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Title: Battle Hardened

Subtitle: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to V-E Day

Author: Craig S. Chapman

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-18

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Battle Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to VE Day tells the story of an American soldier's growth from a Second Lieutenant eager to prove his worth in battle to a skilled and resolute commander over the course of the Northern European Campaign. Craig Chapman delves deep into the personal recollections and mental state of Bill Chapman as he fought against the Nazis, enduring frontline combat and witnessing horror on a massive scale. Lieutenant Chapman maintains his sanity by isolating his emotions from the chaos of the battlefield, and the young officer turns into a hard-edged warrior who dispassionately orders men to risk their lives yet still manages to hold onto his humanity.

Critic Reviews:

"I spent 15 months in the European Theater of Operations and participated in all the campaigns that Craig depicted. I can attest that

Battle Hardened is one of the most realistic books written since 1944-45." (Sgt. Maj. Jack Port)

Members Reviews:

one of the Greatest Generation.

Exceptional insight into the daily experiences, feelings and thoughts of WW2 Infantry Captain Bill Chapman. Through Captain Chapman's letters home as well as the author's deep research of primary historical sources and witnesses, Captain Chapman's' European theater war-time journey from D-Day to VE-Day and then home, is accurately served to the reader "bold and fact cold" just as Bill saw and felt them. A very worth while read, an author son's tribute to the memory and life of his father...William "Bill" Chapman, one of the Greatest Generation.

It is a very good read - couldn't put it down

It is a very good read - couldn't put it down. All of us who had fathers with a chest full of medals but would not talk about their World War II experiences will find this book WILL hold your interest throughout. Note: used my Wife's Amazon account to buy the book.

A soldiers story.

An excellent, well researched account of an officerâs experiences in the European theater of war. Certainly one of the best accounts of the Second World War that I have read.

Four Stars

It was a little slow for me.

Excellent Portrayal of War II at the Platoon and Company Level

I was so very fortunate to preview this book during itâs final stages of publication. My father, Tallie J. Crocker was Billâs Company Commander during the D-Day invasion, and they served together in the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division throughout the victorious march across Europe.

Craig has done an outstanding job of presenting the challenges that our fathers and their men faced during the war. It is amazing that these young men engaged fully in this horrendous conflict - they truly were part of the "Greatest Generation". The bookâs focus on platoon and company level operations, allows the reader to gain an excellent understanding of what war is like at the lowest level - the fear, emotions, and pride that they experienced fighting through each day to survive and advance the alliesâ cause and defeat the evil Nazi empire.

The story provides many examples of the resilience of our troops and their ability to adapt their tactics to the tasks at hand and not be constrained by dated techniques. Craig offers an excellent example regarding night operations.

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Title: My Mental Madness Memoir

Subtitle: The Provocative True Journey through My Struggles with Mental Illness

Author: Stephanie Anne Allen

Narrator: Lorri Heneveld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-18

Publisher: Stephanie Anne Allen

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This chilling, shocking, interesting, and intriguing true story takes you deep into the mind of the author who suffers from several severe mental illnesses.

The author describes in detail all the insanity, disturbing behaviors, oppressive symptoms, and various feeling associated with the mental battles within her own mind. The author suffers from clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and borderline personality disorder. She struggles with suicidal thoughts and attempts, self-mutilating behaviors, mania, paranoia, anxiety, and psychosis with intense hallucinations of all five of her senses, and multiple delusions, including the belief that she is the "second-coming of Christ".

Take this journey with the author as her life takes rapid turns for the very worst.... But after years of being extremely mentally unstable, she acquires the courage, strength, hope, and faith she needs to understand, accept, and live with her illnesses. Only then is she able to turn her once miserable and fearful life around. This book offers hope and inspiration to others as it proves that recovery from mental illness is possible. "Having a mental illness is like a roller coaster ride. You don't jump off while it's still moving. You have to continue to ride until it comes to a complete stop and you can get off safely".

Members Reviews:

Amazing, scary journey of the.mind

You can't help but feel compassion for this woman who is gifted with intelligence, when her life is almost taken from her due to mental issues and a personality disorder. It is amazing how she fights to come back and become a fully-functioning member of society who learns to love herself, and finally gets the help she needs. She's been to hell and back, and you a rooting for her to make it.

Very interesting read!

This book is a fascinating tho heartbreaking true story of the horrible suffering that mental illness can bring. I recommend it to anyone who doesn't understand mental illness and what it can do to a person.

