World War Ii Nonfiction

World War II nonfiction focuses on true accounts from the 1939-45 global conflict, featuring stories of heroism, aspects of warfare, and political strategies. This category often delves into both major and minor historical events.
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    • The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
    • By: John C. McManus
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • John C. McManus, one of our most highly acclaimed historians of World War II, takes listeners from Pearl Harbor - a rude awakening for a military woefully unprepared for war - to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly desperate Japanese....

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    • By: Pierre Clostermann
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • From near-suicidal RAF attacks in 1940 through to the dawn of the jet age in 1945, Flames in the Sky captures the astonishing drama, intensity, heroism, and incomparable exhilaration of the World War Two air war like no other book....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
    • By: David Stahel
    • Narrated by: Philip Battley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged.

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    • The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport
    • By: Barbara Winton
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story.

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    • 1880-1945
    • By: Gotz Aly
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole....

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    • A True Story of Resilience, Survival and Unbroken Spirit of a Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II
    • By: CORRIE SMITH
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A True Story of Resilience Survival and Unbroken Spirit A Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II Treasures of Sadness is the story of ...

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    • The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
    • By: Larry Loftis
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place....

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    • By: Sean McCollum
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • World War II was the most destructive war in history. Millions upon millions of people died, including innocent civilians. Both sides—the Allies and Axis Powers—pursued secret plans, tactics, and weapons to destroy each other resulting in horrors on a scale never before seen....

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    • WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • On the night of June 13th, 1944, a 12-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objective: hit German forces deep behind the lines, cutting the rail-tracks linking Central France to the northern coastline....

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    • The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
    • By: Robert Hutton
    • Narrated by: Al Murray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out. Always ready with a drink and a story, Clarke was a well-known figure in Cairo social circles and nightlife. If you then asked what he did, you would have less success.

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    • How Wartime Changed Their Lives, 1939-1945
    • By: Anne de Courcy
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Debs at War is extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper-class women and the active part they took in the war....

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    • War in the Far East Series, Book 1
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Series: War in the Far East, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account....

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    • The Legacy of the War and Its Impact on Political and Military Thinking Since 1945
    • By: Matthias Strohn
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The year 2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking....

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    • The Soviet Women Pilots of World War II
    • By: Bruce Berglund, Trevor Goring
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Series: Amazing World War II Stories
    • Length: 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Flying combat missions in wartime is always dangerous. But imagine doing so in a slow, rickety biplane, at night, with no lights or navigational equipment of any kind. Sound impossible? It wasn't for the Soviet Night Witches....

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    • The German Campaigns of 1942
    • By: Robert M. Citino
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year....

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    • The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory
    • By: Nathan C. Jones
    • Narrated by: Kent Klineman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Patton's Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the creation of the Patton legend and what it illuminates about American culture and the worship of heroes.

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