Harlem Hellfighters
African-American Heroes of World War I (Military Heroes)
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When World War I began, it seemed unlikely that a unit such as the Harlem Hellfighters would ever be formed. Given their nickname by their German foes who admired their bravery, the Harlem Hellfighters were members of the 369th, an all-Black regiment. The 369th played key roles in critical battles and helped secure an Allied victory.
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Don’t pass this up
- By PineappleSmoothy on 03-29-18
By: Andrew Carroll
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The Generals
- Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
- By: Winston Groom
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,542
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,398
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,396
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
- By Mike From Mesa on 01-13-16
By: Winston Groom
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Rising in Flames
- By: J. D. Dickey
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 225
America in the antebellum years was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan gridlock and ideological warfare. The Civil War that followed brought America to the brink of self-destruction. But it also created a new country from the ruins of the old one - bolder and stronger than ever. No event in the war was more destructive, or more important, than William Sherman's legendary march through Georgia - crippling the heart of the South's economy, freeing thousands of slaves, and marking the beginning of a new era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book and great narrator
- By Matt McMillen on 07-02-18
By: J. D. Dickey
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Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour
- Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax
- By: Joseph E. Persico
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
The best-selling author of Roosevelt's Secret War traces the last day of World War I, weaving together the experiences of the famous, such as President Wilson, General Pershing, and Douglas MacArthur, and the unsung and unremembered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beauty amidst savagery
- By Amazon Customer on 12-06-04
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The American Civil War: History in an Hour
- By: Kat Smutz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4 out of 5 stars 118
History for busy people. The American Civil War was fought between the Confederates and the Union from 1861 to 1865. This is a concise history of this tumultuous period.The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the country united.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Left slant.
- By Hamish Barrett on 09-09-18
By: Kat Smutz
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Don't Know Much About the Civil War
- Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrated by: Dick Estell
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4 out of 5 stars 67
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Civil War book
- By Steven on 08-04-12
By: Kenneth C. Davis
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A More Unbending Battle
- The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
- By: Peter Nelson
- Narrated by: Jarvis Hooten
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below better than when the shells exploded in the trenches...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By Bryce Odell on 06-05-17
By: Peter Nelson
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To America
- Personal Reflections of an Historian
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 256
Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To America celebrates the men and women who invented the United States and made it exceptional. Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism, its neglect and ill treatment of Native Americans, and its tragic errors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By Coach Nathan L. on 02-10-16
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The Moro War
- How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913
- By: James R. Arnold
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
As the global war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic insurgents on multiple fronts. But the post-9/11 war against terrorists is not the first time the United States has battled such ferocious foes. The forgotten Moro War, lasting from 1902 to 1913 in the islands of the southern Philippines, was the first confrontation between American soldiers and their allies and a determined Muslim insurgency.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a little dry but good info
- By Paraglox on 03-05-15
By: James R. Arnold
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Patton
- By: Alan Axelrod
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 864
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 676
George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Odd Reading, Great Book
- By Chris Reich on 01-23-09
By: Alan Axelrod
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To End All Wars
- A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 464
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 376
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of personalities
- By Tad Davis on 06-09-11
By: Adam Hochschild
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Thirteen Soldiers
- A Personal History of Americans at War
- By: John McCain, Mark Salter
- Narrated by: John McCain
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
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
- By Majorie on 11-21-14
By: John McCain, and others
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General Lee's Army
- From Victory to Collapse
- By: Joseph T. Glatthaar
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army: the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee. General Lee's Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad history, worse statistic
- By Lorin Radtke on 08-08-08
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The Yanks Are Coming!
- A Military History of the United States in World War I
- By: H. W. Crocker
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 434
Best-selling military historian H. W. Crocker III turns his guns on the epic story of America's involvement in the First World War with TheYanks Are Coming!. The year 2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of the Great War, and in Crocker's sweeping, American-focused account, listeners will learn: How George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, "Wild Bill" Donovan, Harry S. Truman, and many other American heroes earned their military spurs in during World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, all but forgotten part of US history
- By RMF5630 on 12-10-14
By: H. W. Crocker
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Fierce Patriot
- The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
- By: Robert O'Connell
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 232
With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting biography
- By Jean on 07-19-14
By: Robert O'Connell
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- Someone
- 08-27-22
Black Power
Great and rarely told story of Black excellence America tends to over look. Much respect to those whom put this together.
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- Samuel Mitchell
- 11-20-23
Great History
I liked this short read but now I’m looking for information about the 369th infantry regiment that played a pivotal role in World War I.
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- Arthur
- 07-05-24
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I’m pleased to hear about the activity of the 369.the hellfighter was a brave group of men.
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