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‘Young Man - You’ll Never Die’
- By: Merton Naydler
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Merton Naydler joined the RAF at the age of 19 and served for the next six years until May 1946. This extremely entertaining memoir portrays wartime life in the desert environment where sand and flies and life under canvas made living and flying a daunting experience....
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Paddy Mayne
- Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment
- By: Hamish Ross
- Narrated by: Alan Turkington
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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‘Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War....
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Good
- By Mandy Purvis on 29-04-2024
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Sniper One
- The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege
- By: Dan Mills
- Narrated by: Josh Dylan
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Dan Mills and his platoon of snipers flew into Southern Iraq, part of an infantry battalion sent to win hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives....
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Great authentic no frills, non-stop action.
- By Wayne Edwards on 02-01-2018
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The Pacific
- Hell Was an Ocean Away
- By: Hugh Ambrose
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 23 hrs and 55 mins
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In The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of the five men who put their lives on the line for our country during World War II....
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Everything I wanted.
- By Anonymous User on 24-10-2019
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Adolf Hitler
- My Part in His Downfall
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train....
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Wonderful
- By Mandy on 27-09-2023
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Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition
- Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
- By: Adam Makos, Marcus Brotherton - contributor
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Michael Crouch, Kimberly Farr
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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From the best-selling author of A Higher Call and Spearhead comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivotal battles during the Pacific War, a classic book now expanded with new stories....
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Really good. gripping and soul moving
- By Jackson Dean on 04-12-2023
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‘Young Man - You’ll Never Die’
- By: Merton Naydler
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Merton Naydler joined the RAF at the age of 19 and served for the next six years until May 1946. This extremely entertaining memoir portrays wartime life in the desert environment where sand and flies and life under canvas made living and flying a daunting experience....
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Paddy Mayne
- Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment
- By: Hamish Ross
- Narrated by: Alan Turkington
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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‘Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War....
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Good
- By Mandy Purvis on 29-04-2024
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Sniper One
- The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege
- By: Dan Mills
- Narrated by: Josh Dylan
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Dan Mills and his platoon of snipers flew into Southern Iraq, part of an infantry battalion sent to win hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives....
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Great authentic no frills, non-stop action.
- By Wayne Edwards on 02-01-2018
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The Pacific
- Hell Was an Ocean Away
- By: Hugh Ambrose
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 23 hrs and 55 mins
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In The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of the five men who put their lives on the line for our country during World War II....
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Everything I wanted.
- By Anonymous User on 24-10-2019
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Adolf Hitler
- My Part in His Downfall
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train....
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Wonderful
- By Mandy on 27-09-2023
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Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition
- Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
- By: Adam Makos, Marcus Brotherton - contributor
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Michael Crouch, Kimberly Farr
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of A Higher Call and Spearhead comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivotal battles during the Pacific War, a classic book now expanded with new stories....
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Really good. gripping and soul moving
- By Jackson Dean on 04-12-2023
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Winkle
- The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot
- By: Paul Beaver
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd, Paul Beaver
- Length: 11 hrs
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The daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot....
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Against All Odds
- A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
- By: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice “Footsie” Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war....
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Top class story telling
- By Pipc on 02-08-2023
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Yeager
- An Autobiography
- By: Chuck Yeager
- Narrated by: Chris Browning, Pamela Dillman, David Stifel, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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General Chuck Yeager was the greatest test pilot of them all - the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound....
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Fantastic Listen
- By Anonymous User on 11-01-2024
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The Nuremberg Interviews
- An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses
- By: Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine, Joshua Kane
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial....
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Left for Dead at Nijmegen
- The True Story of an American Paratrooper in World War II
- By: Marcus A. Nannini
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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When Metcalfe boarded the C-47 which would drop him at Groesbeek Heights, just outside of Nijmegen, Holland, he was handed a box of twelve dozen condoms by an overconfident British lieutenant. He was to be among the first to jump into what should have been a picture-book meadow....
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Authentic
- By Mike on 05-04-2024
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What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler
- By: Robert J. Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina....
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Thorough and clear analysis
- By Louise on 22-04-2022
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Blood, Dust and Snow
- Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front
- By: Friedrich Sander, Robin Schafer - editor translator, Roger Moorhouse - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephan Goldbach
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed firsthand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment....
