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A Must Read, an amazing gentleman
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Colditz - the dreaded POW camp was supposed to be impregnable....
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Fascinating history of SOE operations WWII
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Good WW1 RFC account
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superb
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- By: Nahlah Ayed
- Narrated by: Nahlah Ayed
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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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.
By: Nahlah Ayed
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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
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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.
By: James Ellman
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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
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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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Another Max Hastings success
- By DRO on 19-06-24
By: Max Hastings
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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
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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.
By: Martin Sixsmith
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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.
By: Martin Whitacre
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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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Another brilliant book from Clare Mulley
- By mcfontaine on 27-05-24
By: Clare Mulley
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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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Treachery Exposed
- By judy on 17-06-24
By: Robert Verkaik
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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.
By: Paul Hendrickson