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Title: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Subtitle: Stories from Rwanda

Author: Philip Gourevitch

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-20-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 185 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

National Book Critics Circle, Nonfiction, 1999

In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. This haunting work by Philip Gourevitch, staff writer for the New Yorker, is an anatomy of the killings in Rwanda, a vivid history of the genocide's background, and an unforgettable account of what it means to survive in its aftermath.

Critic Reviews:

"A sobering, revealing, and deeply thoughtful chronicle." (

Boston Globe)"[It is the] sobering voice of witness that Gourevitch has vividly captured in his work." (

New York Times Book Review)"The most important book I have read in many years....Gourevitch examines [the genocidal war in Rwanda] with humility, anger, grief and a remarkable level of both political and moral intelligence." (

Los Angeles Times)

Members Reviews:

Worth your time

I have educated myself on the conflict in Rwanda somewhat, but this book opens your eyes even wider.

Good background information, honest, exposes the hypocritical governmental and religious authorities involved. A thinking person can't help but ask, "What would I do in this situation?". Plus there are examples of fundamental good, by individuals who have determined to be governed by a higher moral standard (or you might say a MORAL standard period.) One that reflects simple human decency and responsibility to ones fellowman.

Dry but informative

A bit dry. Very journalistic. Credible. Good narration.

This book filled in the blanks

I had watched the movie "Hotel Rwanda" a few years ago and this audio "fleshed out" that story for me. Very sad that all this killing and violence continues. Many gruesome details, but important for us to know. I've been on an Africa "kick" reading lots of books about different countries of that continent, some fact some fiction. Put this on your list.

More important than ever in 2016

I listened to this book because it was mentioned by a guest on Ezra Klein's podcast (I can't even remember which guest now) as being very influential to his worldview. I started listening just after the 2016 US presidential election. The lessons from Rwanda seem more important and pressing now than ever.

The truth of the Rwandan Genocide...

Would you try another book from Philip Gourevitch and/or Jeff Cummings?

Absolutely.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I wouldn't change the truth.

What aspect of Jeff Cummingss performance would you have changed?

Nothing.

Could you see We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

No. The book tells it all. No need for a movie.

Any additional comments?

Read this interesting book and learn the real truth.

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Title: The Forgotten Man

Author: Amity Shlaes

Narrator: Terence Aselford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-07

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 674 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs.

The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II. It is why the Depression lasted so long. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great, in part by forgetting the men and women who sought to help one another. The Forgotten Man, offers a new look at one of the most important periods in our history, allowing us to understand the strength of the American character today.

Critic Reviews:

"A thoughtful, even-tempered corrective to too often unbalanced celebrations of FDR and his administration's pathbreaking policies." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

One of the Best Books On the Subject

This is absolutely one of the best books on the subject of the Great Depression. The depth that Ms. Shlaes go to in dealing with such subjects as the Schecters, and the personalities of the "brain-trust" and other details is superb.

I'm a former high school teacher and this is one of the books I recommend most often to my former students.

Student of history

If you want to know what is coming to our country. Look to our past. When socialism was tried it did not work in the 1930's and made the depression even longer and deeper. This book was an EYE opener

a story of forgotten times

This book really explains what happened in the Great Depression as individuals viewed what was happening.. this is a history that I did not get from any school I attended and I was a history major at an ivy league college.. a very interesting listen.. puts some flesh and bones on this period in our history.. strongly recommend this book.

Incredible!

This is the history we SHOULD have learned, but didn't, in school.

This is the Great Depression as you've never seen it. Even though you know what is coming, you feel the stress and fear of an oncoming train wreck! And I could see many of the same things happening now. I couldn't put it down!

Timely

While some say this is revisionist history, many of the facts tell a different story. It shows why Capitalism is one of the few economic systems that truly works, whether we like it or not. The comments about "unpatriotic" weathly americans can apply to every person in America and what we all do. Most people are focused on themselves and therefore the economic system of a country needs to flourish when this happens. That is why Capitalism has been successful and why failed Socialistic economies like Russia have moved to it. In a broader sense, this book shows why redistribution of wealth does not work. This is an outstanding book at this time in history.

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Title: Hiroshima

Author: John Hersey

Narrator: Edward Asner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 182 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000 people. Considered a journalistic masterpiece, Hiroshima tells the story of 6 survivors during the days that immediately followed the bomb. It also includes a final chapter, "Aftermath," written 40 years afterward to explore the fates of those survivors. This timeless, powerful, and compassionate work has become a classic that stirs the conscience of humanity.

(P)1995 by The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.

