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Title: Becoming Eisenhower: How Ike Rose from Obscurity to Supreme Allied Commander

Author: Michael Lee Lanning

Narrator: Adam Barr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Release date: October 15, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness. Yet the young officer made the most of the opportunities he was given, made a lasting impression on superiors, and eventually gained a reputation as an excellent staff officer. Fifty-nine graduates became generals during World War II, but none of that was clear at the time, especially not for the young Dwight Eisenhower, who graduated sixty-first in a class of 164. During the 1920s into the early 1930s Eisenhower started to catch the eye of superiors and earned positions under the U.S. Army's leading lights. Eisenhower joined the General Staff in Washington, DC, where he helped develop war plans and eventually became deputy chief of staff under George Marshall. When the time came to appoint a commander to execute the plans, Marshall knew Eisenhower was the man for the job. Becoming Eisenhower is the story of a young man who first pursued the army for its free education, the story of an officer who was initially overlooked, the story of how General Eisenhower carried these experiences not only into Supreme Command but also the presidency.

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Title: [German] - Begeistert sind wir losgezogen: Zweiter Weltkrieg: Kriegsbericht des späteren Ritterkreuzträgers Heinz Macher über seine ersten Kampfeinsätze bei der Waffen-SS (Deutsche Soldaten-Biografien)

Author: Heinz Macher

Narrator: Thomas Horst

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Release date: October 14, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Ungekürzt und ungeschönt: Die Kriegsmemoiren des SS-Offiziers Heinz Macher Heinz Macher: Als Frontsoldat und Kompaniechef eine Legende. Zwölfmal verwundet, Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz, goldene Nahkampfspange. Viele Geschichten ranken sich um seine Person. In diesen Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahr 1949 hat er selbst das Wort. Er erzählt von seiner Jugend- und Rekrutenzeit in Chemnitz und Dresden, der Offiziersausbildung an den Junkerschulen der Waffen-SS, seinen Kriegseinsätzen als Zugführer beim Pionier-Bataillon der SS-Division 'Reich' in Jugoslawien und Polen bis zum Vorabend des Angriffs auf die Sowjetunion, das Unternehmen 'Barbarossa'. Dort enden seine Kriegsmemoiren. Der Verlag hat den vorliegenden Text, den Heinz Macher nach Kriegsende verfasst hat, in die neue Rechtschreibung übertragen, inhaltlich aber nicht verändert oder gekürzt. Entsprechend bietet dieses Buch einmalige Einblicke in das Innenleben eines überzeugten SS-Offiziers, der nur wenige Jahre nach Kriegsende seiner emotionalen Zerrissenheit Ausdruck verleiht. Heinz Macher nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund, wenn er vom harten Ausbildungsalltag und vom Krieg berichtet. Zitate aus dem Buch: Was hat mich Weltanschauung interessiert? Meine Weltanschauung trug ich in meinem Herzen und die hieß 'Deutschland'. Wir glaubten, nicht rechtzeitig zur Fronttruppe zu kommen. Oh, wir Idealisten: Jeder von uns sollte noch seinen guten Teil Krieg und Kampf abbekommen. Profitieren Sie außerdem von zahlreichen Karten, die die Stationen aus Heinz Machers Erzählungen geografisch nachvollziehbar machen. Lassen Sie sich dieses einmalige Zeitzeugnis über einen der bekannteren Offiziere der Waffen-SS nicht entgehen. Klicken Sie auf 'Jetzt kaufen' und sichern Sie sich Ihr Exemplar. *bei dem Coverbild handelt es sich um eine Aufnahme von Heinz Macher aus dem Jahr 1980.

