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Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941-45
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Roger May
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Robert Lyman
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Bloomsbury presents A War of Empires by Robert Lyman, read by Roger May.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022
'This is a superb book.' – James Holland
In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took place, and new tactics were developed. A War of Empires by acclaimed historian Robert Lyman expertly records these coordinated efforts and describes how a new volunteer Indian Army, rising from the ashes of defeat, would ferociously fight to turn the tide of war.
But victory did not come immediately. It wasn’t until March 1944, when the Japanese staged their famed ‘March on Delhi’, that the years of rebuilding paid off and, after bitter fighting, the Japanese were finally defeated at Kohima and Imphal. This was followed by a series of extraordinary victories culminating in Mandalay in May 1945 and the collapse of all Japanese forces in Burma. Until now, the Indian Army’s contribution has been consistently forgotten and ignored by many Western historians but Robert Lyman proves how vital this hard-fought campaign was in securing Allied victory in the east.
Detailing the defeat of Japanese militarism, he recounts how the map of the region was ultimately redrawn, guaranteeing the rise of an independent India free from the shackles of empire.
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The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world. The conflict raged on an unprecedented scale, and its end brought the classical phase of history to a close. Despite all this, it has left a conspicuous gap in the history of warfare. This book aims to finally fill that gap.
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A beautifully written masterpiece
- De Amazon Customer en 09-15-24
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The War for the Seas
- A Maritime History of World War II
- De: Evan Mawdsley
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 28 h y 23 m
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Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what had become a "war of continents"? In this definitive account, Evan Mawdsley traces events at sea from the first U-boat operations in 1939 to the surrender of Japan. He argues that the Allied counterattack involved not just decisive sea battles, but a long struggle to control shipping arteries and move armies across the sea.
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An Unengaging Survey that Disappoints
- De Scott Eckert en 08-06-20
De: Evan Mawdsley
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The Battle of Manila
- Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War
- De: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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In 1945 the United States and Japan fought the largest and most devastating land battle of their war in the Pacific, a month-long struggle for the city of Manila. It was a key piece of the campaign to retake control of the Philippine Islands, which itself signified the culmination of the war, breaking the back of Japanese strategic power and sealing its outcome. In The Battle of Manila, Nicholas Sarantakes offers the first in-depth account of this crucial campaign from the American, Japanese, and, significantly, Filipino perspective.
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A Masterful, Balanced Account of a Pivotal Battle
- De Scott Brownell en 06-12-25
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Tower of Skulls
- A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Vol. 1 (July 1937 - May 1942)
- De: Richard B. Frank
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 26 h y 23 m
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This story casts penetrating light on how struggles in Europe and Asia merged into a tightly entwined global war. It features not just battles, but also the sweeping political, economic, and social effects of the war, and are graced with a rich tapestry of individual characters from top-tier political and military figures down to ordinary servicemen, as well as the accounts of civilians of all races and ages.
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Outstanding
- De Patrick en 03-16-20
De: Richard B. Frank
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The Eastern Front
- A History of the Great War 1914-1918
- De: Nick Lloyd
- Narrado por: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Duración: 22 h y 43 m
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Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as eyewitness reports, diary entries, and memoirs, Lloyd moves from the great battles of 1914 to the final collapse of the Central Powers in 1918, showing how a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spiraled into a massive conflagration that pulled in Germany, Russia, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria.
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Exceptional
- De Christian Lewis en 05-26-25
De: Nick Lloyd
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Nomonhan, 1939
- The Red Army's Victory that Shaped World War II
- De: Stuart D. Goldman
- Narrado por: John FitzGibbon
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Stuart Goldman convincingly argues that a little-known, but intense, Soviet-Japanese conflict along the Manchurian- Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the outbreak of World War II and shaped the course of the war. The author draws on Japanese, Soviet, and western sources to put the seemingly obscure conflict - actually a small undeclared war - into its proper global geo-strategic perspective.The book describes how the Soviets, in response to a border conflict provoked by Japan, launched an offensive in August 1939 that wiped out the Japanese forces at Nomonhan.
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Nomonhan: Why Japan Demurred
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 08-03-14
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Who Can Hold the Sea
- The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Christopher Newton, Sharon Hornfischer
- Duración: 17 h y 56 m
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This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on—and under—the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home and decommissions most of its warships. But this peaceful interlude is short-lived, as Stalin, America’s former ally, makes aggressive moves in Europe and the Far East.
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James D. Hornfisher's last work
- De JWHayn4563 en 05-05-22
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The Storm of War
- A New History of the Second World War
- De: Andrew Roberts
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 28 h y 36 m
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The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people. Why did the Axis lose? And could they, with a different strategy, have won? Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the war - the grand strategy and the individual experience, the cruelty and the heroism - as never before.
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A very interesting book with some shortcomings.
- De Mike From Mesa en 10-24-11
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Resistance
- The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
- De: Halik Kochanski
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 46 h y 15 m
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It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her extraordinary work, Resistance, Halik Kochanski does just that, creating a prodigiously researched account that becomes the first to bring these disparate histories into a single narrative.
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Uneven in quality of depiction of various areas
- De K. T. Jukic en 05-17-23
De: Halik Kochanski
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The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
- The War in The West, Volume 1
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 27 h y 44 m
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For seven decades, our understanding of World War II has been shaped by a standard narrative built on conventional wisdom, propaganda, the dramatic but narrow experiences of soldiers on the ground, and an early generation of historians. For his new history, James Holland has spent over 12 years unearthing new research, recording original testimony, and visiting battlefields and archives that have never before been so accessible.
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Good Book painfully read
- De richard en 01-21-16
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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
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The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
- Modern War Studies
- De: Robert M. Citino
- Narrado por: Tom Beyer
- Duración: 25 h y 59 m
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By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this book, Citino charts the path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a "war of movement," inexorably led to Nazi Germany's defeat.
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Readers Style Distracts Heavily
- De Seth Gecko en 01-03-25
De: Robert M. Citino
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- De: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 33 h y 25 m
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.
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Less caffeine, narrator
- De Jeff Joyner en 02-12-24
De: Peter H. Wilson
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