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The Battle of the Atlantic
- How the Allies Won the War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Battle of the Atlantic, written and read by Jonathan Dimbleby.
The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger would have consumed Britain, and the Allied armies would have been prevented from joining in the invasion of Europe. There would have been no D-Day.
Through fascinating contemporary diaries and letters from the leaders and from the sailors on all sides, Jonathan Dimbleby creates a thrilling narrative that uniquely places the campaign in the context of the entire Second World War.
Challenging conventional wisdom on the use of intelligence and on Churchill's bombing campaign, The Battle of the Atlantic tells the epic story of the decisions that led to victory and the horror and humanity of life on those perilous seas.
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- Ryan Lynch
- 10-01-22
Fantastic
Insightful and completely change my understanding of The Battle of the Atlantic. Very matter of fact and a seemingly unbiased view of the campaign. worth listening too.
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- richard keane
- 29-08-22
Excellent record of the history and well narrated
Really well written and read. Was concerned Dimbleby would be to bias to the UK narrative but they get the fair grubbing for the utter failures as well as successes.
Sad to think if the personalities and stupidity had been stopped in 40/41 and air over was in place for 42/43 how many millions would have been saved.
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- CNY
- 21-12-23
A very enjoyable listen
Minor recording errors which could be easily edited. Otherwise a really well thought argument and balanced view, an author able to link tactical actions, operational level design and the strategic context - few able to this. Impressive.
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- Jr Powney
- 08-03-24
Excellent
Great job Mr Dimbleby. I enjoyed this book very much, well written and read. Many events I had no knowledge of.
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- Angus
- 12-05-17
Well written and researched, infuriating narration
An excellent analysis and telling of the Battle of the Atlantic, alternating between insightful commentary on the high level strategy and the experiences of those on both sides in the battle. Brilliantly and deftly done.
However, the narration was shoddy bordering on maddening. Dimbleby does not have a knack for this - the forced passion in his voice really grated after a while and every time he quotes Churchill he does a cliched and quite terrible impersonation of him that drove me mad. Also, every American character has one of two accents - sing song or gravelly, both of which made me wince every time. Highly irritating and would have been best if he'd just stuck to plain speech. He also corrects himself several times, which is unimpressive and should have been edited out in a book costing this much. Unimpressed by this, and it undermined the quality of the book's arguments and narrative in my view.
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- Steve V
- 17-04-16
Important subject with minor flaws
If you could sum up The Battle of the Atlantic in three words, what would they be?
This is an important subject that has obviously been well researched and documented. That said this audiobook is marred by poor attention to detail in the editing. The author's strengths are more biased towards the research and writing, the narration improved when he settled on one way of pronouncing some German words.
Criticisms are minor, this is a book that deserves attention and focuses a light on an often forgotten battle and those mariners who fought both an enemy and the ocean unrecognised for so long in both war and peace.
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- Damian Rogers
- 02-06-21
Fantastic
Really good listen thoroughly enjoyed this in depth book.don’t listen to the complaints about mistakes in narration hardly noticed.
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- Stuart Turner
- 09-04-23
A great book but the editing has issues
This is a fascinating book, well written & read. My only complaint was with the editing as a number of fluffed lines, re-reads, coughs etc were left in when with good editing could easily have been take out. A minor gripe I grant you but it did take a little from the gripping narrative when they occurred.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-04-23
Good story well researched.
As with an earlier comment on editing this performance, i.e., the mistakes and background noises. In the main well read but I was also annoyed at the poor imitation of Churchill and other personalities. His use of poor French and German, most annoyed by him pronouncing of Route the American way as Rout .
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- Anonymous User
- 07-04-24
Terrific
Enjoyable by every measure. I even started to smile at the boyish enthusiasm to take on the various accents! It is unbelievable that there seemingly was no editing of the reading errors. If an editor was employed the author should demand a refund! These are forgiven distractions though from a great telling of a key part of our history.
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