Allies at War
How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World
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An “enthralling and authoritative” (The Wall Street Journal) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler—by the acclaimed author of Appeasement
“A fine reassessment of Allied politics and diplomacy during the Second World War: impeccably researched, elegantly written and compellingly argued.”—The Times (UK)
After the fall of France in June 1940, all that stood between Adolf Hitler and total victory was a narrow stretch of water and the defiance of the British people. Desperate for allies, Winston Churchill did everything he could to bring the United States into the conflict, drive the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany apart, and persuade neutral countries to resist German domination.
By early 1942, after the German invasion of Russia and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the British-Soviet-American alliance was in place. Yet it was an improbable and incongruous coalition, divided by ideology and politics and riven with mistrust and deceit. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin were partners in the fight to defeat Hitler, but they were also rivals who disagreed on strategy, imperialism, and the future of liberated Europe. Only by looking at their areas of conflict, as well as cooperation, are we able to understand the course of the war and world that developed in its aftermath.
Allies at War is a fast-paced, narrative history, based on material drawn from more than a hundred archives. Using vivid, firsthand accounts and unpublished diaries, Bouverie invites listeners into the rooms where the critical decisions were made and goes beyond the confines of the Grand Alliance to examine, among other topics, the doomed Anglo-French partnership and fractious relations with General Charles de Gaulle and the Free French, and interactions with Poland, Greece, Francoist Spain and neutral Ireland, Yugoslavia, and Nationalist China.
Ambitious and compelling, revealing the political drama behind the military events, Allies at War offers a fresh perspective on the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War.
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They arrived in Annapolis as teenagers the year Hitler re-occupied the Rhineland and graduated as young men the week the British Army evacuated Dunkirk. Annapolis Goes to War tells the story of their transformative years at the Naval Academy and the annealing years in the cauldron of war. More than a hundred of them were on duty in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Ten of them died that day—seven remain entombed in the USS Arizona still.
De: Craig L. Symonds
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Goodbye Russia
- Rachmaninoff in Exile
- De: Fiona Maddocks
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland—his iconic "Symphonic Dances." What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece? Rachmaninoff left Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1917 during the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was forty-four years old, at the peak of his powers as composer-conductor-performer, moving in elite Tsarist circles, as well as running the family estate, his refuge and solace.
De: Fiona Maddocks
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Mission Europe
- The Secret History of the Women of SOE
- De: Kate Vigurs
- Narrado por: Kate Vigurs
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations Executive. Across the continent, SOE recruited women to "set Europe ablaze." Working as secret agents and saboteurs, these individuals bolstered resistance from within and provided much needed support and weapons. F Section's actions in France are renowned, and today some operatives have become household names.
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Everything (submitted by Olav G. Abrahamsen)
- De Anonymous User en 06-23-25
De: Kate Vigurs
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Opening the Gates of Hell
- Operation Barbarossa, June–July 1941
- De: Richard Hargreaves
- Narrado por: Philip Pope
- Duración: 23 h y 41 m
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Opening the Gates of Hell is based on over a decade’s research in archives and sites across Europe. It is a ground-breaking examination of the start of the Nazi–Soviet conflict, a narrative history not just of the fighting, but also the impact on civilians, the atrocities committed by both sides and ethnic cleansing carried out by the inhabitants of the regions invaded. This fascinating history tells the stories of bravery, cowardice, misery and horror through the eyes of those who were there including ordinary soldiers, generals, leaders, politicians and civilians on both sides.
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violence
- De James K. en 07-05-25
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Following the Front
- The Dispatches of World War II Correspondent Sidney A. Olson
- De: Margot Clark-Junkins
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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Following the Front is a compilation of WWII dispatches written by Sidney A. Olson for TIME and LIFE magazines, 1944-1945. Olson, who joined Time Inc. in 1939 and served as a senior editor there, asked to be assigned overseas as a war correspondent. In mid-December, 1944, he received his accreditation from the War Department and sailed for London. Attached to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), Olson followed the Allied Forces as they pushed the Nazis back into Germany. He typed up his reports and cabled them to his editors in New York.
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In the Midst of the Years
- A History of Reformation and Revival in America
- De: Thomas Nettles
- Narrado por: Joshua David Ling
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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Christians yearn for rapid advances in the progress of conversion in the world, holiness in their lives, and fruitful labor for the cause of God and truth. They want God-sent revival. These twelve chapters explore the periods and persons in American history that saw observable advances in these pervasive Christian hopes. Some manifested greater doctrinal purity than others, some highlighted distinctive personalities more than others, and some generated impressive statistics in the number of persons affected.
