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Title: Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe

Author: William R. Hogan

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Release date: November 7, 2023

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father’s tank battalion, the “Spearhead,” that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany—against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf—and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II. At twenty-eight, Sam Hogan is one of the youngest lieutenant colonels in the US Army. The West Point graduate from Texas stands in the commander’s hatch of his Sherman tank, behind him a steel wedge of seventeen other Shermans of his tank battalion. Two weeks after the now-infamous D-Day landings, Sam is preparing to give the order to advance into the German defenses that enclose the Normandy beachheads. Ahead of Sam lies seemingly impossible odds for survival: technologically superior Nazi tanks, camouflaged anti-tank guns, and infantry armed with new anti-tank rockets. But Sam has prepared for this moment for the past seven years. With a guttural call to move out accompanied by diesel fumes and the squeak of tank treads, Sam and his men begin their long journey to liberate Europe—a journey from which many of them would not return. So begins the story of Sam Hogan and his colorful band of tanker heroes of the Third Armored Division—the “Spearhead”—as they battle on the front lines of some of the war’s toughest fights, from Normandy to the Elbe to the Battle of the Bulge. The soldiers of Task Force Hogan come from all walks of life. There are cooks, tankers, infantrymen, salty old sergeants, and wet-behind-the-ears lieutenants. In common, they have a sense of duty to each other and their country, and the struggle against the most sinister enemy modern history has ever produced. In Task Force Hogan, the story of Sam and his band of heroes comes to life through the writing of his son, Will Hogan—aided by never-before-seen letters, military dispatches, journal entries, and interviews with surviving family of the Task Force. These were the soldiers at the tip of the spear, brave enough to lead the charge and fight against insurmountable odds, and often paying the ultimate price, while liberating French villages and concentration camps as they rolled towards Germany to ultimately win the war. In the pages of this book, Will Hogan finally gives these unsung soldiers the voice and memorial that they all deserve. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: What the Taliban Told Me

Author: Ian Fritz

Narrator: Ian Fritz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Release date: November 7, 2023

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

An “essential” (Kevin Maurer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn’t been accepted into colleges thanks to an indifferent high school career. He’d too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people’s most intimate conversations over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz’s fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a “fraught, moving” (Kirkus Reviews) coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in Afghanistan.

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Title: Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan

Author: Miles Lagoze

Narrator: Miles Lagoze

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Release date: November 7, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

“The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura. At just eighteen years old, Miles Lagoze joined the Marine Corps a decade after the war began and found himself surrounded by people not unlike those he’d left behind at home—aimless youth searching for stability, community, and economic security. Deployed to Afghanistan as a Combat Cameraman—an active-duty videographer and photographer—Lagoze produced slick images of glory and heroism for public consumption. But his government-approved footage concealed a grim reality. Here, Lagoze pulls back the curtain and illustrates the grisly truth of the longest war in American history. As these young men and women were deployed to an unfamiliar country half a world away—history’s “graveyard of empires”—they carried the scars of the fractured homeland that sent them. Lagoze shows us Marines straddling the edge of chaos. We see forces desensitized to gore and suffering by the darkest reaches of the internet, unsure of their places in an unraveling world and set further adrift by the uncertain mission to which they had been assigned abroad. Whistles from the Graveyard shows the parts of the Afghanistan War we were never meant to see—Afghan locals and American infantry drawn together by their fears of the ghostly, ever-present terror of the Taliban; moments of dark resignation as the devastating toll of years in war’s crossfire reveals itself between bouts of adrenaline-laced violence; and nights of reckless, drug-fueled abandon to dull the pain. In full, vivid color, Miles Lagoze shows us an oft-overlooked generation of young Americans we cast out into the desert, steeped in nihilism, and shipped back home with firsthand training in extremism, misanthropy, and insurrection.

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Title: Famous Soldiers of WWII: Actors Who Fought

Author: Raphael Terra

Narrator: Raphael Terra

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 24 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). The Second World War was the most destructive and widespread war to date. The darkest of evils called for the bravest of the brave to step forward and defend the free world. Millions of people lost their lives, millions suffered physical and mental affects. This wasn’t a time for just the brave few, it was a time of global challenge and almost everybody stepped up to the mark. And so, why should it be that those stars and celebrities of stage and screen should be exempt? The truth is that a great many not only took the challenge of war, but volunteered for it and shone as if they were giving the greatest of performances. This is the surprising story of those showbiz soldiers who cast aside their cares for fame and fortune and joined the millions of gallant men and women around the world in the battle against tyranny.

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Title: Bradley

Series: Part of Americans Fighting to Free Europe

Author: Charles Whiting

Narrator: Dallas Britt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

At the age of fifty Bradley was a career officer who had never seen a day of action on the battlefield. Yet, by the end of the war, he had led American soldiers through some of the bloodiest fighting of World War Two—the final defeat of the Germans' Afrika Korps, the invasion of Sicily, and the historic Normandy invasion, before leading the advance across the Rhine. Despite being such an instrumental leader of World War Two he was a modest man, professing only to do the best he could for his calling and his country. How did this quiet and unassuming teacher from West Point rise to become the commander of the Twelfth United States Army Group, which ultimately comprised forty-three divisions and over one million troops, the largest American force ever united under one man's command? And how did he come to be known as 'the G.I.'s General'? Charles Whiting's enthralling overview of Bradley and his career uncovers what he was like as a person, providing insight into his actions and leadership during the course of World War Two, before discussing his post-war career as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff through the course of the Korean War.

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Title: The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

Author: Thomas B. Buell

Narrator: Chris Monteiro

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and Okinawa, is one of the towering figures in American naval history. Yet his reserved, cerebral personality did not make 'good copy' for correspondents, and until the publication of The Quiet Warrior he remained an elusive figure. Thomas Buell has succeeded in evoking the nature of the man as well as recording the achievements of the admiral in this brilliant biography, which won the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement the year of its publication.

