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Operation Chastise
- The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force’s 617 Squadron.
The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a target at a height above the water less than the length of a bowling alley. Yet this story - and the later wartime experience of the 617 Squadron - has never been told in full.
Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know. The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis’s mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight aircraft lost came down over the dams - the rest were shot down on the flight to, or back from, the mission. And while the 617 Squadron’s valor is indisputable, the ultimate industrial damage caused by the dam raid was actually rather modest.
In 1943, these brave men caught the imagination of the world and uplifted the weary spirits of the British people. Their achievement unnerved the Nazi high command, and caused them to expend large resources on dam defenses - making the mission a success. An example of Churchill’s "military theatre" at its best, what 617 Squadron did was an extraordinary and heroic achievement, and a triumph of British ingenuity and technology - a story to be told for generations to come.
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De: Frank Murphy, y otros
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War's End
- An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
- De: Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, James A. Antonucci - contributor, Marion K. Antonucci - contributor
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a 25-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion.... The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney has the unique distinction of having been an integral part of both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombing runs.
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Must read!
- De Trixxie en 05-06-24
De: Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, y otros
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Jayhawk
- Love, Loss, Liberation and Terror over the Pacific
- De: Jay A. Stout, George L. Cooper
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Born in the Philippines to an American father and a Filipina mother, George Cooper is one of the few surviving veteran pilots who saw action over such fearsome targets as Rabaul and Wewak. Not just another flag-waving story of air combat, Jayhawk describes the war as it really was - a conflict with far-reaching tentacles that gripped and tore at not only the combatants, but also their families, friends, and the way they lived their lives.
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An absolute must for any student of the Pacific Air War
- De Ginger en 10-07-20
De: Jay A. Stout, y otros
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Churchill's Shadow Raiders
- The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon
- De: Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Nigel Carrington
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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In the winter of 1941, as Britain faced defeat on all fronts, an RAF reconnaissance pilot photographed an alien-looking object on the French coast near Le Havre. The mysterious device - a “Wurzburg Dish” - appeared to be a new form of radar technology: ultra-compact, highly precise, and pointed directly across the English Channel.
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Great Listen
- De 3D RWC en 05-13-20
De: Damien Lewis
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Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
- De: Starr Smith, Walter Cronkite
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II - and they were legion - Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field. Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning turn in The Philadelphia Story in 1940, had enlisted several months earlier.
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After-action intelligence report
- De David en 04-20-18
De: Starr Smith, y otros
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Dead Reckoning
- The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor
- De: Dick Lehr
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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“AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL.” At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center frantically typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on the American navy stationed in Hawaii. In a little over two hours, the Japanese killed more than 2,400 Americans and propelled the US’s entry into World War II. Dead Reckoning is the story of the mission to avenge that devastating strike.
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Half Soap Opera, target audience 20 something male
- De Donald L. Hogan en 03-20-21
De: Dick Lehr
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Vulcan 607
- De: Rowland White
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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Shoulder to shoulder with Strategic Air Command B-52s throughout the Cold War, the big delta-winged Vulcans of the Britain's V-bomber force faced down the Soviet threat to the West. In 1982, they were just months from retirement when they flew in anger for the first time. It was to be a record-breaking mission of breathtaking audacity: a single bomber launched from a remote island airbase to carry out what would be the longest-range air attack in history. An 8,000-mile round-trip.
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Wow, incredibly gripping and entertaining
- De MortonC en 09-10-24
De: Rowland White
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Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway
- De: David Rigby
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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The story of the man who won the battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States. During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told - until now.
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This biographer is obsessed
- De J. S. Harbour en 05-17-20
De: David Rigby
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Firestorm
- Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden
- De: Marshall De Bruhl
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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On February 13 and 14, 1945, three successive waves of British and U.S. aircraft rained down thousands of tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on the largely undefended German city of Dresden. Night and day, Dresden was engulfed in a vast sea of flame, a firestorm that generated 1,500-degree temperatures and hurricane-force winds. Thousands suffocated in underground shelters where they had fled to escape the inferno above.
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slanted view of air attacks during war
- De Ed Yusis en 03-31-14
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Dam Busters
- The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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The night of 16 May, 1943: Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000-lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine.
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A must for anyone interested in Air Warfare
- De Jim In Texas! en 03-24-14
De: James Holland
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
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Listen to the same story on his podcast for free
- De Dustin en 04-28-21
De: Malcolm Gladwell
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Beyond Valor
- A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrificial Love, and a Race Against Time
- De: Jon Erwin, William Doyle
- Narrado por: Zach Hoffman, Jon Erwin
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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On April 12, 1945, a fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission was simple: Stop World War II by burning the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese empire, thereby forcing an unconditional surrender. But it didn't go as planned. Onboard one of the B-29s, the City of Los Angeles, a phosphorus bomb detonated inside the plane. Staff Sergeant Henry E. "Red" Erwin absorbed the blast of burning phosphorus and managed to throw the still-flaming bomb overboard before collapsing from the third-degree burns that covered his body.
