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Title: You Can't Get Much Closer Than This: Combat with the 80th 'Blue Ridge' Division in World War II Europe

Author: Andrew Z. Adkins Iii, A.Z. Adkins

Narrator: Corey M. Snow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Release date: March 29, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

After the Citadel and Officer Candidate School, Andrew Z. Adkins Jr. was sent to the 80th Infantry Division, then training in the California-Arizona desert. There, he was assigned as an 81mm mortar section leader in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment. Lieutenant Adkins and his fellow soldiers took part in light hedgerow fighting that served to shake the division down and familiarize the troops and their officers with combat. While scouting for mortar positions in the woods, Adkins met a group of Germans and shot one of them dead with his carbine. This baptism in blood settled the question faced by every novice combatant: He was cool under fire, capable of killing when facing the enemy. Adkins acted with skill and courage, placing himself at the forefront of the action whenever he could. His extremely aggressive delivery of critical supplies to a cut-off unit in an embattled French town earned him a Bronze Star, the first in his battalion. Before his death, Andy Adkins was able to face his memory of war as bravely as he faced war itself. In 1944-45, he did his duty to his men and country—and here, he serves new generations of military and civilian listeners.

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Title: A Moment of War

Author: Laurie Lee

Narrator: David Sibley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Release date: March 24, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. Imprisoned and almost executed by his own side, he eventually joined the International Brigade. This is the story of his experiences as a Republican soldier, fighting for the losing side in a doomed war. 'A great, heart-stopping narrative of one young Englishman's part in the war in Spain . . . crafted by a poet, stamping an indelible image of the boredom, random cruelty and stupidity of war' - Literary Review 'This story aches with unforgotten cold and trembles with unforgotten terror' -Guardian Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poems (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), A Rose for Winter (1955), The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975) and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography: Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). He died in May 1997. © Laurie Lee 1992 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World

Author: Richard Middleton

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Release date: March 22, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years—the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738–1805), was a leading figure in late eighteenth-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the building of the Second British Empire in India—and he has long been associated with the unacceptable face of Britain's colonial past. In this vivid new biography, Richard Middleton shows that this portrait is far from accurate. Cornwallis emerges as a reformer who had deep empathy for those under his authority, and was clear about his obligation to govern justly. He sought to protect the population of Bengal with a constitution of written laws, insisted on Catholic emancipation in Ireland, and recognized the limitations of British power after the American war. Middleton reveals how Cornwallis's rewarding of merit, search for economy, and elimination of corruption helped improve the machinery of British government into the nineteenth century.

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Title: A Knock at the Door: The Story of My Secret Work with Israeli MIAs and POWs

Author: Ory Slonim

Narrator: Donald Corren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Release date: March 15, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The inside story of Israel’s secret negotiations to bring home their soldiers taken hostage by terrorist groups. Suppose one day, your son or husband, while serving in the military or working as a journalist, is taken hostage by a terrorist group—and you have no idea whether your loved one is dead or alive or how to even make contact with the insurgents holding him. It’s a nightmare scenario that has sadly taken place dozens of times in the past twenty years in the Middle East.Here in the U.S., the government does not always get involved. Instead, it will engage the services of a neutral country to negotiate with the terrorists. Unfortunately, many times the terrorists insist on never-ending demands in order to torment the family of the hostage. Unlike Israel, we’ve never had a central address for these types of scenarios. But maybe after reading this book, it’s an idea we could, and should, consider. Ory Slonim, the international “door knocker,” was an invention of necessity by the Israeli government.There were many good and brave human beings involved in this matter. Here for the first time is the story of the one man in Israel who, for more than two decades, was known as the “door knocker.” He had been a private Israeli lawyer when he was asked to undertake, on behalf of the Israeli government, secret negotiations to find out the whereabouts of Israeli soldiers who were taken alive. In his capacity as negotiator, his story will take you into the worlds of the furtive Mossad, the twisted minds of terrorists, the forever traumatized lives of the parents whose children never came home from battle, and into Ory’s own resilient, compassionate, and amazingly resolute negotiations when ordinary people would have easily broken down.hostage by terrorist groups. His ultimate mission was to bring them home, dead oralive. In his capacity as negotiator, his story will take you into the worlds of the furtive Mossad, the twisted minds of terrorists, the forever traumatized lives of the parents whose children never came home from battle, and into Ory’s own resilient, compassionate, and amazingly resolute negotiations when ordinary people would have easily broken down.

