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Showing posts with label audible books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label audible books. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Audio Book: Prevail (The Inspiring Story of of Ethiopia's Victory Over Mussolini's Invasion 1935-1941)

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As part of the monthly Audible subscription plan, you get access to a "free library" of titles. Skimming through these, one title ...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Max Hastings: 1914 Catastrophe .. and a couple of other "Good Reads"

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If I were going to recommend reading material for military officers currently serving in the Armed Forces of Great Britain, the United Kingd...
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Friday, 14 November 2025

Book: Victory to Defeat (Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman)

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We had won, with a magical formula of 1918 combined arms warfare, hard earned through bitter experience of four years of fighting and then w...
Friday, 3 October 2025

War through the Eyes of Children: Last Witnesses (by Svetlana Alexievich

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This is a haunting book. One hundred and two post war interviews with survivors who had lived through WWII and the German invasion of Russia...
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Thursday, 18 September 2025

Revenge of the Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

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Twenty five years on after his seminal book The Tipping Point, post "Covid pandemic" and maybe just maybe looking for his next inc...
Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Book: Hitler's Soldiers

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This is certainly not a triumpiantalist book, despite what you might think from a first glance at the title. It holds no bars in describing ...
Saturday, 5 April 2025

A Book of its Time: Them: Adventures with Extremists

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In retrospect the world of 2012 seems such a quainter quieter place, where when we worried it was about the possible "what ifs?", ...
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Thursday, 27 March 2025

"On The Beach" (Nevil Shute)- One That Didn't Make The Shortlist To Jackanory!

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I had heard about this one. It was talked about in hushed terms. An old book, published in 1957. A classic, also two films - old and new. So...
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Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Audible Books: Miscellaneous

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Reading, or rather listening. On the history front I decided to broach my general ignorance of the Middle East (unless the battles of Romme...
Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Audible Book: Nuclear War A Scenario

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Well the title grabs your attention for sure. The theme tune of "Protect and Survive" rings in my ears but this is an American sla...
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Thursday, 28 November 2024

WW2 US Tank Destroyers Book: The Tank Killers

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Now here's the thing, what is the difference between a US Tank Destroyer and a US Tank? Late war, seemingly not much on the surface, the...
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Tuesday, 1 October 2024

Watch out for those Accountability Sinks - The Unaccountability Machine

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Ever thought that the world is just too complex and is just mad. You know you just could be right. The Unaccountability Machine might just b...
Thursday, 25 July 2024

Spring and Summertime Audible Reading: WWII (Early War from 1939 to 1941)

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Thanks to Audible (via listening in the car and while I am doing the washing up) I am able to keep up with my "electronic book time...
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Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Trevor Beevor - Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917 - 1921

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Again, an Audible listen, but on the follow up to get a paper copy too. So much in it just to be able to "remember" (see below, an...
Monday, 29 January 2024

Audible Book: Victory at Sea - Paul Kennedy

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A good general read of naval war in WWII, from the man who brought us Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. In fact how I came across this Audi...
Friday, 29 December 2023

Attack Warning Red (Julie McDowell): Audible Book

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Not a light Xmas read, but a very rewarding one as it gave a fascinating glimpse of the "What if" or "What could have been...
Friday, 22 December 2023

Audible Book: Black Holes by Brian Cox and Jeff Foreshaw

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Following my son's interest in Physics (I was pretty useless at hands on Science at school and ended up doing Computers instead) I thoug...
Tuesday, 28 November 2023

The Man From The Future - John von Neumann (Audible Books)

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I thought I knew something about John von Neumann, but this book amazed my by revealing how little I really knew about him at all. He was th...
Thursday, 9 November 2023

Audible - "A Savage War of Peace" Alistair Horne

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Ever since reading, or should I say literally burned the print from the page with my mark one eyeball from Alistair Horne's "To los...
Friday, 3 November 2023

Corruptible - Audible Audio Book

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Never mind the Halloween Horrors [Freddie, The Exorcist, Poltergeist are wimps compared to the everyday human potential to do wrong], if you...
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