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Canadian Military History Listens
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Juno Beach
- Canada's D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): Steve Kehela
- Durée: 13 h et 46 min
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On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among them were 14,500 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile-long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a dangerously exposed beach. Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory, June 6, 1944 dramatically depicts Canada's pivotal contribution to the critical Allied battle of World War II.
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A Disappointment
- Écrit par John McElwain le 2019-05-16
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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Operation Husky
- The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10–August 7, 1943
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): Paul Christy
- Durée: 16 h
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On July 10, 1943, two great Allied armadas of over 2,000 ships readied to invade Sicily. This was Operation Husky, the first step toward winning a toehold in fascist-occupied Europe. Among the invaders were 20,000 Canadian troops serving in the First Canadian Infantry Division and First Canadian Tank Brigade - in their first combat experience. Over the next 28 days, the Allied troops carved a path through the rugged land, despite fierce German opposition.
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Great history of a lesser known battle.
- Écrit par Megan le 2019-02-12
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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Ortona
- Canada's Epic World War II Battle
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): William Dufris
- Durée: 14 h et 37 min
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In one furious week of fighting in December 1943, the First Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port at all costs. When the battle was over, the Canadians emerged victorious despite heavy losses.
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I had no idea...
- Écrit par Ryan F le 2019-03-09
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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The Fight for History
- 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War
- Auteur(s): Tim Cook
- Narrateur(s): J. D. Nicholsen
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony. The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time.
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This explains a lot
- Écrit par B Goff le 2020-11-18
Auteur(s): Tim Cook
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For Honour's Sake
- The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): Brian Holsopple
- Durée: 16 h et 32 min
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In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British and Indian troops prevailed in almost all of the battles, in which the Americans were unable to hold any of the land they fought for, in which a young woman named Laura Secord raced over the Niagara peninsula to warn of American plans for attack (though how she knew has never been discovered), and in which Canadian troops burned down the White House.
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Dry and Boring
- Écrit par 101 le 2018-08-19
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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The Gothic Line
- Canada's Month of Hell in World War II Italy
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): Mark Ashby
- Durée: 15 h et 49 min
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Stretching like an armor-toothed belt across Italy's upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified position the German army had yet thrown into the Allied forces' path. On August 25, 1944, it fell to Canadian troops to spearhead a major offensive: to rip through that fiercely defended line. This gripping chronicle tells, through the eyes of the soldiers who fought there, of the 28-day clash that ultimately ended in glory for the Canadians.
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Previous to this book, I knew nothing about the Gothic Line. This book is well written.
- Écrit par roger in the west le 2024-04-07
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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Juno Beach
- Canada's D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): Steve Kehela
- Durée: 13 h et 46 min
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On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among them were 14,500 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile-long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a dangerously exposed beach. Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory, June 6, 1944 dramatically depicts Canada's pivotal contribution to the critical Allied battle of World War II.
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A Disappointment
- Écrit par John McElwain le 2019-05-16
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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Operation Husky
- The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10–August 7, 1943
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): Paul Christy
- Durée: 16 h
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On July 10, 1943, two great Allied armadas of over 2,000 ships readied to invade Sicily. This was Operation Husky, the first step toward winning a toehold in fascist-occupied Europe. Among the invaders were 20,000 Canadian troops serving in the First Canadian Infantry Division and First Canadian Tank Brigade - in their first combat experience. Over the next 28 days, the Allied troops carved a path through the rugged land, despite fierce German opposition.
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Great history of a lesser known battle.
- Écrit par Megan le 2019-02-12
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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Ortona
- Canada's Epic World War II Battle
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): William Dufris
- Durée: 14 h et 37 min
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In one furious week of fighting in December 1943, the First Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port at all costs. When the battle was over, the Canadians emerged victorious despite heavy losses.
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I had no idea...
- Écrit par Ryan F le 2019-03-09
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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The Fight for History
- 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War
- Auteur(s): Tim Cook
- Narrateur(s): J. D. Nicholsen
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony. The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time.
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This explains a lot
- Écrit par B Goff le 2020-11-18
Auteur(s): Tim Cook
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For Honour's Sake
- The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): Brian Holsopple
- Durée: 16 h et 32 min
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Histoire
In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British and Indian troops prevailed in almost all of the battles, in which the Americans were unable to hold any of the land they fought for, in which a young woman named Laura Secord raced over the Niagara peninsula to warn of American plans for attack (though how she knew has never been discovered), and in which Canadian troops burned down the White House.
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Dry and Boring
- Écrit par 101 le 2018-08-19
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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The Gothic Line
- Canada's Month of Hell in World War II Italy
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): Mark Ashby
- Durée: 15 h et 49 min
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Stretching like an armor-toothed belt across Italy's upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified position the German army had yet thrown into the Allied forces' path. On August 25, 1944, it fell to Canadian troops to spearhead a major offensive: to rip through that fiercely defended line. This gripping chronicle tells, through the eyes of the soldiers who fought there, of the 28-day clash that ultimately ended in glory for the Canadians.
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Previous to this book, I knew nothing about the Gothic Line. This book is well written.
- Écrit par roger in the west le 2024-04-07
Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
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Sea Stories
- My Life in Special Operations
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- Narrateur(s): William H. McRaven
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Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.
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A must read and listen!
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Auteur(s): William H. McRaven
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Unbroken
- A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
- Auteur(s): Laura Hillenbrand
- Narrateur(s): Edward Herrmann
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Why we think it’s a great listen: Seabiscuit was a runaway success, and Hillenbrand’s done it again with another true-life account about beating unbelievable odds. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared....
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Unreal Story
- Écrit par phillip le 2019-01-24
Auteur(s): Laura Hillenbrand
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Helmet for My Pillow
- From Parris Island to the Pacific: A Young Marine's Stirring Account of Combat in World War II
- Auteur(s): Robert Leckie
- Narrateur(s): James Badge Dale, Tom Hanks (introduction)
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Just read With the old breed instead.
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No Ordinary Dog
- My Partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden Raid
- Auteur(s): Will Chesney, Joe Layden
- Narrateur(s): Will Chesney
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Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden’s compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairo's story, and that of his handler, Will Chesney, a SEAL Team Operator whose life would be irrevocably tied to Cairo's.
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A sincere, serious and smile inducing tribute to Cairo - a great MWD.
- Écrit par J. Robertson le 2020-04-29
Auteur(s): Will Chesney, Autres
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Trust
- America's Best Chance
- Auteur(s): Pete Buttigieg
- Narrateur(s): Pete Buttigieg
- Durée: 4 h et 46 min
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Recognizing that we are now experiencing disastrous consequences, the former South Bend mayor offers a direct reckoning with the corruption of social responsibility, interweaving history, political philosophy, and affecting passages of memoir, offering a new outlook for how we can confront the next decade’s challenges by building accountability. In this urgent work, Buttigieg confirms his status as a visionary political thinker.
