Bestsellers
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The Guns of August
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,908
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Performance4,751
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Story4,729
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
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Wonderful
- By Mike From Mesa on 10-28-08
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The Radium Girls
- The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- By: Kate Moore
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,874
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Performance5,306
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Story5,297
The year was 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to...
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A simple way to improve the robotic narration
- By B. C. French on 06-07-17
By: Kate Moore
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14,306
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Performance12,704
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Story12,680
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing...
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- By Sara on 03-05-16
By: Erik Larson
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The First World War
- A Complete History
- By: Martin Gilbert
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall589
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Performance524
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Story524
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...
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Unbiased true facts of the first world war
- By troy a myers on 07-27-20
By: Martin Gilbert
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
- Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
- By: Douglas Brunt
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,748
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Performance1,573
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Story1,573
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between...
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Just a girl and an audio book.
- By Lori Rhodes on 09-26-23
By: Douglas Brunt
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The First World War
- By: John Keegan
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall763
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Performance643
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Story639
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have...
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Best Military History of First World War
- By Stephen F (SPFJR) on 06-13-19
By: John Keegan
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The Guns of August
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,908
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Performance4,751
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Story4,729
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
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Wonderful
- By Mike From Mesa on 10-28-08
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The Radium Girls
- The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- By: Kate Moore
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,874
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Performance5,306
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Story5,297
The year was 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to...
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A simple way to improve the robotic narration
- By B. C. French on 06-07-17
By: Kate Moore
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14,306
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Performance12,704
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Story12,680
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing...
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- By Sara on 03-05-16
By: Erik Larson
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The First World War
- A Complete History
- By: Martin Gilbert
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall589
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Performance524
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Story524
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...
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Unbiased true facts of the first world war
- By troy a myers on 07-27-20
By: Martin Gilbert
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
- Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
- By: Douglas Brunt
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,748
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Performance1,573
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Story1,573
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between...
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Just a girl and an audio book.
- By Lori Rhodes on 09-26-23
By: Douglas Brunt
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The First World War
- By: John Keegan
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall763
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Performance643
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Story639
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have...
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Best Military History of First World War
- By Stephen F (SPFJR) on 06-13-19
By: John Keegan
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- By: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall363
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Performance334
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Story334
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drawing on exhaustive research, this “masterful narrative history” (Booklist) details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world. “Thundering, magnificent...
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Well written, Excellent narration.
- By M. Shepardson on 12-17-23
By: G. J. Meyer
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Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War"
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- By: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall743
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Performance596
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Story598
Were World Wars I and II–which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction–inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond man’s control? Or were they products of calamitous...
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A classic of history books
- By Benedict on 04-04-09
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Catastrophe 1914
- Europe Goes to War
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 25 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall211
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Performance195
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Story193
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max...
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I thought I knew the battle of the frontiers
- By Anonymous on 04-02-21
By: Max Hastings
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The Great Halifax Explosion
- A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
- By: John U. Bacon
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall413
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Performance370
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Story369
From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn’s harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped...
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Too much hostility towards Americans
- By bigdaddyKT on 12-14-19
By: John U. Bacon
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The Sleepwalkers
- How Europe Went to War in 1914
- By: Christopher Clark
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall930
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Performance809
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Story811
The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War....
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Very interesting take on a complex problem
- By Steve on 01-24-15
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The Storm of Steel
- By: Ernst Jünger
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,956
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Performance1,727
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Story1,725
This classic war memoir, first published in 1920, is based on the author's extensive diaries describing hard combat experienced on the Western Front during World War I.....
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Horror and randomness of war
- By 9S on 12-26-14
By: Ernst Jünger
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The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- By: T. E. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 27 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance40
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Story40
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is T. E. Lawrence’s memoir of his involvement in leading a portion of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during the first World War....
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And there are men…
- By M. T. P. on 03-15-23
By: T. E. Lawrence
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The Remains of Company D
- A Story of the Great War
- By: James Carl Nelson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance22
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Story23
Haunted by an ancestor’s tale of near death on a distant battlefield, James Carl Nelson set out in pursuit of the scraps of memory of his grandfather’s small infantry unit....
