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Title: Covert: The Psychology of War and Peace

Author: Neil K. Aggarwal, Asad Durrani, A.S. Dulat

Narrator: Jonathan Rego, Shubhankar, Rajiv Dadia

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Release date: August 14, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

After the tremendous success of The Spy Chronicles, A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani participated in a series of conversations on the psychology of war and peace; these have evolved into this fascinating book, written with psychiatrist Neil K. Aggarwal. Covert takes the reader right into the head of the two spymasters. Delving into their personal and professional trajectories that moulded them in the early years, the conversation traces the extent to which their Indian and Pakistani identities have defined them. Masterfully moderated by Aggarwal, the discussion then turns to the domain of international relations, exploring why the governments of India and Pakistan collaborate in certain areas, but not in others. What emerges is a remarkably forthright, provocatively honest appraisal of the peacebuilding process between the two nations that appear inherently hostile to each other but share so much in terms of history and cultural identity. The dialogues in Covert reveal a deep camaraderie between Dulat and Durrani, who have headed the intelligence operations for their respective countries. But more importantly perhaps, it provides deep insights into the shadowy world of negotiation and subterfuge. It is an eye-opener and a must-read for anyone invested in peace and amity in South Asia.

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Title: The Road Past Monchy: Fighting the First World War at Arras, 1914–1918

Author: Terence Loveridge

Narrator: Frank Block

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Terence Loveridge offers a unique look at the land and air operations around the strategic village of Monchy-le-Preux at the center of the western front during World War I. The story of the Great War is usually one of condemnation or rehabilitation of strategists and consecration of the common soldier, while the story of those who planned, directed, and led operations on the ground has generally been overlooked. Loveridge uses experiences of junior leaders fighting around the key terrain of Monchy-le-Preux to challenge the currently accepted views and reveal that the Great War, despite subsequent impression, was a surprisingly dynamic effort conducted in an arena of constantly evolving practices, techniques, and technology. Less well known than its contemporary campaigns at the Somme, Verdun, or Passchendaele, Monchy also carries less preconceived baggage and thus offers a prime opportunity to reevaluate the accepted wisdom of the events, personalities, and understandings of the Great War. The Road Past Monchy offers listeners a unique chance to uncover the 'lost' perspective of junior war leaders in a theater of war that saw almost continuous operations from 1914 through to 1918.

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Title: Kent State: An American Tragedy

Author: Brian Vandemark

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young Americans—National Guardsmen sporting gas masks and rifles. At half past noon, violence unfolded with chaotic speed, as guardsmen—many of whom had joined the Guard to escape the draft—opened fire on the students. Kent State meticulously re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and popular anxieties around the country. On college campuses, teach-ins, sit-down strikes, and demonstrations exposed the growing rift between the left and the right. Many students opposed the war as unjust and were uneasy over poor and working-class kids drafted and sent to Vietnam in their place. Some developed a hatred for the military, the police, and everything associated with authority, while others resolved to uphold law and order at any cost. Focusing on the thirteen victims of the Kent State shooting and a painstaking reconstruction of the days surrounding it, historian Brian VanDeMark draws on crucial new research and interviews—including, for the first time, the perspective of guardsmen who were there. The result is a complete reckoning with the tragedy that marked the end of the sixties.

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Title: The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945

Author: Robert M. Citino

Narrator: Tom Beyer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 25 hours 59 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this book, Citino charts the path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a 'war of movement,' inexorably led to Nazi Germany's defeat. The Wehrmacht's Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or 'death ride,' from January 1944—with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine—until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino's previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht's Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army's strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies in World War II.

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Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - De rattenlijn: Leugens, liefde en gerechtigheid op het pad van een nazi-vluchteling

Author: Philippe Sands

Narrator: Jan Donkers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Release date: August 9, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

De zoektocht naar de waarheid achter de vlucht en mysterieuze dood van een naziofficier 'Het resultaat is een rijkgeschakeerd verhaal met personages die volop tot de verbeelding spreken. De Rattenlijn is een geschiedenisboek, liefdesverhaal en 'spionageroman' in één.' ••••• NRC Handelsblad Otto Wächter was tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog verantwoordelijk voor de dood van honderdduizenden Joden en Polen. Vijfenzeventig jaar later is zijn zoon Horst nog altijd overtuigd van zijn onschuld. Aan het einde van de oorlog werd Otto Wächter beschuldigd van massamoord. Achternagezeten door de Sovjets, de Amerikanen en de Britten sloeg hij op de vlucht. Drie jaar lang verschool hij zich in de Oostenrijkse Alpen, waarna hij zich naar Rome begaf en met steun van het Vaticaan kon onderduiken. Toen hij zich in juli 1949 voorbereidde op zijn reis naar Argentinië via de 'rattenlijn' overleed hij plotseling – onder zeer verdachte omstandigheden. In De rattenlijn schetst Philippe Sands een uniek maar onthutsend portret van het leven van een nazi-vluchteling, dat leest als een echte thriller. Samen met zoon Horst begint hij een confronterende zoektocht naar de ware identiteit van Otto Wächter. Aan de hand van historische bronnen, Wächters brieven aan zijn vrouw en moderne medische expertise ontrafelt Sands het mysterie dat de jongste zoon van de gevluchte oorlogsmisdadiger nog altijd achtervolgt – wat gebeurde er tijdens Wächters vluchtpoging en hoe vond hij zijn einde? 'Een meeslepend avontuur, een verbijsterende ontdekkingsreis en een angstaanjagend en actueel portret van het kwaad in al zijn complexiteit, banaliteit, zelfrechtvaardiging en krankzinnigheid. Een verbluffend wapenfeit.' – Stephen Fry 'Meesterlijk geschreven … Dagboeken, gecodeerde brieven en geheime documenten zijn hier in elkaar gewikkeld en worden door een meesterbrein ontleed. [...] Dat hij erin geslaagd is als een tovenaar deze chaos een schijn van helderheid te geven is een grote prestatie, ook al omdat goed en kwaad zo strikt beschreven zijn.' – Cees Nooteboom, De Groene Amsterdammer 'Een nauwgezette en uitmuntend geschreven op feiten gebaseerde thriller, die qua diepgang en tempo doet denken aan John le Carré.' – The Guardian 'Hypnotiserend, schokkend en onmogelijk om weg te leggen.' – John le Carré

