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Title: The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives

Author: Sebastian Faulks

Narrator: James Wilby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Release date: August 5, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Christopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. He went to Paris in 1921. By day he studied, by night he attended the parties of the beau monde. He knew Picasso, worked for Diaghilev and was a friend of Cocteau. In the last months of his 29-year life, he fought a ravening opium addiction to succeed in claiming a place in history of English painting. Richard Hilary, confident, handsome and unprincipled, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain before being shot down and horribly burned. He underwent several operations by the legendary plastic surgeon, A H McIndoe. His account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, made him famous, but not happy. He begged to be allowed to return to flying, and died mysteriously in a night training operation, aged 23. Jeremy Wolfenden was born in 1936, the son of Jack, later Lord Wolfenden. Charming, generous and witty, he was the cleverest Englishman of his generation, but left All Souls to become a hack reporter. At the height of the Cold War, he was sent to Moscow where his louche private life made him the plaything of the intelligence services. A terrifying sequence of events ended in Washington where he died at the age of 31. © Sebastian Faulks 1996 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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Title: We March at Midnight: A War Memoir

Author: Ray Mcpadden

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

What would the war do without me? We March at Midnight is award-winning author Ray McPadden’s chronicle of his experience as a highly decorated Ranger Officer leading some of the most dangerous missions during the height of the Iraq and Afghan wars. In 2005, Ray joined the army in search of what he calls “the moment”—a chance to prove to himself and his brothers in arms that he is a true leader. His job is to establish the first outpost in the Korengal, Afghanistan’s deadliest valley, and his decisions and mistakes will have a permanent impact on the men he commands. During the fifteen-month tour, his unit receives numerous decorations for valor while suffering nearly 50 percent casualties, ultimately accomplishing their mission in a land considered unwinnable. Prowess with a rifle platoon soon earns Ray a position in the world’s premiere raiding force, the 75th Ranger Regiment, an accomplishment earned by less than 1 percent of the officers in the US Army, and during the most combat-heavy period of the twenty-first century. Ray spearheads the first joint-strike force of Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, in a shadow war against the agents of a foreign government, where lightning raids by helicopter, armored vehicle, and foot are his nightly routine. In 2009, when Ray returns to the same corner of Afghanistan where his military career began, he suddenly finds himself tasked with leading Rangers against a target he knows all too well: the home of friends from his first tour. As he leads one last raid, Ray is at war with himself. Conquering this unexpected enemy proves the greatest challenge of all. We March at Midnight is a blood-spattered tour de force of growing up, leadership, the nature of war, and its aftermath.

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Title: Here, Right Matters: An American Story

Author: Alexander Vindman

Narrator: Alexander Vindman, Jacques Roy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 17

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here, Right Matters is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield and at the White House, and the decisions leading up to, and fallout surrounding, his exposure of President Trump's abuse of power.  0900, Thursday, July 25, 2019: President Trump called Ukraine’s President Zelensky, supposedly to congratulate him on his recent victory. In the months that followed, the American public would only learn what happened on that call because Alexander Vindman felt duty-bound to report it up the chain of command: that the President of the United States had extorted a foreign ally to damage a political challenger at home. Vindman’s actions and subsequent testimony before congress would lead to Trump’s impeachment and affirm Vindman's belief that he had done the right thing in the face of intense pressure to stay silent. But it would come at an enormous cost, straining relationships with colleagues, superiors, and even his own father, and eventually end his decorated career in the US Army, by a Trump administration intent on retribution.  Here, Right Matters is Vindman’s proud, passionate, and candid account of his family, his career, and the moment of truth he faced for his nation. As an immigrant, raised by a father who fled the Soviet Union in pursuit of a better life for his children, Vindman learned about respect for truth throughout his education and military service. As this memoir makes clear, his decision to speak up about the July 25th call was never a choice: it was Vindman’s duty, as a naturalized citizen and member of the armed forces. In the wake of his testimony, he would endure furious partisan attacks on his record and his loyalty. But far louder was the extraordinary chorus of support from citizens who were collectively intent on reaffirming an abiding American commitment to integrity.   In the face of a sure-fire career derailment and public excoriation, Vindman heeded the lessons from the people and institutions who instilled in him the moral compass and the courage to act decisively. Like so many other American immigrant families, the Vindmans had to learn to build a life from scratch and take big risks to achieve important goals. Here, Right Matters is about the quiet heroes who keep us safe; but, above all, it is a call to arms for those who refuse to let America betray its true self.

