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No Less Than Victory

A Novel of World War II

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No Less Than Victory

By: Jeff Shaara
Narrated by: Paul Michael
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No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara's soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war's unforgettable and harrowing final act.

After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat.

In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest, utterly surprising the unprepared Americans who stand in their way. Through the frigid snows of the mountainous terrain, German tanks and infantry struggle to realize Hitler's goal: divide the Allied armies and capture the vital port at Antwerp. The attack succeeds in opening up a wide gap in the American lines, and for days chaos reigns in the Allied command.

Thus begins the Battle of the Bulge, the last gasp by Hitler's forces that becomes a horrific slugging match, some of the most brutal fighting of the war. As American commanders respond to the stunning challenge, the German spear is finally blunted.

Though some in the Nazi inner circle continue the fight to secure Germany's postwar future, the Führer makes it clear that he is fighting to the end. He will spare nothing - not even German lives - to preserve his twisted vision of a "Thousand Year Reich". But in May 1945, the German army collapses, and with Russian troops closing in, Hitler commits suicide.

As the Americans sweep through the German countryside, they unexpectedly encounter the worst of Hitler's crimes, the concentration camps, and young GIs find themselves absorbing firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust.

Presenting his riveting account through the eyes of Eisenhower and Patton and the young GIs who struggle face-to-face with their enemy, and through the eyes of Germany's old soldier Gerd von Rundstedt and Hitler’s golden boy, Albert Speer, Jeff Shaara carries the listener on a journey that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madman’s dreams. No Less Than Victory further solidifies Shaara’s reputation as this era’s most accomplished author of historical military fiction.

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Awesome novel of WWII

Loved it. The book gives top to bottom insights on the end of WWII. Great narratio, too.

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Very well done

This series of books about WWII are very informative and easy to listen to. I have enjoyed them. Going to start the 4th in the series.

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An awesome narrative of brutal times!

Again, his research with survivors, beyond documents, resulted in a narrative I could not put down.... the classic histories cover all the facts, but Shaara's ability to weave surviving veterans interviews in to first person drama is amazing.... for any veteran who's been fired on, a reader gets the same shocks soldiers try to suppress and still fight... that's a big challenge for most writers! Well done.

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Good book

Really good book, liked it alot. I do wish he would have covered operation market garden more though.

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Completion of trilogy

Written by Jeff Shaara, you know what you are going to get. Never disappoints. If you want a good overlay of the Europe battle of WWII, this is it.

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Excellent!!!

I’ve read the Civil War series by Shaara long ago and found the novels to be so well written, personal, and interesting. I bought this novel on a Deal of the Day, and although it’s not the first in the series, there was no problem joining in on book 3.

Again, so well written and interesting. I just purchased book 4 of this series, and look forward to all of the remaining books. I can’t say enough about how fantastic this narrator is.

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Another Masterpeice by Jeff Shaara!

I have loved Jeff Shaara's books since I read his first book Gods and Generals, I had the pleasure to meet Jeff Shaara and listen to him speak about how he decided to follow his father's writing of "Killer Angels" with "Gods and Generals" I now enjoy his books even more when I listen to Paul Michael read the book to me. He makes me feel like I am in the fox holes with the American infantry. I will definitely listen to this series again!!

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History Meets Fiction!

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All of Schaara's books are laced with realistic history but believable characters. He is entertaining and you feel like part of the story. History comes alive.

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This book had my attention in the first few minutes. Very well read. The flow was natural and yet seamless with the multitude of stories being told, yet all wrapped up together as one.

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Engrossing

My father served in the navy in the Pacific, my other uncle was a navy signalman who went a shore in Normandy to Utah beach to semaphore open beach access to the landing craft, I heard the war stories as a kid so have a sailors perspective of the campaigns. This fleshes out those stories with a sense of what really happened. Fascinating background on all of this. Narration is great and the campaign moves along, holding the audience gripped from the opening. Very well written and narrated.

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