This book is raw and honest and I wasn't always comfortable but that is ok! We as a society need to make great changes in how we handle those with mental illness and we definitely need to show more compassion to those who are hurting. There is a lot of suffering in this book and Stephanie does an amazing job drawing you into her world. I love that she's making us aware of the pain involved but also that there are ways to conquer anything life can deal us and that no matter what we face God never leaves or deserts us. A very triumphant story!!!!

Nail it!

This book is not for the faint of heart. It shows what it is like living with a mental illness. My Mental Madness Memoir: The provocative TRUE journey through my struggles with mental illness, by Stephanie Anne Allen, is a wonderful book for anyone who wants to learn what life is like with a mental illness. It can also educate people about what mental illness is and help to break the stigma associated with it. Lastly, this book is for those with a mental illness who are looking for folks like them.

This story is raw. The author talks about the ups and downs of her mental illness. I feel that it takes a courageous person to open up and show the world their darkest times in life.

I will be blunt. There is a time and place for everything.

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Title: The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

Author: Winston S. Churchill

Narrator: Lawrence Skinner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"The River War" is an account by Winston S. Churchill, based on his experiences as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War (1881- 99) in the Sudan. He tells the story of the British imperial involvement in the Sudan, and the Mahdi War between the British forces, led by Lord Kitchener, and the Dervish forces, led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, "The Mahdi", heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had embarked on a campaign to conquer Egypt, to drive out the Ottomans. In vivid style the audiobook describes the background to the war, the relationship of the Upper Nile to Egypt, the murder of General Charles George Gordon in the siege at Khartoum, the political reaction in England, and Kitchener's elaborate preparations for the war. While in the Sudan, Churchill participated in the Battle of Omdurman. Churchill comments at length on the mechanization of war with use of the telegraph, railroad, and a new generation of weaponry.

Artist Bio Author:

Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was the pan name of Winston Churchill, who, in addition to his careers of soldier and politician, was a prolific writer.

©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature

Members Reviews:

A Wonderful Book; a Limited Kindle Edition

This is the first book I downloaded and read to completion after receiving a Kindle as a gift.

To speak of the book first, on its own merits: I cannot praise it too highly. Anyone with an interest and other readings in Britain's Sudanese adventure will have at least have heard of Churchill's "River War," but for those who haven't taken it up, by all means do so. Churchill's perspective on the war is almost unique, as he is here both as an overseeing observer -- a historian with powerful access to mountainous sources -- and as a participant, with one hand on the reins and the other on his pistol during the heroic, mistaken, wasteful, insanely romantic Charge of the 21st Lancers. Beyond that, Churchill's gift as a narrative writer, his ability to draw pictures in prose that alternately gallops, enthuses, grimaces, and dissects, is never better displayed. If you have an interest here, you must read here. This book is so good that I'm going to get a print version.

Which takes us to the other aspect of this review. The first thing one learns about Kindling is that there are probably multiple versions of the book you're interested in, and you won't learn the critical differences between them from the blurbs in their respective product descriptions. Here I found to my chagrin, after quite of lot of pages had passed by, that this Kindle edition of "The River War" has none of the original's maps or tables. No illustrations of any kind. That's s serious fault, and I made up for it in part by using Google Earth and other books. It's the nature of Churchill's book, though, that the most important pictures are the ones drawn with his words.

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Titel: Dieses bescheuerte Herz

Untertitel: Nach einer wahren Geschichte

Autor:: Daniel Meyer, Lars Amend

Erzähler: Elyas M'Barek, Philip Noah Schwarz, Nadine Wrietz, Uwe Preuss, Shenja Lacher

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 44 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-18-17

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Verfilmt mit Elyas M'Barek: ein herzkranker Teenager, ein 30-jähriger Sonnyboy und die Kunst, das Leben zu schätzen.

Lenny (Elyas M'Barek), der fast 30-jährige Sohn eines Herzspezialisten, kann vor allem eines: feiern, Geld ausgeben und nichts tun. Als sein Vater ihm die Kreditkarte sperrt, hat er nur eine Chance, sein altes Leben wieder zurückzubekommen. Er muss sich um den schwer herzkranken, 15-jährigen David kümmern.

"Dieses bescheuerte Herz" basiert auf dem Roman von Daniel Meyer und Lars Amend. Die wahre Geschichte des schwerkranken Teenagers, der einen Ersatzbruder findet und ihm die Lust am Leben zurückgibt, ist eine Hommage an das Leben.

Mit den Originalstimmen des Films: von Elyas M'Barek, Philip Schwarz und vielen anderen.

