Barbarossa Hitler’s Fatal Gamble - Jonathan Dimbleby (Romance Audiobook)

So much enjoying this book, I got everything on ww2 or so I thought. Thx for the upload.

disappointing. heard good things. but this was extremely biased coverage. both countries evil both leaders evil, britain shining star of peace?????? WOW. woulda been useful to cover how the west invaded the soviet union after ww1...how the west was trying to reinstall another friendly dictator brother czar or worse just own russia as an outright colony. how the west installed nazism and how hitler was fighting the master he was supposed to serve. how russians were the ones invaded and being genocided and that its not evil to go tooth and nail against a superior invader when they r in ur home killing everyone they find. its no wonder stalin wanted to ally wuth germany no martter what

This is pretty badly written. Every noun has an adjective, every verb an adverb. Fancy words when simple ones would be better. Under-grad territory. And why does it take 4 hours for Operation Barbarossa to begin? Diverting, but not top tier by any stretch.

Can I ask - is this an abridged version of the full audiobook (which runs at 22hrs 39mins) or is it just Part 1?

where is the rest?

The prose is so "OVER THE TOP", would have been better if Dimbleby just stated the facts. EG: "The blood thirsty Arthur "Bomber" Harris, after incinerating the innocent women and children of Hamburg, turned his insatiable appetite for blood, death & destruction on the defenseless citizens of Dresden. His dark beady eyes darted across the map, until his claw like hands settled on Eastern Germany where he knew he could lay his hand on more bodies to add the pyre of those already incinerated. His cravenly staff, who understood the war crimes they were about to commit, stay muted not wanting to jeopardize future careers or pensions." /sarc

I only starting getting obsessed with WW2 and especially Barbarossa, in my 30s. For anyone that loves this book, should go listen to bloodlands. This is the only audiobook that doesn't get deleted by YT. Godspeed WW2 audiobook posters.

The author of this book must remember that for the year of 1940 while the UK was fighting for its very Life by itself against Germany, Russia had signed a treaty with Germany and was feeding supplies into Germany as fast as they could. And would have continued to do so but Hitler invaded Russia and we're supposed to applaud Russia for defending their own land and saying that they saved Europe? Not so fast, it was the Western Allies that saved Europe from Germany and from communist Russia.

Where can you find part 2? I have looked all over the internet and can’t find it anywhere

I will never get tired of reading about this.

The great patriotic Russian War, was fought by Russian armies, but don't forget that the United States and the United Kingdom give a lot of help to the Russians, it was the British who break the enigma code machine, and they share the secret German information to the Russians, and USA give a colossal material help to the USSR, moreover, the aerial bombardment campaign by the allies against Nazi Germany, did help Russia, on many ways, so history is a very complex event, with too many threads.

This is a “romance audiobook”? wtf.

I can’t believe how myopic the British leaders were. Even Churchill at times seemed dangerously rigid. That being said, he was playing against a very sick group of maniacs

Great narration; however Dimbleby leaves out Stalin's dealing with Imperial Japan In Mongolia Nomonhan, and it's influence in the pact, not treaty with Fascist Europe and Capitalist England..As stated here Poland and germany also had a treaty, and Poland helped Germany dismantle the Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania..

Don't do none of it

The Russians under the Czar was far from Despotism The author doesn't know what he's talking about .The bolslevics made Czar Nicholas seem like Gandi The Czar by most accounts was a decent man although guilible to a fault .,Marx,Lenin ,Stalin were horrendous psychopaths and mass murderers.They murdered the Czar,his wife ,young son and 3 youthful daughters after the Czar had advocated his throne.That was just the beginning of the slaughter The bolslevic revolution enslaved and murdered u told millions the Czar never butchered and enslaved his people .The Russians got that pig Stalin as a just reward and deserved him.
Oh a by the way guess what Marx,Lenin and a majority of the bolslevic leadership all had in common?

Talk about 2 of history s most unmoored,and disordered savages, it's a toss up between Hitler and Stalin

Excellent. Thank you for posting.

NOW YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHAT ANIMALS THE RUSSIANS CAN BE - AND TO THEIR OWN. ITS 2023 HOW MUCH MORE SUFFERING AND DEATH MUST UKRAINE SUFFER — sic semper tyrannis

I love how catty the British were in their communications with each other

Just finished the book. Couldn't put it down.

Author sure like turning a phrase :(

Why is the majority of audio books too quiet to even hear them on a cell phone?

The stupidity & arrogance of Stalin coupled with the brutalty of Hitler resulted in the suffering & death of the Russian people.

Awesome.

I'm halfway through and Germany still hasn't invaded Russia yet. Come ON, Dimbleby.

"Generalplan Ost", Hitler's plan to annex Eastern Europe from the Baltics to the Black Sea, was not a defensive pre-emptive strike against threatening Bolshevism, as Nazi propaganda claimed. It was a diabolical land grab modelled on anglo saxon expansion into the American West and displacement of its indigenous "Indians". In "Mein Kampf" Hitler argues "Why if "Teutons" in the American West can expand and bring superior Western Civilization to the New World in what was called "Manifest Destiny" in the nineteenth century, can't the "Teutons" of central Europe do the same thing in the European East a century later?"

to conquer ignorance, regular folk need to surpass the previous states of curiosity or the developed structures of prejudgedment

Great narration.

I have a 1942 Russian Mosin Nagant rifle. It even came with the bayonet.

Great book.

In poland arther greiser was SS gauliter who was an evil bastard.
The 1other gauleiter was a SA man who was loyal to the party and hated the SS

Dimbleby MF rules!

RF

Just as good as beevor

Communist are animals so the treatment is fair

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Why do knobheads upload partial audiobooks?

Is there more like a part 2, 3, or 4? If not I am very disappointed, by how British focused this was.

Didn't know that the Nazi invasion of Russia was a 'Romance'. We live and learn I suppose.

I really didn't care for this book. It seems like the actual Barbarosa campaign was given short shrift, while everything else was discussed at long length. Disappointing.

This is an excellent read. There is much minutiae that can't be covered in a documentary.