Audiobooks for Memorial Day
Here at Audiobook Accomplice, it’s been difficult separating our Military History between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. But the ones we have here are audiobooks where the ultimate sacrifice was made time and time again, or the heroes have since passed but deserve to be remembered.
We were little kids when Vietnam was happening so we happen to think those who fought, those who died, were heroes. That’s just the way it was with us.
Take a moment out today to ponder how much the men and women who serve go through.
And as always, if you know of any audiobooks that would be a fine fit, drop me a line at Gillian@AudiobookAccomplice.com.
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Memorial Day Fiction:
A Novel
By: Elliot Ackerman / Narrated By: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
Was indeed expecting the Brutality… was NOT expecting the heart-shattering Beauty… simply Gorgeous
A Novel
Series: The Last Detail, Book 2
By: Darryl Ponicsan / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
Not as grand as Book 1, but a solidly good listen… UNLESS you think W.Bush/D.Cheney are American heroes… in which case, steer waaaaay clear !
Series: War Horse, Book 1
By: Michael Morpurgo / Narrated By: John Keating
Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
… >sniffle< …>sniffle< WAAAAAH!!!
By: David Benioff / Narrated By: Ron Perlman
Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
Brutal yet endlessly beautiful
Memorial Day Nonfiction:
The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
Written and Narrated By: Robert M. Poole
Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
…Where those who’ve fought for us go to Rest In Peace…
A Game of Life and Death in World War II
By: Buzz Bissinger / Narrated By: George Newbern
Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
Some decent writing about Okinawa, but… so very disjointed… and only 4 mins. of Mosquito Bowl…
How the Allies Won on D-Day
Written and Narrated By: Giles Milton
Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
D-Day: The Bad, the Ugly… the Oh Sooo Good!!!
A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
By: Diane Carlson Evans / Contributor: Bob Welch / Foreword By: Joseph Galloway / Narrated By: Janet Metzger
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
So sobering; so very good
A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
By: Tom Cotton / Narrated By: Tom Cotton, Jeremy Arthur
Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
Riveting, heartbreaking. And I am a profoundly changed individual after taking this on…
By: Paul Brickhill / Narrated By: Robert Whitfield
Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
You KNOW how it ends, but it’s STILL so gosh darned mesmerizing!!!
The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story - The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
By: Patrick K. O’Donnell / Narrated By: Lloyd James
Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
Intense, searing, sorrowful…
By: Karl Marlantes / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
Intensely Philosophical, Intensely Intimate
By: Jim "Doc" Purtell / Narrated by: Andrew Baldwin
Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
A MUST for veterans, a MUST for the rest of us…
The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
By: Alex Kershaw / Narrated By: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
Kiiiiinda misleading secondary title. That noted, however? 9+ hours fly by when you’re actually there with the men
A Story of Unfinished Lives
By: Jim Sheeler / Narrated By: Mark Deakins
Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
A MUST-Listen for every American…
By: Ernie Pyle / Narrated By: Paul Boehmer
Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
As a reviewer of audiobooks? Do NOT listen to this—READ it instead, oh doooo read it!
The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
By: James D. Hornfischer / Narrated By: Barrett Whitener
Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
I. Am. GUTTED…
The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
By: Doug Stanton / Narrated By: CJ Wilson
Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
How to say this? I am GUTTED...
One Veteran, One Dog, and Their Bold Quest to Change Lives
By: Luis Carlos Montalvan, Ellis Henican / Narrated By: Kevin Free
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Wounds, invisible wounds, love that saves, love that cannot save. This book is perfect to honor the Fallen on Memorial Day…
US Special Forces in Vietnam
By: Nick Brokhausen / Narrated By: George Spelvin
Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
Death! Destruction! Mayhem! And a million laughs?!? …Yessss…!!!
Written and Narrated By: Lawrence T. Vosen
Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
Setting the record straight, decades later, never forgotten
An Audible Original
Written and Narrated By: Dale Maharidge
Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
The other, more searing, side of The Good War
Death and After in Iraq
By: Jessica Goodell, John Hearn / Narrated By: Emily Durante
Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
Definitely a slug to the gut, but oh so good
How One Small Mexican-American Community Gave So Much in World War II and Korea
By: Carlos Harrison / Narrated By: Robert Fass
Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
A very good overview of two wars; I just wish it had more about those ghosts
The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / Narrated By: Kathe Mazur
Length: 10 hrs
A story of women who rock, and of one who sacrificed it all
The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
By: Patrick K. O’Donnell / Narrated By: Dan Woren
Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
It was good; it’s just that I was expecting something more emotionally evocative. So sue me!
The Epic World War II Story of the Japanese American GIs Who Rescued the Lost Battalion
By: Scott McGaugh / Narrated By: Traber Burns
Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
Riveting Military History of Heroes, but oh! Traber Burns :(
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
By: Laura Hillenbrand / Narrated By: Edward Hermann
Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
Oh gosh! I can’t tell you enough just how GREAT this is!!!
The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
By: James Carl Nelson / Narrated By: Johnny Heller
Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
Has its flaws but is still a very interesting bit of forgotten history
The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes
By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton / Narrated By: Richard Allen
Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
A very proud addition to Audiobook Accomplice’s Military History!
A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
By: Neal Bascomb / Narrated By: LJ Ganser
Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
Little known story of some genuine heroes
A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home
By: Sally Mott Freeman / Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
UNBROKEN x 3
America’s War Horse
By: Robin Hutton / Narrated By: Susan Boyce
Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
The Marines were her herd!
The Untold Story of The American Pilots Who Waged A Secret War Against Japan
By: Sam Kleiner / Narrated By: Stephen Graybill
Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
Graybill’s narration makes this the better of the two books on “the Tigers”