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Auteur(s): Pete Buttigieg
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From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, US Army, ret., the former national security advisor and author of the best-selling classic Dereliction of Duty, comes a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States, and an urgent call to compete to preserve America’s standing and security.
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- My Life in Special Operations
- Auteur(s): William H. McRaven
- Narrateur(s): William H. McRaven
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A must read and listen!
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Auteur(s): William H. McRaven
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Unbroken
- A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
- Auteur(s): Laura Hillenbrand
- Narrateur(s): Edward Herrmann
- Durée: 13 h et 56 min
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Why we think it’s a great listen: Seabiscuit was a runaway success, and Hillenbrand’s done it again with another true-life account about beating unbelievable odds. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared....
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Unreal Story
- Écrit par phillip le 2019-01-24
Auteur(s): Laura Hillenbrand
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Helmet for My Pillow
- From Parris Island to the Pacific: A Young Marine's Stirring Account of Combat in World War II
- Auteur(s): Robert Leckie
- Narrateur(s): James Badge Dale, Tom Hanks (introduction)
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Just read With the old breed instead.
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
- Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
- Auteur(s): Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis
- Durée: 16 h
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In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating.
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WOW, Exceptional
- Écrit par Gerald Lefebvre le 2022-10-18
Auteur(s): Harold G. Moore, Autres
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The Theater of War
- What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today
- Auteur(s): Bryan Doerries
- Narrateur(s): Adam Driver
- Durée: 5 h et 49 min
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This compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author's celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition. For years Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and hurricane victims, and a wide range of other at-risk people in society.
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very moving
- Écrit par coffee drinker in Calgary le 2022-09-20
Auteur(s): Bryan Doerries
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The Jersey Brothers
- A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home
- Auteur(s): Sally Mott Freeman
- Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell
- Durée: 18 h et 41 min
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They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments. Bill is picked by Roosevelt to run his first map room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only carriers to escape Pearl Harbor and by the end of 1942 the last one left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest and least distinguished of the three, is shuffled off to the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way.
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well written and we'll narrated
- Écrit par Michael Mallette le 2019-07-27
Auteur(s): Sally Mott Freeman
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Ashley's War
- The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
- Auteur(s): Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- Narrateur(s): Kathe Mazur
- Durée: 10 h
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From the author of the New York Times best seller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana comes the poignant and gripping story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan - including Ashley White, a beloved soldier who died serving her country's cause.
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Ashley’s War
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-10-10
Auteur(s): Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- Auteur(s): Ulysses S. Grant
- Narrateur(s): Robin Field
- Durée: 29 h et 34 min
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Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically rescued him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man told with great courage.
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Grandpa Simpson Narrator
- Écrit par Zyn ski le 2018-09-11
Auteur(s): Ulysses S. Grant
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Never Call Me a Hero
- A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
- Auteur(s): N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, Timothy Orr
- Narrateur(s): Mike Ortego, Cassandra Campbell, Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 9 h et 38 min
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An extraordinary firsthand account of the Battle of Midway by one of its key participants, timed to the 75th anniversary: American dive-bomber pilot "Dusty" Kleiss helped sink three Japanese warships (including two aircraft carriers), received the Navy Cross, and is credited with playing a decisive individual role in determining the outcome of a battle that is considered a turning point in World War II.
Auteur(s): N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, Autres
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Thank You for My Service
- Auteur(s): Mat Best, Ross Patterson, Nils Parker
- Narrateur(s): Mat Best
- Durée: 7 h et 12 min
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Members of the military’s special operations branches share a closely guarded secret: They love their jobs. They relish the opportunity to fight. They are thankful for it, even, and hopeful that maybe they’ll get to kill a bunch of bad guys while they’re at it. You don’t necessarily need to thank them for their service - the pleasure is all theirs. In this hilarious and personal memoir, listeners ride shotgun alongside former Army Ranger and private military contractor and current social media phenomenon Mat Best, into the action and its aftermath, both abroad and at home.
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Good times
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-05-20
Auteur(s): Mat Best, Autres
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Undaunted
- The Real Story of America’s Servicewomen in Today’s Military
- Auteur(s): Tanya Biank
- Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
- Durée: 11 h et 31 min
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As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today’s military - their professional and personal challenges from the combat zone to the home front. Since 9/11, more than 240,000 women have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan - more than 140 have died there, and they currently make up 14 percent of the total active-duty forces. Despite advances, today’s servicewomen are constantly pressed to prove themselves.
Auteur(s): Tanya Biank
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Army Wives
- The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage
- Auteur(s): Tanya Biank
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 10 h et 11 min
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Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring listeners into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. Biank tells the story of four typical Army wives who, in a flash, find themselves in extraordinary circumstances that ultimately force them to redefine who they are as women and wives.
Auteur(s): Tanya Biank
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Code Name: Johnny Walker
- The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs
- Auteur(s): Johnny Walker, Jim DeFelice
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
- Durée: 10 h et 30 min
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>In this illuminating and informative memoir, an Iraqi translator who risked his life working with American Sniper author Chris Kyle and the Navy SEALs tells his remarkable and inspiring story, offering a refreshing new perspective on the Iraq War. As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American invasion, U.S. Navy SEALs were called upon to root terrorists from their lairs. Unsure of the local neighborhoods and unable to speak the local languages, they came to rely on one man to guide them and watch their backs. He was a "terp" - an interpreter - with a job so dangerous they couldn't even use his real name.
Auteur(s): Johnny Walker, Autres
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Places and Names
- On War, Revolution, and Returning
- Auteur(s): Elliot Ackerman
- Narrateur(s): Elliot Ackerman, Mark Deakins
- Durée: 6 h et 38 min
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Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq, and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At first, Ackerman pretends to be a journalist, but after establishing a rapport with Abu Hassar, he takes a risk by revealing to him that in fact he was a Marine special operation officer. Ackerman then draws the shape of the Euphrates River on a large piece of paper, and his one-time adversary quickly joins him in the game of filling in the map.
Auteur(s): Elliot Ackerman
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Nerves of Steel (Young Readers Edition)
- The Incredible True Story of How One Woman Followed Her Dreams, Stayed True to Herself, and Saved 148 Lives
- Auteur(s): Captain Tammie Jo Shults
- Narrateur(s): Charity Spencer
- Durée: 3 h et 54 min
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The amazing story of pilot Tammie Jo Shults, adapted for young listeners! Tammie Jo worked hard, had faith, stayed true to herself, and overcame every obstacle on her journey to becoming a navy pilot. Years later, those lessons served her well as she was put in the right place at the right time to safely land a crippled plane and save 148 lives.
