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The Panzer Killers
- The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich
- De: Daniel P. Bolger
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 301
Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow country. Troops were spent, and American tankers, lacking the tactics and leadership to deal with the terrain, were losing their spirit. General George Patton and the other top US commanders needed an officer who knew how to break the impasse and roll over the Germans - they needed one man with the grit and the vision to take the war all the way to the Rhine. Patton and his peers selected Maurice Rose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pronunciation counts
- De Brian Shivers en 08-22-21
- The Panzer Killers
- The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich
- De: Daniel P. Bolger
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
Solid book Excellent Narration
Revisado: 04-05-23
Really good straight forward account of Maurice Tose and his third armoured division on the western front. Narrator was one of the best I’ve ever heard.
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The Line Becomes a River
- Dispatches from the Border
- De: Francisco Cantú
- Narrado por: Francisco Cantú
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 995
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 889
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 887
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: His mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the patrol for civilian life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A necessary read, I am thankful for
- De LB en 02-10-18
- The Line Becomes a River
- Dispatches from the Border
- De: Francisco Cantú
- Narrado por: Francisco Cantú
A Waste of Money
Revisado: 08-16-22
I thought I was getting a border patrol memoir. The book consisted of:
40% memoirs unrelated to border patrol
20% summary of immigration law
20% helping immigrants after quitting BP
20% actual border patrol memoirs
At roughly 6 hours it’s already a poor value, and most of it is slow and boring. I would pass on this one.
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Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome
- A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, Ca. 375-425 A.D.
- De: Thomas S. Burns
- Narrado por: Charles Craig
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
A major work on Roman policy toward the barbarians during one of the most exciting and challenging periods in the history of the Roman Empire, when barbarian soldiers became part of the forces defending the Roman frontier and gradually its rulers. By the close of these five decades, the Western Empire - hence Western Civilization - had changed forever.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bad narration
- De Steve E. en 12-27-15
- Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome
- A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, Ca. 375-425 A.D.
- De: Thomas S. Burns
- Narrado por: Charles Craig
Great blend of narrative, historiography, analysis
Revisado: 01-07-21
**The entire book covers 50 years in detail. The author intends it to be read by people already familiar with the events and with the characters.
Some main arguments include:
- Theodosius did not settle the Goths under their own leaders in 382. He enrolled them in the Roman Army in small groups at a time as the Goths were defeated by their hunger.
-Alaric rebelled in order to fill a power vacuum in the Balkans left after the civil war of 394. His rebellion was not the rebellion of the Goths, it was the rebellion of a roman general bargaining for a position of power.
-Alaric does not plunder the Balkans because he is a legitimate Roman officer who has access to eastern supplies. Instead, Stilicho plunders the balkans because he is the invading army.
-Alaric's first invasion of Italy comes when Gainas transfers his province to the west to unleash Alaric onto Stilicho. He notices Stilicho is above the alps recruiting soldiers in preparation for war against him, so Alaric launches a preemptive strike against Italy.
-Alaric is defeated by Stilicho twice at Pollentia and Verona. Alaric becomes allied with Stilicho in his war against the East.
- Alaric is on the verge of attacking the usurper Constantine III when Stilicho is murdered. Upon Stilicho's death, Alaric invades Italy to bargain for high command. Honorius' court refuses because he was allied with the fallen Stilicho
-The Goths are first settled as foederati by Constantius III, in 418 under king wallia in Aquitaine. They fight rome's enemies in return for land.
I was happy to find this book because there are few academic audiobooks on Audible, and this is one of the only on audible that cover this period. The reader pronounces some names strangely, but it is not as bad as other comments allege.
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