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Title: Citizen-Surgeon: A Memoir

Author: Paul Bryan Roach

Narrator: Emmett Schrader

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Release date: July 13, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Citizen-Surgeon takes listeners into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone. In the backdrop of the US-led war in Afghanistan, amidst a defining US Marine Corps’ offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] US Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and congeal as a medical unit in Southern California, transport from the United States to their tents in Dasht-e-Margo (the “Desert of Death”) in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and professionally execute their role as one of the few medical and surgical companies supporting this major offensive. In the course of the audiobook’s events the author undergoes a transformation from being a physician in a military uniform into a military officer that happens to be a physician. The crucible effecting this change is the military offensive and his role within it. Shocking and intense, an array of critical injuries and their treatments are described in rich language that anyone, medical or nonmedical alike, can absorb. Death also pervades the atmosphere; intrusive, unyielding, and painful, its battlefield familiarity and personal impact is resisted, suffered, and ultimately accepted. Citizen-Surgeon is an intimate portrayal, a chronicle, and a celebration of friendship, love, success and failure, contemporary war, and military medicine. It is an account of a slice of reality that few people are privileged to know. It reflects deeply upon the nature of personal choice and how that choice puts us where we are in life, even if we did not fully see in advance how the choice would change us. Citizen-Surgeon also explores a variant of post-traumatic stress particular to medical assets, and it reveal’s one man’s chess match against it. It is a must-listen for those with a specific interest in contemporary military medicine and for those with broader, essentially human interests in individual growth, adventure, and self-actualization. Author’s Note: The Military Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan earned the Presidential Unit Citation for their efforts. This is one of only two such awards that the United States Marine Corps has received since the Persian Gulf, and it is the only Presidential Unit Citation given to any unit during the entire Afghan war. It is the highest unit commendation award that can be given.

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Title: Catkiller 3-2: An Army Pilot Flying for the Marines in the Vietnam War

Author: Raymond G. Caryl

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Release date: July 13, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Catkiller 3-2 provides unique insights into the role of the tactical air controller, airborne (TACA) in I Corps as seen through the eyes of one of the pilots who flew low-flying, unarmed, single-engine aircraft in support of marine ground units during the Vietnam War. When Gen. William Westmoreland changed the marines' role in I Corps into a combat one, the Marines found themselves in need of more fixed wing aircraft to handle the TACA missions. The advance party of the Army's 220th Reconnaissance Aircraft Company (RAC) arrived in Vietnam in late June 1965 thinking they were going to be assigned to III Corps Tactical Zone. However, because of the shortage of existing Marine Birddogs, the 220th was immediately reassigned to I Corps and came under the operational control of the Marines. No other work details the tactics, restrictions, aerial maneuvers, and dangers experienced by the army pilots and marine aerial observers flying these missions. As young lieutenants and captains, they had at their beck and call as much authority to request and control artillery and air strikes as ground commanders of much higher rank. Raymond G. Caryl provides unrivaled examples of the cultural mores, attitudes, and recreational activity of these young pilots and observers supporting the ground forces.

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Title: [German] - Der 20. Juli 1944: Gespräch mit Hans Sarkowicz

Author: Philipp Freiherr Von Boeselager

Narrator: Hans Sarkowicz, Philipp Freiherr Von Boeselager

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Release date: July 9, 2021

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Philipp Freiherr v. Boeselager war Zeitzeuge der Ereignisse um den 20. Juli 1944. Als Ordonnanzoffizier des Oberbefehlshabers der Heeresgruppe Mitte erfuhr Boeselager von den Massentötungen und anderen Verbrechen und gelangte zu der Überzeugung, dass das verbrecherische Regime Hitlers gestürzt werden müsse. Er schloss sich dem Widerstand um Henning von Tresckow an und übernahm die Aufgabe, andere Offiziere für den Staatsstreich zu gewinnen. Im Juli 1944 zog Philipp – unter dem Kommando seines Bruders Georg v. Boeselager - 1200 Soldaten am Flugplatz nahe Brest zusammen, um diese nach einem geglückten Attentat schnell nach Berlin-Tempelhof zu fliegen. Als das Scheitern des Attentats bekannt wurde, kehrte Boeselager mit seinen Männern an die Front zurück. Hans Sarkowicz nähert sich in dem Gespräch behutsam dem Charakter Boeselagers. Für ihn stehen nicht die Fakten, sondern die emotialen und rationalen Beweggründe der 'Verschwörer' im Mittelpunkt der Fragen. Ein Zeitzeugnis der besonderen Art.

