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Learn moreA dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred peopleāfrom Hitler's personal chauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, and Heinrici; from underground leaders to diplomats; from top Allied field commanders to brave young GIs. Toland adeptly wove together these interviews using research from thousands of primary sources.
When it was first published, The Last 100 Days made history, revealing after-action reports, staff journals, and top-secret messages and personal documents previously unavailable to historians. Since that time it has come to be regarded as one of the greatest historical narratives of the twentieth century.
John TolandĀ (1912ā2004)Ā was an award-winning American author and one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth century. Among his fifteen published books are the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning TheĀ Rising SunĀ and theĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellersĀ But Not in Shame,Ā The Last Hundred Days,Ā Adolf Hitler, andĀ Infamy.
Geoffrey Howard (a.k.a. Ralph Cosham) (1936ā2014) was a British journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and stage actor. He won seven Earphones Awards, and in 2013 he won the coveted Audie Award for Best Mystery Narration.
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āBrilliantā¦The reader is in suspense throughoutā¦Each scene is played out close-up and point-blank, as if one were there, listening to the dialogue, counting the stakes, feeling the emotions of the principals.ā
āA hundred stories fill out these hundred daysāportraits, battle plans, ironies, feats of espionage, mass brutalities, insanity, diplomats, generals, soldiers, snipers, the cool and the fanatic. Hitlerās horoscope, what General Eisenhower was reading on the morning of surrender, Quislingās final auto ride, orders, counterorders, impatient statesmen, conflicting strategies, the stench of fire and death, telegrams to Moscow, plunging armies, straggling refugeesā¦In fascinating and exhaustively researched detailāit is all here!ā
āFascinatingā¦The narrative shifts from scene to intimate scene of every conference roomā¦from liberated camp to Hitlerās underground bunker, to GIs storming the railroad bridge across the Rhineā¦Toland has woven the tapestry of history.ā
āThe late author wrote many books about WWII, but this one, first published in 2003, broke new ground because of its use of previously unreleased documents and personal interviews. The audiobook is now available, and the material is just as enlightening as it was on paper. Narrator Ralph Cosham brings an authoritative British accent to the work, and heās suitably respectful of the awesome story heās telling. His variations in pitch and his delivery of especially painful passages are effective and engrossing. He also has excellent diction and keeps to a lively pace.ā
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