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great book
- By Andrew on 14-08-2023
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Stubborn Buggers
- The Survivors of the Infamous POW Gaol That Made Changi Look Like Heaven
- By: Tim Bowden
- Narrated by: Tim Bowden
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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It made Changi seem like heaven.'There was a place far worse than Changi – Singapore's Outram Road Gaol....
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A great read
- By Pano on 10-03-2019
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
- A Confrontation in the Desert
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually....
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Fight on, Spike
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2023
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The Admirals
- Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
- By: Walter Borneman
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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The Admirals tells the story of how history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power....
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Just Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 28-04-2024
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The Fleet at Flood Tide
- America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
- By: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
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The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower....
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A Mighty Historical Overview
- By Hamish on 19-05-2017
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Tank Action
- An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45
- By: Captain David Render, Stuart Tootal
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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In 1944, David Render was a 19-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to last long....
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A great story
- By Samuel Peacocke on 22-09-2019
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A Doctor's War
- By: Aidan MacCarthy
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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As a RAF medical officer, Aidan McCarthy served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes....
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A Wing and a Prayer
- The “Bloody 100th” Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II
- By: Harry H. Crosby
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom....
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A must read!
- By Anonymous User on 01-03-2024
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Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer
- By: Alastair Panton
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer by Alastair Panton, one of the most moving, vivid and powerful accounts of war in the air ever written....
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Could not put this book down!
- By Slywolff on 05-03-2020
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D DAY Through German Eyes
- The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
- By: Holger Eckhertz
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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We see a perspective of D-Day which deserves to be added to the historical record, in which ordinary German troops struggled to make sense of the onslaught that was facing them....
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Great 1st hand accounts
- By Jan on 02-02-2018
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Sisters in Captivity
- Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Courageous Story of Australian Army Nurses in Sumatra, 1942–1945
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Sisters in Captivity is the incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of hospital ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra....
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Great Narrator
- By Anonymous User on 26-04-2024
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Bastard Behind the Lines
- The Extraordinary Story of Jock McLaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese
- By: Tom Gilling
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's great World War II guerrilla fighters....
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text book rather than a story
- By Anonymous User on 01-06-2021
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2SAS
- Bill Stirling and the Forgotten Special Forces Unit of World War II
- By: Gavin Mortimer
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS – pioneering founders of modern special forces....
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An important addition
- By DavidJ on 23-10-2023
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Beaufighter Boys
- True Tales from Those Who Flew Bristol’s Mighty Twin
- By: Graham Pitchfork, ACM Sir David Cousins KCB AFC RAF [RTD] - foreword
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Researched many years ago by the author for a project which did not come to fruition, Beaufighter air and ground crew gave freely of their stories which ranged from complete memoirs to brief anecdotes....
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Why?
- By Spiff on 21-06-2021
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Guadalcanal Diary
- 2nd Edition
- By: Richard Tregaskis
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles; crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all....
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Very insightful
- By L. Knight on 15-12-2021
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No Surrender
- My Thirty-Year War
- By: Hiroo Onoda
- Narrated by: Lane Nishikawa
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal....
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incredible story
- By Anonymous User on 22-09-2020
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Erich Hartmann
- The Life and Legacy of the Luftwaffe’s Top Fighter Ace During World War II
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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The Third Reich's Luftwaffe began World War II with significant advantages over other European air forces, playing a critical role in the German war machine's swift, powerful advance....
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Missing
- A World War II Story of Love, Friendships, Courage, and Survival
- By: Kenneth D. Evans
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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On day nine of the Battle of the Bulge, flying his P-47 fighter plane, Second Lt. Donald N. Evans was shot down behind enemy lines and reported missing....
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Patton's War: An American General's Combat Leadership, Volume 2: August-December 1944
- American Military Experience
- By: Kevin M. Hymel
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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This second of three volumes of Patton’s War picks up where the first one left off, examining General George S. Patton’s leadership of the U.S. Third Army. The book follows Patton’s contributions to both the Normandy and Brittany campaigns—the closing of the Falaise Pocket in Normandy, and racing to the port cities in Brittany. It ends with Patton and his corps rescuing the besieged town of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. As he did in the preceding volume, Hymel relies not only on Patton’s diaries and letters, but countless veteran interviews, surveys, and memoirs.
