Drew Crosby has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 1 author. The most-rated is Hitler.
The Finest Hours of the Second World War: WWII
Summary
“Each war entails the destruction of the human soul.” (Henry Miller). Humanity should not lose its memory, even if some may try to conceal it. From the hindsight afforded by the passing of 75 years from the events narrated, with freedom of thought and a totally independent standpoint, Pacific Media have undertaken an arduous research which has resulted in the series: The Finest Hours of WWII. From the atrocious moment in which Hitler ordered the invasion of Polish territory to the day in which Emperor Hirohito “had to accept the unacceptable”, all is encompassed in this audiobook over its 21 programs. 1. Hitler, the Wolf 2. The Onset; The German-Soviet Expansion 3. The Fürher’s Revenge 4. The Battle of Britain 5. The Battle of the Atlantic 6. The Desert Fox 7. The Invasion of The Soviet Union 8. Mr. President, What About the Japanese? 9. Midway: Change of Course 10. Stalingrad 11. The Desert Rats 12. The Decline of Fascism 13. The Slow Italian Campaign 14. The Road to Tokio 15. The Pacific in Flames 16. D Day 17. The Battle of Kursk 18. The Battle for Germany 19. The Agony of The Third Reich 20. Leyte, Imperial Destiny 21. "The Peace" of the Atomic Bomb
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U-Boats
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Chapter 1 - Genesis 1906-1940 In 1906, was launched the U-1 and in 1917, the German Imperial Navy had 128 submarines. During the last months of the First World War, the success of the U-Boots seemed unstoppable until the aeroplane was incorporated as an anti-submarine weapon. After the treaty of Versailles, the German command secretly undertook the rearmament of its armies, a process which speeded up with Hitler’s rise to power. The outbreak of World War Two and the beginning of a struggle for the control of the seas started to shape the legend of the deathly “wolf packs”. Chapter 2 - The Good Times 1940-1941 The British government considered that the German submarines stationed in French bases represented one of the major threats of the war. For Karl Dönitz and his men, they were good times. Still, after the sinking of the Bismarck battleship, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the lack of air support and the numerous technical developments incorporated by the Allied ships, the success of the U-Boots entered a slow but relentless downfall. Chapter 3 - The Sound of The Drum 1942-1945 The entry of the US in the war critically affected the naval war. The Germans undertook Operation Paukenschlag (drumbeat), moving some of its submarines to the American coast. The technological war heated up and the Allied investment in weaponry increased spectacularly. “Machines will defeat machines”, Churchill had predicted after the occupation of France. The German failures in the Eastern front, the surrender of Italy and the landings in northern Europe pushed the U-Boots into a suicidal war.
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Second World War Diary - Part I
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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. The war was a gigantic melting pot of violence, power, and ideology that will leave an indelible scar on human history. In many ways, our world is the direct fruit of 1945, and the memory of fascism and the resistance against it, the Shoah and the millions of lives lost, are at the core of political culture and moral and psychological fiber of many modern societies. And if the legacy of war has faded somewhat in recent decades, the turmoil the world is currently experiencing is violently awakening his memory. The waves of refugees fleeing violence and poverty, the destruction of war and genocide in the Middle East, the rise of populist movements in Europe and North America, the growing tensions between Russia and the West, the centrifugal tendencies that are Breaking Europe, the turn toward economic protectionism and political isolationism brings with them disturbing reverberations from the world that produced World War II. 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 published now as an audiobook. This World War II Diary represents a milestone in this field. This audiobook includes four hours, the four months, day by day, from September 1939 to December 1939.
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Hitler
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This six-chapter audiobook focuses on the years of Adolf Hitler's political career, from its dark beginnings to the Nazi leader's last days in the bunker. It recounts the most significant events of his life and chronologically follows World War II. This gives the listener a more accurate picture of the personality of the dictator and those who surrounded him. The most revealing anecdotes uncover the myths created to keep Hitler in power and the lies spread by his brutal regime. The series reviews the attitude of Stalin, who feared that Hitler's dictatorship would end his own; the stubborn tenacity of Churchill; and the forced passivity of Roosevelt, held back by the power of the non-interventionists. It is introduced by British historian from King's College Alicante, Mark Shaw, who offers a unique analysis of Hitler's 12 years in power. Chapter titles 1. The Causes of a Mistake 2. They Will Not Fight by Danzig 3. A Lucky Gambler 4. The Supreme Leader 5. To Win...Or to Win 6. He Will Never Return
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