Critic Reviews:

"It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity." (The New York Times)

"Though it is imbued with a profound moral sense, it does not preach. It does not hector. It simply tells." (The New Yorker)

Members Reviews:

What was it really like?

Since 1945, generations of thoughtful people have considered and debated the morality of nuclear warfare in general and Hiroshima/Nagasaki in particular. The debate usually proceeds with the focus on loss of life, and this involves lots of zeroes, because there was no way out of WW II without lots of lives being lost.

That debate is fine as far as it goes, but if we're honest with ourselves we have to admit that we can't really comprehend what 100,000 deaths (or more) are really like. No one can claim to really appreciate the dignity of all those people when they're in such a large group, any more than a person can claim to really appreciate the dignity of all the people living in Beaverton, OR, Abilene, TX, or Erie, PA. It's too many people.

That's where this book comes in. By following six Hiroshima survivors, John Hersey's 1946 book told the world, very matter-of-factly, what it was like to be in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. What did one hear? What did one see? What was it like when the city was in flames? What sort of shape were the survivors in? How did the hospitals cope? In this updated edition, a 1985 article by Hersey (written in exactly the same style) provides a bit more retrospection, but nothing about the book is any way preachy. This is a book that will fill in details you've probably never imagined. You may still think that it was right to drop the bomb in Hiroshima (and indeed, some of the survivors in this book seem to agree) -- or not -- but whatever you decide, you'll know what you're really saying. Until you've read this book, you probably won't have any real appreciation of what nuclear warfare is really like.

Both informative, troubling and hopeful

One of the great things about this book is that is that it really seems to be objective in the presentation of the bombing of Hiroshima. That said, you will probably never be nonchalant about the use of nuclear weapons after reading this book. The images that stick with you from this book are very troubling, in much the same way as "All Quiet on the Western Front".

While the strength of the book is in the description of the blast and the events immediately afterward, the subsequent lives of those who are chronicled leave the reader with a sense of hope.

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Title: Eichmann in Jerusalem

Subtitle: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Author: Hannah Arendt

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-11

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 299 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative - an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the 20th century.

Members Reviews:

Both a Monster and a Clown

This book is amazing. In it, Arendt struggles with three major issues: 1) the guilt and evil of the ordinary, bureaucratic, obedient German people (like Eichmann) who contributed to the attempted genocide of the Jewish people, 2) the complicity of some jews in the genocide (through organization, mobilization, passive obedience, and negotiations with the Nazis, 3) the logical absurdity the Eichmann and Nuremberg Trials, etc.

In this book (and the original 'New Yorker' essays it came from) Hannah Arendt isn't going for easy, cliché answers. She isn't asking rhetorical or weightless questions. While some of her positions might not be fully supportable, the very act of asking tough questions (that don't fall into easy boxes) is a gift to humanity. Arendt's tactic of giving no one an automatic free pass, while also not allowing people like Eichmann to become cartoonish characters of evil, allows her the room to push the idea that the potential for evil exists not just in dark, scary places, but in well-lit, and very efficient bureaucracies and we all (even Israel) might be asked to push or pull a lever if we aren't paying close attention.

Lest we forget the banality of evil

Hannah Arendt, the author, was a courageous woman with an incisive mind. I have been weary of accounts of the Nazis but this book (and related film) provide a timeless, dispassionate accounting and analysis of the slaughter of millions of souls. Should we think we've left that gruesome history behind us, the author provides an inadvertent reminder that the very same evil lurks at the heart of every risk-averse yet ambitious network of bureaucrats. Alas, we've already forgotten.

Must listen to!

Brilliant! With Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt not only cracks wide open the myths we perpetuate about the idea of how evil exists in the world, what form it takes and how it acts, but moreover she forces us to confront our own compliance in the horrific atrocities carried out through our ignorance of how systems of power perpetuate oppression and exploitation around the world. I would highly recommend this book.

Expert reading of a great classic

Anyone except for a hard-core neo-nazi finds it incredible that educated men like Himmler, Heydrich, and Adolf Eichmann could be brainwashed by their paranoid delusional schizophrenic leader (who was not a normal married family man as they were) into murdering millions of innocent people simply because of their religion. Men in the SS were clearly not morally sound especially at the highest levels, yet Hannah Arendt somehow manages to explain how this horrific catastrophe transpired as seen through the prism of the over-ambitious, social-climbing, deeply insecure Eichmann.

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Title: The Girls of Atomic City

Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Author: Denise Kiernan

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1572 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war - when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed.

Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it - women who are now in their eighties and nineties - The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history.