Auteur(s): Captain Tammie Jo Shults
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Until Tuesday
- Auteur(s): Luis Carlos Montalvan
- Narrateur(s): Luis Carlos Montalvan
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
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A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalvan never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home, however, the pressures of his physical wounds, traumatic brain injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. In constant physical pain, he soon found himself unable to climb a simple flight of stairs or face a bus ride to the VA hospital. He drank; he argued; he cut himself off from those he loved. Then Luis met Tuesday, a beautiful and sensitive golden retriever....
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Excellent!!
- Écrit par Susie le 2020-11-14
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Once a Warrior
- How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home
- Auteur(s): Jake Wood
- Narrateur(s): Jake Wood
- Durée: 8 h et 12 min
- Version intégrale
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From Marine sniper Jake Wood comes a riveting memoir of leading over 100,000 veterans to a life of renewed service, volunteering to battle, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, pandemics, and civil wars, and inspiring onlookers as their unique military training saved lives and rebuilt our country.
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Strong Ending
- A Journey from Combat to Comedy
- Auteur(s): Audible Originals
- Narrateur(s): Mary-Louise Parker
- Durée: 1 h et 16 min
- Production originale
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Au global
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Histoire
This heartfelt Audible Original, narrated by Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker, follows three military veterans as they reclaim their most painful memories and turn them into comedy. Michael Garvey, Isaura Ramirez, and Patrick Harth left combat zones to challenge themselves in a stand-up comedy boot camp. As they learn to transform their raw emotions into cathartic experiences, they face the daunting challenge of trying to make an audience laugh with jokes about war, trauma, and mental health.
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strong ending
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-02-23
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942
- Auteur(s): U.S. War Department
- Narrateur(s): Alexei Grebisch
- Durée: 40 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
Here is a recording of a War Department pamphlet aimed at U.S. Servicemen in Britain in 1942. The jovial tone of the document and its advice about how NOT to offend the British make for a nostalgic - and in places humorous - relic of World War II.
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Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- Auteur(s): David Goggins
- Narrateur(s): David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
- Durée: 13 h et 37 min
- Version intégrale
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For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force tactical air controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events.
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Awesome book!
- Écrit par Maryse le 2019-04-21
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A Higher Standard
- Leadership Strategies from America's First Female Four-Star General
- Auteur(s): Ann Dunwoody
- Narrateur(s): Patricia Santomasso
- Durée: 9 h et 10 min
- Version intégrale
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A Higher Standard takes a candid look at the exciting military career of US Army General Ann Dunwoody, who received her fourth star - a rank never before reached by a woman - in her fourth decade of service. From her first command leading 200 soldiers to her final one leading 69,000, Dunwoody reveals the challenges she faced and the changes she initiated by sharing both the smallest moments and the most pivotal events in her career.
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When Janey Comes Marching Home
- Portraits of Women Combat Veterans
- Auteur(s): Laura Browder
- Narrateur(s): Laura Browder
- Durée: 4 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
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Women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, yet in today’s wars, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty. When Janey Comes Marching Home juxtaposes forty-eight photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war.
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Extreme Ownership
- How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- Auteur(s): Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Narrateur(s): Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Durée: 9 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
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Histoire
An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.
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principles are good
- Écrit par Rory Langan le 2018-04-28
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Make Your Bed
- Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
- Auteur(s): Admiral William H. McRaven
- Narrateur(s): Admiral William H. McRaven
- Durée: 1 h et 53 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves - and the world - for the better.
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Waste of time
- Écrit par Rhys Williams le 2020-12-20
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Until Tuesday
- Auteur(s): Luis Carlos Montalvan
- Narrateur(s): Luis Carlos Montalvan
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
- Version intégrale
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Histoire
A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalvan never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home, however, the pressures of his physical wounds, traumatic brain injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. In constant physical pain, he soon found himself unable to climb a simple flight of stairs or face a bus ride to the VA hospital. He drank; he argued; he cut himself off from those he loved. Then Luis met Tuesday, a beautiful and sensitive golden retriever....
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Excellent!!
- Écrit par Susie le 2020-11-14
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Once a Warrior
- How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home
- Auteur(s): Jake Wood
- Narrateur(s): Jake Wood
- Durée: 8 h et 12 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
From Marine sniper Jake Wood comes a riveting memoir of leading over 100,000 veterans to a life of renewed service, volunteering to battle, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, pandemics, and civil wars, and inspiring onlookers as their unique military training saved lives and rebuilt our country.
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Strong Ending
- A Journey from Combat to Comedy
- Auteur(s): Audible Originals
- Narrateur(s): Mary-Louise Parker
- Durée: 1 h et 16 min
- Production originale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
This heartfelt Audible Original, narrated by Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker, follows three military veterans as they reclaim their most painful memories and turn them into comedy. Michael Garvey, Isaura Ramirez, and Patrick Harth left combat zones to challenge themselves in a stand-up comedy boot camp. As they learn to transform their raw emotions into cathartic experiences, they face the daunting challenge of trying to make an audience laugh with jokes about war, trauma, and mental health.
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strong ending
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-02-23
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942
- Auteur(s): U.S. War Department
- Narrateur(s): Alexei Grebisch
- Durée: 40 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Here is a recording of a War Department pamphlet aimed at U.S. Servicemen in Britain in 1942. The jovial tone of the document and its advice about how NOT to offend the British make for a nostalgic - and in places humorous - relic of World War II.
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Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- Auteur(s): David Goggins
- Narrateur(s): David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
- Durée: 13 h et 37 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force tactical air controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events.
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Awesome book!
- Écrit par Maryse le 2019-04-21
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A Higher Standard
- Leadership Strategies from America's First Female Four-Star General
- Auteur(s): Ann Dunwoody
- Narrateur(s): Patricia Santomasso
- Durée: 9 h et 10 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
A Higher Standard takes a candid look at the exciting military career of US Army General Ann Dunwoody, who received her fourth star - a rank never before reached by a woman - in her fourth decade of service. From her first command leading 200 soldiers to her final one leading 69,000, Dunwoody reveals the challenges she faced and the changes she initiated by sharing both the smallest moments and the most pivotal events in her career.
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When Janey Comes Marching Home
- Portraits of Women Combat Veterans
- Auteur(s): Laura Browder
- Narrateur(s): Laura Browder
- Durée: 4 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, yet in today’s wars, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty. When Janey Comes Marching Home juxtaposes forty-eight photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war.
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Extreme Ownership
- How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- Auteur(s): Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Narrateur(s): Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Durée: 9 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.