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Title: [German] - Willi – Einmal Kaukasus und zurück: Ostfront und Kriegsgefangenschaft: Romanhafte Biografie eines ehemaligen MG-Schützen im 2. Weltkrieg (Deutsche Soldaten-Biografien)

Author: Marcel Mallon

Narrator: Thomas Horst

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Release date: October 14, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Lesen Sie diese romanhafte Biografie über einen deutschen Soldaten, die zugleich ein flammendes Plädoyer gegen den Krieg und für die Völkerverständigung ist. Klappentext Immer wieder zieht es Großvater Willi in jene Länder Osteuropas, die er als DDR-Bürger besuchen darf. Als er mit seinem Enkel nach Sotschi reist, ist Willi kein Preis zu hoch, um einen Hubschrauberrundflug über den Elbrus zu ergattern. Kurz darauf schweben der Großvater und sein Enkel hoch über dem Kaukasus und blicken auf seltsame Linien im Gebirge. 'Das waren unsere Stellungen', flüstert Willi und schweigt danach, bis sie wieder das Hotel erreicht haben – ein Zustand, den der Enkel nie zuvor bei ihm erlebt hat. Erst Jahrzehnte später begreift er – der Autor dieses Buchs – was seinen Großvater damals umtrieb. Und so setzt er sich an die Tastatur und beginnt damit, die Lebensgeschichte von Willi nach dessen Erzählungen niederzuschreiben. Viele von Willis Kameraden liegen in der Erde, auf der heute wieder gekämpft wird. Der Terminus 'Krieg' hat uns eingeholt und wird leichtfertig verwendet. Was das für die Kriegsteilnehmer vor Ort bedeutet, kann nur die Generation der 'Alten' beurteilen. Doch die stirbt aus. Deshalb also dieses Buch. Es soll nicht belehren oder mahnen, sondern zeigen, was Krieg bedeutet. Diese romanhafte Biografie erzählt von Willis Lebensweg, der als MG-Schütze der 5. Luftwaffenfeld-Division an der Ostfront kämpft, schwer verwundet wird und in Rumänien in Kriegsgefangenschaft gerät. Im Zentrum der berührenden Geschichte steht der Blick des Enkels auf den Lebensweg seines Großvaters. Der Roman nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise in die Seele eines Weltkriegs-Veteranen, der sich nichts sehnlicher wünscht als Frieden. Erleben Sie, wie sich Willis Seelenleben Zeile für Zeile entfaltet und wie der Enkel zu verstehen beginnt, was sein Großvater durchlebt haben muss … Lassen Sie sich diesen berührenden Roman nach wahren Begebenheiten keinesfalls entgehen.

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Title: [German] - Achtung Leopard!: Stabsunteroffizier Trube lässt die Leos von der Kette (Romanhafte Biographie)

Author: Karsten Trube

Narrator: Christopher Jahn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Release date: October 14, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Freuen Sie sich auf eine spannende und beizeiten urkomische Reise zur Panzertruppe der Bundeswehr! Wir schreiben das Jahr 1990, Karsten Trube betritt als frischgebackener Wehrpflichtiger die Blücher-Kaserne in Hessisch Lichtenau. Seine Bestimmung: das Panzeraufklärungsbataillon II. Karsten Trube wird Panzerschütze, arbeitet erst mit dem Kampfpanzer Leopard 1 und später mit dem Leopard 2. Insgesamt verbringt er vier turbulente Jahre bei der Bundeswehr. Mit diesem autobiografischen Roman gewährt Ihnen der Autor einmalige Einblicke in die Ausbildung an den 'Leos'. Heute sind die deutschen Kampfpanzer wieder in aller Munde … Erfahren Sie, wie deutsche Soldaten mit ihnen trainieren und auf den Ernstfall vorbereitet werden. In lockerer Sprache ist Trubes Bericht mal nachdenklich, mal saukomisch und mit einem Augenzwinkern versehen. Freuen Sie sich auf irre Anekdoten vom Bund, wilde Tauchgänge mit dem Leo 1 und erfahren Sie, wie die deutsche Bahn beinahe einen Spähpanzer verlor … Freuen Sie sich auf: - Eine authentische Bundeswehr-Biografie - Mehr als 30 Fotos aus dem Privatarchiv des Autors (E-Book in Farbe, Print in schwarz-weiß) - Ausbildungsdienst und Übungen mit den Kampfpanzern Leopard 1 und Leopard 2 Erleben Sie eine nostalgische Reise zur Bundeswehr der 1990er Jahre, wenn Karsten Trube die Leos von der Kette lässt!

