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  • The Last 100 Days

  • The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe
  • By: John Toland
  • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
  • Length: 27 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (94 ratings)
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The Last 100 Days

By: John Toland
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
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Summary

A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and theultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundreddays between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people - from Hitler's personal chauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, andHeinrici; from underground leaders to diplomats; from top Allied fieldcommanders to brave young GIs. Toland adeptly wove together these interviewsusing research from thousands of primary sources.

When it was first published, The Last 100 Days madehistory, revealing after-action reports, staff journals, and top-secretmessages and personal documents previously unavailable to historians. Sincethat time it has come to be regarded as one of the greatest historicalnarratives of the twentieth century.

©1966 John Toland (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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  • 07-12-14

Informative and fascinating

What made the experience of listening to The Last 100 Days the most enjoyable?

An excellent book covering all aspects of what happened during those momentous last 100 days of Nazi Germany. The authors reference to 100000 dead at Dresden though is factually incorrect. The actual figure has been determined at 25000. His statement that American paratroops fought for the first time since D Day in Operstion Varsity when the Allies crossed the Rhine caused me to wonder. What about Market Garden? The death of, and subsequent lynching, of Mussolini and his mistress was fascinating. The narration by Ralph Cosham was brilliant. All in all an excellent book that is well worth a listen.

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War

Hopefully we do not see much of this in the 21 century. With that said, credit worthy listen.

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Good Book, very disappointing audio quality

What did you like best about The Last 100 Days? What did you like least?

It was a compelling story. Overall poor performance of audio

What didn’t you like about Ralph Cosham’s performance?

He sounded bored, and the very poor editing was noticeable. Not something I would have expected on a book produced in 2014

Any additional comments?

Should be redone with a different narrator

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Excellent book

Although a slow burner to start, this book is brilliant, well researched and informative. Excellently narrated by the narrator, clear and precise. for anyone wanting to know about the end of the war this is perfect

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Not just another war book!

WOW! I have listened to many books covering the subject of WW2, but this is different.
It delves in to the political and planning aspects; giving an insight into the main player's ideas, concerns and mind games.
I wish this book never ended, such was Toland's writing style
And as for Cosham; what a beautifully hypnotic voice.
For the first time I found myself looking at other books he's narrated, purely because I love his voice.

This book is a must for those wanting a slightly different perspective on the conflict. I promise you won't regret it.

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Most excellent

I have read / listened to hundreds of World war two books and without doubt this is one of the best. Brilliantly written, very well read and totally gripping. Highly recommend

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Rather odd editing

Another great book by John Toland , with lots of details and anecdotes often not mentioned in other books and again you always hear something new that you’ve never heard of before .
HOWEVER - once again a otherwise enjoyable book is somewhat marred by some strange narration editing and the readers voices changes , often in mid sentence and often for just a few words..
It might be that it’s a sentence in brackets or quotation but to me it sounds as if something was missed out in the original recording . This goes on throughout the book and eventually becomes irratating as it did in another book read by this guy ..

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Incredible

A comprehensive set of detailed - so detailed - accounts, bringing together the whole why’s and wherefore’s of the war. I wanted to know more about it all, who was who, who did what, what happened to them and everyone in the war and it is all there, complete and raw. Hard to listen to when you know it is not fiction, how could it have been allowed to happen. The individual accounts of personal battles - the men freed from prison of war camps without a plan to find themselves not being saved after all as they had to fight to get back to safety, only to find themselves facing utter destruction - just soul destroying but such a testament to how people will try anything to survive. Harrowing yet an amazing account of the war and the people trapped within it. Excellent. Should be taught in schools.

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Just brilliant.

The most brilliant and compelling account of the end of the war in Europe. This should be required listening for every student of history and they will love it.
Narrator was excellent. Occasionally the narration was edited to include an additional fact for clarity but once you recognise this it isn't an issue.

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not too bad

Overall it's pretty good however I don't know who the recording engineer was but in parts the sound is all over the place and in some places sounds like there are 2 different people reading the book. Apart from that I quite enjoyed it.

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