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Bloody Spring
- Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Born to Battle examines the Civil War’s complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its greatest figures: Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. These two opposing giants squared off in some of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and continuing through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga - battles in which the Union would slowly but surely divide the western Confederacy, setting the stage for the final showdowns of this bloody and protracted conflict.
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A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Volume 1
- From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
- De: A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. W. Gallagher - foreword
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 25 h y 9 m
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Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the war's most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and crucial fighting elsewhere, with massive costs for soldiers and civilians alike.
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Confederate Lost Cause Propaganda in Disguise
- De pamela en 12-18-20
De: A. Wilson Greene, y otros
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume I, Fort Sumter to Perryville
- De: Shelby Foote
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 42 h y 58 m
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac.
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OUTSTANDING! I'M PROUD TO BE A BLACK AMERICAN!!
- De The Louligan en 08-22-13
De: Shelby Foote
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Kennesaw Mountain
- Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
- De: Earl J. Hess
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864, and Sherman initially tried to outflank the Confederates. His men endured heavy rains, artillery duels, sniping, and a fierce battle at Kolb’s Farm before Sherman decided to attack Johnston’s position directly on June 27.
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Thorough and detailed.
- De MAC24211 en 09-06-20
De: Earl J. Hess
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Shiloh, 1862
- De: Winston Groom
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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SHILOH, 1862 - The Battle of Shiloh, fought in the wilderness of southern Tennessee in April 1862, marked a violent crossroads in the Civil War. What began as a surprise attack by Confederate troops on a Union stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River Valley became a bloody two-day conflict that would eerily foretell the brutal reality of the next three years.
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Absorbing story of the hell of Shiloh
- De 9S en 02-04-13
De: Winston Groom
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Mr. Lincoln's Army
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 17 h y 20 m
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A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan.
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Very poor reader with great material
- De L Day en 07-28-16
De: Bruce Catton
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Terrible Swift Sword
- The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of 20th-century warfare.
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Full of history but just a little long
- De Dennis en 09-17-13
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Gettysburg
- An Alternate History
- De: Peter G. Tsouras
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Everyone with an interest in America's greatest battle comes up against its controversies. What if J. E. B. Stuart had arrived on the battlefield before the second day? What if Ewell had pressed hard on the heels of the Union rout on the first day? What if Pickett's charge had been stronger and better led? What if the Army of the Potomac had been commanded by a more aggressive counter attacker than Meade?
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Wonderful But Confusing
- De Bart en 05-30-20
De: Peter G. Tsouras
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1777
- Tipping Point at Saratoga
- De: Dean Snow
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces led by General John Burgoyne. The British strategy in confronting the Americans in upstate New York was to separate rebellious New England from the other colonies.
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Very Interesting & Factual
- De ThatGuyOutWest en 06-08-18
De: Dean Snow
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Their Last Full Measure
- The Final Days of the Civil War
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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As the Confederacy steadily crumbled under the Union army's relentless hammering, dramatic developments in early 1865 brought the bloody war to a swift climax and denouement. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one another like falling dominoes - from Fort Fisher's capture to the burning of South Carolina's capital to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and, ultimately, to Lee's surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination.
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Monotone reading. 1st audio book I couldn't finish
- De Mike Beggs en 08-28-18
De: Joseph Wheelan
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The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
- De: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrado por: Aaron Killian
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century.
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Best book of this early battle
- De Bradley Behrhorst en 09-02-22
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Bust Hell Wide Open
- The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- De: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest is deeply divisive. Best known for being accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow and for his role as first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan - an organization he later denounced - Forrest has often been studied as a military figure, but never before studied as a fascinating individual who wrestled with the complex issues of his violent times. Bust Hell Wide Open is a comprehensive portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest as a man: his achievements, failings, reflections, and regrets.