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One of the best books I’ve ever listened to!!!
- De katherine en 09-15-20
De: Jon Erwin, y otros
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Whirlwind
- The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945
- De: Barrett Tillman
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Whirlwind is the only book to examine in depth the human drama behind the most important bombing campaign in history. While the air war against Nazi Germany has been covered in-depth by many books, Barrett Tillman, a renowned authority on military aircraft and the air war in the Pacific, is the first to tackle the air war against Japan. For decades, historians and politicians have debated whether or not Japan was on the verge of surrender in August 1945---before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Good, but ultimately disappointing
- De Michael en 10-16-10
De: Barrett Tillman
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Spitfire
- Portrait of a Legend
- De: Leo McKinstry
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 19 h y 48 m
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The gripping saga of the plane that carried Britain through the Second World War. In June 1940, the German army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future of Europe depended on Britain.
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Fills in the gaps.
- De Glenn en 10-22-18
De: Leo McKinstry
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Dead Reckoning
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“AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL.” At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center frantically typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on the American navy stationed in Hawaii. In a little over two hours, the Japanese killed more than 2,400 Americans and propelled the US’s entry into World War II. Dead Reckoning is the story of the mission to avenge that devastating strike.
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Half Soap Opera, target audience 20 something male
- De Donald L. Hogan en 03-20-21
De: Dick Lehr
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The Cold War's Killing Fields
- Rethinking the Long Peace
- De: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
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In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold War, long viewed as a mostly peaceful, if tense, diplomatic standoff between democracy and communism, was actually a part of a vast, deadly conflict that killed millions on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. For half a century, as an uneasy peace hung over Europe, ferocious proxy wars raged in the Cold War’s killing fields, resulting in more than 14 million dead - victims who remain largely forgotten and all but lost to history.
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Interesting but Biased
- De Jonathan W Schneider en 08-13-18
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The Rifle
- Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand
- De: Andrew Biggio
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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The Rifle is the inspirational story of a 28-year-old US Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived the costliest war of all - WWII veterans. It began when Biggio bought a 1945 M1 Garand Rifle, the most common rifle used in WWII. When Biggio showed the gun to his neighbor, WWII veteran Corporal Joseph Drago, it unlocked memories Drago had kept unspoken for 50 years.
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A must read
- De david cohen en 06-03-21
De: Andrew Biggio
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Beyond
- The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
- De: Stephen Walker
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - 10 times faster than a rifle bullet - Yuri Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows, he sees the Earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing, he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary.
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A remarkable story on many levels
- De Dipam en 03-22-22
De: Stephen Walker
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Bomber
- De: Len Deighton, Malcolm Gladwell (Introduction)
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip, Malcolm Gladwell (Introduction), Len Deighton (Author's Note)
- Duración: 21 h y 25 m
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Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team. Victor von Löwenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAF bombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. And Hansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambert and his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It’s a night that many will never forget. Bomber is a masterful, gripping minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours.
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Great writing, awful narrartion
- De JW en 09-11-23
De: Len Deighton, y otros
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No Shadows in the Desert
- Murder, Espionage, Vengeance, and the Untold Story of the Destruction of ISIS
- De: Samuel M. Katz
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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No Shadows in the Desert reveals the untold story of the behind-the-scenes fight against ISIS - one coordinated by heads of state and ultimately fought in the alleyways and open deserts of the Middle Eastern battlefield by spies and soldiers. Samuel M. Katz draws upon his sources within the global intelligence and counterterrorism community, as well as the international special operations and espionage fraternity, to tell the story of the covert campaign against ISIS by the operatives who ventured deeply and secretly into enemy territory.
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Simply Anti- Trump writer
- De Shon Cooke en 07-03-21
De: Samuel M. Katz
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Dead Reckoning
- The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor
- De: Dick Lehr
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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“AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL.” At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center frantically typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on the American navy stationed in Hawaii. In a little over two hours, the Japanese killed more than 2,400 Americans and propelled the US’s entry into World War II. Dead Reckoning is the story of the mission to avenge that devastating strike.
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Half Soap Opera, target audience 20 something male
- De Donald L. Hogan en 03-20-21
De: Dick Lehr
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The Cold War's Killing Fields
- Rethinking the Long Peace
- De: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
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In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold War, long viewed as a mostly peaceful, if tense, diplomatic standoff between democracy and communism, was actually a part of a vast, deadly conflict that killed millions on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. For half a century, as an uneasy peace hung over Europe, ferocious proxy wars raged in the Cold War’s killing fields, resulting in more than 14 million dead - victims who remain largely forgotten and all but lost to history.