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principles are good
- Écrit par Rory Langan le 2018-04-28
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Make Your Bed
- Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
- Auteur(s): Admiral William H. McRaven
- Narrateur(s): Admiral William H. McRaven
- Durée: 1 h et 53 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves - and the world - for the better.
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Waste of time
- Écrit par Rhys Williams le 2020-12-20
Listens by Women Veterans
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Girls Need Not Apply
- Field Notes from the Forces
- Auteur(s): Kelly S. Thompson
- Narrateur(s): Amy Rutherford
- Durée: 9 h et 48 min
- Version intégrale
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This inspiring, compelling debut memoir chronicles the experiences of a female captain serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, and her journey to make space for herself in a traditionally masculine world. Girls Need Not Apply is a refreshingly honest story of conviction, determination, and empowerment, and a bit of a love story, too.
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Need Not Read
- Écrit par Samantha le 2020-04-16
Auteur(s): Kelly S. Thompson
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Shoot Like a Girl
- One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
- Auteur(s): Major Mary Jennings Hegar
- Narrateur(s): Cynthia Farrell
- Durée: 8 h et 16 min
- Version intégrale
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After being commissioned into the US Air Force, MJ Hegar was selected for pilot training by the Air National Guard, finished at the top of her class, then served three tours in Afghanistan flying combat search and rescue missions, culminating in a harrowing rescue attempt that would earn MJ the Purple Heart as well as the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device. But it was on American soil that Hegar would embark on her greatest challenge - to eliminate the military's Ground Combat Exclusion Policy.
Auteur(s): Major Mary Jennings Hegar
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Bronco Strong
- A Memoir of the Last Deployed Personnel Services Battalion
- Auteur(s): Angela M. Odom
- Narrateur(s): Monica Pryce
- Durée: 7 h et 56 min
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Imagine being at work, or lying in your bed, or even sitting wherever you are right now and knowing that at any moment the world could literally explode around you. Without warning. In her stirring memoir, Bronco Strong, Angela M. Odom, a personnel services battalion commander, recounts daily life as a soldier in an active war zone during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Auteur(s): Angela M. Odom
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Unbecoming
- Auteur(s): Anuradha Bhagwati
- Narrateur(s): Anuradha Bhagwati
- Durée: 10 h et 57 min
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After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career in the Ivy League to join the Marines - the fiercest, most violent, most masculine branch of the military - determined to prove herself there in ways she couldn’t at home. Yet once training begins, Anuradha’s GI Jane fantasy is punctured. As a bisexual woman of color in the military, she faces underestimation at every stage, confronting misogyny, racism, and astonishing injustice perpetrated by those in power.
Auteur(s): Anuradha Bhagwati
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The Warrior Code
- 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You
- Auteur(s): Tee Marie Hanible
- Narrateur(s): Tee Marie Hanible
- Durée: 5 h et 33 min
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In The Warrior Code, entrepreneur, philanthropist, reality star, and retired gunnery sergeant Tee Marie Hanible serves up 11 principles to awaken your inner badass and thrive in the face of adversity. With insightful honesty and wisdom and set against the backdrop of Tee’s life, The Warrior Code will help you understand that things can beat us back from realizing our true potential...but the key is finding the way to realize one’s own innate strength.
Auteur(s): Tee Marie Hanible
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Plenty of Time When We Get Home
- Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
- Auteur(s): Kayla Williams
- Narrateur(s): Kayla Williams
- Durée: 6 h et 24 min
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When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives. Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave, was wounded by a roadside bomb that sent shrapnel through his brain. Kayla waited anxiously for news and, on returning home, sought out Brian. The two began a tentative romance and later married, but neither anticipated the consequences of Brian’s injury on their lives.
Auteur(s): Kayla Williams
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Girls Need Not Apply
- Field Notes from the Forces
- Auteur(s): Kelly S. Thompson
- Narrateur(s): Amy Rutherford
- Durée: 9 h et 48 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
This inspiring, compelling debut memoir chronicles the experiences of a female captain serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, and her journey to make space for herself in a traditionally masculine world. Girls Need Not Apply is a refreshingly honest story of conviction, determination, and empowerment, and a bit of a love story, too.
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Need Not Read
- Écrit par Samantha le 2020-04-16
Auteur(s): Kelly S. Thompson
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Shoot Like a Girl
- One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
- Auteur(s): Major Mary Jennings Hegar
- Narrateur(s): Cynthia Farrell
- Durée: 8 h et 16 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
After being commissioned into the US Air Force, MJ Hegar was selected for pilot training by the Air National Guard, finished at the top of her class, then served three tours in Afghanistan flying combat search and rescue missions, culminating in a harrowing rescue attempt that would earn MJ the Purple Heart as well as the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device. But it was on American soil that Hegar would embark on her greatest challenge - to eliminate the military's Ground Combat Exclusion Policy.
Auteur(s): Major Mary Jennings Hegar
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Bronco Strong
- A Memoir of the Last Deployed Personnel Services Battalion
- Auteur(s): Angela M. Odom
- Narrateur(s): Monica Pryce
- Durée: 7 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Imagine being at work, or lying in your bed, or even sitting wherever you are right now and knowing that at any moment the world could literally explode around you. Without warning. In her stirring memoir, Bronco Strong, Angela M. Odom, a personnel services battalion commander, recounts daily life as a soldier in an active war zone during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Auteur(s): Angela M. Odom
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Unbecoming
- Auteur(s): Anuradha Bhagwati
- Narrateur(s): Anuradha Bhagwati
- Durée: 10 h et 57 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career in the Ivy League to join the Marines - the fiercest, most violent, most masculine branch of the military - determined to prove herself there in ways she couldn’t at home. Yet once training begins, Anuradha’s GI Jane fantasy is punctured. As a bisexual woman of color in the military, she faces underestimation at every stage, confronting misogyny, racism, and astonishing injustice perpetrated by those in power.
Auteur(s): Anuradha Bhagwati
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The Warrior Code
- 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You
- Auteur(s): Tee Marie Hanible
- Narrateur(s): Tee Marie Hanible
- Durée: 5 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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In The Warrior Code, entrepreneur, philanthropist, reality star, and retired gunnery sergeant Tee Marie Hanible serves up 11 principles to awaken your inner badass and thrive in the face of adversity. With insightful honesty and wisdom and set against the backdrop of Tee’s life, The Warrior Code will help you understand that things can beat us back from realizing our true potential...but the key is finding the way to realize one’s own innate strength.
Auteur(s): Tee Marie Hanible
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Plenty of Time When We Get Home
- Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
- Auteur(s): Kayla Williams
- Narrateur(s): Kayla Williams
- Durée: 6 h et 24 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives. Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave, was wounded by a roadside bomb that sent shrapnel through his brain. Kayla waited anxiously for news and, on returning home, sought out Brian. The two began a tentative romance and later married, but neither anticipated the consequences of Brian’s injury on their lives.