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This is a superb and concise biography
- De Damian en 03-30-17
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Their Last Full Measure
- The Final Days of the Civil War
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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As the Confederacy steadily crumbled under the Union army's relentless hammering, dramatic developments in early 1865 brought the bloody war to a swift climax and denouement. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one another like falling dominoes - from Fort Fisher's capture to the burning of South Carolina's capital to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and, ultimately, to Lee's surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination.
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Monotone reading. 1st audio book I couldn't finish
- De Mike Beggs en 08-28-18
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Jefferson's War
- America's First War on Terror, 1801-1805
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Patrick Cullen
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, Thomas Jefferson, launched America's first war on foreign soil, a war against terror. The enemy was Muslim; the war was waged unconventionally, with commandos, native troops, and encrypted intelligence, and launched from foreign bases.
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A Great Read
- De Donald en 06-19-05
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Terrible Swift Sword
- The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of 20th-century warfare.
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Full of history but just a little long
- De Dennis en 09-17-13
De: Joseph Wheelan
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A Worse Place than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
- De: John Matteson
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h
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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.
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Fantastic Intertwining!
- De Peter H. Christensen en 09-02-21
De: John Matteson
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Bloody Okinawa
- The Last Great Battle of World War II
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool.
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Very Technical
- De J.Brock en 07-16-21
De: Joseph Wheelan
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To the Gates of Richmond
- The Peninsula Campaign
- De: Stephen Sears
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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It was the largest campaign ever attempted in the Civil War: the Peninsula campaign of 1862. General George McClellan planned to advance from Yorktown up the Virginia Peninsula and destroy the Rebel army in its own capital. But with Robert E. Lee delivering blows to the Union army, McClellan’s plan fell through at the gates of Richmond.
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Magnificent chronicle of mismanagement
- De Triceracop en 10-08-13
De: Stephen Sears
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Their Last Full Measure
- The Final Days of the Civil War
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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As the Confederacy steadily crumbled under the Union army's relentless hammering, dramatic developments in early 1865 brought the bloody war to a swift climax and denouement. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one another like falling dominoes - from Fort Fisher's capture to the burning of South Carolina's capital to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and, ultimately, to Lee's surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination.
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Monotone reading. 1st audio book I couldn't finish
- De Mike Beggs en 08-28-18
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Jefferson's War
- America's First War on Terror, 1801-1805
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Patrick Cullen
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, Thomas Jefferson, launched America's first war on foreign soil, a war against terror. The enemy was Muslim; the war was waged unconventionally, with commandos, native troops, and encrypted intelligence, and launched from foreign bases.
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A Great Read
- De Donald en 06-19-05
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Terrible Swift Sword
- The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of 20th-century warfare.
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Full of history but just a little long
- De Dennis en 09-17-13
De: Joseph Wheelan
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A Worse Place than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
- De: John Matteson
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h
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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.
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Fantastic Intertwining!
- De Peter H. Christensen en 09-02-21
De: John Matteson
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Bloody Okinawa
- The Last Great Battle of World War II
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool.
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Very Technical
- De J.Brock en 07-16-21
De: Joseph Wheelan
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To the Gates of Richmond
- The Peninsula Campaign
- De: Stephen Sears
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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It was the largest campaign ever attempted in the Civil War: the Peninsula campaign of 1862. General George McClellan planned to advance from Yorktown up the Virginia Peninsula and destroy the Rebel army in its own capital. But with Robert E. Lee delivering blows to the Union army, McClellan’s plan fell through at the gates of Richmond.
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Magnificent chronicle of mismanagement
- De Triceracop en 10-08-13
De: Stephen Sears
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Conquered
- Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
- De: Larry J. Daniel
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a matter of failed leadership.
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Alas, alas
- De Charles en 08-07-20
De: Larry J. Daniel
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On to Petersburg
- Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
- De: Gordon C. Rhea
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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On to Petersburg follows the Union army's movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea suggests marked the true end of the Overland Campaign. Beginning his account in the immediate aftermath of Grant's three-day attack on Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Rhea argues that the Union general's primary goal was not - as often supposed - to take Richmond, but rather to destroy Lee's army by closing off its retreat routes and disrupting its supply chain.
