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Title: [Arabic] - Obama Era Hopes And Disappointments: Political historical book

Author: Dr. Ahmed Zaki

Narrator: Pandarosh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Secrets of American policies during the era of Obama and secret alliances with the regimes of Arab and Islamic countries The battles with organizations inside the Middle East and the threat from Russia

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Title: Sabotage!: An In-Depth Investigation of the 1943 Liberator Crash that Killed Polish General Sikorski

Author: Garth Barnard, Chris Wroblewski

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

On the night of July 4, 1943, transport aircraft Liberator AL523 took off from Gibraltar's North Front tarmac and within moments crashed into the sea with only one survivor, the pilot. The commander-in-chief of the Polish army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, was dead. Rumors as to the cause of the crash abounded. Was it pilot error? Was it, as officially classified, merely an accident, or was it, as the authors conclude in this riveting and meticulous study, an act of sabotage? In this extensive piece of research, Chris Wroblewski and Garth Barnard examine numerous primary sources, including the complete court of inquiry transcripts, produce detailed analysis of aircraft components and systems, and unearth many little-known eyewitness accounts to give this investigation a compelling conclusion. Within the book the authors also dispel several conspiracy theories that have emerged since this catastrophe; particularly that this event was a disastrous assassination attempt with blame on the British, Soviets, and Nazis. This is an exhaustive piece of investigative journalism that puts the record straight once and for all.

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Title: King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father

Author: Brooke Barbier

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Americans are more familiar with his signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock's life, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of fascinating contradictions—a child of enormous privilege who would nevertheless become a voice of the common folk; a pillar of society uncomfortable with radicalism who yet was crucial to independence. Orphaned young, Hancock was raised by his merchant uncle, whose business and vast wealth he inherited—including household slaves, whom Hancock later freed. By his early thirties, he was one of New England's most prominent politicians, earning a place on Britain's most-wanted list and the derisive nickname King Hancock. While he eventually joined the revolution against England, his ever moderate—and moderating—disposition would prove an asset after 1776. Barbier shows Hancock appealing to southerners and northerners, Federalists and Anti-Federalists. He was a famously steadying force as president of the fractious Second Continental Congress. As governor of Massachusetts, Hancock convinced its delegates to vote for the federal Constitution and calmed the fallout from the shocking Shays's Rebellion. An insightful study of leadership in the revolutionary era, King Hancock traces a moment when passion was on the side of compromise and accommodation proved the basis of profound social and political change.

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Title: MacArthur Reconsidered: General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander

Author: James Ellman

Narrator: Kent Klineman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur's rise through the US Army's ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the Philippines in 1941. When war commenced with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, MacArthur's performance on the battlefield was a failure: he underestimated the Japanese, and his poorly trained forces were outmaneuvered and outfought by a much smaller invading force. In his subsequent role as America's shogun in Tokyo, MacArthur was again surprised by an enemy he underestimated. The Korean War yielded his greatest victory, at Inchon, but also his greatest defeat, along the Yalu River. Unwilling to accept anything but complete victory, he openly defied President Truman: MacArthur fatally undermined chances for an early peace and attempted to widen a conflict which threatened to become a third world war. Raging against his subsequent firing, he only truly faded away after he was publicly criticized by a panoply of America's greatest WWII generals. Today, MacArthur still polarizes. Many biographies agree he was a great and patriotic leader marred by a few failures. James Ellman argues the opposite: MacArthur was a lackluster battlefield commander who suffered stunning defeats while undermining the command structure of our military.

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Title: Light-Horse Harry: A Biography of Washington's Great Cavalryman, General Henry Lee

Author: Noel B. Gerson

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Henry Lee learnt to ride before he was five, joined Washington's Army at nineteen, and was appointed Captain of the Fifth Troop of Virginia Dragoons at twenty. At twenty-two, Colonel Lee took command of a mixed cavalry and infantry unit known as 'Lee's Legion'—the finest offensive team in the Continental Army. Nicknamed 'Light-Horse Harry' for his raids on British supply wagons, the young Virginian quickly earned a reputation for horsemanship and distinguished himself as one of the most skilled and courageous cavalry officers of the American Revolution. After the war Lee served in the Virginia legislature, in Congress, in the Virginia Convention of 1788 that ratified the federal Constitution, and as governor of the state. His political career was interrupted while he commanded the Army to put down the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. From 1799 to 1801 he served in the House of Representatives. Noel B. Gerson charts the triumphs and tragedies of one of the nation's most distinguished citizens, whose rise to fame was overshadowed by bankruptcy, imprisonment, and injuries he received from an angry mob. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, including private correspondence and Lee's own published memoirs, Gerson masterfully portrays a dedicated patriot and natural-born soldier, a trait he passed on to his son, General Robert E. Lee.

