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Title: A World at War

Series: #4 of The Turning Points of History

Author: World History

Narrator: David Bateson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Release date: October 30, 2020

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

On 9th August, 1945, American pilot Charles W Sweeney threw a nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. 43 seconds later, his deadly cargo exploded in the air over the port city and turned the thriving city centre into a molten ruin. Up to 70,000 people lost their lives. The atomic bombs which were dropped on the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the culmination of six years of horror. Since Nazi Germany’s troops had invaded Poland in 1939 and thus threw the world into another great war, the fighting had evolved into the most ruthless that the world has ever seen. But the brutality did not stop on the battlefield. Hundreds of thousands of civilians lost their lives in random carpet bombings or were victims of bitter soldiers’ revenge, while an entire people were attempted to be wiped out in the Nazi death camps. A World at War is not at all easy reading. It is, like the war, at the same time, in equal measures both awful and fascinating. - World History invites you on a fascinating journey to bygone eras, allowing you to explore the greatest events in history. Take a trip back in time - to the frontlines of World War 2, to the Viking raids, and the religious rituals of ancient Egypt. World History is for everyone who would like to know more about the exciting and dramatic events of the past.

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Title: Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Author: Laurence Rees

Narrator: John Sackville

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Release date: October 29, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees shows that Hitler and Stalin were, to a large extent, different sides of the same coin. Hitler's charismatic leadership may contrast with Stalin's regimented rule by fear; and his intransigence later in the war may contrast with Stalin's change in behaviour in response to events. But at a macro level, both were prepared to create undreamt-of suffering, destroy individual liberty and twist facts in order to build the utopias they wanted, and while Hitler's creation of the Holocaust remains a singular crime, Rees shows why we must not forget that Stalin committed a series of atrocities at the same time. Using previously unpublished, startling eyewitness testimony from soldiers of the Red Army and Wehrmacht, civilians who suffered during the conflict and those who knew both men personally, bestselling historian Laurence Rees - probably the only person alive who has met Germans who worked for Hitler and Russians who worked for Stalin - challenges long-held popular misconceptions about two of the most important figures in history. This is a master work from one of our finest historians. 'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler - Hubris and Hitler - Nemesis © Laurence Rees 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer

Author: Jennet Conant

Narrator: John Kroft

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Release date: October 29, 2020

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Alexander, a doctor and chemical weapons expert, was dispatched to investigate. He quickly diagnosed mustard gas exposure, worked in concert to suppress. But Alexander heroically persevered in his investigation. His breakthrough observations about the toxic effects of mustard on white blood cells caught the attention of Colonel Cornelius P. Rhoads—a pioneering research scientist—who recognized that the poison was both a killer and a cure, and was instrumental in ushering in a new era of cancer research. The Great Secret is a remarkable story of how horrific tragedy gave birth to medical triumph.

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Title: Every Mother's Son: 77 Days at Khe Sanh

Author: K.M. Loftin

Narrator: David De Vries

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Every man serving in Vietnam was 'Every Mother's Son.' In 1968, The Marine helicopter crews during the seventy-seven-day Siege of Khe Sanh risked everything, every day to keep the surrounding Marine hill positions alive and viable. The North Vietnamese Army committed over 20,000 troops to destroying the Marine hill positions and the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The small Marine outposts were transformed into highly effective kill zones, as the enemy slammed the landing zones with rockets, mortars, artillery, and automatic weapons fire. The Marine helicopter pilots and crews of HMM-262 dedicated their lives to saving their Marine brothers. This is their story.

