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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)

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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.

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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.

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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)

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Title: Stormtroopers

Subtitle: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

Author: Daniel Siemens

Narrator: Roger Clark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 1920s to the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, when Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm and many other SA leaders were assassinated on Hitler's orders.

In this deeply researched history, Daniel Siemens explores not only the roots of the SA and its swift decapitation but also its previously unrecognized transformation into a million-member Nazi organization, its activities in German-occupied territories during World War II, and its particular contributions to the Holocaust. The author provides portraits of individual members and their victims and examines their milieu, culture, and ideology. His book tells the long-overdue story of the SA and its devastating impact on German citizens and the fate of their country.

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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.

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