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A careless production gets in the way
- By DAVID on 01-09-14
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The Eastern Front
- A History of the Great War 1914-1918
- By: Nick Lloyd
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 22 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance45
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Story45
Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as eyewitness reports, diary entries, and memoirs, Lloyd moves from the great battles of 1914 to the final collapse of the Central Powers in 1918, showing how a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spiraled into a massive conflagration.
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Very detailed but lacking deeper analysis
- By Dewey on 12-04-25
By: Nick Lloyd
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The Fall of the Ottomans
- The Great War in the Middle East
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,546
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Performance1,352
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Story1,340
In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story....
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Great Book About A Little Known Part of WWI
- By Nostromo on 06-08-15
By: Eugene Rogan
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American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall441
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Performance378
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Story378
From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration...
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Disturbing yet Reassuring
- By Sams95 on 11-18-22
By: Adam Hochschild
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The War That Ended Peace
- The Road to 1914
- By: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,016
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Performance918
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Story907
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Economist The Christian Science Monitor Bloomberg Businessweek The Globe and Mail From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating...
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Detailed review of 1882 to 1914
- By smarmer on 04-06-14
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The Arms of Krupp
- 1587-1968
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 48 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall317
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Performance283
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Story287
In this narrative of extraordinary richness, depth, and authority, America's preeminent biographer/historian explored the German national character as no other writer has done....
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BIG CHUNK MISSING
- By Ian on 06-12-17
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The Price of Glory
- Verdun 1916
- By: Alistair Horne
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance58
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Story58
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness....
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Epic Account, Masterful in Its Scope, Power and Resonance
- By Ted Shealy on 05-01-24
By: Alistair Horne
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No Man’s Land
- 1918, the Last Year of the Great War
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 25 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall519
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Performance459
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Story457
From freezing infantrymen huddled in trenches to intricate political maneuvering in European capitals, noted historian John Toland tells of the unforgettable final year of the First World War....
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Oddly biased, but worthy account of the period
- By Hellocat on 04-04-18
By: John Toland
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Russia
- Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Rob Heaps
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance122
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Story121
“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.”—The Wall Street Journal An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of...
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Lacks balance
- By Deanne on 01-11-23
By: Antony Beevor
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The Storm of Steel
- By: Ernst Jünger, Basil Creighton
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
The Storm of Steel is a first-hand account of World War I trench combat lifted from the diaries of Ernst Junger, a German infantryman who would become one of Europe's most renowned writers.
By: Ernst Jünger, and others
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Castles of Steel
- Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
- By: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 40 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall578
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Performance512
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Story506
In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea...
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Stick With It!
- By Matt on 09-22-12
By: Robert K. Massie
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Paris 1919
- Six Months That Changed the World
- By: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,439
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Performance1,094
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Story1,085
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world....
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Good book, well narrated
- By W. F. Rucker on 02-07-09
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The Western Front
- A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
- By: Nick Lloyd
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall152
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Performance141
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Story141
In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918....
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Incisive Overview
- By J.Brock on 01-19-22
By: Nick Lloyd
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Testament of Youth
- By: Vera Brittain
- Narrated by: Sheila Mitchell
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall143
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Performance121
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Story122
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I in this unforgettable true story of young love, war, and how to make sense of the darkest times 'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' Guardian 'A haunting elegy for a lost...
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Old Favorite With Issues
- By Sara on 01-15-16
By: Vera Brittain
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Walk in Hell
- The Great War, Book 2
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 23 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall475
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Performance425
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Story423
The incredible second book of best-selling author Harry Turtledove’s alternate history tetralogy of World War I, The Great War....
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Big step up from The American Front
- By Brett on 02-01-19
By: Harry Turtledove
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To Hell and Back
- Europe 1914-1949
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall758
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Performance675
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Story668
The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the 20th century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II....
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History in detail is an antidote for arrogance
- By Philo on 01-31-16
By: Ian Kershaw
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The Great War
- A Combat History of the First World War
- By: Peter Hart
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall160
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Performance144
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Story143
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality....
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Horrible Listen
- By Eric Ring on 11-16-21
By: Peter Hart