By: Barbara W. Tuchman / Narrated By: John Lee / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
Erudite and clever crafting, impeccable narration!
The Guns of August
Together for Christmas
The Facemaker
A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
By: Lindsey Fitzharris / Narrated By: Daniel Gillies
Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
Ahhhhh… m’ sister read the Publisher’s Summary… something you should NOT do if you’re going to enjoy this VAStly AWEsome book!
Bright's Passage
No Man’s Land
Leviathan
Series: Leviathan, Book 1
By: Scott Westerfeld / Narrated By: Alan Cumming
Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
Enough History to captivate me; enough caveats to keep this from being a Fave…
The Road Back
A Novel
By: Erich Maria Remarque / Narrated By: Graham Halstead
Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
History is written by the Victors, but War is lived and survived by those who lived it, who died it
War Horse
Series: War Horse, Book 1
By: Michael Morpurgo / Narrated By: John Keating
Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
… >sniffle< …>sniffle< WAAAAAH!!!
A Hobbit, A Wardrobe and a Great War
How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918
By: Joseph Loconte / Narrated By: Dave Hoffman
Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
The occasional urge to throttle the narrator did NOT stop this from being a hard-hitting Listen. Filled with Strife; filled with Grace
To End All Wars
Wounded
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
The Summer Before the War
A Novel
By: Helen Simonson / Narrated By: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
First listen? Tickled pink! Second listen? Holy cow, the narration really killed it for me…!
Rites of Spring
The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
By: Modris Eksteins / Narrated By: Michael Prichard
Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
So suuuuue me—Best intro to Springtime EVER!
The Ghost Road
Series: The Regeneration Trilogy, Book 3
By: Pat Barker / Narrated By: Peter Firth
Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
Slow-going at first but, my GOD how it ends!!!
The Eye in the Door
Series: The Regeneration Trilogy, Book 2
By: Pat Barker / Narrated By: Peter Firth
Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
Regeneration was about men; The Eye in the Door is about people… And that’s never a good thing…
All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque / Narrated By: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
Exquisitely written with heartfelt narration. Absolutely devastating…
Regeneration
Series: The Regeneration Trilogy, Book 1
By: Pat Barker / Narrated By: Peter Firth
Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
Oh how quietly this book screams—WOW
Five Lieutenants
The Unknowns
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!