WWII Fiction:
By: Jennifer Ryan / Narrated By: Jasmine Blackborow
Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
Light. Predictable. But, uhm, I really really liked it… so sue me…!!!
Series: Summer of My German Soldier, Book 1
By: Bette Greene / Narrated By: Dale Dickey
Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
Better than the TV flick… sweet… devastating… sweet… devastating
A Novel
By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, André Aciman / Narrated By: Philip Boehm, Neil Hellegers
Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
Horrifyingly prescient… but verrrry problematic as well…
A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II
By: Kaia Alderson / Narrated By: Shayna Small
Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
You looking for recognition and celebration of the “Six Triple Eight”s? Jeeeez…
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…!
By: Markus Zusak / Narrated By: Allan Corduner
Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
Breathtaking; simply lovely!
By: Dean Hughes / Narrated By: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
The 442nd as delivered in Action and in Emotion
By: Sven Hassel / Narrated By: Kenneth Wright
Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
Good, but the Publisher’s Summary is misleading. And there are better out there…
By: David Benioff / Narrated By: Ron Perlman
Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
Brutal yet endlessly beautiful
WWII Nonfiction:
The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Written and Narrated By: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
I Am. GUTTED…
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…
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!!!
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!!!
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!!!
The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
Written and Narrated by: Giles Milton
Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
Milton is the King of Edge of Your Seat History!
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?!
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!!!
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!
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
Overwhelming… Familiar…
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
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Written and Narrated By: Giles Milton
Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
ZOUNDS!!!!!!
The Christmas Battle for Bastogne
By: Leo Barron, Don Cygan / Narrated By: Paul Hecht
Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
Just canNOT help but feel pride and, gosh: AWE!!!
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!
By: Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
MAGNIFICENT!!!
A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrificial Love, and a Race Against Time
By: Jon Erwin, William Doyle / Narrated By: Zach Hoffman, Jon Erwin
Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
Very very good, but dang! It could’ve been Great!
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!
By: Ernie Pyle / Narrated By: Paul Boehmer
Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
As a reviewer of audiobooks? Do NOT listen to this—READ it instead, oh doooo read it!
The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
By: James D. Hornfischer / Narrated By: Barrett Whitener
Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
I. Am. GUTTED…
The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
By: Ben Montgomery / Narrated By: Joe Barrett
Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
Wait, I know there’s a story in here SOMEwhere…!
An Oral History of Women in World War II
By: Svetlana Alexievich, Translated By: Richard Pevear Larissa Volokhonsky / Narrated By: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson
Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
Emotions so raw, so fierce, so devastating… A MUST-Listen
A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor
By: Stephen Harding / Narrated By: Richard Ferrone
Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
First half? DULL! Second half? NOW we’re getting somewhere… Then? Over…?!?
Memories of World War II
Written and Narrated By: Lois Lowry
Length: 38 mins
So brief, so touching—just luminous
By: Walter Lord / Narrated By: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
If you want heavy-duty history, look elsewhere. Aaaah, but if you want Living History? Here it is!!!
An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
By: Donald Stratton, Ken Gire / Narrated By: Mike Ortego
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
Gripping, relentless, a vivid account and moving tribute
Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
By: James M. Scott / Narrated By: LJ Ganser
Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
AWEsome! Breathtaking! Riveting! Holy cow! …and I could go on and on and on!!!
By: John Steinbeck / Edited By: Mark Bowden / Narrated By: Lloyd James
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
A look at the details of war—often humorous, sometimes touching, always oh so human…
How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre / Narrated By: John Lee
Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
I hear tell this is only for history buffs?!? Well, hallelujah and huzzah: That I most certainly am!!!
The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
By: Simon Parkin / Narrated By: Elliot Fitzpatrick
Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
Misleading subtitle but a jolly grand WWII story!
The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By: Sonia Purnell / Narrated By: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
From the print reviews? I do believe Juliet Stevenson makes this is a grand and daring tale
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