Auteur(s): Kayla Williams
Five-Star Listener Reviews
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Ortona
- Canada's Epic World War II Battle
- Auteur(s): Mark Zuehlke
- Narrateur(s): William Dufris
- Durée: 14 h et 37 min
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In one furious week of fighting in December 1943, the First Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port at all costs. When the battle was over, the Canadians emerged victorious despite heavy losses.
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I had no idea...
- Écrit par Ryan F le 2019-03-09
I had no idea...
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Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- Auteur(s): David Goggins
- Narrateur(s): David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
- Durée: 13 h et 37 min
- Version intégrale
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For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force tactical air controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events.
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Awesome book!
- Écrit par Maryse le 2019-04-21
Great book, great format, mind changing
I absolutely love the format of this book. Having it be a mix of the book / podcast is just a perfect way to really hits each topic. I love the challenges, the story was great, and truly inspiring. I don't want to say it's motivational because I know how much David Goggins disagrees with that, but it's made me view my life a little differently.
Nonfiction Listens
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Truman
- Auteur(s): David McCullough
- Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
- Durée: 54 h et 11 min
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Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured the heart of the nation. The life and times of the 33rd president of the United States, Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American.
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Learned a lot about this great president
- Écrit par Mikespoon le 2017-11-22
Auteur(s): David McCullough
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A Full Life
- Reflections at Ninety
- Auteur(s): Jimmy Carter
- Narrateur(s): Jimmy Carter
- Durée: 7 h et 45 min
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.
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John Csik
- Écrit par John Csik le 2020-05-03
Auteur(s): Jimmy Carter
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A Rumor of War
- Auteur(s): Philip Caputo
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
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When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man's experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today's students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate extremes men are forced to confront in any war.
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Good to know material
- Écrit par James Rudzinski le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Philip Caputo
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When I Turned Nineteen
- A Vietnam War Memoir
- Auteur(s): Glyn Haynie
- Narrateur(s): Kelly Klaas
- Durée: 6 h et 57 min
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It's the year 1969. I was serving in the US Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who'd enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who'd all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a brotherhood that will last through time.
Auteur(s): Glyn Haynie
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Destiny and Power
- The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Auteur(s): Jon Meacham
- Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
- Durée: 25 h et 10 min
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Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the 41st president and his family, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times.
Auteur(s): Jon Meacham
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Living with No Excuses
- The Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier
- Auteur(s): Noah Galloway
- Narrateur(s): Noah Galloway
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
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Inspirational, humorous, and thought provoking, Noah Galloway's Living with No Excuses sheds light on his upbringing in rural Alabama, his military experience, and the battle he faced to overcome losing two limbs during Operation Iraqi Freedom. From reliving the early days of life to his acceptance of his "new normal" after losing his arm and leg in combat, Noah reveals his ambition to succeed against all odds.
Auteur(s): Noah Galloway
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Truman
- Auteur(s): David McCullough
- Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
- Durée: 54 h et 11 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured the heart of the nation. The life and times of the 33rd president of the United States, Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American.
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Learned a lot about this great president
- Écrit par Mikespoon le 2017-11-22
Auteur(s): David McCullough
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A Full Life
- Reflections at Ninety
- Auteur(s): Jimmy Carter
- Narrateur(s): Jimmy Carter
- Durée: 7 h et 45 min
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.
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John Csik
- Écrit par John Csik le 2020-05-03
Auteur(s): Jimmy Carter
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A Rumor of War
- Auteur(s): Philip Caputo
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
- Version intégrale
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Histoire
When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man's experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today's students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate extremes men are forced to confront in any war.
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Good to know material
- Écrit par James Rudzinski le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Philip Caputo
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When I Turned Nineteen
- A Vietnam War Memoir
- Auteur(s): Glyn Haynie
- Narrateur(s): Kelly Klaas
- Durée: 6 h et 57 min
- Version intégrale
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It's the year 1969. I was serving in the US Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who'd enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who'd all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a brotherhood that will last through time.
Auteur(s): Glyn Haynie
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Destiny and Power
- The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Auteur(s): Jon Meacham
- Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
- Durée: 25 h et 10 min
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Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the 41st president and his family, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times.
Auteur(s): Jon Meacham
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Living with No Excuses
- The Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier
- Auteur(s): Noah Galloway
- Narrateur(s): Noah Galloway
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
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Inspirational, humorous, and thought provoking, Noah Galloway's Living with No Excuses sheds light on his upbringing in rural Alabama, his military experience, and the battle he faced to overcome losing two limbs during Operation Iraqi Freedom. From reliving the early days of life to his acceptance of his "new normal" after losing his arm and leg in combat, Noah reveals his ambition to succeed against all odds.
Auteur(s): Noah Galloway
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- Auteur(s): Robert Middlekauff
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
- Durée: 26 h et 56 min
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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Excellent Military and Political History
- Écrit par Graeme Sutton le 2023-04-25
Auteur(s): Robert Middlekauff
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His Very Best
- Jimmy Carter, a Life
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Alter
- Narrateur(s): Michael Boatman
- Durée: 31 h et 4 min
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Growing up in one of the meanest counties in the Jim Crow South, Carter is the only American president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might as well have been in the nineteenth; his presidency put him at the center of major events in the twentieth; and his efforts on conflict resolution and global health set him on the cutting edge of the challenges of the 21st.
Auteur(s): Jonathan Alter
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Andrew Jackson
- His Life and Times
- Auteur(s): H.W. Brands
- Narrateur(s): John H. Mayer
- Durée: 25 h et 57 min
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The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.
Auteur(s): H.W. Brands
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
- Auteur(s): Jean Edward Smith
- Narrateur(s): Paul Hecht
- Durée: 28 h et 22 min
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Author of the best-seller FDR, Jean Edward Smith is a master of the presidential biography. Setting his sights on Dwight D. Eisenhower, Smith delivers a rich account of Eisenhower’s life using previously untapped primary sources. From the military service in WWII that launched his career to the shrewd political decisions that kept America out of wars with the Soviet Union and China, Smith reveals a man who never faltered in his dedication to serving America, whether in times of war or peace.
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informative
- Écrit par Rick Bartel le 2024-07-31
Auteur(s): Jean Edward Smith
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Profiles in Courage
- Auteur(s): John F. Kennedy
- Narrateur(s): John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy
- Durée: 3 h et 10 min
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During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a US senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the memorial edition of the volume in 1964 - resounds with timeless lessons.
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Timeless!
- Écrit par Robert Peck le 2019-12-08
Auteur(s): John F. Kennedy
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Grant
- Auteur(s): Ron Chernow
- Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
- Durée: 48 h et 2 min
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Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow reveals in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.
