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Richard Denham
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Welcome to the wonderfully weird World War II.
The Second World War is the bloodiest on record. It was the first total war in history when civilians, men, women and children were on the front line as never before. With so many millions involved, the rumor machine went into overdrive, with tall stories built on fear of the unknown. With so much at stake, boffins battled with each other to build ever more bizarre weapons to outgun the enemy. Nazi Germany alone had so many government-orchestrated foibles that they would be funny if they were not so tragic.
Parachuting sheep? Pilot pigeons? Rifles that fired around corners? Men who never were? You will find them all here - the weird, wonderful, and barely believable of World War II.
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- De: Craig Shirley
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Acclaimed historian and New York Times best-selling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing.
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-22
De: Craig Shirley
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D-Day Girls
- The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
- De: Sarah Rose
- Narrado por: Sarah Rose
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 296
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 257
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 255
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To "set Europe ablaze," in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.
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3 out of 5 stars
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an excellent story ruined by horrible narration
- De Joshua en 04-23-19
De: Sarah Rose
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Flamethrower
- Iwo Jima Medal of Honor Recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and His Controversial Award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War
- De: Bryan Mark Rigg
- Narrado por: Bryan Mark Rigg
- Duración: 30 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Late in the Pacific War, as Americans were fighting their way to the home islands of the Japanese Empire, one of the fiercest battles of World War II was raging. The Japanese had created, perhaps, the best defended area anywhere on an island called Iwo Jima. Days into the bloody battle, casualties were high on both sides. United States Marines were taking an awful pounding out in the open from enemy-fortified positions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book
- De Mike & Tammy V en 07-06-20
De: Bryan Mark Rigg
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No Simple Victory
- World War II in Europe, 1939-1945
- De: Norman Davies
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 20 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 528
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 294
If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels in his groundbreaking book No Simple Victory. Far from being a revisionist history, No Simple Victory instead offers a clear-eyed reappraisal, untangling and setting right the disparate claims made by America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in order to get at the startling truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Account of WWII in Europe
- De Nikoli Gogol en 12-27-07
De: Norman Davies
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Operation Chastise
- The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a target at a height above the water less than the length of a bowling alley. Yet this story has never been told in full. Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wish He Had Stuck to the Core Story
- De John en 06-22-20
De: Max Hastings
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
- De: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrado por: Deepti Gupta
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 233
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 188
Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Horrible choice of narrator derails this book
- De Steve Winnett en 02-25-21
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Ivan's War
- Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
- De: Catherine Merridale
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 16 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
Of the 30 million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, 8 million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. Sixty years have passed since their epic triumph, but the heart and mind of Ivan - as the ordinary Russian soldier was called-remain a mystery. We know something about how the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bird's eye view of the Eastern Front in WW2.
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-16-20
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The Third Reich at War
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 35 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,139
Evans interweaves a broad narrative of the war’s progress with viscerally affecting personal testimony from a wide range of people - from generals to front-line soldiers, from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives. The Third Reich at War lays bare the dynamics of a nation more deeply immersed in war than any society before or since. Fresh insights into the conflict’s great events are here, from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler’s suicide in the bunker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- De Karen en 09-03-10
De: Richard J. Evans
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Taking Paris
- The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 241
May 1940: The world is stunned as Hitler's forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual freedom, and love of liberty, has fallen under Nazi control — perhaps forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Incorrectly titled
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-11-22
De: Martin Dugard
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Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters
- Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
- De: Jared Knott
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
How often does a single tiny mistake cause an entire civilization to collapse? More often than you think! Listeners of Jared Knott’s book Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters will be amazed at the little things that changed history in a big way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very, very interesting facts
- De dexter en 11-02-21
De: Jared Knott
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The Nazis
- A Warning from History
- De: Laurence Rees
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Following the success of Rees's best-selling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. During a 16-year period, acclaimed author and documentary-maker Laurence Rees met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into the Nazi psyche and World War II received enormous praise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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HOW TO STEAL A COUNTRY
- De Bowen Florsheim en 09-14-21
De: Laurence Rees
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X Troop
- The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
- De: Leah Garrett
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 85
June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the European continent. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees who have escaped to Britain. The resulting volunteers are a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most from Germany and Austria. Many have been interned as enemy aliens and have lost their families, their homes - their whole worlds. They will stop at nothing to defeat the Nazis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very amazing and moving story!
- De Jonathan D. Feldman en 09-18-21
De: Leah Garrett
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What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler
- De: Robert J. Hutchinson
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina. This wasn’t a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler’s body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice. At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Grover Gardner rocks
- De IM en 07-10-22
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Eight Days in May
- The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
- De: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing not only the final battles of World War II and the collapse of the Wehrmacht, but the near-total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting history incompetently read
- De Oralabor Bondurant en 01-26-22
De: Volker Ullrich, y otros
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Soldaten
- On Fighting, Killing, and Dying
- De: Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 14 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general - almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More accounts less analysis please!
- De Tony en 01-14-13
De: Sonke Neitzel, y otros
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 496
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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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