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Title: Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam

Author: William Reeder Jr.

Narrator: Corey M. Snow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Release date: January 17, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last US Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. In 1971 William Reeder was a senior captain on his second tour in Vietnam. He had flown armed, fixed-wing OV-1 Mohawks on secret missions deep into enemy territory in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, on his first tour. He returned as a helicopter pilot eager to experience a whole new perspective as a Cobra gunship pilot. Believing that Nixon's Vietnamization would soon end the war, Reeder was anxious to see combat action. To him, it appeared that the Americans had prevailed, beaten the Viet Cong, and were passing everything over to the South Vietnamese Army so that Americans could leave. Less than a year later, while providing support to forces at the besieged base of Ben Het, Reeder's chopper went down in a flaming corkscrew. Though Reeder survived the crash, he was captured after evading the enemy for three days. He was held for weeks in jungle cages before enduring a grueling forced march on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, costing the lives of seven of his group of twenty-seven POWs. Imprisoned in the notorious prisons of Hanoi, Reeder's tenacity in the face of unimaginable hardship is not only a captivating story, but serves as an inspiration to all.

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Title: Objective Secure

Author: Nick Lavery

Narrator: Eric Elam, Nick Lavery

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Release date: January 13, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Nick Lavery is an active-duty Green Beret within the United States Army Special Forces. Although injuries sustained in combat resulted in the above-the-knee amputation of his leg - Nick not only remained in the Army, he returned to his Special Forces detachment and continues conducting combat operations to this day. Objective Secure is the methodology Nick employed to return to operational status. IT is also the methodology he uses today as he continues this unprecedented journey in service to his country. It is a battle-tested guide forged by fire - literally. Strap in for an impactful ride as Nick methodically explains the objective secure philosophy and system while also providing insight into the events surrounding its necessary creation and implementation. The intent is simple - provide readers the tools necessary to achieve any goal no matter how farfetched, unlikely, or impractical it may seem. Period.

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Title: [German] - Ohne Panzer ohne Straßen: Beginn des Russlandfeldzugs

Author: Franz Taut

Narrator: Klaus G. Förg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 3, 2023

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Wachtmeister Hohberg, der im Frankreichfeldzug gekämpft hat, wird zum Leutnant befördert. Es geht in den Osten. Mit dem Angriff des Großdeutschen Reiches auf die Sowjetunion wird der deutsch-sowjetische Nichtangriffspakt gebrochen. Nach anfänglichen Erfolgen wird schnell klar, dass sich der Gegner nicht so einfach bezwingen lässt. Das unbekannte Land und die Wetterlage verschärfen die Probleme. Mehrmals führt Leutnant Hohberg die Batterie an und wartet vergeblich auf die Unterstützung durch Panzer. Der fehlende Nachschub, Feuerüberfälle und Fliegerangriffe machen ein Durchdringen unmöglich. Ihm ist klar, dass sie rechtzeitig den Donez erreichen müssen, denn der Winter in Russland ist unberechenbar ...

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Title: The Jungle is Neutral: The Epic True Story of One Man's War Behind Enemy Lines

Author: F. Spencer Chapman

Narrator: Leighton Pugh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Release date: December 27, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The Jungle is Neutral makes The Bridge Over the River Kwai look like a tussle in a schoolyard. F. Spencer Chapman, the book's unflappable author, writes with typical British aplomb an amazing tale of four years spent as a guerrilla in the jungle, haranguing the Japanese in occupied Malaysia. Traveling sometimes by bicycle and motorcycle, rarely by truck, and mainly in dugouts, on foot, and often on his belly through the jungle muck, Chapman recruits sympathetic Chinese, Malays, Tamils, and Sakai tribesman into an irregular corps of jungle fighters. Their mission: to harass the Japanese in any way possible. In riveting scenes, they blow up bridges, cut communication lines, and affix plasticine to troop-filled trucks idling by the road. They build mines by stuffing bamboo with gelignite. They throw grenades and disappear into the jungle, their faces darkened with carbon, their tommy guns wrapped in tape so as not to reflect the moonlight. And when he is not battling the Japanese, or escaping their prisons, he is fighting the jungle's incessant rain, wild tigers, unfriendly tribesmen, leeches, and undergrowth so thick it can take four hours to walk a mile. It is a war story without rival.

