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    Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
    Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
    Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
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    Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

    Written by Leon Uris

    Narrated by Graham Rowat

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    About this audiobook

    At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions tested as they fight against a threat even more dangerous than Hitler.

    Meticulously researched, this New York Times bestselling novel gives a historically accurate account of the early days of the Cold War and the fight for German redemption.

    “Magnificent. The great drama of the Berlin airlift...” —The Columbus Dispatch

    “A vast panorama of people and places...dramatic moment after dramatic moment in a throbbing tempo.” —New York Herald Tribune

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 8, 2019
    ISBN9781543663099
    Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
    Author

    Leon Uris

    Internationally acclaimed novelist Leon Uris ran away from home at age seventeen, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to join the Marine Corps, and he served at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. His first novel, Battle Cry, was based on his own experiences in the Marines, which he revisited in his final novel, O'Hara's Choice. His other novels include the bestsellers Redemption, Trinity, Exodus, QB VII, and Topaz, among others. Leon Uris passed away in June 2003.

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    • 4/5
      So, I guess the criticism levelled at this book is more-or-less of the same calibre as the shots taken at other good novels that haven't been fortunate enough to have been written in the last 5 years or so, under the auspices of the current mode of enlightened political correctness.A work of it's time, but not, as some have opined, in any way dated.

      A good, not great work of historical fiction, limited, like everything else, by the historical perspective of the period within which it was written.

      What it may lack in individual or stereotypical character development, it makes up in developing the overall American set of characteristics that politicians of the post-Vietnam period up to the present harken to as ”when America was Great” (a sentiment with which I am in full agreement with and devoutly wish could once more be again).

      Armedaggon sketches out the rudimentary beginnings of the Cold War as it goes along, a little gung-ho,perhaps. A little innocently and naively perhaps. A little black & white, maybe but true enough to the tines.

      This was the first of Uris’s work that I've read. I will open another of his books and read it now.

      The narrator was also a good fit for the material.

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    • 5/5
      Wow! Just wow! I’ve just started to reread and sometimes read for the first time Leon Uris’s books about World War II (European Theatre) and am just blown away by them. Armageddon is particularly interesting, and one wonders whether certain things in this book are total fiction or whether they are based on fact. Example: the approach toward governing in Berlin (and Germany in general) after the war ended, which is fascinatingly logical.
    • 3/5
      When I read this as a teenager, I thought it was genius. Re-reading it 40 years later, though--and after extensive reading in the history--I am struck by how racist Uris's representations of Germans and Russians are. The Germans are orderly,obedient, pagan death worshippers; Russians are "Asian," animals, cunning and patient in waiting out enemies. The propaganda of the war years is rampant. This book remains among my sentimental favorites because it's one of the books that provoked my interest in the larger world, but its perspective is hopelessly old-school Cold Warrior, a sort of "Mad Men" of the immediate post-WWII period.
    • 3/5
      I remember liking this book, but it was a little disinterested at points. A good view of post-WWII Germany and the communist effects that arose after that...though I haven't read any historical works on that, only fictional representations of the truth.

      It's a good read from what I remember.
    • 5/5
      I love this book for two reasons. The first is because of the historical content. Uris does a masterful job in a fiction setting, at recreating the environment and circumstances that became the first Cold War crisis culminating in the Berlin Airlift. Some of the supporting characters are a little larger than life and would be out of place if the story was poorly written, but Uris makes them real.My second and better reason for recommending this book is because the storytelling is superb. Armageddon has all the components that make for enjoyable reading. The setting keeps you interested, the characters are sympathetic and believable; most of us will be able to identify with their all too apparent shortcomings, triumphs and disappointments. Like most of Uris's earlier works, the reader comes away thinking: "this could have been about me."
    • 5/5
      A great story about the crisis in which the Soviet Union cut Berlin off from the West.