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Title: Civil War Commando: William Cushing and the Daring Raid to Sink the Ironclad CSS Albemarle

Author: Jerome Preisler

Narrator: Peter Bradbury

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Release date: October 20, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Civil War Ironclads and CommandosHere at last is an action-packed portrait of one of America’s greatest but little-remembered Civil War heroes, Commander William Barker Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle in a spectacular mission in 1864. Regarded as erratic and insubordinate, Midshipman Cushing was drummed out of the Naval Academy in March 1861. But with the outbreak of war, the Union needed every trained officer it could find —and whatever his flaws, Cushing was an extremely talented naval officer. Ferocious, uncompromising, courageous, and loyal, he became a U.S. Navy commando and at the age of twenty-one was sent to destroy the South’s ultimate naval weapon—the Albemarle,an unsinkable vessel with a devastating iron ram. This death-defying mission succeeded in sinking the Albemarle, helped reelect President Abraham Lincoln, and earned Cushing a hero’s grave in the Naval Academy’s cemetery. Here is that story, told with all the verve and drama it deserves, shining new light on one of the most important naval encounters of the war. Civil War Commando is a masterpiece of naval history that reads like a thriller and gives a neglected hero his due.

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Title: November 1918: The German Revolution

Author: Robert Gerwarth

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Release date: October 20, 2020

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. Robert Gerwarth argues here that to view the German Revolution in this way is a serious misjudgement. Not only did it bring down the authoritarian monarchy of the Hohenzollern, it also brought into being the first ever German democracy in an amazingly bloodless way. Focusing on the dramatic events between the last months of the First World War in 1918 and Hitler's Munich Putsch of 1923, Robert Gerwarth illuminates the fundamental and deep-seated ways in which the November Revolution changed Germany. In doing so, he reminds us that, while it is easy with the benefit of hindsight to write off the 1918 Revolution as a 'failure,' this failure was not somehow pre-ordained. In 1918, the fate of the German Revolution remained very much an open book.

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Title: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

Author: James L. Nolan Jr.

Narrator: Adam Lofbomm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Release date: October 20, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the 'Little Boy' bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan's instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity.

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Title: Incredible Weapons

Series: #12 of A World at War - Stories from WWII

Author: World History

Narrator: Sam Devereaux

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Release date: October 13, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Luftwaffe pilots fear one weapon more than any other: British Spitfires. Powerful Rolls Royce engines and an ingenious design make the plane fast and manoeuvrable. In 1940, Spitfires and their fearless pilots resist Hitler’s attempts to bomb Britain to submission. The fighter’s success forces Germany’s leaders to develop even more powerful weapons. London is targeted by V-1 and V-2 bombs, forerunners of the Saturn V moon rocket. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front the supergun Schwerer Gustav fires shells at targets 47 kilometres away. It’s the heaviest gun in history at over 1,300 tonnes. Nevertheless, the juggernauts cannot prevent the Nazis’ defeat. With new weapons like the Mosquito bomber, designed to be built from a kit, the Allies slowly crush the Third Reich. In 1945, the atomic bomb also forces Japan to raise the white flag. Incredible Weapons explores the war’s wildest weapons –including crazy projects like an aircraft carrier built from ice that came close to becoming a reality. - World History invites you on a fascinating journey to bygone eras, allowing you to explore the greatest events in history. Take a trip back in time - to the frontlines of World War 2, to the Viking raids, and the religious rituals of ancient Egypt. World History is for everyone who would like to know more about the exciting and dramatic events of the past.

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Title: Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy

Narrator: Neil Dickson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Release date: October 13, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 16

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world -- and their rise and fall from power. Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time and building a new one in their place. He claimed to be the son of a god, but he was actually the son of Philip II of Macedon. Philip inherited a minor kingdom that was on the verge of dismemberment, but despite his youth and inexperience, he made Macedonia dominant throughout Greece. It was Philip who created the armies that Alexander led into war against Persia. In Philip and Alexander, classical historian Adrian Goldsworthy shows that without the work and influence of his father, Alexander could not have achieved so much. This is the groundbreaking biography of two men who together conquered the world.

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Title: [German] - Epitaph (Elegie auf die klassische Arbeiterbewegung)

Author: Robert Schediwy

Narrator: Robert Schediwy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 28 minutes

Release date: October 1, 2020

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Gewidmet den ehemaligen Angehörigen der Sozialistischen Arbeiterjugend der Zwanziger- und Dreißigerjahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, und denen, die als Junge diese Menschen in den Sechzigerjahren noch erlebten – und die heute auch nicht mehr jung sind.