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Title: Reports From The First World War: Articles written while crossing the wastelands of 1919 (Nowadays, Tales of War and Unhappy Far-Off Things)

Author: Lord Dunsany

Narrator: Charles Featherstone

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Includes the collections Nowadays, Tales of War, & Unhappy Far-Off Things The great fantasy writer Lord Dunsany wrote very little in the way of fantasy after the onset of the First World War. This was partly because he was busy, having volunteered in 1915 and becoming a Captain in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Derry. However, the reality of the world bore in on our hero at this time, and it is not difficult to imagine that his heart moved to more serious concerns. Dunsany’s days of high fantasy, it seems, ended with the emergence of civil unrest in his nation. This is why the non-fiction section is included at the end of this collection; while he wrote the odd fantasy work in later years, they were written by a distinctly different man, with a very different life. For a week, he lay in a hospital bed, listening to the sounds of the riots as the British forces became increasingly violent and shelled the centre of Dublin with artillery. His military belt was left in the hospital, and eventually buried with the Nationalist leader Michael Collins. This, it seems, was the trigger for his change of heart, as expressed in ‘Nowadays’, towards poetry as the essence of writing. “In January 1917, under the stimulant of shellfire, I turned to poetry and wrote two poems in Plug-Street Wood”. After initially being refused forward positioning, he eventually served in the trenches. In this time, his literary output was focused on writing propaganda material for the War Office, some of which is collected in the non-fiction section of this volume.

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Title: The Freedom Shield: The 191st Assault Helicopter Company in Vietnam

Author: Maj. John D. Falcon (Ret)

Narrator: Shawn Compton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

A Vietnam War helicopter pilot shares arresting accounts of flying troops into hot LZs and medevacking the wounded under fire. The Freedom Shield brings together stories of veterans of the 191st Assault Helicopter Company, who were tasked with carrying troops into battle, attacking enemy positions, and evacuating the wounded in their UH-1 Iroquois 'Huey' helicopters. The unit was assembled from a hodgepodge of hand-me-down aircraft, used equipment, and overlooked personnel—its appearance belied the invaluable work the crews of the 191st would undertake during the Vietnam War. This narrative of the Company, told through collected stories of veterans, defines a breed of soldier newly minted in Vietnam: the combat assault-helicopter crewman. The 191st pilots, crews, and support personnel vividly share the details of what it was like to be at war and forced to rely on your fellow crewmembers for your own survival. Their accounts of helicopter combat at the height of the Vietnam conflict accurately recreate the sights and sounds of the battlefields, the fear and horror of watching close friends torn to pieces, and their feelings on returning to base. Their message is infinitely clear: 'The price of freedom is painful.'

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Title: The Ageless Call to Serve: Rethinking Military Service for a Changing World

Author: Ltc Lanny Snodgrass Md

Narrator: Dallas Britt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

An eighteen-year-old in the United States is still barred from buying alcohol, acquiring a pilot's license, or stepping into a casino. Yet, astonishingly, they can be enlisted in the military and deployed to a war zone. On the other side of the age spectrum, individuals over thirty-nine often encounter insurmountable obstacles to enlistment. Break this mold and meet Lanny Snodgrass, who, at the age of sixty-three, became the oldest American to join the Army and complete officer basic training. It was 2003, the Iraq War had just started, and the Pentagon momentarily relaxed age requirements. With around four decades of experience treating veterans and active-duty military personnel, many teenagers grappling with psychiatric illnesses such as PTSD, depression, and suicidality, Dr. Snodgrass bears unique insight into the perils of sending young soldiers to war. Dr. Snodgrass poses critical questions about the limits of service and whether these age constraints should be maintained or relaxed. It's not an overstatement, then, to say that The Ageless Call to Serve presents a life-and-death proposition on how to build a more resilient, professional military force.

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Title: Japan's Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II

Author: Bryan Mark Rigg Phd

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan claimed a minimum of thirty million lives, slaughtering more than Hitler's Nazi Germany. Japan's Holocaust shows that Emperor Hirohito not only knew about the atrocities his legions committed, but actually ordered them. He did nothing to stop them when they exceeded even the most depraved person's imagination, as illustrated during the Rape of Nanking as well as many other events. Japan's Holocaust will document in painful detail that the Rape of Nanking was not an isolated event during the Asian War but rather representative of how Japan behaved for all its campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific from 1927 to 1945. Mass murder, rape, and economic exploitation was Japan's modus operandi during this period, and whereas Hitler's SS Death's Head outfits attempted to hide their atrocities, Hirohito's legions committed their atrocities out in the open. Moreover, whereas Germany has done much since World War II to atone for its crimes and to document them, Japan has been disgraceful with its reparations for its crimes.

