War Diaries

Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es el fruto de años de trabajo, de tenaces investigaciones, que han hilado una madeja de incontables sucesos para darnos una imagen amplia de la totalidad de la guerra. No solo es extraordinario el alcance de esta obra, que cubre seis años de un conflicto que se extendió por los cinco continentes, también lo es el método que emplea para capturar de manera concisa sus distintos aspectos. Este audiolibro contiene el mes de Enero 1942.

This is a raw and sincere play-by-play account of life as a teenager in war-torn Bosnia from 1992-1996. It is based on a child's diary. The beginning gives you snippets of a typical innocent childhood in pre-war Sarajevo. The book then progresses to years of her family's fight to survive and endure, all the while providing us with the thoughts, emotions, and experiences of a typical teenage girl caught in the middle of it all.

Sir Barnes Wallis CBE became a household name after the hit 1954 film The Dam Busters in which Michael Redgrave portrayed a shy, slightly abstracted genius at odds with bureaucracy. Yet this was a simplified picture of a complicated, mercurial man. Wallis' contribution to British aircrafts and weapons is legendary; from the R100 intercontinental airship and innovative aircrafts like the Wellesley and Wellington, to bombs that destroyed hitherto invulnerable targets, and variable-geometry aerodynes.

This book is an extraordinary day-to-day documentary of the Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison, Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es el fruto de años de trabajo, de tenaces investigaciones, que han hilado una madeja de incontables sucesos para darnos una imagen amplia de la totalidad de la guerra. Se relata de manera fidedigna la evolución molecular de la guerra. Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es una obra fundamentalmente empírica, que narra los acontecimientos tal y como ocurrieron. Este audiolibro contiene el mes de Abril 1944.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es el fruto de años de trabajo, de tenaces investigaciones, que han hilado una madeja de incontables sucesos para darnos una imagen amplia de la totalidad de la guerra. Se relata de manera fidedigna la evolución molecular de la guerra. Este diario es una obra fundamentalmente empírica, que narra los acontecimientos tal y como ocurrieron, rechazando los juicios de valor, y ahí reside su valía. Este audiolibro contiene el mes de Enero 1944.

"What if Pikachu was a hard-boiled detective?" That's what Nintendo asked of us when they revealed this new and unexpected direction for our favorite Pokemon. Join Pikachu in gritty, quirky, upbeat and unexpectedly dramatic cases but make sure to read them in order or you'll soon find yourself lost in a whole world of intrigue where a wide cast of intricate characters will share their past, present and future with you.

This is the wartime diary of J.D. McLauchlan, covering July 1943 to September 1944. In 1943, the Australian government sent a team to England to send back everything needed to build the Avro Lancaster in Australia. The mission was cloaked in secrecy, most of which still appears to be in place even now. While Australia never did build a Lancaster, the Lancaster’s replacement, the Avro Lincoln, was built after the war. Jim McLauchlan was sent to coordinate the flow of information back to Australia, and lived for a while in Manchester, traveling around England, Scotland, and Wales. This ...

Viscount Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), known as ‘The Hero’ during his own lifetime was both an inspiring commander and an innovative tactician, becoming a rear admiral after defeating the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. He was also responsible for the great victories of the Nile (1798) and Copenhagen (1801). Revered by his officers and men, he was renowned for both his arrogance and his scandalous love affair with the beautiful Emma Hamilton.

Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es una obra fundamentalmente empírica, que narra los acontecimientos tal y como ocurrieron, rechazando los juicios de valor, y ahí reside su valía. Tanto como libro, documental y audiolibro, el Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial representa un hito en este campo. Este audiolibro contiene los 12 meses del año 1943.

The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports.

Defeated Cossacks taunt the pompous sultan of the Ottoman Empire. A black corporal beseeches Abraham Lincoln to ensure that his regiment receives proper payment for performing their duties. Mohandas Gandhi urges Adolf Hitler to turn back the tide of war. A suicide bomber in Iraq explains his simple motivation to his family. This poignant collection offers a nuanced and moving look at the act of armed conflict. Each of these 30 remarkable letters sheds light on what it means for us to take up arms against one another and record a piece of that terrible deed.

Senator Thomas Dodd began his career in public service as a prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials. His son, Senator Christopher Dodd, recently discovered his mother's collection of letters his father wrote during that time. Through his father, Chris Dodd learned not only the scope of the Holocaust but also the importance of the rule of law.

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. A number of victims difficult to conceive, never surpassed by any other conflict; the masses of men, women and resources mobilized in a conflict that shook even the most remote ends of the planet; the ideological battle between totalitarianism and democracy, between fascism and communism, the passions and hatred that it aroused; the unimaginable horror and fanaticism of the Holocaust; geopolitical games; the repetition of World War I on an even more dire scale.

One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv. This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a twenty-first-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine.

Discover the story of Australia in the Great War through the eyes and stories of John Murray - a would-be journalist, aspiring artist, and young soldier. John’s dairies capture the history, events, and experiences of Australians, as each instalment builds to tell the story of Australia’s journey from peacetime through to the war’s end. Share a young Australian’s hopes, his insights, and his pain, as war changes the fabric of his world and his family.

During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of Note celebrated the great letters written through history, so Words of War allows the Imperial War Museum to showcase its incredible array of first-hand material to shine a light on how people journeyed through the 1939-45 conflict.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Un número de víctimas difícil de concebir, jamás superado por ningún otro conflicto; las masas de hombres, mujeres y recursos movilizados en una guerra que sacudió hasta los confines más remotos del planeta; la batalla ideológica entre el totalitarismo y la democracia, entre el fascismo y el comunismo, las pasiones y odios que despertó....

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Un número de víctimas difícil de concebir, jamás superado por ningún otro coflicto; las masas de hombres, mujeres y recursos movilizados en una guerra que sacudió hasta los confines más remotos del planeta; la batalla ideológica entre el totalitarismo y la democracia, entre el fascismo y el comunismo, las pasiones y odios que despertó; el horror inimaginable y el fanatismo del holocausto.

This Diary of the Second World War has been able to cover all facets of the conflict, and is a fundamentally empirical work, which narrates events as they occurred, rejecting value judgments, and therein lies its value: It is an insurmountable encyclopedia on war. Both as a reference textbook and as an audiobook, this World War II Diary represents a milestone in this field. In this audiobook, we offer you the day-by-day of the month of: September 1942.