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The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
- New, Updated and Completely Revised
- By: Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey Michaels
- Narrated by: Richard Elwood
- Length: 24 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18
First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman's The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, covering all nuclear powers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great reading, great material
- By Matt on 11-12-24
- The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
- New, Updated and Completely Revised
- By: Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey Michaels
- Narrated by: Richard Elwood
great reading, great material
Reviewed: 11-12-24
This was a superb and well organized tour through thinking about nuclear deterrence and escalation.
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To Besiege a City
- Leningrad 1941–42
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
At a huge cost, the Red Army and the civilian population of Leningrad ultimately endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against constant bombing, shelling, and starvation. Throughout the siege, Soviet forces tried to break the German lines and restore contact with the garrison. To Besiege a City charts the first of these offensives which began in January 1942 and was followed by repeated assaults.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- By E. Ronakov on 09-30-23
- To Besiege a City
- Leningrad 1941–42
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Another outstanding work by Buttar
Reviewed: 08-08-24
Prit Buttar's command of primary source material again undergirds a well constructed narrative. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in the Eastern front of world war II
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Pacific Carrier War
- Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
- By: Mark E. Stille
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development, and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, poor narration
- By Matt on 07-15-23
- Pacific Carrier War
- Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
- By: Mark E. Stille
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
Great book, poor narration
Reviewed: 07-15-23
Great operational focus, with tactical details that acknowledges the weakness of some American admirals. The narrator took sharp breaths every sentence and had some pronunciation missteps.
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- By: Ian W. Toll
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,028
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,592
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,577
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishingly good.
- By Mike From Mesa on 09-01-12
Uncritical History
Reviewed: 05-15-23
The work propagates the master narrative of events without adding new research, i.e., making Japanese strafing of civilians at Pearl Harbor seem widespread and intentional.
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The Drive on Moscow, 1941
- Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis of World War II
- By: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson
- Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an equally large Soviet force, but whose soldiers were neither as well trained nor as confident. When the Germans struck, disaster soon befell the Soviet defenders.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Add the maps, lose the accents
- By Carrick on 07-03-14
- The Drive on Moscow, 1941
- Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis of World War II
- By: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson
- Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
Decent
Reviewed: 06-16-22
It needs maps downloadable as pdfs. Also the narrator should stop doing accents. But overall enjoyable and informative.
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The Lost Fleet: Dauntless
- By: Jack Campbell
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Jack Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,263
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,347
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,377
Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic "last stand" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.
Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic "Black Jack" legend.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Flat and Feeble-minded Characters
- By Diomedes on 05-09-14
- The Lost Fleet: Dauntless
- By: Jack Campbell
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Jack Campbell
Engaging Military Sci-Fi
Reviewed: 06-28-15
As someone who was in the military I appreciated the details that Campbell gave to the logistics of space combat and leading a fleet. Most other sci-fi books just say 'The ships fired at each other', without making a plausible system of space combat. I can see, however, how going into the seeming minutiae of time-delayed communication and physics might be boring for some readers who are just looking for action, pure and simple. Campbell also spends on lot of time on leadership challenges that resonate with those who have been in the military. His vision of a military that esteems valor and reckless charges over solid tactics will also resonate with veterans who fear that our military is heading in that direction. Overall, I loved the series; but maybe I'm just biased because he fawns over the Marines, my former service.
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Zombie Fallout
- Zombie Fallout, Book 1
- By: Mark Tufo
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,668
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,058
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,079
This is the story of Michael Talbot, his family, and his friends: a band of ordinary people trying to get by in extraordinary times. When disaster strikes, Mike, a self-proclaimed survivalist, does his best to ensure the safety and security of those he cares for. Book one of the Zombie Fallout Trilogy follows our lead character at his self-deprecating, sarcastic best. What he encounters along the way leads him down a long dark road, always skirting the edge of insanity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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schticky - listen to the sample first
- By E on 10-15-12
- Zombie Fallout
- Zombie Fallout, Book 1
- By: Mark Tufo
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
An annoying farce
Reviewed: 12-02-12
I bought this book based on its good reviews expecting some ridiculous entertainment. Instead, it wound up being horribly annoying to listen to; by the second half I was listening to ten minutes then skipping ahead an hour, hoping it would get better. It didn't.
- First, for a zombie book that talks a lot about shooting and guns, Tufo doesn't know what he's talking about. Maybe I'm just being picky since I'm a Marine officer, but he says a Squad Automatic Weapon weighs 40+ pounds (a quick google search confirms what I remembered from The Basic School that it's only 22 lbs loaded). Then he has a man carrying around a gatling gun; while that may be physically possible, the idea is beyond ridiculous for those who know combat. Most people think that being a Marine means that you know what you're talking about - it doesn't.
- Second, the book caricatures women as browbeating harpies, which is offensive to women and annoying to men. The protagonist's wife yells at him and strikes him and his only response is sullen acceptance. The other few women there are in the book act the same. It's like listening to Dakota Fanning scream for 20 straight minutes in 'War of the Worlds'. Yeah, I get it, you think children are fragile - after the first 30 seconds though, it's just super annoying. It's the same with women yelling in this book.
- Third, all of the characters are consistently paralyzed with fear in life or death situations, and this is drawn out in agonizingly wordy prose. I appreciate the attempt at realism and saw this as an effort to mimic the effect of horror movie suspense. The writing, however, prevented any suspense building and instead merely caused grave annoyance on my part.
I could continue, but I hope you get the point. In this book's favor, it was well narrated, and you could skip an hour at a time without losing much.
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