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A thoroughly moving story
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-11-23
Auteur(s): Ron Chernow
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Code Name Verity
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Wein
- Narrateur(s): Morven Christie, Lucy Gaskell
- Durée: 10 h et 3 min
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Code Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery. Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then a vital mission goes wrong....
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Superb.
- Écrit par PickledOnion le 2020-03-05
Auteur(s): Elizabeth Wein
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Allies
- Auteur(s): Alan Gratz
- Narrateur(s): Jamie Cline, Vaneh Assadourian, P. J. Ochlan, Autres
- Durée: 6 h et 17 min
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: the most expansive military endeavor in history. No less than world cooperation would bring down Hitler and the Axis powers. And so people - and kids - across the globe lent their part. From the young US soldiers in the boats to spies in the French countryside, the coordination of thousands came together. Alan Gratz, author of the New York Times best-selling Refugee, explores the necessity of teamwork and heroism in dismantling tyranny in this epic, yet personal, look at D-Day in time for the 75th anniversary of the operation.
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It felt like you were there
- Écrit par ChezE le 2019-11-08
Auteur(s): Alan Gratz
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If You're Reading This
- Auteur(s): Trent Reedy
- Narrateur(s): Trent Reedy, Ramón de Ocampo
- Durée: 9 h et 14 min
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Mike was seven when his father was killed in mysterious circumstances in Afghanistan. Eight years later, the family still hasn't recovered: Mike's mom is overworked and overprotective; his younger sister, Mary, feels no connection to the father she barely remembers; and in his quest to be "the man of the family", Mike knows he's missing out on everyday high school life. Then, out of the blue, Mike receives a letter from his father - the first of a series Dad wrote in Afghanistan, just in case he didn't come home, meant to share some wisdom with his son.
Auteur(s): Trent Reedy
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Missing in Action
- Auteur(s): Dean Hughes
- Narrateur(s): Kirby Heyborne
- Durée: 5 h et 31 min
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Dirty. Lazy. Good for nothing. Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But things are different after he and his mother move to a small town in Utah to stay with his grandparents during WWII. Jay makes friends and earns money working the fields for his well-respected grandfather - but he encounters a problem in Ken, a fellow worker who's from the nearby Japanese internment camp. Ken's a Jap. And Jay's dad, who's been fighting for the navy out in the Pacific, is missing in action.
Auteur(s): Dean Hughes
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The Port Chicago 50
- Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
- Auteur(s): Steve Sheinkin
- Narrateur(s): Dominic Hoffman
- Durée: 3 h et 49 min
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An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. When the dust settled, fifty were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution.
Auteur(s): Steve Sheinkin
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Flexible Wings
- Auteur(s): Veda Stamps
- Narrateur(s): Natalie Hoyt
- Durée: 4 h et 29 min
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Summer Stevenson is an 11-year-old military kid who dreams of having a permanent home and swimming in the Olympics one day, just like her idol, Olympian Lia Neal. But those things seem out of reach as her parents, "the heroes", continually move the family from house to house like boxed-up toys.
Auteur(s): Veda Stamps
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Code Name Verity
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Wein
- Narrateur(s): Morven Christie, Lucy Gaskell
- Durée: 10 h et 3 min
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Code Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery. Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then a vital mission goes wrong....
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Superb.
- Écrit par PickledOnion le 2020-03-05
Auteur(s): Elizabeth Wein
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Allies
- Auteur(s): Alan Gratz
- Narrateur(s): Jamie Cline, Vaneh Assadourian, P. J. Ochlan, Autres
- Durée: 6 h et 17 min
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: the most expansive military endeavor in history. No less than world cooperation would bring down Hitler and the Axis powers. And so people - and kids - across the globe lent their part. From the young US soldiers in the boats to spies in the French countryside, the coordination of thousands came together. Alan Gratz, author of the New York Times best-selling Refugee, explores the necessity of teamwork and heroism in dismantling tyranny in this epic, yet personal, look at D-Day in time for the 75th anniversary of the operation.
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It felt like you were there
- Écrit par ChezE le 2019-11-08
Auteur(s): Alan Gratz
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If You're Reading This
- Auteur(s): Trent Reedy
- Narrateur(s): Trent Reedy, Ramón de Ocampo
- Durée: 9 h et 14 min
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Mike was seven when his father was killed in mysterious circumstances in Afghanistan. Eight years later, the family still hasn't recovered: Mike's mom is overworked and overprotective; his younger sister, Mary, feels no connection to the father she barely remembers; and in his quest to be "the man of the family", Mike knows he's missing out on everyday high school life. Then, out of the blue, Mike receives a letter from his father - the first of a series Dad wrote in Afghanistan, just in case he didn't come home, meant to share some wisdom with his son.
Auteur(s): Trent Reedy
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Missing in Action
- Auteur(s): Dean Hughes
- Narrateur(s): Kirby Heyborne
- Durée: 5 h et 31 min
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Dirty. Lazy. Good for nothing. Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But things are different after he and his mother move to a small town in Utah to stay with his grandparents during WWII. Jay makes friends and earns money working the fields for his well-respected grandfather - but he encounters a problem in Ken, a fellow worker who's from the nearby Japanese internment camp. Ken's a Jap. And Jay's dad, who's been fighting for the navy out in the Pacific, is missing in action.
Auteur(s): Dean Hughes
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The Port Chicago 50
- Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
- Auteur(s): Steve Sheinkin
- Narrateur(s): Dominic Hoffman
- Durée: 3 h et 49 min
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An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. When the dust settled, fifty were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution.
Auteur(s): Steve Sheinkin
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Flexible Wings
- Auteur(s): Veda Stamps
- Narrateur(s): Natalie Hoyt
- Durée: 4 h et 29 min
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Summer Stevenson is an 11-year-old military kid who dreams of having a permanent home and swimming in the Olympics one day, just like her idol, Olympian Lia Neal. But those things seem out of reach as her parents, "the heroes", continually move the family from house to house like boxed-up toys.
Auteur(s): Veda Stamps
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Pax
- Auteur(s): Sara Pennypacker
- Narrateur(s): Michael Curran-Dorsano
- Durée: 5 h et 32 min
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Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house 300 miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own....
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A Touching and Captivating Story!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-01-12
Auteur(s): Sara Pennypacker
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Top Dog
- The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
- Auteur(s): Maria Goodavage
- Narrateur(s): Neil Shah
- Durée: 7 h et 58 min
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In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes listeners into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated and highly skilled military working dog. An extraordinary bond developed between Lucca and Marine Corps handler Chris Willingham, launching what became a legendary 400-mission career. A Specialized Search Dog, Lucca belongs to an elite group trained to work off-leash at long distances from her handler.