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Title: [German] - Sharpes Ehre - Sharpe-Reihe, Teil 16 (Ungekürzt)

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Stefan Naas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Release date: August 5, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Spanien, 1813. Major Richard Sharpe wartet begierig darauf, dass Wellington die Franzosen zu einer entscheidenden Schlacht stellt. Ohne die Spanier wäre ein englischer Sieg allerdings unmöglich, weshalb die Allianz mit ihnen unter allen Umständen bewahrt werden muss. Das weiß auch der französische Spion Pierre Ducos, ein Todfeind Sharpes. Mit Hilfe der schönen Marquesa Hélène hat der Franzose einen teuflischen Plan ausgeklügelt, der die spanisch-englische Allianz zerbrechen und den verhassten Sharpe vernichten wird ...

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Title: [Spanish] - El Arte de la Guerra en Español Completo

Author: Sun Tzu, Yazidin Xi

Narrator: Michel Kerski

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 36 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Este audiolibro no solo es un manual para los líderes y comandantes, sino también una guía para cualquier persona que busque una comprensión más profunda de la psicología humana y las dinámicas del poder. En estas páginas, descubrirás no solo la esencia de la estrategia militar, sino también una ventana a la mente de un filósofo que entendió que la verdadera maestría radica en la prevención de la guerra misma, y en la conquista de los desafíos a través de la mente en lugar de la fuerza bruta.

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Title: Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS Soldier

Author: Jamie Pennell

Narrator: Michael Whalley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Release date: July 31, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

A gripping memoir by a former NZSAS commander on serving in Afghanistan over four deployments and operating at the edge of his limits 'Frighteningly, devastatingly real.' - The Post In 2011, following the Taliban siege on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, an SAS soldier identified only as Serviceman J was awarded New Zealand's second highest military honour by showing outstanding gallantry in the face of danger. After eighteen years in the New Zealand SAS, ex-commander Jamie Pennell is now ready to tell his story. Having survived the famously tough SAS selection course and excelled during its brutal training, Jamie was sent on four deployments to Afghanistan and played a critical role in New Zealand's operations. From patrols across desert territories run by warlords to hostile fire and near-death combat, Serviceman J is a heart-stopping account of life inside one of the world's most elite military forces.

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Title: In Strange Company: An American Soldier with Multinational Forces in the Middle East and Iraq

Author: Col. Roland J. Tiso Jr. (ret) Us Army

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 37 minutes

Release date: July 30, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The decision to not deploy reoriented, trained Iraqi divisions and other allied forces in numbers significant enough to adequately stabilize the situation in Iraq in 2003–04 resulted in significant shortages of manpower and equipment that eventually led to a less-than-satisfactory ending to the campaign, and significantly challenged the entire Coalition effort in the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The roles and missions assumed by allies were vitally important in the under-resourced effort to bring order to the chaos of Iraq but would remain relatively unheralded. Colonel Tiso's account offers unique insights into the challenges of planning the Iraqi campaign and the intricacies and challenges of multinational service through the lens of his assignments as a war planner at U.S. Central Command, Senior Military Adviser of the Arab Peninsula Shield Force and the Polish-led Multinational Division (Central-South), and Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (C-3) of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team tasked to develop the New Iraqi Army. His firsthand account of operational planning for war in Iraq captures the concerns of the military planners and senior commanders to liberate and stabilize the country, enabling listeners to better understand the challenges of operational war planning, coalition warfare, and more.

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Title: Fighting From Above: A Combat History of the US Air Force

Author: Brian D. Laslie

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Release date: July 30, 2024

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War and looks forward to a new era of airpower in space. Fighting from Above presents a concise account of this history, offering a new perspective on how the air forces of the United States created an independent way of warfare over time. From the earliest battles of the USAF's predecessor organizations to its modern incarnation, Brian D. Laslie identifies four distinct ways of war that developed over four distinct epochs. Beginning with the development of early air power (1906–1941), he highlights the creation of roles and missions. An era of strategic dominance (1942–1975) followed in which the ideas of strategic bombardment ruled the air force; when such notions were unceremoniously proven false during the Vietnam-era conflicts, a period of tactical ascendancy (1975–2019) began. Finally, Laslie considers the current environment, where much of the story of the USAF remains unwritten as it grapples with the prospects and challenges posed by drones and the U.S. Space Force. While detailing combat operations, Fighting from Above also pays close attention to technology, politics, rivalries, logistics, policy, organization, equipping, and training. It is an authoritative history of the development of American airpower.