| Welcome to AudioMurphy.com - World War II Oral History Audiobooks by Aaron Elson Aaron started interviewing WWII veterans more than two decades ago when he attended a reunion of his father's tank battalion. Since then, he has gathered over 600 hours of their stories and presents them here in the veterans' own voices. These are the stories that documentaries leave on the cutting room floor, that authors can't fit into popular histories. They are stories about courage and fear, about food and drink, about life and death and love and loss, about wounds and tonsillectomies, about General Patton and general confusion. |
| The Tanker Tapes, an audiobook on CD, is $15.95 in our eBay store |
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 From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from the horse cavalry to their training as tankers, from the hedgerows of Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge and the Siegfried Line, "The Tanker Tapes" offers a glimpse of World War II like you've never heard before.
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The Tanker Tapes
Dale Albee - MP3 or Dale Albee - Real Audio Sam Cropanese - MP3 or Sam Cropanese - Real Audio Evoking comparisons to the great oral historian Studs Terkel, Aaron Elson has captured the voices of a generation. These are the stories veterans share with one another at reunions, yet rarely tell their families. They are stories about ordinary men in an extraordinary time, about courage and fear, about horses and tanks, the Great Depression and the Civilian Conservation Corps, about beer and barroom brawls, about life and death and tonsillectomies. And they're told in the veterans' own voices. Aaron's father, Lieutenant Maurice Elson, served as a replacement with the 712th Tank Battalion in World War II. He was wounded twice, and died of a heart attack in 1980. Seven years later, Aaron went to a battalion reunion hoping to find veterans who remembered his dad. He found three, and all the stories he'd heard as a child, as well as some he hadn't, came back to life. He returned two reunions later, in 1989, with a tape recorder. He's been recording veterans' stories ever since. The Tanker Tapes, an audiobook on CD, is $15.95 in our eBay store and is also available from amazon.com For more information about World War II Oral History audiobooks, please visit audiomurphy.com, home of the best war stories aloud on the Internet. |
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