Members Reviews:

Not told very well, but interesting nonetheless

What did you like best about The Girls of Atomic City? What did you like least?

I like that it focused on the women who helped create the atomic bomb. I didn't like the way it was told. It was difficult to keep track of the characters as well as the science.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The most interesting aspect of the story was how people dealt with uncertainty and the unknown. The least interesting aspect of the story was listening to some of the women's experiences.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes.

Was The Girls of Atomic City worth the listening time?

Yes.

More than Just the Girls

I left this book in my wish list for a long time. The reviews are somewhat mixed, so I'm glad I took a chance on it. In order to set the stage for the story Ms Kiernan wants to tell there is some background information about scientific discoveries and events leading up to the need to build a facility to separate and purify uranium isotopes.

As a baby boomer I felt like I had some historical context for the events that lead up to the building of the Bomb. I had heard about some of the day to day hardships experienced by people on the "home front" with rationing and scarcity for all the people, and employing women in "Rosie the Riveter" jobs for the first time.

The vast majority of the book is based on interviews with women and men who were recruited to work at the "Clinton Engineering Works". It is told from their point of view. These individuals ranged from women college graduates with science backgrounds to recent high school graduates from nearby appalachian towns to army recruits literally pulled off troop trains bound for battlefield deployments. Many were recruited without knowing the location of the facility. Instead of a modern, clean facility, think mud with wood plank sidewalks.

Oak Ridge was literally built up around these recruits and shrouded in an unimaginable cloak of secrecy.

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Title: Thunder Below!

Subtitle: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

Author: Eugene B. Fluckey

Narrator: Corey Snow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-13

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 883 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. At the same time, the Barb did far more than merely sink ships-she changed forever the way submarines stalk and kill their prey.

This is a gripping adventure chock-full of "you-are-there" moments. Fluckey has drawn on logs, reports, letters, interviews, and a recently discovered illegal diary kept by one of his torpedomen. And in a fascinating twist, he uses archival documents from the Japanese Navy to give its version of events. The unique story of the Barb begins with its men, who had the confidence to become unbeatable. Each team helped develop innovative ideas, new tactics, and new strategies. All strove for personal excellence, and success became contagious. Instead of lying in wait under the waves, the USS Barb pursued enemy ships on the surface, attacking in the swift and precise style of torpedo boats. She was the first sub to use rocket missiles and to creep up on enemy convoys at night, joining the flank escort line from astern, darting in and out as she sank ships up the column. Surface-cruising, diving only to escape, "Luckey Fluckey" relentlessly patrolled the Pacific, driving his boat and crew to their limits. There can be no greater contrast to modern warfare's long-distance, video game style of battle than the exploits of the captain and crew of the USS Barb, where the sub, out of ammunition, actually rammed an enemy ship until it sank. Thunder Below! is a first-rate, true-life, inspirational story of the courage and heroism of ordinary men under fire.

Critic Reviews:

"Fluckey is a fine writer with a lively, colorful style. His book is packed with action and suspense and is rich in details about the day-today operation of a submarine in combat." (

Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Action, Excitement, & History. A great read!

Great read!! Fluckey did a great job putting you right in the action. Those who were there are the best at this. The book doesn't just tell you what happened, it lets you experince it first hand. You also get to know the men on the boat. I feel like I have a bunch of new friends. This book would be great for anyone interest in action, excitement, and history.

The production of the Audible portion was one of the best I have ever heard. The reader even pronounces the word " submariner" correctly. If you have ever spoken to an old submarine man he will be quick to tell you it's "submarine-er" not "sub-mariner."

This one of several titles that have needed to be on Audible for a long time. If everybody buys this title then maybe Audible will add other tiltes like: Richard Kane's "Wahoo" and "Clear the Bridge," and Edward L. Beech's, "Run Silent Run Deep," "Dust on the Sea," "Cold as the Sea," and "Submarine."

I want more!

Riveting

This is a great story; it is one of those books that grab your attention immediately. Eugene B.

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Title: The Guns of August

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-11

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 925 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman here brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The Guns of August will not be forgotten.

Critic Reviews:

"Fascinating.... One of the finest works of history written.... A splendid and glittering performance." (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Pay attention!

Phew, this was a difficult book to digest in the audiobook format. Neither is it easy to digest in a paper book format. It is dense. It is detailed. Names and places and battles are thrown at you in rapid succession. You have to remember who is who, which corps is fighting where and its number, the title of each commander and more. You do not have time to stop and think and recall what was told to you minutes/pages or even hours/chapters before. You need more than a detailed map because you dont have much time to spend looking at that map. What you need most of all is a good memory, a good knowledge of history and geographic knowledge before you even pick up the book. OR you can read this book to begin learning and accept that there will be parts that go over your head. That is what I did, and I enjoyed much of it, but I also spent time exasperated since there were sentences I had to think about and ponder before I understood their implications. I had to rewind and write notes and search on the internet.

