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  • The First World War: A Captivating Guide to World War 1, the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of Somme

  • Written by: Captivating History
  • Narrated by: Desmond Manny, Colin Fluxman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Written by: Captivating History
Narrated by: Desmond Manny, Colin Fluxman
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Publisher's Summary

If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of World War 1, then pay attention...

Three captivating manuscripts in one audiobook:

  • World War 1: A Captivating Guide to the First World War, Including Battle Stories from the Eastern and Western Front and How the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 Impacted the Rise of Nazi Germany
  • The Battle of Verdun: A Captivating Guide to The Longest and Largest Battle of World War 1 That Took Place on The Western Front Between Germany and France
  • The Battle of the Somme: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Devastating Events of the First World War That Took Place on the Western Front

Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include:

  • The fatal shots that set the stage for war
  • The Western Front and the First Battle of Marne
  • War in the Trenches
  • The Eastern Front and the Battle of Tannenberg
  • The Battle of Ypres and the Christmas Truce
  • Second Battle of Ypres and the introduction of chemical warfare
  • World leaders who played a pivotal role in the first world war
  • And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this audiobook include:

  • The Road to Verdun
  • The Battle of Verdun Gets Bogged Down in the Trenches
  • A Summer in Hell
  • And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 3 of this audiobook include:

  • The road to the Somme
  • The significance of Verdun
  • The Battle of the Somme Begins
  • Z Day
  • The Battles of the Somme

And much, much more...

So if you want to learn more about the First World War, scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button!

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incomplete and repetitive

I found this book to be far too focused on the Western front, nothing said about the Macedonian front, little about the battles in the east, nothing about the battles in the Caucasus or the Middle East.

I was being told ad nauseam what I already knew from other reading. there was nothing said about battles concerning the Americans or the Canadians. this book is effectively saying that nothing really mattered in world war I except the sufferings of the French and the English, and therefore nothing else needed telling.

it is fortunate that I got this book with a credit, and not with actual money. in any case, the book was badly laid out and full of redundancies and repetitions of how much everyone concerned had suffered and had lost - but again, other facets of the war, other theaters, were ignored. Gallipoli was not mentioned, nor the battle for the Dardanelles.

I plan never to read a book on world war I again lest I be bombarded on how much was lost in the West, and told very little or nothing about how things were in areas that were just as important.

shame on the author for wasting my time. :-(

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