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…
The Mosquito Bowl
Operation Swallow
American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp
By: Mark Felton / Narrated By: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
Pretty good, but Curses! to the Ever-Misleading Publisher’s Summary!!!
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
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!!!
Agent Zigzag
A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
By: Ben MacIntyre / Narrated By: John Lee
Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
A smarmy, schmoozy, amoral… Hero?!? This is so entertaining as To DIE For!!!
Checkmate in Berlin
Summer of My German Soldier
Churchill's Hellraisers
The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
By: Damien Lewis / Narrated By: Matt Bates
Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
Is it just me, or did the Publisher’s Summary get this AWEsome story entirely wrong?!
The Great Escape
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!!!
When Books Went to War
The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
By: Molly Guptill Manning / Narrated By: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
A trifle repetitious, but seriously! Huzzah!
The Passenger
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
Overwhelming… Familiar…
Sisters in Arms
The Longest Winter
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
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
No Silent Night
House Made of Dawn
A Novel
By: N. Scott Momaday / Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday, Darrell Dennis
Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
Dare I say it of this Classic? It’s not meeeee, it’s the danged novel…!
Courage Has No Color
The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
By: Tanya Lee Stone / Narrated By: JD Jackson
Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
Seriously—if 7th grade History class was like this, maybe I woulda listened. Absolutely wonderful!
The Hiding Place
By: Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon (aka Nadia May, Donada Peters)
Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
MAGNIFICENT!!!
Beyond Valor
The Women with Silver Wings
The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
By: Katherine Sharp Landdeck / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
Such AWEsome women in this well-crafted and engaging audiobook!