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Interesting but Biased
- De Jonathan W Schneider en 08-13-18
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The Rifle
- Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand
- De: Andrew Biggio
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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The Rifle is the inspirational story of a 28-year-old US Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived the costliest war of all - WWII veterans. It began when Biggio bought a 1945 M1 Garand Rifle, the most common rifle used in WWII. When Biggio showed the gun to his neighbor, WWII veteran Corporal Joseph Drago, it unlocked memories Drago had kept unspoken for 50 years.
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A must read
- De david cohen en 06-03-21
De: Andrew Biggio
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Beyond
- The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
- De: Stephen Walker
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
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Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - 10 times faster than a rifle bullet - Yuri Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows, he sees the Earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing, he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary.
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A remarkable story on many levels
- De Dipam en 03-22-22
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Bomber
- De: Len Deighton, Malcolm Gladwell (Introduction)
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Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team. Victor von Löwenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAF bombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. And Hansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambert and his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It’s a night that many will never forget. Bomber is a masterful, gripping minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours.
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Great writing, awful narrartion
- De JW en 09-11-23
De: Len Deighton, y otros
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No Shadows in the Desert
- Murder, Espionage, Vengeance, and the Untold Story of the Destruction of ISIS
- De: Samuel M. Katz
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
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No Shadows in the Desert reveals the untold story of the behind-the-scenes fight against ISIS - one coordinated by heads of state and ultimately fought in the alleyways and open deserts of the Middle Eastern battlefield by spies and soldiers. Samuel M. Katz draws upon his sources within the global intelligence and counterterrorism community, as well as the international special operations and espionage fraternity, to tell the story of the covert campaign against ISIS by the operatives who ventured deeply and secretly into enemy territory.
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Simply Anti- Trump writer
- De Shon Cooke en 07-03-21
De: Samuel M. Katz
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Operation Pedestal
- The Fleet that Battled to Malta, 1942
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta - an action-packed tale of courage, fortitude, loss, and triumph against all odds.
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Sir Max Hastings at his best
- De J.Brock en 10-27-22
De: Max Hastings
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To Rule the Waves
- How Control of the World's Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers
- De: Bruce Jones
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit.
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Eye opener of how the seas impact today
- De Thomas VandeVanter en 03-11-23
De: Bruce Jones
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The Great Halifax Explosion
- A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
- De: John U. Bacon
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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From best-selling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima. On Monday, December 3, 1917, the French freighter SS Mont-Blanc set sail from Brooklyn carrying the largest cache of explosives ever loaded onto a ship, including 2,300 tons of picric acid, an unstable, poisonous chemical more powerful than TNT.
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Too much hostility towards Americans
- De bigdaddyKT en 12-14-19
De: John U. Bacon
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1917
- Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
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In this incisive, fast-paced history, New York Times best-selling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. Through the end of World War I, countries marched into war only to increase or protect their national interests. After World War I, countries began going to war over ideas. Together, Lenin and Wilson unleashed the disruptive ideologies that would sweep the world, from nationalism and globalism to Communism and terrorism, and that continue to shape our world today.
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Another book you wish was part of every university world history curriculum
- De BeZot en 11-26-18
De: Arthur Herman
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Pacific Glory
- World War II Navy, Book 1
- De: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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Marsh Vincent, Mick McCarty, and Tommy Lewis were inseparable friends during their naval academy years, each man in love with the beautiful, unattainable Glory Hawthorne. Only Tommy wins her heart and marries Glory after graduation. Different skills set the three men on separate paths in the Navy, but they are all forever changed by the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
Glory, now Tommy’s widow, is a tough Navy nurse still grieving her loss while trying to save lives at the Pearl Harbor naval hospital.
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Best of PT Deutermann
- De MM en 11-27-11
De: P. T. Deutermann
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Three Days at the Brink
- FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
- De: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrado por: Bret Baier
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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From the number-one best-selling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II - the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin plotted the war's endgame, including the D-Day invasion.
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A history lesson and SO much more
- De ScottG en 11-18-19
De: Bret Baier, y otros
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Into Siberia
- George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
- De: Gregory J. Wallance
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs, or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear.
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History and Adventure
- De David en 03-15-24
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Out of the Mountains
- The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
- De: David Kilcullen
- Narrado por: Christopher Kipiniak
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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When Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan. But the face of global conflict is ever-changing. In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on current and future conflict, offers a groundbreaking look at what may happen after today's wars end.
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Insightful analysis
- De Anon en 11-06-19
De: David Kilcullen
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I)
- From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
- De: William J. Bennett
- Narrado por: Wayne Shepherd
- Duración: 19 h y 25 m
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With command and wit, William J. Bennett reacquaints Americans with their heritage in an engaging narrative that cuts through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism. Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and others reemerge not as marble icons or dust-dry names in a textbook, but as full-blooded, heroic pioneers whose far-reaching vision forged a nation that attracted - that still attracts - millions yearning to breathe free.
