The Twilight World
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Werner Herzog
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“A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lie, illusion, and time that floats like an aromatic haze through Herzog’s vivid reconstruction of Onoda’s war.” —The New York Times Book Review
The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog.
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II
In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former soldier famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and met many times, talking and unraveling the story of Onoda’s long war.
At the end of 1944 on Lubang Island, with Japanese troops about to withdraw, Onoda stayed behind under orders from his superior officer. For years, Onoda continued to fight his fictitious war—at first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making.
In The Twilight World, Herzog immortalizes and imagines Onoda’s years of absurd yet epic struggle in an inimitable, hypnotic style—part documentary, part poem, and part dream—that will be instantly recognizable to fans of his films. The result is a novel completely unto itself: a glowing, dancing meditation on the purpose and meaning we give our lives.
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- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
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New Guinea became the site of one of the World War II's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over rugged mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna.
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painful reading
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By: James Campbell
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Behind Japanese Lines
- With the OSS in Burma
- By: Richard Dunlop
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II!
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The OSS in Burma
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By: Richard Dunlop
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Marine Sniper
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- Narrated by: Kevin Foley
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There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has been only one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legend of Marine lore. He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines. His record has never been matched: 93 confirmed kills. This is his story. Powerful, chilling, and all true.
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history at its best
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Helmet for My Pillow
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The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.
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Should be required reading in high school
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Hill 488
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On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of the US military, winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, 13 Silver Stars, and 18 Purple Hearts - some of them posthumously.
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Gripping
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A Rumor of War
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When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man's experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today's students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate extremes men are forced to confront in any war.
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The Reality of the U.S in the Vietnam War
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The Greatest U.S. Marine Corps Stories Ever Told
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On Friday, November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress approved a resolution for the organization of the Corps, creating what would become the hallowed few, the proud - the Marines. Since then, the men and women of the United States Marine Corps have created the finest traditions of service and honor, and supplied a pantheon of heroes who have upheld them.
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Marines Will Hate This Narrator.
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The Storm of Steel
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This classic war memoir, first published in 1920, is based on the author's extensive diaries describing hard combat experienced on the Western Front during World War I. It has been greatly admired by people as diverse as Bertolt Brecht and Andre Gide, and from every part of the political spectrum. Hypnotic, thrilling, and magnificent, The Storm of Steel is perhaps the most fascinating description of modern warfare ever written.
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Horror and randomness of war
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Blood Red Snow
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Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.
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One of the best personal accounts coming out of WW2
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To Hell and Back
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Audie Murphy was a desperately poor eighteen-year-old orphan when he joined the Army, nineteen when he first saw a buddy die from an enemy bullet and an enemy die from one of his own. By VE day, he had killed at least 240 Germans, had single-handedly destroyed a German tank in one battle and held off six tanks in another, and had become the most decorated soldier in American history, winning every medal his country offered, including the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Puts you in the place & time along with him
- By Patrick on 12-30-13
By: Audie Murphy
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- ian
- 01-28-23
This is a great book, wonderfully read
There is no one in the world like Werner Herzog. His voice is so unique and expressive and this is exactly his kind of story. A great pleasure to listen to this tale.
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- Waterman
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Truly enthralling
This is the only way to make the book better is to have been read it by the author himself. A truly magnificent masterpiece
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- Anonymous User
- 10-25-24
Top ten anime anti heros
Fascinating book, written and read by my favorite anime hearthtrob Verner hertzog. Just wish it was longer but it’s short and sweet.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-23-22
In Our World Full Of Know It Alls… There Is So Much We Don’t Know
After reading this I realized I knew very little about what it truly means to be honorable.
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- Daniel
- 05-24-23
Immersive and captivating
A beautiful vignette of a rare moment in time and history. Onoda had to be full of both purpose and hubris to stick to the plan so perfectly. A testament to the Japanese WW2 mindset.
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- Otto Mileti
- 07-11-22
Incredible story!
I had heard of Hiroo Onoda but never really gave his story much thought. This book by Werner Herzog brings his story to light and tells the amazing story of his continued fight and dedication for years after the war ended. 5 stars all around!
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- Thomas Wegmann
- 04-13-24
Wow great story!
This is a short listen and well worth listening to this story of those who stayed and defended the island.
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- Jacob Jarzabek
- 04-26-24
The Joongeel
That voice, he must know people love it when he says jungle. I’d like to read it next.
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- Mihal Ceittin
- 06-27-22
Herzog finds his perfect subject
Personally, I think this book is worth it's price simply to hear Herzog himself pronounce words like 'insect' or 'vileness'. It so happens I recently rewatched both Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo (1982) as well as Les Blank's film Burden of Dreams (1982) about the making of Fitzcarraldo. It was such a traumatic experience for Herzog that I can't help thinking he saw himself in the Japanese soldier who is the protagonist of this book. In other words this is something of a proto-autobiography, or at least we hear the echos of Fitzcarraldo throughout....which doesn't deter from the story one bit. I also love the fact that when Herzog was in Japan he declined an invitation to meet with the Emperor but instead chose to meet with Onoda. Herzog is the real deal in a universe of artistic phonies and marginal talents.I hope he films this book. He also does a superb job of narrating. No one could have done it better.
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- AJ
- 01-21-23
Lyrical and strangely beautiful
Readers should know going in that this book doesn't have a whole ton of action. This is a straightforward, almost journalistic account of the campaign Hiro Onoda, one of the last Japanese soldiers to surrender after WW2--in this case, almost 30 years after the war ended. Herzog seems to have done a lot of through research, but this is a lyrical, almost poetic book that is sweeping in intellectual and emotional range, while taking place mostly in the head of a single lonely person. The ending nearly brought me to tears.
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