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One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort....
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Superb, as usual
- By neop on 28-10-21
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The Secret Listeners
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Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine’s code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recording by "the Listening Service"....
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The Wartime "Listeners" for the Codebreakers
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D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit....
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Great story but...
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Sniper One
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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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Cracking listen!
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Adolf Hitler
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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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Gorgeous
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Winkle
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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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An interesting take
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Agent Zigzag
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- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort....
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Superb, as usual
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By: Ben Macintyre
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The Secret Listeners
- How the Y Service Intercepted the Secret German Codes for Bletchley Park
- By: Sinclair McKay
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine’s code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recording by "the Listening Service"....
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The Wartime "Listeners" for the Codebreakers
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By: Sinclair McKay
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Double Cross
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- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
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D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit....
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Great story but...
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By: Ben Macintyre
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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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Cracking listen!
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By: Dan Mills
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Adolf Hitler
- My Part in His Downfall
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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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Gorgeous
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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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An interesting take
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Paddy Mayne
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‘Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War....
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Great book
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The Forgotten Soldier
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- Narrated by: Roger Davis
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When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue and constant deprivation....
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excellent in depth recollection
- By Amazon Customer on 22-07-20
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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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Spike at his best
- By Gary on 19-03-16
By: Spike Milligan
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D DAY Through German Eyes
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- 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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FAKE
- By philip on 02-05-19
By: Holger Eckhertz
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SAS Brothers in Arms
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- By: Damien Lewis
- Narrated by: Damien Lewis
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Damien Lewis' best seller tells the action-packed, riveting story of the band of mavericks and visionaries who made the SAS....
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Please don’t read your books again Damien!!
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By: Damien Lewis
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Blood, Dust and Snow
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- By: Friedrich Sander, Robin Schafer - editor translator, Roger Moorhouse - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephan Goldbach
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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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Well documented diary’s
- By Sean on 25-05-23
By: Friedrich Sander, and others
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The Colditz Story
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Colditz - the dreaded POW camp was supposed to be impregnable....
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A Great Escape From Life!
- By J on 07-07-14
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Monty
- His Part in My Victory
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa....
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Great read
- By scotsquill on 10-10-19
By: Spike Milligan
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Naples '44
- By: Norman Lewis
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Naples '44 is an unflinching autobiographical account of a year in Naples after the armistice and Allied landings in Sorrento in 1943. Working as a British counterintelligence officer under the Allied occupation, Lewis documents the rich pageant of life in the city and its surrounding areas....
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Brilliant essential listening
- By Rachel Redford on 08-10-18
By: Norman Lewis
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Masters of the Air
- How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine
- By: Donald L. Miller
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
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Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. Unlike ground soldiers, they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands....
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Only two mistakes that I noticed.
- By Alan D. on 28-03-22
By: Donald L. Miller
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By Tank into Normandy
- By: Stuart Hills
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war....
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Poorly Narrated
- By Steve on 04-04-23
By: Stuart Hills
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A Life in Secrets
- Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
- By: Sarah Helm
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
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Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’s extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe. Brimming with intrigue, heroics, and the horrors of war, A Life in Secrets is the story of a grand, elusive woman and a tour de force of investigative journalism....
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Fascinating history of SOE operations WWII
- By honora on 30-10-18
By: Sarah Helm
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Where Have All the Bullets Gone?
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava running in great red rivulets down the slope towards us....
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A classic read.
- By Craig Melville on 09-08-16
By: Spike Milligan
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Ill Met by Moonlight
- By: W. Stanley Moss
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Ill Met by Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War....
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Great story, awful narration
- By R & S on 16-03-22
By: W. Stanley Moss
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A Covert Affair
- Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
- By: Jennet Conant
- Narrated by: Jan Maxwell
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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By best-selling author Jenny Conant, here is a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an OSS agent in the Far East....
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Well researched, written & narrated account BUT...
- By BobBr on 17-09-12
By: Jennet Conant
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Mussolini
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- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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A voice is calling across the land, "Bombardier Milligan." "Bombadier Milligan is dead," I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, "Then he's going to miss his breakfast"....
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Spike's homage to the British "Squaddy" !
- By PETER KEANE on 08-01-20
By: Spike Milligan
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D Day Through German Eyes Book 2
- More Hidden Stories from June 6th 1944
- By: Holger Eckhertz
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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These newly translated eyewitness statements by German veterans show the defenders to be determined but psychologically insecure, often deluded in their thinking, and all too human....
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? Fake
- By Adam J. Lea on 11-11-19
By: Holger Eckhertz
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The Paras
- An Oral History
- By: Max Arthur
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The soldiers of one of the world's most famous fighting forces, the Paras, tell the gripping story of the regiment in their own words....