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The Heavy Water War
- Beating Hitler to the Bomb
- By: John Sadler
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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During the course of the Second World War, the Allies mounted a series of attempts to prevent Germany from manufacturing heavy water utilizing hydroelectric plants in occupied Norway. These efforts comprised a mix of bomber and Commando raids. The overall aim was to stop Nazi Germany building a nuclear bomb. In fact, Hitler was never as close as the Allies thought, but the idea that his regime could construct and deploy such a device was the ultimate doomsday scenario, one that would have tilted the balance in favor of the Nazis.
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Churchill's D-Day
- The Inside Story
- By: Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Richard Attlee
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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2024 marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Churchill himself. This book brings together General Lord Dannatt, one of Britain's most respected contemporary military leaders, and former head of the British Army, with Allen Packwood, one of the world's foremost Churchill experts, the archivist responsible for the holdings at the landmark Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. Together they take us through the decision-making for the planning and execution of D-Day.
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Into the Cold Blue
- My World War II Journeys with the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- By: John Homan, Jared Frederick - contributor
- Narrated by: Eric Torres
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the Pearl Harbor attack. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, raining death and destruction on the enemy. This first-person account of his harrowing missions—chronicling deadly flights through skies of red-hot flak bursts and airmen bailing out with parachutes aflame—will leave listeners staggered by the determination and grit of World War II aviators.
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MacArthur Reconsidered
- General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander
- By: James Ellman
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur's rise through the US Army's ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the Philippines in 1941. When war commenced with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, MacArthur's performance on the battlefield was a failure: he underestimated the Japanese, and his poorly trained forces were outmaneuvered and outfought by a much smaller invading force.
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The War We Won Apart
- The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
- By: Nahlah Ayed
- Narrated by: Nahlah Ayed
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other.
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Patton's War: An American General's Combat Leadership, Volume 2: August-December 1944
- American Military Experience
- By: Kevin M. Hymel
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This second of three volumes of Patton’s War picks up where the first one left off, examining General George S. Patton’s leadership of the U.S. Third Army. The book follows Patton’s contributions to both the Normandy and Brittany campaigns—the closing of the Falaise Pocket in Normandy, and racing to the port cities in Brittany. It ends with Patton and his corps rescuing the besieged town of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. As he did in the preceding volume, Hymel relies not only on Patton’s diaries and letters, but countless veteran interviews, surveys, and memoirs.
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The Heavy Water War
- Beating Hitler to the Bomb
- By: John Sadler
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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During the course of the Second World War, the Allies mounted a series of attempts to prevent Germany from manufacturing heavy water utilizing hydroelectric plants in occupied Norway. These efforts comprised a mix of bomber and Commando raids. The overall aim was to stop Nazi Germany building a nuclear bomb. In fact, Hitler was never as close as the Allies thought, but the idea that his regime could construct and deploy such a device was the ultimate doomsday scenario, one that would have tilted the balance in favor of the Nazis.
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Churchill's D-Day
- The Inside Story
- By: Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Richard Attlee
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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2024 marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Churchill himself. This book brings together General Lord Dannatt, one of Britain's most respected contemporary military leaders, and former head of the British Army, with Allen Packwood, one of the world's foremost Churchill experts, the archivist responsible for the holdings at the landmark Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. Together they take us through the decision-making for the planning and execution of D-Day.
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Into the Cold Blue
- My World War II Journeys with the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- By: John Homan, Jared Frederick - contributor
- Narrated by: Eric Torres
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the Pearl Harbor attack. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, raining death and destruction on the enemy. This first-person account of his harrowing missions—chronicling deadly flights through skies of red-hot flak bursts and airmen bailing out with parachutes aflame—will leave listeners staggered by the determination and grit of World War II aviators.
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MacArthur Reconsidered
- General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander
- By: James Ellman
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur's rise through the US Army's ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the Philippines in 1941. When war commenced with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, MacArthur's performance on the battlefield was a failure: he underestimated the Japanese, and his poorly trained forces were outmaneuvered and outfought by a much smaller invading force.
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The War We Won Apart
- The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
- By: Nahlah Ayed
- Narrated by: Nahlah Ayed
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other.
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations.