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Title: Havoc-06: A Combat Controller on Operations

Author: Troy Knight

Narrator: John Stretton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Release date: March 7, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

I received a target indication from one of the rear team members and observed movement coming from the left of the area of engagement. I then saw them, two enemy fighters moving to a new position. I must have let rip about twenty rounds and not one of the rounds hit them. I had missed completely! “You shit shot,” swearing at myself under my breath. My teeth were clenched and I was pissed off at my own incapability with a rifle, however, I realised I had a primarily role to play and that was as the Platoon JTAC. Havoc-06 is the call sign of former Australian Combat Controller, Troy Knight. As a Royal Australian Air Force Airfield Defence Guard, Troy had not found the military adventure he sought; combat operations. His thirst for overseas deployment saw him privately contract his services in Iraq and South East Asia, but when he got whiff that the Australian Defence Force was raising a new defence capability, he couldn't help but want to be part of it. The new Defence capability, termed the ‘Special Tactics Project,' would see Troy undertaking the gruelling Commando Selection course and passing, making him one of Australia's first Combat Controllers attached to the Australian Army 2nd Commando Regiment. As a member of the Special Forces unit, Troy's lifelong dream of taking part in combat operations would come to fruition, but the reality of his dream would also play havoc on his life. Havoc-06 is the untold story of the Australian Combat Controller, but it is also Troy's personal story and one that will resonate with so many.

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Title: Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Author: Ric Prado

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 28

Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central Intelligence Agency as the CIA equivalent of a two-star general. Black Ops is the story of Ric’s legendary career that spanned two eras, the Cold War and the Age of Terrorism. Operating in the shadows, Ric and his fellow CIA officers fought a little-seen and virtually unknown war to keep USA safe from those who would do it harm. After duty stations in Central, South America, and the Philippines, Black Ops follows Ric into the highest echelons of the CIA’s headquarters at Langley, Virginia. In late 1995, he became Deputy Chief of Station and co-founding member of the Bin Laden Task Force. Three years later, after serving as head of Korean Operations, Ric took on one of the most dangerous missions of his career: re-establish a once-abandoned CIA station inside a hostile nation long since considered a front line of the fight against Islamic terrorism. He and his team carried out covert operations and developed assets that proved pivotal in the coming War on Terror. A harrowing memoir of life in the shadowy world of assassins, terrorists, spies and revolutionaries, Black Ops is a testament to the courage, creativity and dedication of the Agency’s Special Activities Group and its elite shadow warriors. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

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Title: [German] - Sonne im Staub: Teil 1 - Rückkehr nach Afghanistan

Author: Enrico Senftleben

Narrator: Enrico Senftleben

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Release date: February 18, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Wann hat ein deutscher Soldat schon einmal so viel Zeit in Kriegsgebieten verbracht, dazu ausdauernd Tagebuch geführt und es anschließend der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht? Damit bietet sich hier wohl die einmalige Gelegenheit für sehr besondere Einblicke! Dieses Buch, welches also auf der Grundlage eines im Einsatz geführten Tagebuches entstand, erzählt die Geschichte eines deutschen Bundeswehrsoldaten (Hauptfeldwebel, heute Stabsfeldwebel a.D.) in Afghanistan. Der vergleichsweise lange Einsatz über 13 Monate (der Zweite in dieser Länge) als Ausbilder in der afghanischen Armee, hat viele interessante und abenteuerliche Erlebnisse, aber auch belastende Situationen hervorgebracht. Diese werden aus einer sehr persönlichen Perspektive heraus erzählt. Da unzählige Seiten zustande gekommen sind, musste für das vorliegende Buch eine Auswahl aus dem Tagebuchmaterial getroffen und die beteiligten Personen geschützt werden. Es bietet authentische und ehrliche Einblicke in den deutschen Afghanistan-Einsatz, welche die Öffentlichkeit hierzulande sonst gar nicht oder nur in kleinen Ausschnitten durch gefilterte Medienberichte erhält. Der Umstand, dass der regelmäßige Dienst an sechs Tagen in der Woche außerhalb der geschützten Camps stattfand, macht die Geschichte besonders. Es gab nur wenige Soldaten, die in solchen Funktionen über so lange Zeit ihren Dienst in Afghanistan verrichtet haben. Mit dem Buch sollen die Erlebnisse festgehalten und Erfahrungen weitergegeben werden. Ursprünglich nur für den engsten Familienkreis gedacht, kam erst spät der Entschluss, auch die Öffentlichkeit daran teilhaben zu lassen. Nur durch solche Einblicke ist auch Außenstehenden eine Einschätzung und Bewertung der Tätigkeiten unserer Soldaten in Auslandeinsätzen möglich. Die Erzählung ist als Trilogie angelegt. In diesem ersten Buch geht es um die ersten Wochen und Monate im Einsatz, es enthält jedoch auch Rückblicke und Anekdoten aus meinem Leben. Der zweite Teil dreht sich ebenfalls um meine Zeit in Afghanistan. Der dritte Teil wird dann Erlebnisse aus den Einsätzen aus der Erinnerung aufgreifen und im Wesentlichen die Rückkehr, Erkrankung an einer komplexen Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung sowie die familiäre Entwicklung behandeln. Es gibt viel zu erzählen.