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Important to understanding the Overland Campaign
- De Jimbo en 12-29-19
De: Gordon C. Rhea
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From Winchester to Cedar Creek
- The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864
- De: Jeffry Wert
- Narrado por: Trent R. Stephens
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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In the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864, US Major General Philip H. Sheridan led his army to a series of decisive victories for the Union over Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early and the Confederate Army of the Valley. In From Winchester to Cedar Creek, author Jeffry D. Wert highlights Sheridan's victories in the critical area of the Virginia valley as defining moments of the Civil War. Sheridan's campaign ensured Confederate defeat in Virginia and ultimately contributed to Lincoln's reelection and the Union's victory in the Civil War.
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Confederate Reckoning
- Power and Politics in the Civil War South
- De: Stephanie McCurry
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
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The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. Confederate Reckoning is the startling story of this epic political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the outcome of the Civil War.
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Good view of the confederate inner workings.
- De Amazonian en 08-10-22
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Midnight in the Pacific
- Guadalcanal -- The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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Published on the 75th anniversary of the battle and utilizing vivid accounts written by the combatants at Guadalcanal, along with marine corps and army archives and oral histories, Midnight in the Pacific is both a sweeping narrative and a compelling drama of individual marines, soldiers, and sailors caught in the crosshairs of history.
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Don't start here or you'll be confused.
- De Doctor Bob en 08-13-17
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Rising in Flames
- De: J. D. Dickey
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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America in the antebellum years was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan gridlock and ideological warfare. The Civil War that followed brought America to the brink of self-destruction. But it also created a new country from the ruins of the old one - bolder and stronger than ever. No event in the war was more destructive, or more important, than William Sherman's legendary march through Georgia - crippling the heart of the South's economy, freeing thousands of slaves, and marking the beginning of a new era.
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Fantastic book and great narrator
- De Matt McMillen en 07-02-18
De: J. D. Dickey
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Bitter Peleliu
- The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Mack Gordon
- Duración: 12 h
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In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small island of Peleliu to ensure that the Japanese airfield there could not threaten the invasion forces. This important new book explores the dramatic story of this ‘forgotten’ battle and the campaign’s strategic failings. Bitter Peleliu reveals how U.S. intelligence officers failed to detect the complex network of caves, tunnels, and pillboxes hidden inside the island’s coral ridges.
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Novice Narration
- De steve en 03-17-24
De: Joseph Wheelan
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"Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken"
- Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863
- De: Thomas J. Ryan, Richard R. Schaus
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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"Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863 focuses on the immediate aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the "literal or substantial destruction" of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia.
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Detailed and Well Written
- De Ezekiel Z. Conover en 04-22-21
De: Thomas J. Ryan, y otros
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The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864
- De: Gordon C. Rhea
- Narrado por: Jared James
- Duración: 16 h y 19 m
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Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Gordon C. Rhea provides the consummate recounting of that conflict of May 5 and 6, 1864, which ended with high casualties on both sides but no clear victor. With its balanced analysis of events and people, command structures and strategies, The Battle of the Wilderness is operational history as it should be written.
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Worst narrator of any book I’ve listened to
- De Christopher en 02-06-22
De: Gordon C. Rhea
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Crossroads of Freedom
- Antietam
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Through historical newspaper accounts and the personal letters of soldiers, the events leading up to the battle and the battle itself are stunningly recreated. You will enter the mind of Robert E. Lee as he makes the fateful decision to cross the Potomac River and take the offensive. You will feel the frustration of Abraham Lincoln as he struggles to convince George McClellan to fight. And you will stand side-by-side with foot soldiers as the peaceful Maryland countryside explodes.
