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Retribution
- The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
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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
- By Easton Reader on 12-22-16
- Retribution
- The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
A Different Take..
Reviewed: 11-10-24
What sets this story apart is its wide in scope, and yet very personal telling the story of battles and moreover the European bias toward their colonial armies as partners. This gives the reader a better understanding how the empires of the West (Britain and France) couldn't return to their pre-war state.
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The Republic for Which It Stands
- The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
- By: Richard White
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 34 hrs and 41 mins
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At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both Black and White. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive but also more diverse.
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Be wary of narrator
- By Kate on 05-25-18
- The Republic for Which It Stands
- The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
- By: Richard White
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
War is Hard, Peace not much easier.
Reviewed: 11-10-24
I look at this as the third installment of an ongoing story of the miracle that is the United States. Coming from Lincoln's death and continuing with the Reconstruction and expansion into the West its more of detail of what we should know from school. Survival of the nation, and its growth to a continent sized empire was always an evolving vision.
To understand what's being explored it helped me to look up the geography of the areas mentioned in Wikipedia maps. I'm sure having a print copy I would be doing the same from illustrations (I assume) are in the book.
I found the intonation of this reader a bit harder to follow than the earlier "Impending Crisis" and "What God Have Wrought" but perhaps that's just me.
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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819 the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with 20 crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than 90 days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, and disease and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.
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Audio must have been fixed
- By Amazon Customer on 02-11-18
- In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Are You Equal to the Challenge?
Reviewed: 11-10-24
Traversing the sea in the 18th century comes to life, and hanging on the edge of death at every moment for the crew once they're thrown down, Shod by a Whale. What's hardest is imagine is keeping your spirits up already knowing the odds. It helped they were so young, I'm not sure I could have stayed disciplined to the task. Further, after coming through this many of the survivors returned to the profession.
Having read Endurance by Hillenbrand I can say this story is equally frightening. In 1820 no one is looking for your downed vessel.
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Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Civil War Era
- By: James M. McPherson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
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Battle Cry of Freedom vividly traces how a new nation was forged when a war both sides were sure would amount to little dragged for four years and cost more American lives than all other wars combined. Narrator Jonathan Davis powerful reading brings to life the many voices of the Civil War.
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Excellent Book
- By J. Weston on 12-11-20
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Civil War Era
- By: James M. McPherson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
A Country to Be Saved, if its not Destroyed
Reviewed: 10-11-24
The miracle of this chapter of American history is not who wins the war, but that the country survived at all. Operating beyond the constitution and seeing families taking opposing sides and no end in sight its easy to see how the leadership would lose hope. The loss of life is just incredible, showing too that even for a just cause no war should be entered lightly.
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The Impending Crisis
- America Before the Civil War: 1848-1861
- By: David M. Potter, Don E. Fehrenbacher
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 22 hrs and 41 mins
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David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern secession.
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A Slog for Sure
- By Brux on 04-13-17
- The Impending Crisis
- America Before the Civil War: 1848-1861
- By: David M. Potter, Don E. Fehrenbacher
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
An unavoidable tragedy
Reviewed: 09-16-24
Even knowing the collapse is coming, its clear many tried to head off the disaster. Of course no war is short and easy. In the case here the loss of life and property are greater than anyone expected. Compromise, had already failed and too many reasonable men (Clay, Webster, et al) had passed new heroes stepped forward, even Davis who had opposed Lincoln.
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But Not in Shame
- The Six Months After Pearl Harbor
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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What were the events which determined the Pearl Harbor catastrophe? What were the last few days on Wake Island like? What really occurred on the infamous Bataan Death March, and why did it happen? How did MacArthur make his dramatic escape from Corregidor? And what is the story behind the greatest capitulation in American history, General Wainwright’s forced surrender of the Philippines?
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Great story
- By dexter on 03-03-20
- But Not in Shame
- The Six Months After Pearl Harbor
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
A Fight Beyond Hope
Reviewed: 08-19-24
The casual observer of the war in the pacific goes: Pearl Harbor, Midway and finally the Atomic Bomb in lieu of invasion. Those opening months, before the Navy strike back in the Doliitle Raid the combined forces of America and its allies were fighting a desperate battle that all knew they would give their lives in the coming loss. Finally its clear too why MacArthur was awarded the MoH, not for military brilliance but diplomatic skill in keeping the Phillipino's in the fight, not going over to the Japanese.
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
- The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
- By: Jason Schreier
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes listeners on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius.
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Behind the Scenes
- By SAMA on 11-27-17
- Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
- The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
- By: Jason Schreier
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
No passion, no product
Reviewed: 08-15-24
The single greatest takeaway here is software, and in this study entertainment software is bone crushing work and always more than imagined or budgeted for at onset. Its not to be undertaken without commitment and even today greatness can be achieved with a small team.
Or you can strive for years and end up with nothing. No promises.
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The Network
- The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
- By: Scott Woolley
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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This is the origin story of the airwaves - the foundational technology of the communications age - as told through the 40-year friendship of an entrepreneurial industrialist and a brilliant inventor. David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and equal parts Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and William Randolph Hearst, was the greatest supporter of his friend, Edwin Armstrong, developer of the first amplifier, the modern radio transmitter, and FM radio.
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The Classic Struggle
- By Jean on 06-01-16
- The Network
- The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
- By: Scott Woolley
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
There's more than one side to the story.
Reviewed: 06-30-24
Most fans of the story of radios development in the 20th century have had Tom Lewis Empire of the air to work from that piece from 1991 paints a picture most sympathetic to Armstrong it makes he the focus of the story as much his inventions.
Not spending much time on DeForest (who's accomplishments are generally recognized as significant but limited) tthis tome argues s that Sarnoff made the right decisions concerning FM and unfortunately his relationship with Armstrong suffered.
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The Fall of Berlin 1945 Part 2
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Third Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc - tanks crushing refugee columns, mass rape, pillage, and unimaginable destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred; more than seven million fled westward from the fury of the Red Army. It was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known.
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An ungracious victory
- By Anonymous User on 06-26-24
- The Fall of Berlin 1945 Part 2
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
An ungracious victory
Reviewed: 06-26-24
My previous standard for the telling of this story had been Tolen's last 100 days or the last battle by Ryan but the story here is equally rich and provides personal insight after victory.
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Learn Linux Quickly
- A Comprehensive Guide for Getting Up to Speed on the Linux Command Line (Ubuntu) (Crash Course with Hands-On Project)
- By: Code Quickly, Paul H. Bartley
- Narrated by: Helpful Matthew
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Learn Linux Quickly takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell (or command line). Along the way, you'll learn the timeless skills handed down by generations of experienced, mouse-shunning gurus: file navigation, environment configuration, command chaining, pattern matching, and more. In addition to that practical knowledge, we reveal the philosophy behind these tools and the rich heritage that your desktop Linux machine has inherited from Unix mainframes of yore.
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I am impressed by the way..
- By Christina V. Whiteman on 05-06-22
- Learn Linux Quickly
- A Comprehensive Guide for Getting Up to Speed on the Linux Command Line (Ubuntu) (Crash Course with Hands-On Project)
- By: Code Quickly, Paul H. Bartley
- Narrated by: Helpful Matthew
Hands-on, there's no substitute.
Reviewed: 06-25-24
In considering any programming task its best to dive in, and keystroke. The strength of this book is it restricts any chapter to a few key points and has exercises in each. Its a good way to start and doesn't assume depth of UNIX or scripting. If you've handled the DOS prompt you can learn from this book.
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