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Title: [German] - Unglaubliches überstanden: Ein Soldatenschicksal im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Author: Klaus G. Förg

Narrator: Klaus G. Förg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Release date: July 8, 2021

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Als Eberhard Dennerlein 1936 in das Pionierbataillon 47 in München eintritt, legt er damit den Grundstein für sein weiteres Leben. Er verpflichtet sich, lebenslänglich der Wehrmacht zu dienen. Vom Unteroffizier steigt er auf zum Offizier und ist zunächst mit dem Bau von Brücken beauftragt, um dem Vormarsch in Polen den Weg zu bereiten. Bereits mit Anfang zwanzig wird er zum Kompanieführer ernannt. Nach Einsätzen in Holland, Belgien, Frankreich und später in Russland gerät er in russische Kriegsgefangenschaft. Während all dieser Zeit hat er in seinem Tagebuch seine Erlebnisse und Gedanken festgehalten, die so zu einem wichtigen Zeitdokument werden.

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Title: Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II

Author: Adam Makos, Marcus Brotherton

Narrator: Michael Crouch, Mike Chamberlain, Kimberly Farr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

From the bestselling author of A Higher Call and Spearhead comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivotal battles during the Pacific War, a classic book now expanded with new stories from the flyboys overhead and the home front at war. Following fifteen Marines from Pearl Harbor, through their battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With vivid, unforgettable detail, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the camaraderie they found, the friends they lost, and the aftermath of the war's impact on their lives. With unprecedented access to the veterans and unpublished memoirs, Voices of the Pacific presents true stories of heroism as told by such World War II veterans as Sid Phillips, R.V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum—whose exploits were featured in the classic HBO miniseries The Pacific—and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division.

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Title: Lieutenant Dangerous: A Vietnam War Memoir

Author: Jeff Danziger

Narrator: Jeff Danziger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

This “funny, biting, thoughtful, and wholly original” Vietnam War memoir captures the fear, sorrow, and absurdities of combat (Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried). “A must-read war memoir . . . related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene.' —Kirkus Reviews A conversation with a group of today’s military age men and women about America’s involvement in Vietnam inspired Jeff Danziger to write about his own wartime experiences: “War is interesting,” he reveals, “if you can avoid getting killed, and don’t mind loud noises.” Fans of his cartooning will recognize his mordant humor applied to his own wartime training and combat experiences: “I learned, and I think most veterans learn, that making people or nations do something by bombing or sending in armed troops usually fails.” Near the end of his telling, Danziger invites his audience—in particular the young friends who inspired him to write this informative and rollicking memoir—to ponder: “What would you do? . . . Could you summon the bravery—or the internal resistance—to simply refuse to be part of the whole idiotic theater of the war? . . . Or would you be like me?”

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Title: Flames in the Sky

Author: Pierre Clostermann

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Release date: June 29, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

From near suicidal RAF attacks in 1940 through to the dawn of the jet age in 1945, Flames in the Sky captures the astonishing drama, intensity, heroism, and incomparable exhilaration of the World War Two air war like no other book. This epic global struggle between Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mustangs, Mosquitos, Messerschmitts, Zeros, Kamikazes and more is brought vividly to life by a writer who was himself in the thick of the action. Pierre Clostermann was one of the outstanding Allied Aces of the Second World War, shooting down scores of enemy aircraft, while friends and comrades lost their lives in the deadly skies above Europe. Flames in the Sky was born of his desire 'to do justice to their courage.' Flames in the Sky is packed with dramatic aerial action, including the Battle of France, the attack on Pearl Harbor, last stand on the Bataan Peninsula, Operation Vengeance: The Assassination of Admiral Yamamoto, and the Messerschmitt 262 and the dawn of the jet age.