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Title: [German] - ZOV – Der verbotene Bericht: Ein russischer Fallschirmjäger packt aus

Author: Pawel Filatjew

Narrator: Uwe Thoma

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Release date: December 23, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Zusammen mit seinem Regiment überfiel Pawel Filatjew die Ukraine. Dann entschloss er sich, nicht mehr mitzumachen – und der Welt die dreckige Wahrheit über den Wahnsinn dieses Krieges zu erzählen. Am 24. Februar 2022 um vier Uhr morgens marschierte der russische Fallschirmjäger Pawel Filatjew mit seinem Regiment in die Ukraine ein. Er war am Angriff auf Cherson beteiligt, saß in den Schützengräben um Nikolajew. Nach zwei Monaten an der Front wurde er verwundet; im Lazarett beschloss er, aufzuschreiben, was er gesehen und erlebt hatte: Verwüstung, Leichen, ratlose, verängstigte Befehlshaber, marodierende Truppen und Plünderer. Er erzählt alles, schreibt über Hunger, Kälte, Übergriffe, Todesangst, verrostete Waffen und über Männer, die sich selbst in die Beine schießen, um die vom Staat versprochenen Rubel für verletzte Soldaten zu erhalten.Inzwischen hat Pawel Filatjew Russland verlassen. Sein Aufenthaltsort ist geheim. In seiner Heimat drohen ihm mindestens zwanzig Jahre Haft. Er wird für den Rest seines Lebens auf der Flucht sein. Denn er hat sich entschlossen, nicht mehr mitzumachen – und Zeugnis abzulegen. Seine schonungslos offenen, erschütternden Aufzeichnungen geben der Welt einen bisher unbekannten Einblick in das Töten und Sterben in der Ukraine. Es ist der erste Insider-Bericht aus der russischen Armee – eine publizistische Sensation.-

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Title: [German] - G/GESCHICHTE - Lawrence von Arabien: Eine Legende der Wüste

Author: G/geschichte

Narrator: Karsten Wolf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Release date: December 20, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Wie viele Literatenhäuser stellt Lawrences Refugium »Clouds Hill« im südenglischen Bovington ein Abbild seiner Seele dar. Die einstige Bauernkate ist äußerst schlicht eingerichtet, aber die Bibliothek und Schallplattensammlung zeugen von dem intellektuellen Universum, das Lawrence war: Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Mozart, Beethoven und Elgar. Dann in einer Ecke rostige Fragmente von Schienen. Es sind Reliquien der Hedschasbahn von Aleppo nach Medina – Erinnerungen an seinen Guerillakrieg in der Wüste gegen die Türken. Lawrences militärische Karriere ist außergewöhnlich. Als die Kanonen des Ersten Weltkriegs schweigen, dient er als der jüngste Oberst in der britischen Armee. König Georg V. will ihn zum Ritter schlagen, doch er lehnt diese Ehre unter Protest ab, da Großbritannien seine Versprechungen gegenüber den Arabern nicht eingehalten hat. Stattdessen zieht er sich als einfacher Soldat in die Anonymität der Armee zurück – Buße oder Befreiung von der Last des Ruhmes? Der Asket kennt nur ein Laster: den Rausch der Geschwindigkeit. Getrieben von einer seelischen Unruhe, rast Lawrence mit seinem Motorrad durch England – bis ihn im Mai 1935 der Tod einholt. Sein Vermächtnis sind die »Sieben Säulen der Weisheit«, ein Meisterwerk, das Winston Churchill als eines der »größten Bücher der englischen Sprache« preisen wird. Viel Hörvergnügen bei dieser spannenden Ausgabe von G/Geschichte!-

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Title: Leading the Way to Victory: A History of the 60th Troop Carrier Group 1940–1945