De: Thomas Nettles
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1861
- The Lost Peace
- De: Jay Winik
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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1861: The Lost Peace is the story of President Lincoln’s difficult and courageous decision at a time when the country wrestled with deep moral questions of epic proportions.
De: Jay Winik
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Second Front
- Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign
- De: Marc Milner
- Narrado por: Basil Sands
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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In June 1944, an Allied army of British, American, and Canadian troops sought to open up a Second Front in Normandy. But they were not only fighting to bring the Second World War to an end. After decades of Anglo-American struggle for dominance, they were also contending with one another—to determine who would ascend to global hegemony once Hitler's armies fell. Marc Milner traces this bitter rivalry as it emerged after the First World War and evolved during the fragile peace which led to the Second.
De: Marc Milner
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American Maccabee
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews
- De: Andrew Porwancher
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island. Yet from his earliest years he forged ties with Jews never before witnessed in a president. American Maccabee traces Roosevelt's deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzling ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered approach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led.
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A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men
- The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II
- De: Shannon Monaghan
- Narrado por: George Weightman
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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The untold story of four special operations officers who fought together behind enemy lines across multiple theaters of World War II, and then continued to serve, officially and unofficially, for decades after in the hottest parts of the Cold War.
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Disappointing
- De thecol en 10-16-24
De: Shannon Monaghan
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In the Devil’s Snare
- The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
- De: Mary Beth Norton
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages.
De: Mary Beth Norton
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War Is Not Just for Heroes
- World War II Dispatches and Letters of U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondent Claude R. "Red" Canup
- De: Colonel Keith Oliver USMC (Ret.) - foreword, Linda M. Canup Keaton-Lima - editor
- Narrado por: Janelle Tedesco
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of United States Marine Corps. Written by one marine, Claude R. "Red" Canup, a combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II, these dispatches and private letters provide insight into the grind of war and ordinary men and women who carried out their duty. Thoughtfully edited and contextualized by a preface and prologue by his daughter, Linda M. Canup Keaton-Lima, War Is Not Just for Heroes combines documentary and biography to provide the human dimensions of those in combat and those who reported out.
De: Colonel Keith Oliver USMC (Ret.) - foreword, y otros
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Victory '45
- The End of the War in Eight Surrenders
- De: James Holland, Al Murray
- Narrado por: Al Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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In May 1945 and then again in August and early September, the seemingly endless World War II finally came to a close in eight dramatic surrender ceremonies, six in Europe and the last two in Japan. On the 80th anniversary of those historic moments, celebrated historians James Holland and Al Murray chronicle these momentous events in turn, focusing especially on the human dramas behind each surrender and relating stories and perspectives on the end of the war that have not previously been told.
De: James Holland, y otros
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The Strategists
- Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler: How War Made Them and How They Made War
- De: Phillips Payson O'Brien
- Narrado por: Justin Price
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2.
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mussolini stood out as an arrogant lunatic
- De John Pistone en 05-09-25
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John Hancock
- First to Sign, First to Invest in America's Independence
- De: Willard Sterne Randall
- Narrado por: Steve Hendrickson
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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A contemporary of Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette, Hancock had a list of contacts that read like a who’s who of the American Revolution. But shockingly little has been written about Hancock himself. John Hancock tells the story of a man who deserves far more credit for his contribution to the American Revolution than he previously received—and award-winning scholar Willard Sterne Randall is determined to give him his due at last.
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Penelope’s Bones
- A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of It
- De: Emily Hauser
- Narrado por: Emily Hauser
- Duración: 16 h y 22 m
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In Penelope’s Bones, award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser pieces together compelling evidence from archaeological excavations and scientific discoveries to unearth the richly textured lives of women in Bronze Age Greece—the era of Homer’s heroes. Here, for the first time, we come to understand the everyday lives and experiences of the real women who stand behind the legends of Helen, Briseis, Cassandra, Aphrodite, Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso, Penelope, and more.
De: Emily Hauser
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The Last Days of Budapest
- The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
- De: Adam LeBor
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
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Budapest, autumn 1943. After four years of war, Hungary was firmly allied with Nazi Germany. Budapest swirled with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind. But the city remained an oasis in the midst of conflict where Allied POWs and Polish and Jewish refugees found sanctuary. All that came to an end in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded. By the summer Allied bombers were pounding Budapest’s grand boulevards and historic squares.
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Outstanding and harrowing
- De Greg Russell en 06-19-25
De: Adam LeBor