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Luca
- Écrit par Swift Acres le 2019-04-09
Auteur(s): Maria Goodavage
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
- Auteur(s): Walter Dean Myers
- Narrateur(s): J. D. Jackson
- Durée: 7 h et 27 min
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Acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers presents a compelling novel that looks at America's occupation of Iraq through the eyes of those who live it first hand. Charged with building up relations between the U.S. military and the Iraqi people, a team of soldiers strives to make real connections and bridge the divide between two very different cultures. On constant guard from frequent suicide bomb attacks and deadly skirmishes, their situation reveals a tragic human toll.
Auteur(s): Walter Dean Myers
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Wolf Hollow
- Auteur(s): Lauren Wolk
- Narrateur(s): Emily Rankin
- Durée: 6 h et 55 min
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Despite growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and though her bullying seems isolated at first, it quickly escalate. Toby, a reclusive World War I veteran, soon becomes the target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby’s strangeness, Annabelle knows only kindness.
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AWESOMENESS
- Écrit par christian le 2023-12-11
Auteur(s): Lauren Wolk
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Mare's War
- Auteur(s): Tanita S. Davis
- Narrateur(s): Sisi Aisha Johnson, Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Durée: 9 h et 14 min
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Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past. Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn’t your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up bras, and insists that she’s too young to be called Grandma. But somewhere on the road, Octavia and Tali discover there’s more to Mare than what you see.
Auteur(s): Tanita S. Davis
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Code Talker
- A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
- Auteur(s): Joseph Bruchac
- Narrateur(s): Derrick Henry
- Durée: 5 h et 55 min
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Although the mission school bans all that is Navajo, Ned secretly clings to his native language and culture. Proudly joining the U.S. Marines in 1943, he becomes a top-secret Navajo Code Talker. During bloody battles for Japanese islands, Ned and his brave band of code-talking brothers save thousands of lives using Navajo encryption the enemy never cracks.
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Fantastic narration
- Écrit par Steve Bohemier le 2023-11-28
Auteur(s): Joseph Bruchac
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- Auteur(s): Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrateur(s): James Franco
- Durée: 5 h et 13 min
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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Where’s the old version?
- Écrit par S.S. le 2022-02-17
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Hunting Party (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Serrano Legacy, Book 1, Part 1
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Moon
- Narrateur(s): Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, Autres
- Durée: 5 h et 46 min
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Heris Serrano - formerly a commander in the Regular Space Service - must take whatever job she can get after her resignation under a cloud. What she can get is the captaincy of a rich old lady's space yacht...a rich old horsewoman, who has little liking for the military, and whose spoiled nephew Ronnie (and his equally spoiled friends) have been foisted on her after his folly embarrassed the family. Lady Cecelia's only apparent interest is horses - she intends to go fox hunting on the private pleasure planet of a friend of hers, Lord Thornbuckle.
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- The Long Coming Home from Vietnam
- Auteur(s): Bruce K. Berger
- Narrateur(s): Bruce K. Berger
- Durée: 53 min
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Bruce Berger, the author, finally came home 50 years after the Vietnam war when his memories crystallized into the 34 poems in this chapbook. He shipped to Vietnam as an infantryman in 1970 but was assigned most of the year to the Casualty Branch of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle, near Phu Bai.
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Dog Days in Saigon
- Auteur(s): Stephen McAllister
- Narrateur(s): Eric Michael Summerer
- Durée: 6 h et 6 min
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Stephen McAllister was a grunt, a dog handler in Vietnam, tasked not only with fighting what was by then an unwinnable war but with rehabilitating a scout dog named Big Mike whose trauma ran even deeper than his own. McAllister's voice has an abundance of heart and humor, but the laughter has a catch in its throat. For all the ingenuity and camaraderie, a dark and suspenseful melody plays behind the adventures of McAllister and his unforgettable constellation of young characters, American and Vietnamese.
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Christmas Eve, 1914
- Auteur(s): Charles Olivier
- Narrateur(s): Cameron Daddo, Xander Berkeley, Cody Fern, Autres
- Durée: 1 h et 13 min
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In 1914, the war which was to have been wrapped up by Christmas had - in reality - only just begun, as all sides entrenched themselves deeper into the Great War. Christmas Eve, 1914 follows one company of British officers as they rotate forward to spend their Christmas on the front lines, a mere 80 yards from the German guns. Upper- and working-class men and boys are thrown together into one trench and struggle to survive.
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Fantastic Story
- Écrit par asatattack le 2021-08-25
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All Quiet on the Western Front
- Auteur(s): Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrateur(s): Frank Muller
- Durée: 6 h et 55 min
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Paul Bäumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany’s Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war’s final hours. All Quiet is one of the greatest war novels of all time, an eloquent expression of the futility, hopelessness and irreparable losses of war.
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WOW
- Écrit par carlos enrique rivero velazquez le 2019-02-01
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- Auteur(s): Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrateur(s): James Franco
- Durée: 5 h et 13 min
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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Where’s the old version?
- Écrit par S.S. le 2022-02-17
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Hunting Party (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Serrano Legacy, Book 1, Part 1
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Moon
- Narrateur(s): Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, Autres
- Durée: 5 h et 46 min
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Heris Serrano - formerly a commander in the Regular Space Service - must take whatever job she can get after her resignation under a cloud. What she can get is the captaincy of a rich old lady's space yacht...a rich old horsewoman, who has little liking for the military, and whose spoiled nephew Ronnie (and his equally spoiled friends) have been foisted on her after his folly embarrassed the family. Lady Cecelia's only apparent interest is horses - she intends to go fox hunting on the private pleasure planet of a friend of hers, Lord Thornbuckle.
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- The Long Coming Home from Vietnam
- Auteur(s): Bruce K. Berger
- Narrateur(s): Bruce K. Berger
- Durée: 53 min
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Bruce Berger, the author, finally came home 50 years after the Vietnam war when his memories crystallized into the 34 poems in this chapbook. He shipped to Vietnam as an infantryman in 1970 but was assigned most of the year to the Casualty Branch of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle, near Phu Bai.
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Dog Days in Saigon
- Auteur(s): Stephen McAllister
- Narrateur(s): Eric Michael Summerer
- Durée: 6 h et 6 min
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Stephen McAllister was a grunt, a dog handler in Vietnam, tasked not only with fighting what was by then an unwinnable war but with rehabilitating a scout dog named Big Mike whose trauma ran even deeper than his own. McAllister's voice has an abundance of heart and humor, but the laughter has a catch in its throat. For all the ingenuity and camaraderie, a dark and suspenseful melody plays behind the adventures of McAllister and his unforgettable constellation of young characters, American and Vietnamese.
