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Train Wreckers and Ghost Killers by Leo J. Daugherty III.< /p>
During the Korean war from 1950 to 1953 the U.S. Marines fought shoulder to shoulder with the allied Marine forces of the United Kingdom and Korea. In this book the author examines the allied forces in detail, and the valuable contribution they made to the war effort.
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When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. The place of his re-invasion was the central Philippine Island of Leyte. Much has been written about the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf that his return provoked, but almost nothing has been written about the three-month long battle to seize Leyte itself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very well Researched..
- De jbnimble en 04-19-14
De: Nathan N. Prefer
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South Pacific Cauldron
- World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds
- De: Alan Rems
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Unlike most other World War II accounts, this work covers the South Pacific operations in detail. The audiobook includes many now-forgotten operations that deserve to be well remembered. Significantly, the official Australian history of World War II correctly observed that Australia's part in the Pacific war is barely mentioned in American histories. This volume finally brings the major Australian contribution to the fore.
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4 out of 5 stars
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PONDEROUS BUT OVERALL COMPLETE
- De The Louligan en 09-05-14
De: Alan Rems
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Okinawa
- The Last Battle
- De: Roy E. Appleman, James MacGregor Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, y otros
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
On 1 April, 1945, the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific Theater began. The battle for the island of Okinawa would last for the next 82 days. Through the course of this dramatic battle, over 20,000 Americans would lose their lives, and over 75,000 Japanese were killed in one of the bloodiest clashes of World War II. Okinawa: The Last Battle is a remarkably detailed account of this monumental event by four soldiers who witnessed the action first-hand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Okinawa History
- De Derail en 03-10-20
De: Roy E. Appleman, y otros
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The Tank Killers
- A History of America's World War II Tank Destroyer Force
- De: Harry Yeide
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
The Tank Killers follows the men who fought in the tank destroyers from the formation of the force in 1941 through the victory over the Third Reich in 1945. It is a story of the American Tank Destroyer Force in North Africa, Italy, and the European Theater during World War II, and of American flexibility and pragmatism in military affairs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dry and without detail
- De Vernon D. Burt en 08-06-18
De: Harry Yeide
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The Frozen Chosen
- The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
- De: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the US Marine Corps to be the Corps' finest hour. Fourteen Medals of Honor, a record for any American battle, and 85 Navy Crosses attest to the intensity of the battle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating story, very bad narration
- De Mat J Monk en 03-31-17
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Case Red
- The Collapse of France
- De: Robert Forczyk
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British formations fighting the Germans alongside their French allies. After mounting a vigorous counterattack at Abbeville and then engaging a tough defense along the Somme, the British were forced to conduct a second evacuation from the ports of Le Havre, Cherbourg, Brest, and St. Nazaire. Case Red captures the drama of the final three weeks of military operations in France in June 1940.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Forczyk's best offering
- De S.C. James en 01-30-18
De: Robert Forczyk
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D-Day in the Pacific
- The Battle of Saipan
- De: Harold J. Goldberg
- Narrado por: Gary D. MacFadden
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In June 1944, the attention of the nation was riveted on the events unfolding in France. But in the Pacific, the Battle of Saipan was of extreme strategic importance. D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic engagements of World War II. The conquest of Saipan and the neighboring island of Tinian was a turning point in the war in the Pacific, making the American victory against Japan inevitable.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Written like an amateur's account of his battle
- De jack en 12-18-13
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A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945
- De: Edward G. Miller
- Narrado por: Peter Hassinger
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
victorious American army, having driven through Belgium almost unopposed, ran head-on into German soldiers on their own home ground, in some of the most rugged country in western Germany - and at the beginning of the worst fall and winter weather in decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping story of a little known corner of WW2.
- De The Bookwyrm Speaks en 09-24-16
De: Edward G. Miller
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War at the End of the World
- Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea 1942-1945
- De: James P. Duffy
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
One American soldier called it "a green hell on Earth". Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps - New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined to seize the island as a cornerstone of the empire's strategy to knock Australia out of the war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The WW2 New Guinea Campaign
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 09-26-18
De: James P. Duffy
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From the Realm of a Dying Sun, Volume 1
- IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July - November 1944
- De: Douglas E. Nash Sr.
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 28 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
The histories of the first three SS corps are well known - the actions of I, II, and III (Germanic) SS-Panzerkorps and their subordinate divisions, including the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Hitlerjugend, Hohenstaufen, Frundsberg, and Nordland divisions, have been thoroughly documented and publicized. Overlooked in this pantheon is another SS corps that never fought in the west or in Berlin but one that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of the war - the IV SS-Panzerkorps.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent top to bottom
- De Anonymous User en 11-01-20
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The Drive on Moscow, 1941
- Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis of World War II
- De: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson
- Narrado por: Dave Courvoisier
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an equally large Soviet force, but whose soldiers were neither as well trained nor as confident. When the Germans struck, disaster soon befell the Soviet defenders.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Add the maps, lose the accents
- De Carrick en 07-03-14
De: Niklas Zetterling, y otros
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Retribution
- The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943-44
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 17 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring their story to life, the narrative follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counter-offensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942-43.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Solid, substantial military storytelling
- De Rodney W. Schmisseur en 12-21-19
De: Prit Buttar
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Korsun Pocket
- The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944
- De: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany’s Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammer blows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the same time fending off Hitler’s insane orders to hold on to useless territory. Then, in January 1944, a disaster happened.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful historical narative
- De Joseph en 04-16-13
De: Niklas Zetterling, y otros
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Armor and Blood
- The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II
- De: Dennis E. Showalter
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 10 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 503
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 450
While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians. Drawing on the masses of new information made available by the opening of the Russian military archives, Dennis E. Showalter at last corrects that error. This battle was the critical turning point on World War II's Eastern Front. In the aftermath of the Red Army's brutal repulse of the Germans at Stalingrad, the stakes could not have been higher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Big Ups to Prof. Showalter and Audible
- De Placeholder en 08-28-13
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Utmost Savagery
- The Three Days of Tarawa
- De: Colonel Joseph H. Alexander United States Marine Corps (Ret.)
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 783
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 684
On November 20, 1943, in the first trial by fire of America’s fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, 5,000 men stormed the beaches of Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress barely the size of the 300-acre Pentagon parking lots. Before the first day ended, one-third of the marines who had crossed Tarawa’s deadly reef under murderous fire were killed, wounded, or missing. In three days of fighting, four Americans would win the Medal of Honor and six thousand combatants would die.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Definitive Battle History of Tarawa
- De Iain en 02-23-11
De: Colonel Joseph H. Alexander United States Marine Corps (Ret.)
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 270
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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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Rommel
- Leadership Lessons from the Desert Fox
- De: Charles Messenger
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 308
This exciting series opens with “the Desert Fox”, the most famous German field marshal in World War II, Erwin Rommel. A hero of the people of the Third Reich and widely respected by his opponents, Rommel proved himself highly adept at blitzkrieg warfare. He displayed an outstanding ability to seize the initiative and retain it, and here, Charles Messenger draws on the skills behind this ability for the benefit of modern-day leaders.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not particularly new, insightful, or good.
- De William Simkiss en 08-17-21