Audiobooks by Andrew Carroll

My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War

From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with General John Pershing featured prominently in the foreground. Andrew Carroll’s intimate portrait of General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I, is a revelation. Given a military force that on the eve of its entry into the war was downright primitive compared to the European combatants, the general surmounted enormous obstacles to build an army and ultimately command millions of U.S. soldiers. But Pershing himself—often perceived as a harsh, humorless, and wooden leader—concealed inner agony from those around him: almost two years before the United States entered the war, Pershing suffered a personal tragedy so catastrophic that he almost went insane with grief and remained haunted by the loss for the rest of his life, as private and previously unpublished letters he wrote to family members now reveal. Before leaving for Europe, Pershing also had a passionate romance with George Patton’s sister, Anne. But once he was in France, Pershing fell madly in love with a young painter named Micheline Resco, whom he later married in secret. Woven throughout Pershing’s story are the experiences of a remarkable group of American men and women, both the famous and unheralded, including Harry Truman, Douglas Macarthur, William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Teddy Roosevelt, and his youngest son Quentin. The chorus of these voices, which begins with the first Americans who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion 1914 as well as those who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, make the high stakes of this epic American saga piercingly real and demonstrates the war’s profound impact on the individuals who served—during and in the years after the conflict—with extraordinary humanity and emotional force.

Andrew Carroll (Author), Andrew Carroll (Narrator)

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Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll's fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of America's fifty states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous occurred. Sparking the idea for this audiobook was Carroll's visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln's son was once saved by the brother of Lincoln's assassin. Carroll wondered, How many other unmarked places are there where intriguing events unfolded -- or where extraordinary men and women made their mark? And then it came to him: the idea of spotlighting great hidden history by traveling the length and breadth of the United States, searching for buried historical treasure. In Here Is Where, Carroll drives, flies, boats, hikes, kayaks and trains into the past, and in so doing, uncovers stories that inspire thoughtful contemplation, occasional hilarity and often, awe. Among the things we learn: *Where the oldest sample of DNA in North America was discovered *Which obscure American scientist saved 400 million lives *Which famous FBI agent was the brother of a notorious gangster *Which cemetery contains one million graves - but only one marked *How a 14 year old boy invented television Featured prominently in Here Is Where are an abundance of firsts (including the first elevator, the first modern anesthesia, the first cremation, and the first murder conviction based on forensic evidence), outrages (from massacres, to forced sterilizations, to kidnappings) and breakthroughs (from the invention of the M-1 carbine to the recovery of the last existing sample of Spanish Flu to the building of the rocket that made possible space travel). A profound reminder that the ground we walk is often the top sedimentary layer of amazing past events, Here Is Where represents just the first step in an ongoing project that will recruit citizen historians to preserve what should be remembered.

Andrew Carroll (Author), Andrew Carroll (Narrator)

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Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their F

To encourage U.S. troops and their families to record what they saw, heard, and felt during combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, a series of writing workshops were organized in 2004. The result is this extraordinary collection of letters, poems, journals, memoirs, and e-mails accounts from those directly involved in battle.

Andrew Carroll (Author), Full Cast (Narrator)

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Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters and One Man's Search to Fi

Andrew Carroll (Author), Dion Graham, George Grizzard, Kate Nelligan, Keith Nobbs (Narrator)

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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

War Letters is the most dramatic, impassioned, and comprehensive anthology of American war letters ever assembled. In November 1998, Dear Abby announced the aim of the Legacy Project. Since then, over 20,000 letters have come in from all around the country, all previously unpublished. The book features the most extraordinary letters received (approximately 150), written during America's wars, including the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Desert Storm. Included here are breathtaking eyewitness accounts of famous battles; intimate declarations of love and longing; poignant final letters written only days or even hours before soldiers were killed; incredible personal encounters with distinguished military leaders; and humorous anecdotes and gripes about insufferable conditions and commanding officers. The majority of the letters are written by combatants, but there are also many by war nurses, family members writing from home, draft resisters, and others affected by the ravages of war. The book is arranged chronologically by war, and each letter is preceded by an enlightening headnote, providing historical background and biographical detail. The most profound and memorable expressions of fear, loneliness, whimsy, exasperation, anger, exhilaration, and patriotism, these letters are more immediate than a memoir and will capture the hearts of readers everywhere.

Andrew Carroll (Author), Joan Allen, Tom Brokaw (Narrator)

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