World War Ii Nonfiction

World War II nonfiction focuses on true accounts from the 1939-45 global conflict, featuring stories of heroism, aspects of warfare, and political strategies. This category often delves into both major and minor historical events.
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    • The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
    • By: Larry Loftis
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place....

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    • The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
    • By: John C. McManus
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • John C. McManus, one of our most highly acclaimed historians of World War II, takes listeners from Pearl Harbor - a rude awakening for a military woefully unprepared for war - to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly desperate Japanese....

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    • By: Pierre Clostermann
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • From near-suicidal RAF attacks in 1940 through to the dawn of the jet age in 1945, Flames in the Sky captures the astonishing drama, intensity, heroism, and incomparable exhilaration of the World War Two air war like no other book....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • The Legacy of the War and Its Impact on Political and Military Thinking Since 1945
    • By: Matthias Strohn
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The year 2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking....

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    • 1880-1945
    • By: Gotz Aly
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole....

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    • By: Sean McCollum
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • World War II was the most destructive war in history. Millions upon millions of people died, including innocent civilians. Both sides—the Allies and Axis Powers—pursued secret plans, tactics, and weapons to destroy each other resulting in horrors on a scale never before seen....

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    • Leading Millions into the Abyss
    • By: Laurence Rees
    • Narrated by: Michael Jayston
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Acclaimed historian and documentary filmmaker Laurence Rees examines the nature of Hitler's appeal and reveals the role his supposed "charisma" played in his success....

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    • The Soviet Women Pilots of World War II
    • By: Bruce Berglund, Trevor Goring
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Series: Amazing World War II Stories
    • Length: 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Flying combat missions in wartime is always dangerous. But imagine doing so in a slow, rickety biplane, at night, with no lights or navigational equipment of any kind. Sound impossible? It wasn't for the Soviet Night Witches....

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    • WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • On the night of June 13th, 1944, a 12-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objective: hit German forces deep behind the lines, cutting the rail-tracks linking Central France to the northern coastline....

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    • FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
    • By: David McKean
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the US Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau....

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    • The Story of the Most Amazing Mass Escape of World War II
    • By: Leo Heaps
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Leo Heaps' remarkable book, The Grey Goose of Arnhem, is an account of heroism and courage in one of the Allies' biggest military catastrophes of the Second World War....

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    • How Wartime Changed Their Lives, 1939-1945
    • By: Anne de Courcy
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Debs at War is extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper-class women and the active part they took in the war....

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    • War in the Far East Series, Book 1
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Series: War in the Far East, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account....

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    • A True Story of Resilience, Survival and Unbroken Spirit of a Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II
    • By: CORRIE SMITH
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A True Story of Resilience Survival and Unbroken Spirit A Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II Treasures of Sadness is the story of ...

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    • The Germans Who Fought for Britain
    • By: Helen Fry
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this revealing insight into a little-known aspect of British wartime history, Helen Fry documents the stories of those who fought for king and adopted country....

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    • The German Campaigns of 1942
    • By: Robert M. Citino
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year....

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