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The Price of Glory
- Verdun 1916
- By: Alistair Horne
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Epic Account, Masterful in Its Scope, Power and Resonance
- By Ted Shealy on 05-01-24
- The Price of Glory
- Verdun 1916
- By: Alistair Horne
- Narrated by: John Lee
More English, please! But great story.
Reviewed: 10-21-24
First, the good. This is an amazing story! I was thoroughly engaged and could not put it down.
Next, some suggestions. The seemingly frequent passages and phrases
spoken in the french language sounded very authentic and were delivered with dash, but I do not speak french so they were distracting rather than diverting. Was it a quote? Slogan? Speech? Military term? Aphorism? Just add a parenthetical note before or after for the audio version.
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Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- By: William Craig
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,518
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,328
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,320
On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched by Hitler to capture the industrial city of Stalingrad and press on to the oil fields of Azerbaijan. The Germans were supremely confident; in three years, they had not suffered a single defeat. The Luftwaffe had already bombed the city into ruins. German soldiers hoped to complete their mission and be home in time for Christmas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Unforgettable and Haunting Read
- By Jean on 02-03-16
- Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- By: William Craig
- Narrated by: David Baker
History written by the victors
Reviewed: 01-29-24
It is refreshing to find a good audiobook about the 1942-43 Eastern Front battles written by the allied (winning) side, so that you can actually root for the subjects under study. In far too many other works, the Nazis are hailed as protagonists and the authors (Buttar and similar) plunder the US army accounts written by the losing field marshals and generals. In these histories, the allies (soviets) are usially portrayed as incompetent cannon fodder fed into a meat grinder that overwhelms the superior Nazis like wave of corpses. This book takes you inside Stavka HQ, from the kremlin to crimea and of course Stalingrad before, during, and after the battle. The narrator was not my favorite, and clearly he does not speak any language other than English. Please find someone proficient who can pronounce the Russian or German names and places. It is positively robotic.
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