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Title: [Spanish] - Contra la Revolución Francesa: Ni libertad, ni igualdad ni fraternidad

Author: Fernando Díaz Villanueva, Alberto Garín

Narrator: Alberto Garín, Fernando Díaz Villanueva

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Release date: May 24, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

¿Fue la Revolución Francesa el mito fundacional del mundo contemporáneo? ¿Recogía en su espíritu todo lo bueno y noble que habita en el alma humana? ¿Representaba el bien absoluto y cualquier cosa que se alejara de ella era el mal? Pocos acontecimientos históricos son tan conocidos como la Revolución Francesa, y, al mismo tiempo, tan poco entendidos. La historia se aceleró en Francia durante la última década del siglo XVIII y sus consecuencias no tardaron en afectar a todo el mundo gracias a Napoleón Bonaparte, el más ilustre de los hijos de la revolución. Los dos siglos posteriores son inexplicables sin esta convulsión que encontró infinidad de imitadores en todas las latitudes. Fernando Díaz Villanueva y Alberto Garín diseccionan en este libro la historia de este momento histórico excepcional en todas sus vertientes para desmontar, con precisión y afilada crítica, los mitos e ideas que han perdurado hasta nuestros días.

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Title: The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception

Author: Taylor Downing

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Allies ahead of the most pivotal moment of the Second World War - the D-Day invasion. The most audacious of these schemes aimed to convince German forces that plans to storm Normandy were a mere sideshow, and featured a fictitious army led by General Patton and furnished with hundreds of real-world dummy landing craft, tanks and aircraft. New research reveals a hidden link with Britain's film industry, as the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of this dramatic gambit is explored in detail. Full of fascinating characters from the US, Britain and Germany, this compelling and propulsive narrative explores one of the most remarkable secret campaigns of the Second World War.

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Title: Little Avalanches: A Memoir

Author: Becky Ellis

Narrator: Sara Van Beckum, Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Release date: May 21, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

As a young girl, Becky is forced to hide from phantom Nazis, subjected to dental procedures without pain medication, and torn from her mother again and again. Growing up in the shadow of her father's PTSD, she wants to know what is wrong but knows not to ask. Her father won't talk about being a Timberwolf, a unit of specially trained night fighters that went into combat first and experienced a 300 percent casualty rate. He returns home with thirteen medals and becomes a doctor, but is haunted by his past. Seeing only his explosive and often dangerous personality, Becky distances herself from the man she wants to love. Yet on the eve of his ninetieth birthday, when Becky looks at the vulnerable man he's become, something shifts, and she asks about the war. He breaks seventy years of silence, offering an unfiltered account of war without glory and revealing the extent of the trauma he's endured. She spends the next several years interviewing, researching, and ultimately understanding the demons she inherited. Because his story is incomplete without hers, and hers is inconceivable without his, Ellis offers both, as well as their year-long aching conversation marked by moments of redeeming grace. With compassionate, unflinching writing, Little Avalanches reminds us that we are profoundly shaped by the secrets we keep and forever changed by the stories we share.

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Title: Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

Author: Gregg Herken

Narrator: Perry Daniels

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Release date: May 21, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller—the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science—and its practitioners—enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War? The story of these three men, builders of the bombs, is fundamentally about loyalty—to country, to science, and to each other—and about the wrenching choices that had to be made when these allegiances came into conflict. Gregg Herken gives us the behind-the-scenes account based upon a decade of research, interviews, and newly released Freedom of Information Act and Russian documents. Brotherhood of the Bomb is a vital slice of American history told authoritatively—and grippingly—for the first time.

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Title: [Russian] - Кавказский пленник

Author: лев толстой

Narrator: илья волков

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 53 minutes

Release date: May 10, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

«Кавказский пленник» — произведение одного из величайших писателей мира, русского прозаика и мыслителя Л. Н. Толстого (1828–1910). Рассказ повествует о русском офицере в плену у горцев во время Кавказской войны. Это одно из наиболее популярных созданий писателя. Оно еще раз подтверждает, что Толстой — большой мастер портрета, и не только психологического. Произведение является обязательной частью школьной программы. Толстой создал много прекрасных произведений: «Воскресение», «Война и мир», «Кавказский пленник», «Казаки», «Крейцерова соната». Творчество Льва Толстого оказало огромное влияние на развитие не только русской, но и мировой литературы. Его произведения отличаются глубокой философичностью, поднимая ряд вечных вопросов: жизни и смерти, чувства и долга, любви и чести.