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Title: In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

Author: Helen Rappaport

Narrator: Helen Rappaport

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Release date: February 17, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily Mail In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography that explores her remarkable achievements and unique status as an icon of the 19th century, but also corrects some of the myths that have grown around her life and career. Having been raised in Jamaica and worked in Panama, Mary Seacole came to England in the 1850s and volunteered to help out during the Crimean War. When her services were turned down, she financed her own expedition to Balaclava, where she earned her reputation as a nurse and for her compassion. Popularly known as ‘Mother Seacole’, she was the most famous Black celebrity of her generation – an extraordinary achievement in Victorian Britain. She regularly mixed with illustrious royal and military patrons and they, along with grateful war veterans, helped her recover financially when she faced bankruptcy. However, after her death in 1881, she was largely forgotten for many years. More recently, her profile has been revived and her reputation lionised, with a statue of her standing outside St Thomas's Hospital in London and her portrait - rediscovered by the author - is now on display in the National Portrait Gallery. In Search of Mary Seacole is the fruit of almost twenty years of research by Helen Rappaport into her story. The book reveals the truth about Seacole's personal life and her 'rivalry' with Florence Nightingale, along with much more besides. Often the reality proves to be even more remarkable and dramatic than the legend.

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Title: Five Nickels: True Story of the Desert Storm Heroics and Sacrifice of Air Force Captain Steve Phillis

Author: Jim 'boots' Demarest

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

On February 15, 1991, Captain Steve Phillis was leading his wingman, Lieutenant Rob Sweet, on their thirtieth combat mission of Desert Storm flying the A-10 Warthog. They were tasked with attacking Iraq's vaunted Medina Division of the Republican Guards—by far their most dangerous mission of the war. Near the end of their attacks, Rob was forced to eject from his aircraft and began a five-minute parachute ride down to the troops he and Steve had just finished bombing. Steve, an experienced combat search and rescue pilot and distinguished graduate of the Air Force Fighter Weapons School, immediately sprang into action to save the life of his wingman. After spending three minutes and forty-five seconds circling Sweet, Steve's A-10 was hit by an enemy surface-to-air missile. Five Nickels: True Story of the Desert Storm Heroics and Sacrifice of Air Force Captain Steve Phillis is a love story. Steve loved his family, fiancée, fellow fighter pilots, country, wingman, and life. Yet he was willing to risk them all to fight—and if necessary, die—for what he believed in. Steve's story—from Rock Island, Illinois, to the Air Force Academy, to his life as an A-10 fighter pilot—is the stuff of heroes.

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Title: [German] - Wo sind sie geblieben: Ein Soldatenschicksal an der Ostfront

Author: F. John-Ferrer

Narrator: Klaus G. Förg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Release date: February 7, 2022

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

1943 tobt in Tscherkassy eine Kesselschlacht. Unter den Soldaten der deutschen Wehrmacht befindet sich Feldwebel Martin Hajek. Was er bis zum Kriegsende in Russland erlebt, die Gefechte am Bug und der schier aussichtslose Kampf mit dem unerbittlichen, grausamen Winter, wird in diesem aufwühlenden und zugleich packenden Roman erzählt. Tod und Verwundung sind ständig präsent, doch die Hoffnung auf eine Rückkehr nach Hause und die Menschlichkeit in einer unmenschlichen Zeit lassen die Soldaten durchhalten.