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War, The: Stories of Life and Death from World War II: Stories of Life and Death from World War II
Written by William Manchester
Narrated by Barrett Whitener, Colleen Delany, Grover Gardner and Terrence Aselford
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About this audiobook
No one knew it was going to be that bad.
World War II killed some 60 million people — 20 million of them soldiers — and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others.
But such destruction was an impossible to imagine in advance as it was for young pilots-in-training to imagine their coming fiery deaths; or for Jews to foresee their last moments in the gas chambers; or for parents to imagine their children killed by the mortars and bullets and other munitions that factories churned out in such enormous quantities. As impossible, perhaps, as it is for us to imagine a disaster of similar scale in our future.
The War presents an unforgettable mosaic of memoirs from soldiers, citizens and historians, detailing the immense tragedy that stretched from the Western Front to the Pacific Theater.
A Listen & Live Audio production.
Author
William Manchester
William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and renowned biographer. In addition to the first two volumes of The Last Lion, his books include Goodbye, Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, and The Death of a President, as well as assorted works of journalism. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. He passed away in 2004.
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Reviews for War, The
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great introduction for the individual books included here. Two of the books I had not heard of and were completely engaged and engrossed with the story and WILL BE reading the two.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Riveting..first class, good narration, each story well done and realistic.