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Far beyond the scope of the battle
- De A. McDonald en 01-26-04
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Chancellorsville
- De: Stephen Sears
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 23 h y 14 m
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A former editor of American Heritage, Stephen W. Sears has collected a wealth of new sources for this definitive portrait of one of the most dramatic battles of the Civil War. Using scores of letters and diaries written by soldiers from both Union and Confederate armies, Sears’ narrative history seeks to strip away the gloss of later commentary and restore the battle of Chancellorsville to its original voices.
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It's a Wonderful Tool
- De Drake M. Davis en 08-23-14
De: Stephen Sears
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The Seven Days
- The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend
- De: Clifford Dowdey
- Narrado por: Nicholas Tecosky
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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The Seven Days Campaign was a series of battles fought near Richmond at the end of June 1862. General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had routed General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. Depriving McClellan of a military decision meant the war would continue for two more years. The Seven Days depicts a critical turning point in the Civil War that would ingrain Robert E. Lee in history as one of the finest generals of all time.
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The Seven Days:A different Title would work
- De Margaret Harley en 09-10-21
De: Clifford Dowdey
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Bloody Spring
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- peter taylor
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Very Detailed
the book was very detailed with the troop movements and battles,but it became frustrating not having a map or diagrams to see on paper where these places were in relationship to actual event.i like to see where these places were in on a map
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- DKSTRYKER
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Awesome book!
Grover Gardner has the perfect voice for Civil War history. You feel like your listening to Ken Burns Civil War documentary listening to this. This book is the best book I think on Grant & Lee facing off in the Spring of 64 and it details commanders and troops under Lee & Grant, they're movements, battle experiences, and casualties along with outcomes in great detail from the Overlqnd Campaign right up until Petersburg. Do yourself a favor and listen to this Awesome presentation.
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- Margaret Harley
- 08-14-21
Loved it- fair and balanced
I have read many books on the Civil War and encountered some of the battles of the Wilderness Campaign, but not in a coherent fashion as Wheelan presents here.
He gives excellent evidence to support The conclusion that neither Lee nor Grant, nor even divisional Icons like Hancock or Longstreet, were close to perfect. He portrays instead imperfection - not only in human error, but in tactics given technology, inadequate diet, “knee deep” dust and mud.
I really appreciated his presentation in detail of “modern” Trench warfare, presaged in every dimension by the Civil War in the Spring of 1865. This includes the violence and unbelievable level of destruction to combatants, both physical and psychological. This is the first book I have read which documents she’ll shock and PTSD through quotations of front line surgeons.
Bloody Spring reads like a great fiction, while working very hard to portray an historically accurate, fair and balanced reporting of the late civil War in the East, bereft of chivalry and even humanity - and utterly tragic.
My only critique is.that Wheelan ends the story with Lee’s and Johnson’s Armies under siege and incapable of fighting o outside their fortification, signaling the ultimate fall of Richmond, and any chance of joining the two Confederate armies. It’s a fair place to end, but I would have liked another 100 pages chasing Bobbie Lee Westward, even with the ending a forgone conclusion.
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- Pat Newell
- 11-22-21
I got lost in all the detail
I very much enjoyed parts of this book...especially the history and character of US Grant. But the battle detail got so confusing and dragged on and on. I eventually would run thru the battles at 1.5 to1.8 speed, just to get onto the next movement of the army and strategy behind it. I loved all the detail about Lincoln's comments on Grant's ideas. I wish a lot of the tedious detail about every little event in each battle had been compressed.
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- Rick
- 09-13-14
Better than Bruce Catton?
Most of what I read and study about the Civil War has to do with the western theater. To me, Sherman’s Army always had a certain romance to it, which I could never find in reading about the army of the Potomac. Even after countless visits to Gettysburg and Antietam, Spotsylvania, and Fredericksburg, I just didn’t see the fascination. It was Sherman’s Webfeet who won the war, not a bunch of paper-collar feather beds, whom found themselves in winter quarters each autumn only to emerge no less refreshed the following spring. This book helped me in that regard. It helped me understand how 1864 was so pivotal for the armies in the east and how Grant brought it all together. So, I guess I never gave Grant enough credit.