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A fantastic and awe inspiring book
- By DAVID Rowlands on 05-10-20
By: Max Arthur
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The Nuremberg Interviews
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- By: Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine, Joshua Kane
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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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A fascinating insight
- By T. Hodge on 09-05-22
By: Leon Goldensohn, and others
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Until the Eyes Shut
- Memories of a Machine Gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
- By: Andreas Hartinger
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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The rulers’ mistakes are paid for with the blood of the people. This is shown in history both recent and ancient, time and time again. It was no different for an Austrian mountain farmer’s son who was thrown into the carnage of the Eastern Front....
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Shame it wasn’t longer
- By Chris on 07-07-23
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Patton's War: An American General’s Combat Leadership, Volume 1
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- By: Kevin M. Hymel
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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During his life, George S. Patton Jr. starred as an Olympic athlete in the 1912 Stockholm games, chased down Mexican bandits, and led tanks into battle in World War I and II. Patton’s War uncovers new facts, and challenges long-held beliefs about him....
By: Kevin M. Hymel
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Luck of the Draw
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- Narrated by: Jonas Moore
- Length: 12 hrs
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More than a war story, Luck of the Draw is the inspiring story of Frank Murphy, one of the few survivors from the 100th Bombardment Group, who cheated death for months in a German POW camp after being shot out of his B-17 Flying Fortress....
By: Frank Murphy, and others
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Commando
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- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
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June 1940: As Britain's soldiers limped home from Dunkirk, a maverick Army officer was already devising a bold plan to hit back at the enemy....
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gripping first book
- By Dave on 10-11-16
By: James Owen
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A Soldier's Story
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- By: Mike Wood
- Narrated by: Malcolm Tomlinson, Mike Wood
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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The son of a Hull butcher, Neville 'Timber' Wood volunteered in 1939, at the age of 18, to join the British Army's Tyne-Tees 50th Northumbrian Division....
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Excellent
- By D Roberts on 07-08-20
By: Mike Wood
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Gunboat Command
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This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or ‘Hitch’ as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his Aston Martin), and RN training, the book focuses on his exceptional wartime experiences. Hitch was the most highly decorated RNVR officer of the war with two DSOs, three DSCs and three Mentions in Despatches. He was recommended for a posthumous VC.
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Hans-Ulrich Rudel
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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. By war's end, however, the Luftwaffe had been decimated by combat losses and crippled by poor decisions at the highest levels of military decision-making, and it proved unable to challenge Allied air superiority despite a last-minute upsurge in German aircraft production.
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A Thousand Places Left Behind
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Born and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920–2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the British V Force, then the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services and precursor to the CIA) after he volunteered for reconnaissance missions behind Japanese lines. Skills he had learned as a boy in the backwoods and swamps around the Pearl River stood him in good stead, and by the end of the war, he attained the rank of major, commanding an entire battalion of ethnic Kachins and other local people of northern Burma (now called Myanmar).
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Joseph Goebbels: A Life from Beginning to End
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With his delicate phraseology and deft massaging of truth and deception, Joseph Goebbels was the mouthpiece of a monstrous regime, dishing out propaganda for Nazi Germany throughout World War II. It was his mission to entirely subsume the consciousness of the German people with the warped ideals of the Nazi Party. Through this means, he convinced everyday Germans to look the other way while some of the worst atrocities in history were committed.
By: Hourly History
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Combat Diary
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Published for the first time in the United States, Combat Diary is the war story of Dog Battery, also known US Army Gun Battalion D. Originally only published in Germany in 1945, it tells the tale of 150 US soldiers as they arrive in England in July of 1944. The battalion arrives on the beaches of Normandy, fights through France—and ultimately into Germany—at the time of the fall of the Nazi regime. It is an intimate account of the actions and endurance of the soldiers over those seven months.
By: Harry Salisbury, and others
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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. Hamish Ross's authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander in the Commandos and then the SAS, whose leader he later became and whose annals he graced, winning the DSO and three bars, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'Honneur.
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Great book
- By Neil on 31-08-23
By: Hamish Ross
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Gunboat Command
- The Biography of Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens DSO* DSC** RNVR
- By: Antony Hitchens
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or ‘Hitch’ as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his Aston Martin), and RN training, the book focuses on his exceptional wartime experiences. Hitch was the most highly decorated RNVR officer of the war with two DSOs, three DSCs and three Mentions in Despatches. He was recommended for a posthumous VC.
By: Antony Hitchens
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Hans-Ulrich Rudel
- The Life and Legacy of the Luftwaffe’s Deadliest Stuka Pilot
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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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. By war's end, however, the Luftwaffe had been decimated by combat losses and crippled by poor decisions at the highest levels of military decision-making, and it proved unable to challenge Allied air superiority despite a last-minute upsurge in German aircraft production.