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My Sins Go with Me
- A Story of Heroism and Betrayal in the Dutch Resistance
- By: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna-Maria van der Vaart is 104, remarkably independent despite her failing eyesight, living on the south coast of England. During the darkest days of the war, in her home country of Holland, she sheltered Allied pilots, gave refuge to persecuted Jews and stood up to the Nazis by participating in audacious acts of resistance. The Dutch turned more Jews over to the Nazis than any other nation. There were traitors in every Resistance cell, the juxtaposition of valour and treachery poignant and tragic. A chance meeting with Anna-Maria led to her telling him her story.
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I’m in the Army Now
- World War 2 Letters, of Glenn Max Whitacre
- By: Martin Whitacre
- Narrated by: William Savage
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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These letters were discovered in an Army Air Force footlocker after being locked away for almost 80 years. Follow the story of one World War 2 Army Air Force soldier, Glenn Max Whitacre, from Bowling Green Ohio through basic training, schooling, combat prep, and into battle. He wrote home almost every day to keep in touch with his family, his friends, and the girl he loved. While also sharing details of everyday military life, as he prepares for, and eventually enters into the battle.
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Agent Zo
- The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
- By: Clare Mulley
- Narrated by: Clare Mulley, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland.
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My Mameleh
- A Memoir
- By: Mariette Goldberg
- Narrated by: Cherry McIntosh
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
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It was late, dark and cold. The little band of travelers were huddled together on the bench of an old train hoping to escape the tightening Nazi noose. Suddenly, they heard the conductor's loud voice, Vos papiers, s'il vous plaît! (Papers, please!). My mother's identity card had been stamped not once, but twice with the word, Juif. She knew that her life and that of her friends now rested in the palms of a stranger, a government official whose job it was to hand them over to the Germans.
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Raoul Wallenberg: A Life from Beginning to End
- World War 2 Biographies
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Raoul Wallenberg lived at a time when one of the worst outrages of inhumanity was occurring: the Holocaust. As a Swedish businessman in Hungary, he bore witness to this tragedy firsthand as Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to Auschwitz.
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The Traitor of Arnhem
- WWII’s Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
- By: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Following the Western Allies' overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are all prepared to shape the future, and Operation Market Garden is Britain's attempt to beat the Russians to Berlin and be the first to help craft the new world order. With 10,000 men dropped into Arnhem and another 20,000 in Grave, the British are set to secure the area and declare victory. However, Dutch resistance hero Christian Lindemans has other plans. Lindemans is determined to help the Germans gain the lead in the war and begins to dismantle the operation from within.
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Fighting the Night
- Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life
- By: Paul Hendrickson
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Paul Hendrickson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author’s father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait out the war at the home of her small-town Ohio parents.
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Why Hitler Lost World War II
- The Story of How Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely (The WW2 History Journals)
- By: The History Journals, Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 41 mins
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When you look through the history books, even those of more recent years, the pages are full of wars, and whether between ancient dynasties or modern states, the horrific consequences always leave readers and listeners wondering how such atrocities can happen. However, to learn from the past is of vital importance for the generations that follow, despite on occasion, humanity, seeming to make the same mistakes, over and over again.
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The Last Secret Agent
- By: Jude Dobson, Pippa Latour Doyle
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations Executive, Pippa was lauded for her fluency with languages and her coding ability—both attributes she put to remarkable use as she posed as a teenage soap seller, often selling soap to the German soldiers, and sending back information via code to the UK.
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- By Anonymous User on 17-05-2024
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Shots Fired in Anger
- A Rifleman's View of Battle of Guadalcanal
- By: John B. George
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
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"Shots Fired in Anger" by Lt. Col. John George is a compelling memoir and technical analysis from the front lines of the Burma campaign during World War II. Drawing upon his personal experiences, George provides an insightful narrative that offers a detailed look at the challenges and realities of combat against the Japanese forces. Not merely a collection of war stories, the book stands out for its in-depth evaluation of the small arms and weaponry used in the conflict, blending historical significance with technical expertise.
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The Illusionist
- The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
- By: Robert Hutton
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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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, he was a well-known figure in the local bars. If you then asked what he did, you would have less success. Clarke thought of himself as developing a new kind of weapon. Its components? Rumour, stagecraft, a sense of fun. Its target? The mind of Erwin Rommel, Hitler's greatest general. Throughout history, military commanders have sought to mislead their opponents. Dudley Clarke set out to do it on a scale no one had imagined before.