If you’re a student of the war like I am you’ll find this an excellent read, and even if you’re a history buff, you might find yourself immersed. There is almost a Bruce Catton tone to Bloody Spring, which lends to the authenticity though I always found Catton to be too romantic. There are times when I feel the book bogs you down with “Battles and Leaders” type dialog but Wheelen does an excellent job of keeping you engaged by citing accounts and anecdotes from soldiers in both armies. You will not be bored.
I also have been finding myself selecting books that are read by Grover Gardner. Not all but it seems the last several anyway. I like how he reads and I like the sound of his voice. The tone and manner in which he tells the story keeps my interest and will not disappoint. Now, if he could only take over for the Wall Street Journal Morning Read.
Do yourself a favor and put this one in your library. And follow up with Jay Winik’s April, 1865 (I didn’t see on Audible though I have in my collection). It will help bridge your desire for closure and the end of the war when this one is complete because ending the book 5 months short doesn’t do the reader, or the author justice.
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- Brent D. Brumagin
- 09-13-23
Excellent work on 64
Great details, good accounts, some new research. It was a good listen. I wish I bought the book because there was so much to note.
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- 11-23-14
Exciting and definitive
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant were both aggressive fighters. This inclination to always be on the attack led to about 90,000 casualties between the Rebel and Union armies during just forty days in 1864. Wheelan's book gives the feeling of being present during this very bloody period of American history. This book is required of any history buff, especially those interested in the American Civil War.
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- Bruce Cline
- 11-07-22
Good, but not great retelling of this campaign
This is the story of the final major campaign of the Civil War, pitting the new overall Union Commander General Ulysses Grant against the even-then near mythic Confederate hero, General Robert E. Lee. It’s outcome was a key determinant in Lincoln’s election. In the spring of 1864 when Grant moved the huge but, up to then, largely ineffectual Army of the Potomac toward Richmond (and actually toward Lee’s army, his real target), people on both sides held their breadth. There were many doubters about the abilities of this new commander of all the Union armies, openly skeptical that a westerner would be effective against the tested and resolute Army of Northern Virginia. Over the 40 days of the brutal campaign covered in this volume — battles already covered in great detail but many other excellent historians — the armies met each other in a close-set series of battles that ultimately led to Union victory. This is a well written account in that it is imminently readable and includes sufficient detail to understand how and why the campaign was a Union success. However, it’s nagging flaw (in my opinion), is what I perceived to be a negative slant toward Grant and his army. Like some early writers, many of whom advanced the notion of a noble, heroic, and outgunned south fighting and losing to a brutal, highly resourced north, this author seemed to portray the north as well-resourced bumblers and the south as masterful tacticians and strategists. While the northern side made its share of mistakes, and did benefit from having more men and materiel, Grant is not given his due for fighting in ways not previously seen in that theater or anywhere else in the war. Less was unlike any general Grant had yet fought, but more importantly, Grant was unlike anyone Lee had ever encountered. He commanded what to him was a new army with generals with whom he was not familiar, and despite absorbing losses that would have turned back any of his predecessors (and actually did), he persevered and ultimately won. While I did enjoy this audiobook, it did not reveal anything new to what has been known about the armies, personalities of the warriors, or the circumstances of the events. The style of writing was excellent and the audiobook narration excellent—Grover Gardner is one of the best narrators in the business.
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- Brian
- 01-01-19
Great interpretation of the Overland Campaign.
A very good and sober explanation with some analysis of the campaign that never seemed far off or purposely inciteful. I think this was a useful book for anyone wanting to study the battle more closely.
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- AJC
- 06-23-21
STRATEGY THAT ENDED US CIVIL WAR
This is a great overview of the Spring 1864 Union Offensive to defeat Robert E Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. With blow by blow descriptions of troop movements, insights into leadership, and anecdotal quotes from Privates to Generals the listener is put in the middle of the action. As always the reading (performance) by Grover Gardner was excellent.
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