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Title: Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45

Author: Peter Hart

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more dangerous than on the ground. In Footsloggers, Peter Hart reconstructs one infantry battalion's war in staggering detail. Based on his interviews with members of the 16th Durham Light Infantry, Hart bears witness not only to their comradeship, suffering, dreadful losses, and individual tragedies, but also their courage and self-sacrifice as they fought their way across North Africa, Italy, and Greece. This is a human look at the inhuman nature of war from the author of At Close Range and Burning Steel. Contains mature themes.

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Title: On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Author: Ronald C. White

Narrator: Ronald C. White

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero. “A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making of modern America.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And There Was Light Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg—and told by two surgeons he would die—Chamberlain survived the war, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College. How did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric? How did a trained minister find his way to the battlefield? Award-winning historian Ronald C. White delves into these contradictions in this cradle-to-grave biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious, empathetic military leadership and his influential postwar public service, exploring a question that still plagues so many veterans: How do you make a civilian life of meaning after having experienced the extreme highs and lows of war? Chamberlain is familiar to millions from Michael Shaara’s now-classic novel of the Civil War, The Killer Angels, and Ken Burns’s timeless miniseries The Civil War, but in this book, White captures the complex and inspiring man behind the hero. This gripping, impeccably researched portrait illuminates one of the most admired but least known figures in our nation’s bloodiest conflict.

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Title: Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader

Author: Ranulph Fiennes

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The authoritative, illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from 'The World's Greatest Living Explorer' Ranulph Fiennes. Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in 1909. By 1918 there was a £20,000 price on his head. His journey to this point has long been legend. From his first postings as archaeologist, liaison and map officer, to fighting alongside guerrilla forces during the Arab Revolt, journeying more than 300 miles through blistering heat to capture Aqaba, to his involvement in peace conferences that decided the future of the Middle East, Lawrence gave over his life fully to this land and its people. An unhappy outsider in childhood, in Arabia, Lawrence found a home. But as he grew in notoriety and proved his worth to his Arab comrades, his Turkish enemies set their sights on his capture . . . A legend in his own lifetime, Lawrence's epic story has always been ripe for the retelling - but Ranulph Fiennes is no ordinary biographer. Leading Arab troops into battle on the Arabian peninsula in a war fought fifty years later, Fiennes too discovered the wonders of these far-flung lands and the people who live there, and is one of very few who can claim a true insight into the kind of life that Lawrence lived - bold and adventurous to the end. With detailed access to records and an in-depth knowledge of the exploration routes and mindset of those who venture into the unknown, in Lawrence of Arabia, Fiennes brings us at last to a true and full account of this mysterious adventurer who captivated the world. ©2023 Ranulph Fiennes (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: [German] - WN 62 - Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach: Normandie, 6. Juni 1944: NEUAUFLAGE

Author: Hein Severloh

Narrator: Mario Kunze

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Release date: October 12, 2023

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Endlich wieder verfügbar! Sichern Sie sich jetzt die erschütternde Autobiografie des MG-Schützen Heinrich Severloh, die sich weltweit bereits mehr als 60.000 mal verkauft hat! D-Day, 6. Juni 1944. Mit 7.000 Schiffen und 13.000 Flugzeugen starten die Alliierten die größte Landeoperation der Menschheitsgeschichte. Strandabschnitt Omaha Beach: Der MG-Schütze Heinrich 'Hein' Severloh befindet sich im Widerstandsnest 62 – das WN 62 –, als 34.000 GIs vor ihm am Strand landen. Neun Stunden lang feuert Severloh unentwegt auf die Angreifer. Mehr als 2.000 von ihnen finden im wütenden Abwehrfeuer den Tod. Schonungslos und ergreifend schildert Hein Severloh die dramatischen Stunden! Severloh, der junge Landwirtssohn aus der Lüneburger Heide, überlebt die Feuerwalze auf ebenso schreckliche wie abenteuerliche Weise – doch soll sie sein ganzes Leben nachhaltig prägen. Mit diesem Buch und einer Vielzahl internationaler Presse- und Fernsehpublikationen wurde Hein Severloh für immer in der Kriegsgeschichte verewigt. Bis zur Veröffentlichung seiner Biografie hatten die Amerikaner nie den Namen des Mannes erfahren, der ganz erheblich dazu beigetragen hatte, dass ihre Landung am 'Omaha Beach' zu einem derart furchtbaren Debakel wurde. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem international bekannten D-Day-Experten Helmut Konrad von Keusgen entstand nicht nur ein äußerst spannender Tatsachenbericht mit präzisen Ortsangaben, sondern es wurde ein zusätzlicher Blickwinkel geschaffen, der die Geschehnisse jenes dramatischen Tages in einem deutlich klareren Licht erscheinen lässt. Erschütternd berichtet Severloh von der ungeschminkten Wahrheit, räumt kompromisslos mit falschen Wertvorstellungen und Ideologien auf und stellt bisher vorherrschende offizielle Darstellungen ernsthaft infrage. Das dürfen Sie von diesem Buch erwarten: - 80 Originalfotos und detaillierte Karten liefern einmalige Einblicke in das Invasionsgeschehen - Erleben Sie die ganze Geschichte Hein Severlohs inkl. Nachruf - Helmut Konrad von Keusgens Expertise und seine exakten Darstellungen lassen Sie in jedes Detail eintauchen Profitieren Sie von einmaligen Einblicken in Hein Severlohs Kriegsdienst und Leben. Sichern Sie sich dieses lange vergriffene Stück Zeitgeschichte, indem Sie auf 'Jetzt kaufen' klicken.