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A Thousand Places Left Behind
- One Soldier's Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma
- By: Peter K. Lutken Jr., E. R. Lutken
- Narrated by: David Lutken
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Born and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920–2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the British V Force, then the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services and precursor to the CIA) after he volunteered for reconnaissance missions behind Japanese lines. Skills he had learned as a boy in the backwoods and swamps around the Pearl River stood him in good stead, and by the end of the war, he attained the rank of major, commanding an entire battalion of ethnic Kachins and other local people of northern Burma (now called Myanmar).
By: Peter K. Lutken Jr., and others
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Joseph Goebbels: A Life from Beginning to End
- World War 2 Biographies
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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With his delicate phraseology and deft massaging of truth and deception, Joseph Goebbels was the mouthpiece of a monstrous regime, dishing out propaganda for Nazi Germany throughout World War II. It was his mission to entirely subsume the consciousness of the German people with the warped ideals of the Nazi Party. Through this means, he convinced everyday Germans to look the other way while some of the worst atrocities in history were committed.
By: Hourly History
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Combat Diary
- By: Harry Salisbury, Nikki Brovold, James Robinson, and others
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Published for the first time in the United States, Combat Diary is the war story of Dog Battery, also known US Army Gun Battalion D. Originally only published in Germany in 1945, it tells the tale of 150 US soldiers as they arrive in England in July of 1944. The battalion arrives on the beaches of Normandy, fights through France—and ultimately into Germany—at the time of the fall of the Nazi regime. It is an intimate account of the actions and endurance of the soldiers over those seven months.
By: Harry Salisbury, and others
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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. Hamish Ross's authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander in the Commandos and then the SAS, whose leader he later became and whose annals he graced, winning the DSO and three bars, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'Honneur.
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Great book
- By Neil on 31-08-23
By: Hamish Ross
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Double Agent Balloon
- Dickie Metcalfe's Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis
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- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Dickie Metcalfe was not your typical secret agent, but he was larger than life in more ways than one. Unlike many other agents who were part of the Double Cross System during the Second World War, he did not defect; nor was he blackmailed into becoming a spy. Instead, using his father's connection with Sir Vernon Kell, the first director of MI5, Metcalfe volunteered his services. Recently cashiered from his infantry regiment, he had an ulterior motive.
By: David Tremain
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Small Victories in a Great Big War
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- Narrated by: Eric Smies
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Life for a World War II paratrooper was grave and perilous; John H. Canfield's experience was no different. However, this young man found himself in so many crazy—sometimes humorous—situations that he almost forgot about how dangerous it was. Filled with pranksters and superiors full of bravado and an unfortunate brush with racial bigotry with a fellow African American soldier, Canfield shares his many stories from basic training and jump school. But his best stories are from the war.
By: John H. Canfield
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Hitler and His Inner Circle
- Chilling Profiles of the Evil Figures Behind the Third Reich
- By: Paul Roland
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The Nazis kept extensive files on practically everybody in the Third Reich. Now author Paul Roland turns the tables with this brilliant new exposé—a fascinating psychological profile of the leading Nazis and their lesser-known associates.
By: Paul Roland
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M.D.P.O.W.
- A Firsthand Account of 42 Months of Imprisonment in Japanese Hands
- By: Julien Goodman
- Narrated by: Richard Daleki
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In April of 1942, author Julien Goodman, MD was working as a member of the US Army Medical Corps at General Hospital Number One in Bataan when the hospital fell into the hands of the Japanese. M.D.P.O.W. is a description of Dr. Goodman's experiences as a prisoner of war. During his 42-month ordeal, he not only witnessed the horrendous effects of war, but he also experienced them.
By: Julien Goodman
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World War Two
- 500 Interesting Facts About Major Events, Battles, and People (Curious Histories Collection)
- By: Ahoy Publications
- Narrated by: Jay Herbert
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From the invasion of Poland to V-J Day, this book is your definitive guide to understanding this historical event. Gain insight into pivotal battles, such as Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Stalingrad. Learn about the weapons and technologies used in the battles and discover how women played a significant role during wartime. Unearth meaningful resistance movements and explore the legacies of WWII.
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The Human Face of D-Day
- Walking the Battlefields of Normandy: Essays, Reflections, and Conversations with Veterans of the Longest Day
- By: Col (Ret) Keith M. Nightingale
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
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Soldier Keith Nightingale has conducted terrain walks in Normandy for over forty years with veterans, active-duty military, and local French civilians. Over the decades Nightingale conducted dozens of formal interviews and informal conversations with many of the principals of the day, including Generals Bradley, Collins, Gavin, Ridgway, and Hill. Added to this rare new primary material from the top brass are numerous conversations with lower-ranking vets who did the heavy lifting.