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1942

Crux of War

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Yazan: Jonathan Parshall
Seslendiren: Lee Goettl
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The year opened with the Axis powers inflicting a series of disasters on the newly formed Allies: Pearl Harbor, followed by Japan's conquest of the Philippines and Southeast Asia; Rommel running unchecked in North Africa; devastating defeats of the Red Army at Kharkov, Crimea, and southern Russia. By the summer of 1942, many of these theatres offered a grim global calculus. Any notion of decisive victory seemed far-fetched.

Yet by the end of 1942 there had been a sea-change. Within just one forty-day timespan, the British had triumphed over Rommel at Alamein; British and American forces landed in North Africa to confront the Axis position there; the Americans won two naval battles at Guadalcanal, sealing the fate of that campaign and with it Japanese expansionism; the Red Army launched a massive counter-offensive at Stalingrad that would condemn six Axis armies to eventual destruction. The Allies had somehow gained the upper hand, forcing the Axis powers into a defensive crouch from which they would not rebound.

Jonathan Parshall's epic 1942: Crux of War offers a sweeping new narrative. It looks at the year from all sides and from every front, revealing how military reform, economic mobilization, inspired improvisation, and growing professionalism coalesced quickly and decisively, paving the way toward final Allied victory.

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What a fantastic listen! The idea of giving this year an overview in this way has allowed the reader/listener to put into context much of the fluid and dynamic often chaotic actions that took place, indeed 1942 was not the end nor the the beginning of the end. But after listening to this I can clearly see how it was the end of the beginning and a pivotal year which led to the ultimate crushing of the evil that was present at this time. Sadly though, evils mutate. I wonder how historians will view the times we currently experience. On a negative note however I wish narrators would at least try to get pronunciations correct, the German aircraft JU88 is not a JOO88. And HMS Ramilies is not HMS Ramile. I could go on.

Jon Parshil at his conversational best!

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I view this tome as a sterling effort by JP to deconstruct themes and historical narrative. The listener / reader should be enticed to pursue their own further research. I do not agree with certain conclusions within the work, but that can only be a good thing in terms of creating critical debate. This is a good reference book to facilitate further indepth research. Best read / used using the material copy. Recommended.

Epic academic achievement

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I don't like to write bad reviews, but this audiobook 1942 Crux of War for the most part is an anti-British and her allies were incompetent in relation to the US particularly. The "woke" rewriting of history is all well and good, but a fair and balanced view should be professed, not rewrite history to admonish a sector of the allied causes and operations, yet genuinely paint over the failings of America at a time when their participation was less than a month old, and the British and her commonwealth, the Germans, Japanese, and Chinese had all be fighting for several years and were weary, stretched to their limits. America throughout the war enjoyed the one simple fact - it was never bombed or assualted, whereas the combatants so far had already endured bombing, invasion and setbacks.

Overall the book deals with the main issues month by month, and is good at this, but the bias is what spoils what should be a fantastic opportunity to write a treatise on a massive subject.

1942 from a self-centred viewpoint

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The breadth and depth of this book is turly phenomenal. The detail, given the scope is almost perfect and the analyses are balanced and penetrating. For content I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

The performance however is atrocious. It's baffling that a performer was engaged and seemingly given no direction on how to pronounce any of the places or names anywhere in the text. There are numerous times when it seemed they were purposfully trying to pronounce things wrong. Naming the German General Georg Kuchler as "George" is particularly egregious. If you can ignore this it is fine, but considering the purpose of the book is to inform and teach it seems odd that no effort was apparantly made to correct the many pronounciation errors.

A fantastic book marred by terrible narration

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The narrative is utterly gripping from start to finish. Every entry, is full of big picture information and also vivid detail, like Harris living in a house a few minutes away from his American opposite number, or life in Tankograd in fall 1942, or how to build a Japanese dugout in New Guinea. Alongside this you get fly on the wall portraits of so, so many generals, politicians and bureaucrats struggling to come to terms with and react to events, as well as vivid accounts of combat on the land, in the air and at sea. War production, the battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing also get extensive coverage, along with entries on the Pacific, Mediterranean and Eastern fronts every month.. It's the story of how the allies eventually łearned to stop screwing up. Other, even 30 hour books feel like they barely scratch the surface of what this one does. The narrator is great and embodies the author really well. Since the author isn't shy about passing judgement on the performance of people and systems, both good and bad, the narrator's authoritative but wry tone is a really good fit.

Could not stop listening

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