©2017 Constantin Film Verleih GmbH (P)2017 der Hörverlag

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Title: Good Prose

Subtitle: The Art of Nonfiction

Author: Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing - about the creation of good prose - and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him, and from that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize.

Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience - their mistakes as well as accomplishments - to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as nonfiction writers, for models and instruction. They talk about narrative strategies, about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer. They offer some tart and emphatic opinions on the current state of language. And they take a clear stand against playing loose with the facts. Their advice is always grounded in the practical world of writing and publishing.

Members Reviews:

A good read about writing

I enjoy writing "for myself". I have yet to work with an editor. It sounds like hard work. The long-standing relationship between Kidder and Todd came through very clearly in this book. I enjoyed reading about it and learned a lot in the process.

I was so bored by this book

I was so bored by this book. I only made it halfway through before I quit reading it but it felt a lot like a "toot my own horn" kind of book.

Pretty Good

But not great. I've read a few things by Tracy Kidder and I wasn't blown away but there aren't too many books for non-fiction writing out there worth their salt so I tried this one. I appreciated the memoir section yet Kidder should have taken his own advice. His memoir about serving a year in Vietnam was dull and seemed pointless.

Good Resource for Writers

Being a fledgling memoirist, I found this book most helpful. Not only for my own writing, but it helped me better understand and appreciate good non-fiction writing by others.

Five Stars

Excellent guide to writing non fiction or fiction for that matter.

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Title: A Day in the Life of an Airline Pilot

Author: Robert Lawrence ATP

Narrator: Michelle Volz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-17

Publisher: A Better Life

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

My name is Robert Lawrence. I am an airline pilot. Before I became an airline pilot, I served in the military; graduated from the University of Washington; completed one semester of law school; endured a variety of unfulfilling jobs; was employed as a flight instructor; worked in law enforcement; and otherwise lived a normal life. However, when I reached age 48, I committed to becoming an airline pilot. I made the commitment because I was thoroughly dissatisfied with my paper-shuffling desk job. I craved a life of adventure. Also, I love a challenge. Becoming an airline pilot was the biggest challenge of my life!

Before becoming an airline pilot, I imagined that pilots earned huge salaries, traveled to exotic locations, and cavorted with beautiful people. I was mistaken. I thought you might enjoy hearing about the actual life of an airline pilot. In this audiobook, I explain how I prepare for a flight; what happens in the flight deck; why delays occur; and what I do when I am done flying for the day. I also share passenger behaviors that drive flight crews crazy.

Enjoy the trip!

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Awesome book. Easy and fun to read. I like his other books too.

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Title: Feeding My Mother

Subtitle: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss

Author: Jann Arden

Narrator: Jann Arden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-17

Publisher: Random House of Canada

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, inspirational, and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned her into the primary "parent" to her mom, who is in the grip of Alzheimer's.

Jann Arden moved in to a house just across the way from her parents in rural Alberta to be close to them but also so they could be her refuge from the demands of the music business and a performing career. Funny how time works. Since her dad died in 2015, Jann cooks for her mom five or six times a week. Her mom finds comfort in her daughter's kitchen, not just in the delicious food but also just sitting with her as she cooks. And Jann finds some peace in caring for her mom, even as her mom slowly becomes a stranger. "If you told me two years ago that I'd be here," Jann writes, "I wouldn't have believed it. And yet we still fall into so much laughter, feel so much insane gladness and joy. It's such a contrast from one minute to the next and it teaches me constantly: It makes me stronger and more humble and more empathetic and caring and kind."

The many people who are dealing with a loved one who is losing it will find inspiration and strength in Jann's wholehearted, loving response and her totally Jann take on the upside-down world of a daughter mothering her mother. Feeding My Mother is one heck of an affirmation that life just keeps on keeping on and a wonderful example of how you have to roll with it.

Members Reviews:

Beautiful Beautiful Honesty

As some who recently left 27 years in the corporate world and bought a senior care agency, I have at times struggled to deal with the reality of the suffering that the aging process often brings to those we have the honor to care for and their families. Janns story, and that of her parents, is similar to many others I have encountered but it is her beautiful and honest writing of it and her constant desire to find the good in all of it that is inspiring. I hope others facing similar challenges might read this and find some inspiration in it, or at the very least, a sense that they are not alone.

Love the book but the stated length is wrong

I love Jann Arden. I love the book. My family has been coping with a similar situation and I could really understand the range of emotions. Getting old is not for the faint of heart.

