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Victory in the West 1945
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is finally within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift disillusionment. The final 100 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought, village by village, town by town.
In Victory in the West 1945, acclaimed military historian Peter Caddick-Adams brings this closing stage of the Allies' fight against Nazi Germany brilliantly to life. He explores the immense challenges they faced in crossing the Rhine on a 300-mile front. He tells stories of individual acts of resolve and heroism, of often exhausted troops pressing forward attacks in the face of ferocious resistance. He recounts their shocked first encounters with the barbarities of Hitler's regime as they reached the gates of Buchenwald, Belsen and Dachau. And he goes behind the front line to analyse the strategic decisions made at Allied headquarters and to offer pin-sharp portraits of the military leaders.
Throughout he draws on a vast range of memoirs and personal interviews with survivors to give a vivid sense of what it was like to encounter enemy combatants and civilians face to face. Thoroughly enjoyable, this will be the standard work on the closing days of the Second World War for a generation.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-07-22
Final descent into hell of Nazi Germany
Excellent account of the final days of WW2 in Europe. Puts into perspective the bombing of Dresden, after the high allied losses from the Nuremberg raid just a month earlier. Describes well how Nazi Germany fought ferociously to the bitter end, while more and more horrors of the regime were discovered.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-07-22
A book I’ll want to read again. And again.
The breadth and depth of scholarship is clear and the author hands it to the reader in a way that can readily be gripped with ease in this beautifully written resource - the keen student of military history will doubtless blink in the light shone on some key aspects of the closing chapter of the Second World War. But don’t pass this book by if military history is not your usual cup of tea. This exceptional account also illuminates the human character under conditions of extreme stress - a golden thread in itself - from competing leadership styles through glimpses of the part played by some who were and would become well-know names to the first-hand accounts of those individuals that were somebody’s family or friend caught up in an extraordinary 100 day window of history.
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- james curzon
- 19-08-22
OUTSTANDING
Well detailed from start to finish. Fully pact with real time events, and transports you through time like your actually witnessing the events,time and atmosphere for yourself
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- Alex Pino
- 26-05-22
A Journey. With PC-A
I have been eagerly awaiting this book to appear on Audible. Was wondering who would read it and how it would be retold.
Well, as with any PC-A books, you know before you start it’s going to be precise, in depth and encompassing.
Peter Noble has captured Peter’s love of his subject and delivers it with compassion, feeling and understanding. And boy has he nailed the foreign names and words!
This book is a mixture of a history lesson ( a really REALLY GOOD ONE!!), a personal journey and a travel guide.
I’ve been enthralled since I picked it up. I am now on my second listen.
It’s sad, harsh, brutal. REAL. I cannot praise this enough. Well done Peter.
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- MISS H MARSHALL
- 19-06-22
Majestic.
At first a little put off by the narrator’s strange mid-Atlantic accent I persevered to take a gripping, harrowing and immersive trip through the final days of the Second World War. A great work from a master storyteller, well done PCA!
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- Rodney Anderson
- 17-07-24
Informative and entertaining
An excellent account of the last months of the Second World War, informative and entertaining, it keeps you riveted to the story.
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- Chris
- 08-08-22
Must read
An absolute tour de force of military history with the perfect balance of historical fact and human drama
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- Martin Scoley
- 08-10-22
A Must Listen
An outstanding historical account of the final days of WW2 in Europe. Research and writing of the highest calibre.
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- Baz Borozitch
- 21-01-24
Outstanding - History At Its Best
This is an excellent piece of work, superbly read. The author manages to cover momentous military history in all of its aspects: strategic, tactical, and personal.
The writing is engaging, the story one of unimaginable brutality, unexpected humanity and is exhaustive in detail but never slow and heavy.
I shall seek out and devour Carrick-Adams' other work.
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- Nick C
- 27-05-22
Magnificent
Peter manages to capture both the sweeping strategy of the campaign with the visceral personal testimonies in the same paragraph. Gripping stuff and I learned so much, even though I thought I knew a fair amount. The reader did very well too. Overall, one of the best audiobooks in a long while!
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