Author: Colonel Mark C. Vlahos

Narrator: Peter Bradbury

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Release date: December 13, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Leading the Way to Victory is the official history of the 60th Troop Carrier Group, featuring unpublished first-person accounts by participating veterans and expertly written by retired USAF Colonel Mark C. Vlahos, combat veteran and former Vice Wing Commander of 314th Airlift Wing at the Little Rock Air Force Base.The December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II. Just six months later in May 1942, flying new C-47 transport aircraft, the 60th Troop Carrier Group led the way as the first U.S. TCG to deploy to England and the European Theater of Operations in World War II. Leading the way to victory, the 60th TCG’s first mission—dropping U.S. paratroopers outside of Oran, North Africa—was not only the first combat airborne mission in U.S. Army history, but also the longest airborne mission of the entire war. This drop spearheaded Operation TORCH, also known as the Invasion of North Africa, by taking key Axis airfields just inland from the amphibious landing zones. The 60th TCG went on to fly some of the first combat aeromedical evacuation missions and the first combat mission towing CG-4A “Waco” gliders during Operation HUSKY—the Invasion of Sicily. As the new airborne, air land, aeromedical evacuation, and glider missions matured in World War II, the 60th TCG continued to play a major role, paying in blood for valuable lessons learned in the school of hard knocks. The group later flew dramatic missions into Yugoslavia, supporting Partisans as part ofthe secret war in the Balkans, an episode of World War II history still all but unknown today and dropped British paratroops in the airborne invasion of Greece. The Group was inactivated at the end of the war.Drawing on official United States Army Air Forces microfilm records, operational records in the National Archives, photographs from both collections, published historical materials, and many personal accounts, author Mark C. Vlahos’ expertly written and highly readable volume is certain to become the standard history and go-to reference for the 60th TCG. This work offers scholars and lay readers alike an authoritative, informative, and engaging saga of the Group’s battles, adversity, hardships, and triumphs from inception through the Allied victory in Europe.

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Title: The Jungle is Neutral: The Epic True Story of One Man's War Behind Enemy Lines

Author: F. Spencer Chapman

Narrator: Leighton Pugh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Release date: November 17, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

When Singapore fell to the Japanese in December 1941, Captain Freddie Spencer Chapman chose to take the fight to the enemy. Trekking deep behind enemy lines into the jungle, this veteran explorer turned special forces operative unleashed a one-man commando campaign of such destructive power and lethal ferocity that the Japanese deployed a Regiment of four thousand men in a desperate effort to hunt him down. For three-and-a-half years he was cut off from Allied support. Fighting alongside Malayan guerrillas, he endured terrible injury, starvation, a host of gruesome tropical diseases and even cannibalism. While many of his companions were killed, captured and beheaded by the Japanese, he held out, fighting on until the war's end when he eventually made contact with British forces on a home-made radio to arrange for his escape by submarine. The Jungle is Neutral is Spencer Chapman's riveting account of unimaginable hardship and unbreakable will in the face of a ruthless enemy. As a tale of endurance and survival it is unsurpassed. As a war story, it is without rival.

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Title: Be Bold: How a Marine Hero Broke the Glass Ceiling for Women at War

Author: Tom Sileo

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross, Susan Bennett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Release date: November 11, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Major Megan McClung is the first female United States Naval Academy graduate to be killed in action since the school’s 1845 founding and the highest-ranking female U.S. Marine Corps officer to die during the Iraq war. Be Bold is Megan’s inspirational story of defying steep odds, making the ultimate sacrifice and paving the way for a new era of women at war.

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Title: [German] - Dem Wahnsinn entkommen: Soldatenschicksale im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Author: Klaus G. Förg

Narrator: Klaus G. Förg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Release date: October 5, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Vier ehemalige Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkriegs erzählen in diesem Buch ihre eigene Geschichte, die einem immer wieder einmal den Atem raubt. Heinz Polke war als Fahrer eines Oberleutnants beim Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto, Erich Menzel wurde als Radarspezialist auf dem berühmten letzten U-Boot Hitlers, der U 234, eingesetzt, Josef Hamberger spazierte regelrecht allein als 'Schweijk' in der unendlichen Weite Russlands und die Schwester eines jungen Soldaten berichtet, dass ihr Bruder direkt nach Kriegsende von der Waffen-SS hingerichtet worden ist. Dazu konnte Michael Strasser unglaubliche Fotos für seinen Beitrag gewinnen, die aus einem russischen Gefangenenlager herausgeschmuggelt worden sind.