I am confused by the length of the audiobook. It says 5:40 but the length is just under 3 hours. Even more confusing the book downloads as two back to back copies. Just under 6 hours long. Yeah so I don't understand that and I'm a bit frustrated and I do know it's not 1913.

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Title: Who Will Love Me Now?

Subtitle: Neglected, Unloved and Rejected: A Little Girl Desperate for a Home to Call Her Own

Author: Maggie Hartley

Narrator: Penny MacDonald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

At just 10 years old, Kirsty has already suffered a lifetime of heartache and suffering. Neglected by her teenage mother and taken into care, Kirsty thought she had found her forever family when she is fostered by Pat and Mike, who she comes to see as her real mum and dad.

But when Pat has a heart attack and collapses in front of her, Kirsty's foster family says it's all her fault. They blame her temper tantrums for putting Pat under stress and they don't want Kirsty in their lives anymore.

Kirsty is still reeling from this rejection when she comes to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley. She acts out, smashing up Maggie's home and even threatening to hurt the baby boy Maggie has fostered since birth. Social Services must take Kirsty's threat seriously and Maggie is forced to choose between eight-month-old Ryan, who she's grown to love, or angry Kirsty, who will most likely end up in a children's home if Maggie can no longer care for her.

Maggie is in an impossible position, one that calls into question her decision to become a foster carer in the first place....

Members Reviews:

amazing heart

wow what a touching story what a difficult Choice Maggie had to make but that's her gut let her know it was the best decision she made glad they both turned out fine

very real

wonderful story; great performance

there are a bit too many repetitive phrases & there is way too much use of the word brilliant. otherwise, it was brilliant!;)

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Title: Suzanne's Children

Subtitle: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris

Author: Anne Nelson

Narrator: Anne Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.

Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country's leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Renee Magritte. In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life's purpose. When France fell and the Nazis occupied Paris, she joined the Resistance. She used her fortune and social status to enlist allies among wealthy Parisians and church groups.

Under the eyes of the Gestapo, Suzanne and women from the Jewish and Christian resistance groups "kidnapped" hundreds of Jewish children to save them from the gas chambers.

In the final year of the Occupation, Suzanne was caught in the Gestapo dragnet that was pursuing a Soviet agent she had aided. She was executed shortly before the liberation of Paris. Suzanne Spaak is honored in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations.

Critic Reviews:

A riveting book about a truly heroic woman in a Paris of resignation and shame. A must read !" (Diane von Furstenberg, New York Times best-selling author)

Members Reviews:

Something for everyone!

Captured my imagination like a fine novel, my anger like witnessing a great crime, my guilt of my owe sins of neglect and selfishness, my heart like a love song!

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Title: Victoria: The Queen

Subtitle: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Author: Julia Baird

Narrator: Clare Fraenkel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A magnificent biography of Queen Victoria by international New York Times columnist Julia Baird. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, Victoria: The Queen is a stunning new portrait of the real woman behind the myth - a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience.

When Victoria was born in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would begin to threaten many of Europe's monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public's expense, and republican sentiment was growing. The Industrial Revolution was transforming the landscape, and the British Empire was commanding ever larger parts of the globe. Born into a world where women were often powerless, during a century roiling with change, Victoria went on to rule the most powerful country on earth with a decisive hand.

Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role. As a girl she defied her mother's meddling and an adviser's bullying, forging an iron will of her own. As a teenage queen, she eagerly grasped the crown and relished the freedom it brought her. At 20 years old, she fell passionately in love with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, eventually giving birth to nine children. She loved sex and delighted in power. She was outspoken with her ministers, overstepping boundaries and asserting her opinions. After the death of her adored Albert, she began a controversial, intimate relationship with her servant John Brown. She survived eight assassination attempts over the course of her lifetime. And as science, technology, and democracy were dramatically reshaping the world, Victoria was a symbol of steadfastness and security - queen of a quarter of the world's population at the height of the British Empire's reach.

Drawing on sources that include revelations about Victoria's relationship with John Brown, Julia Baird brings vividly to life the fascinating story of a woman who struggled with so many of the things we do today: balancing work and family, raising children, navigating marital strife, losing parents, combating anxiety and self-doubt, finding an identity, searching for meaning. This sweeping biography gives us the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times.

Members Reviews:

The Victoria I never knew existed

Although a lover of history I knew so little about Victoria. Julia Bairds research and writing was so rich and satisfying that every chapters end felt like a wonder holiday drawing to an end. Every aspect from Victorias emotional and physical states to the politics and culture of Great Britain and Europe are explored in exquisite depth-bringing to life perhaps the greatest and most influential woman of this era.