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Twilight of the Gods
- War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
- By: Ian Toll
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
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Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the US Navy won the largest naval battle in history; MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized. Toll's narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are gripping, but he also takes the listener into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo.
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Food for WWII History Buffs
- By Dr. Schtick on 12-20-20
- Twilight of the Gods
- War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
- By: Ian Toll
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Top notch
Reviewed: 09-04-21
Comprehensive and gripping book by Ian Toll. Tells the story from the view from the commanders, the politicians and the soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors, and civilians in both sides. Probably the best book on the end-game in the Pacific.
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The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 30 hrs and 39 mins
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Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.
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Better read than listened to
- By B. In -t Veld on 03-25-17
- The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Complete, entertaining and deeply researched.
Reviewed: 06-18-21
Simply a joy from beginning to end. Entertaining, broad, deep and filled with anecdotes and personal fates and stories.
Pretty much a complete story on the subject.
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D-Day
- The Battle for Normandy
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
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Renowned historian Antony Beevor, the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents the first major account in more than 20 years of the Normandy invasion and the liberation of Paris. This is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting.
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A commendable book
- By Michael on 01-19-10
- D-Day
- The Battle for Normandy
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
Absolutely top notch.
Reviewed: 06-06-20
Just a great book on a fascinating subject. Both the writing and the performance are very good.
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The Hunter Killers
- By: Dan Hampton
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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A gripping chronicle of the band of maverick aviators who signed on for the suicidal, dangerous top-secret "Wild Weasel" missions during the Vietnam War - which used controversial and revolutionary tactics to combat Soviet missile technology - from New York Times best-selling author Dan Hampton.
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False Advertising
- By Stephen Ford on 08-31-15
- The Hunter Killers
- By: Dan Hampton
- Narrated by: John Pruden
70/30 history and polemics.
Reviewed: 09-25-19
The author has strong political views, and is unfortunately unable to restrain them. So one moment he is telling a detailed and knowledgeable story about piloting wild weasels over Vietnam, and the next he is explaining how the other side of the aisle got it all wrong and killed Americans.
But the technical and flight-related descriptions are very clearly written by someone who knows his stuff.
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Shattered Sword
- The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
- By: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
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Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's best-selling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.
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Shattered Myths - These authors got it right?
- By Ol'BlueEyes on 05-13-19
- Shattered Sword
- The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
- By: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
A great book with new insights.
Reviewed: 07-18-19
Tells the story in a gripping, detailed and well paced manner. Explains that Midway was not a miracle, but a well planned battle that was almost evenly matched.
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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April 25, 1986 in Chernobyl was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- By NH on 03-21-19
- Midnight in Chernobyl
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Very good, detailed and gripping.
Reviewed: 07-10-19
Does not dumb it down too much (although you have got to simplify the physics a bit), and manages to follow both the people, the politics and the physics in a clear and gripping narrative.
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Hitler's Soldiers
- The German Army in the Third Reich
- By: Ben H. Shepherd
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
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For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and occupation.
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Thorough and scholarly
- By Mary A. on 03-23-18
- Hitler's Soldiers
- The German Army in the Third Reich
- By: Ben H. Shepherd
- Narrated by: Michael Page
Gripping, well researched and unflinching.
Reviewed: 06-20-19
Solid book which explains the enormous successes, the limitations, the decline and fall of the German army of WWII. And does not shy away from the war crimes which will always stain its reputation.
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Spillover
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
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The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world.
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Fascinating, but not Riveting
- By L. M. Roberts on 03-08-14
- Spillover
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Excellent, exceptionally comprehensive.
Reviewed: 10-28-17
Focusing on how diseases in animals infect humans, it covers in detail a wide range of diseases, combining stories, science and insights in a deeply interesting and, at times, frightening, way. It's not all about the diseases that get the headlines, but almost all of them can kill you.
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