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Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin---the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 Audiobook, by John Mosier Play Audiobook Sample

Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin---the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 Audiobook

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Read By: Michael Prichard Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2010 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781400187362

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

19

Longest Chapter Length:

58:21 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

30:48 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

40:33 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

John Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front. Although the Eastern Front was the biggest and most important theater in World War II, it is not well known in the United States, as no American troops participated in the fighting. Yet historians agree that this is where the decisive battles of the war were fought. The conventional wisdom about the Eastern Front is that Hitler was mad to think he could defeat the USSR because of its vast size and population, and that the Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of the war. Neither statement is accurate, says Mosier; Hitler came very close to winning outright.

Mosier's history of the Eastern Front will generate considerable controversy both because of his unconventional arguments and because he criticizes historians who have accepted Soviet facts and interpretations. Mosier argues that Soviet accounts are utterly untrustworthy and that accounts relying on them are fantasies. Deathride argues that the war in the East was Hitler's to lose, that Stalin was in grave jeopardy from the outset of the war, and that it was the Allied victories in North Africa and consequent threat to Italy that forced Hitler to change his plans and saved Stalin from near-certain defeat. Stalin's only real triumph was in creating a legend of victory.

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"scholarly insight into the war in the east documenting the extent to which stalin's propaganda distorted the actual facts (i.e., military; economic, etc.) of events. "

— Mal (5 out of 5 stars)

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  • A dramatic chronicle of the most brutal theater in the most brutal war in one of history's most brutal centuries.

    — Boston Globe
  • “A dramatic chronicle of the most brutal theater in the most brutal war in one of history’s most brutal centuries.”

    — Boston Globe
  • “Narrator Michael Prichard’s skill at Russian and German names makes his reading sound effortless…maintaining a pace that keeps the ideas moving smoothly.”

    — AudioFile

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    " Interesting corrective to the Stalin myth that he and the Russians won WWII. "

    — Ron, 10/14/2010
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    " Great overview of the Eastern Front in WWII. Debunks the myth that the Soviet Union could have defeated Germany without the allies. "

    — Mike, 7/27/2010

About John Mosier

John Mosier is the author of The Myth of the Great War, and from 1989–1992 he edited the New Orleans Review. As a military historian, he received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an interdisciplinary curriculum for the study of the two world wars. He lives in Jefferson, Louisiana.

About Michael Prichard

Michael Prichard is a Los Angeles-based actor who has played several thousand characters during his career, over one hundred of them in theater and film. He is primarily heard as an audiobook narrator, having recorded well over five hundred full-length books. His numerous awards and accolades include an Audie Award for Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman and six AudioFile Earphones Awards. He was named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine. He holds an MFA in theater from the University of Southern California.