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Would be a great required read for High School & Citizenship
- De Nichole en 01-09-22
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The House of Government
- A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- De: Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 45 h y 9 m
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.
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Inside saga of the leaders of Bolshevism & the USSR
- De Edward V. Blanchard en 11-05-17
De: Yuri Slezkine, y otros
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Retribution
- The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 27 h y 41 m
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In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan. By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan’s defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained to be seen. The ensuing drama–that ended in Japan’s utter devastation–was acted out across the vast stage of Asia.
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A superb study by one of the world's finest histor
- De Easton Reader en 12-22-16
De: Max Hastings
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The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 30 h y 39 m
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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
- De B. In -t Veld en 03-25-17
De: Max Hastings
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Operation Chastise
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- Robert from Brookline
- 06-01-22
Excellent
Forget about the movie Dam busters. This is the true story of the man who attempted to bust dams in Germany.
Well written, Well narrated and definitely worth reading.
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- Eric B. Smith
- 01-06-23
More detailed than the movie.
If you enjoy history books that detail little known WW II actions or events readers will learn a-lot about the evolution, and successful allied Dam Busters mission.
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- GERRARD-GOUGH
- 06-07-24
JUST A BIT OUTSIDE
As with most all of Max Hastings books, it is filled with detail and written very well. My biggest complaint about this book is MH's lumping this raid along with many city bombing ie Dresden as equivalent. So to paraphrase Bob Uecker this is just a bit outside or over the top. 56 men died in this attack on a specific target and about 1200 to 1500 civilians died as a result. Compared to so many other operations done by Germans, British, and Americans, this raid is very different. Also many of the civilian deaths were due in a poor response from the Germans. Also, many of the deaths--mostly women-- who were slave laborers being starved and worked to death. I bring this up because in another book many Jews in the camps wished the allies had bombed the camps. Churchill asked the free French his concerns about bombing France and the expected civilian casualties and was told by the French to proceed for to free France this was to be expected. Sorry to prattle but this really bothered me.
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- Frank Hamilton
- 08-15-20
A thorough, balanced historical narrative
This is but another gem of accurate, balanced military history from a highly respected historian.
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- Tim Speidel
- 03-15-20
Beautifully written and read.
A beautifully written, anti-triumphalist description of this brilliant feat of arms and the doomed characters who both accomplished it and suffered the consequences. Exciting and soul searching. Listeners will mourn the pilots and their till now unconsidered victims equally.
A remarkable accomplishment, to produce both a breathtaking adventure and heartbreaking tragedy.
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- Deresky
- 05-07-20
The story behind the myths and propaganda
A fain and interesting insight into a mythical part of the highly destructive but now clearly seriously devalued bombing offensive by the allies in WW2 and this mission. A great insight for any student of air warfare.
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- Francis J. Slobodnik
- 03-05-23
Great book but leave the garbage out.
Great, great story of an heroic mission.
My one reservation is that why does the immoral aspects as in fornication and adultery need to be presented? No bearing on the story.
I guess in a hyper-sexualized culture authors think they will sell more books.
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- John Gelb
- 04-03-20
Moving Gripping & Beautifully Written
Having read a favorable review of this title in the Wall St Journal (for me personally, a remarkably reliable source for book reviews), I bought Operation Chastise for Audible. I was instantly drawn in to the telling of this amazing story, both scientific, leadership and execution. Shout-out to Peter Noble for his emotive and perfect execution of the narration.
For historical, WWII stories, this was one of my favorite books in a long time.
The author, Max Hastings, a literary legend himself, peels the onion in storytelling about the concept and development of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bombs, RAF infighting led by Bomber Command Chief Arthur Harris, and of course the “boy” Guy Gibson and his #617 Squadron airmen who flew the 1943 raid under his youthful command.
The telling of this Great War story, rich with details at every level, was so enjoyable that I found myself looking for every opportunity to take drives, pull out my AirPods, and just listen.
If the Allied air war against Nazi Germany is of interest to you, get this great book! It will not disappoint.
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- J.Brock
- 09-01-21
Sir Max Hastings at his best
Sir Max Hastings never fails to deliver. Operation Chastise has been analyzed by historians again and again, but Hastings always leaves his indelible mark. It’s like hearing the history for the first time. Unbiased and with gusto, he leaves the reader wondering if this is a thriller or true factual history. What a gift. And Peter Noble is never better.
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- Phillip Goodwin
- 06-10-24
Nuanced view of one of WW2's most daring air raids.
A powerful story, presented with an understated delivery. Tries to present the views of all those concerned both before and after the raid. Nevertheless, the author presents an unequivocally critical view of "Bomber" Harris from every conceivable angle.
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