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Title: A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream

Author: Marc Garneau

Narrator: Marc Garneau

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

A captivating and inspiring memoir by Canada's first man in space. On October 5th, 1984, Marc Garneau made history. Blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle and reaching a speed of 28,000 km/hour, he became the first Canadian to fly to outer space. That monumental achievement, now etched in Canadian history as one of our country’s proudest moments, inspired a nation and ushered in a new era of space exploration for Canada. Twenty-four years later, Garneau made history yet again, becoming the first astronaut to be elected as a Member of Parliament. In between those two milestones in Garneau’s unprecedented career, he was the first Canadian, and the first non-American, to serve as CAPCOM, the voice of Mission Control for the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle. In the years that followed his historic first voyage to space, Garneau returned to space two more times, becoming the first Canadian to log three trips into orbit, and led the Canadian Space Agency through its most dynamic years. In the House of Commons, Garneau would ultimately serve in two cabinet posts as Minister of Transport and Minister of Foreign Affairs during some of the biggest events of the past decade: the onset of one of the worst pandemics in modern times; the arbitrary detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor by China; the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban; and the death of 85 Canadian citizens and permanent residents aboard Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752, shot down by Iran. It was no surprise, then, that when Marc Garneau announced his retirement after fourteen years in government, many Canadians lamented the loss of an upstanding parliamentarian who was not afraid to speak up for causes he believed in, even if that meant bucking his own party and its leader.  In A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream, Garneau chronicles his once-improbable ascent from a mischievous teenager and rebellious naval midshipman to a decorated astronaut and statesman who represented Canada on the world stage – both on and off the planet. With candour and humour, Garneau describes the highs and lows of his life and career, including the awe he experienced first seeing the earth from space, the tragic loss of his first wife to mental illness and suicide, sailing across the Atlantic and back in a sailboat called 'the Pickle,' and witnessing the tragedy of the doomed shuttle Challenger. Honest and illuminating, A Most Extraordinary Ride is a rare journey into the early years of Canada’s space program and an inside account of the joys and challenges of governing from one of Canada’s most distinguished citizens.

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Title: Civil War in the Roman Republic: A time of great civil, military and political strife that mirrors our own | 106 to 44BCE

Series: #10 of History's Great Speeches

Author: Catiline, Cato The Younger, Caius Marius, Caius Memmius, Mark Anthony, Cicero, Julius Caesar

Narrator: Charles Featherstone

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Release date: October 7, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

While compiling and narrating these speeches, I've often been struck by how easily they could be translated into a modern day context. Frequently, a speech has reminded me of the news of the day, somewhere in the world. Nowhere has this been more evident than in these speeches. Given over two thousand years ago, every single one could be applied to situations and people today with barely any revision. The late republic (from about 133BCE) was characterized by civil discontent, with three Servile Wars, two attempted coups, a Social War between Rome and Italian allies, and endless conflict. We begin in 110-106BCE with two speeches railing against the fixed social order and corruption of the highborn, as well as the scorn poured on those of lower birth. We then jump to the Cataline Conspiracy in 63 BCE, an attempt to overthrow the Senate that was only defeated at great cost, and continued to be a symbol of Rome’s troubles. Here we see Cataline exhorting his troops, Cato arguing for harsh punishment, C icero calling Cataline every contemptible name under the sun, and the only known speech of Julius Caesar, in which he argues for a sensible and jurisprudential response to this great crime. Cicero’s leadership of Rome is then documented, covering the beliefs and actions that saw him exiled and then returned to power by the Senate. Finally, we have Mark Antony’s hagiographic oration of Julius Caesar, and then two speeches of Cicero’s railing against the perversion of Caesar’s legacy that Mark Antony was putting into practice, and the need to hold onto tradition for the right reasons, not simply to cover the misdeeds of politicians. Antony became Consul in this time, and Cicero saw in him the final downfall of the republic, which lasted for only seventeen years after this moment before becoming an Empire.