Does this mean I regret reading it? My response is emphatically no.

Much of the book is set in Belgium and France. (It also covers the Eastern Prussian Front.) I have been to many of the towns, cities, citadels, squares, forests and rivers named. Knowing the history of what happened where I have walked is special to me. I am a bit unsure if it would mean as much to one who has not been there. If you have been in the Ardennes you immediately understand the difficulty of moving artillery around there. Having walked in Leuven, Dinant, Mons, Charleroi and Namur, to name a smattering, when you hear of the burning and sacking and murder of hostages, you more intimately understand. I believe my own experiences, rather than the writing made the events real.

It is important to know that this book is focused primarily on the military battles of the first month of the war. Why? Because what happened then set the course for the four years that followed. You might as well be told that the primary focus is military because that will not appeal to all. The start of World War One is all about the idiosyncrasies of generals. It is about a lack of communication. It is about men who have decided on a plan and from that they will not budge.

The narration by John Lee was fine, but he does not speak slowly and that might have made things a bit easier. Some say he speaks with a Scottish dialect. That is fine by me!

I will tell you why I liked this book. I now have the basics for how the war started. I appreciate knowing what has happened to the people living around me here in Belgium; I understand them better. I understand why they so quickly capitulated in the Second World War. Today there is so much squabbling going on between the Flemish and the French people of Belgium.

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Title: The Deluge

Subtitle: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

Author: Adam Tooze

Narrator: Ralph Lister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-14

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 118 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order. A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and military power.

Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms with America's centrality - including the slide into fascism - The Deluge is a chilling work of great originality that will fundamentally change how we view the legacy of World War I.

Critic Reviews:

"Tooze's grand economic history is stimulating, persuasive, and surprisingly accessible." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Excellent study of the period

There was very little that was brand new in this narrative, but it is one of the very best synthesis I have ever read on the period. I would recommend this book to any one studying or interested in the interest period. It provides an understanding and layout of the dynamics of international affairs as the world began its slide into the diplomacy of the 1930s. It is the single best volume on this period.

Interesting book marred by poor reading

The reader has an unusual and very annoying cadence. He continuously drops his voice as if to signal the end of a sentence or an independent clause when he simply between phrases or about to begin an adjective or adverb clause.

I have never experienced this kind of reading before. It makes the presentation very choppy and more difficult to follow. It affected my opinion of the book enough to think that I can't otherwise critique it.

Insightful and compelling

A great read. A major work of history that illuminates little understood forces and social change of the interwar period.

Not For The Faint of Heart

This is serious discussion of post ww1 economics that helps explain the progression of German, Japan and Russia to high levels of military power prior to ww2. It identifies economic policies and the decisions that opened the way for eventual conflict. However, none of that predicted Hitler. And Frances reluctance to oppose Hitler in the Rhineland is not discussed at all, even though France showed no such reluctance to fully occupy The Rhineland to enforce reparations earlier and that is discussed at length.

I recommend this to patient, curious readers.

Tour de force WW I history

Integrating a deep understanding of economics into the political narrative of the Great War provides a new perspective on understanding the forces that drove the world to war and back again.

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Title: Dunkirk

Author: Joshua Levine

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble, Leighton Pugh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Harper Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The epic true story of Dunkirk - now a major motion picture written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance.

The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now historian Joshua Levine explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape.

Members Reviews:

This is more about the movie than the event

Save your money unless you want to know about the movie in great detail. I expected to hear about the event and too some extent that's true. However, much of this book is about how the movie was made. I waisted my money. I want a refund!

Disappointed

I thought this was going to be about what led up to Dunkirk and a more in-depth history of the contribution. Made by small craft. But instead it seems to be about soldiers getting sex. Really! I didnt finish it and I dont recommend this book

I am so pissed

I can't believe I spent money for a hours long , movie trailer! This book is a total rip off

Too slow, not exciting, good history lesson though.

I couldn't wait for this book to come out and now that it is I'm disappointed.

I hope the movie is better so that I can have competition.

last chapter is a boring distraction.

delete the last chapter. i saw the movie, don't care about how it was made

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Title: The Guns of August

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-11

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 925 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman here brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The Guns of August will not be forgotten.

Critic Reviews:

"Fascinating.... One of the finest works of history written.... A splendid and glittering performance." (The New York Times)

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