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Christmas Eve, 1914
- Auteur(s): Charles Olivier
- Narrateur(s): Cameron Daddo, Xander Berkeley, Cody Fern, Autres
- Durée: 1 h et 13 min
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In 1914, the war which was to have been wrapped up by Christmas had - in reality - only just begun, as all sides entrenched themselves deeper into the Great War. Christmas Eve, 1914 follows one company of British officers as they rotate forward to spend their Christmas on the front lines, a mere 80 yards from the German guns. Upper- and working-class men and boys are thrown together into one trench and struggle to survive.
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Fantastic Story
- Écrit par asatattack le 2021-08-25
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All Quiet on the Western Front
- Auteur(s): Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrateur(s): Frank Muller
- Durée: 6 h et 55 min
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Paul Bäumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany’s Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war’s final hours. All Quiet is one of the greatest war novels of all time, an eloquent expression of the futility, hopelessness and irreparable losses of war.
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WOW
- Écrit par carlos enrique rivero velazquez le 2019-02-01
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Matterhorn
- A Novel of the Vietnam War
- Auteur(s): Karl Marlantes
- Narrateur(s): Bronson Pinchot
- Durée: 21 h et 11 min
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Why we think it’s a great listen: A performance so poignant, we gave Bronson Pinchot (yes, Balki from Perfect Strangers) our inaugural Narrator of the Year award.... In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a fire support base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company to further his civilian political ambitions. But two people stand in his way.
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amazing story
- Écrit par Robert Dawson Link le 2019-03-02
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The Red Badge of Courage
- Auteur(s): Stephen Crane
- Narrateur(s): Anthony Heald
- Durée: 4 h et 40 min
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Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895 and quickly became the benchmark for modern antiwar literature. In the character of Henry Flemming, Stephen Crane provides a great and realistic study of the mind of an inexperienced soldier trapped in the fury and turmoil of war. Flemming dashes into battle, at first tormented by fear, then bolstered with courage in time for the final confrontation.
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Oddly fascinating.
- Écrit par Schvenn le 2023-12-03
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Redeployment
- Auteur(s): Phil Klay
- Narrateur(s): Craig Klein
- Durée: 7 h et 46 min
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Phil Klay's Redeployment takes listeners to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. Redeployment has become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a soldier inhabits: One of extremes and one of loss.
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Sad and Funny
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-11-15
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Ben Fountain
- Narrateur(s): Oliver Wyman
- Durée: 11 h et 39 min
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A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents--caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew--has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America’s most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of a Dallas football team, slated to be part of the halftime show.
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You Know When the Men Are Gone
- Auteur(s): Siobhan Fallon
- Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell
- Durée: 5 h et 50 min
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In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls. You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. As Siobhan Fallon shows in this collection of loosely interconnected short stories, each woman deals with her husband's absence differently.
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Catch-22
- Auteur(s): Joseph Heller
- Narrateur(s): Jay O. Sanders
- Durée: 19 h et 58 min
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Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll be in violation of Catch-22.
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Great book, tough as audiobook
- Écrit par Andrew S le 2018-02-15
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The Lotus Eaters
- Auteur(s): Tatjana Soli
- Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
- Durée: 14 h et 55 min
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It's 1975 and the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the city falls into chaos, two lovers make their way across the city to escape to a new life. Helen Adams, an American photojournalist, must take leave of a devastated country she has come to love. Nguyen Pran Linh, the man who loves her, must deal with his own conflicted loyalties. As they race through the streets, they play out a drama of love and betrayal that began twelve years before.
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Unable to Pull Away
- Écrit par Heather le 2020-12-17
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Waiting for Eden
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Elliot Ackerman
- Narrateur(s): MacLeod Andrews
- Durée: 3 h et 27 min
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Eden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden’s best friend, a fellow Marine who didn’t make it back home — and who must relive the secrets held between all three of them as he waits for Eden to finally, mercifully die and join him in whatever comes after.
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Girl at War
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sara Novic
- Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
- Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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Zagreb, 1991. Ana Jurić is a carefree 10-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia's capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana's idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana's sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world.
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Great story line, okay delivery.
- Écrit par babushka_mama le 2019-04-08
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One of Ours
- Auteur(s): Willa Cather
- Narrateur(s): Louis B. Jack
- Durée: 14 h et 45 min
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This is One of Ours, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Willa Cather, America’s greatest writer of the prairie heartland. It is set in rural Nebraska in the early 20th century prior to the first World War that enveloped Europe and eventually the United States. The story focuses on the young Claude Wheeler, a well-to-do farmer’s son who secretly longs for something to take him away from the hum-drum agrarian life he has inherited. As he prepares to take over his family’s farm business, war intrudes.
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War Porn
- Auteur(s): Roy Scranton
- Narrateur(s): Brian Hutchison
- Durée: 7 h et 48 min
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The term war porn refers to videos and images brought back from combat zones - IED explosions, air strikes, firefights, images of death and gore largely shorn of context, at times even evidence of potential war crimes (most famously, the photos of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib). War porn is also, in Scranton's searing debut, a metaphor for the fragmentation and confusion of modern combat, the broken shards of experience that form the wartime experiences of soldiers and civilians alike.
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The Yellow Birds
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Kevin Powers
- Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
- Durée: 5 h et 23 min
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"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, 21-year-old Private Bartle and 18-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.
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A Rumor of War
- Auteur(s): Philip Caputo
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
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When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man's experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today's students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate extremes men are forced to confront in any war.
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Good to know material
- Écrit par James Rudzinski le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Philip Caputo
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Christmas Eve, 1914
- Auteur(s): Charles Olivier
- Narrateur(s): Cameron Daddo, Xander Berkeley, Cody Fern, Autres
- Durée: 1 h et 13 min
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In 1914, the war which was to have been wrapped up by Christmas had - in reality - only just begun, as all sides entrenched themselves deeper into the Great War. Christmas Eve, 1914 follows one company of British officers as they rotate forward to spend their Christmas on the front lines, a mere 80 yards from the German guns. Upper- and working-class men and boys are thrown together into one trench and struggle to survive.
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Fantastic Story
- Écrit par asatattack le 2021-08-25
Auteur(s): Charles Olivier
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The Things They Carried
- Auteur(s): Tim O'Brien
- Narrateur(s): Bryan Cranston
- Durée: 7 h et 47 min
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Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.
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Chilling, Remorseful Story
- Écrit par ken l. le 2020-01-21
Auteur(s): Tim O'Brien
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942
- Auteur(s): U.S. War Department
- Narrateur(s): Alexei Grebisch
- Durée: 40 min
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Here is a recording of a War Department pamphlet aimed at U.S. Servicemen in Britain in 1942. The jovial tone of the document and its advice about how NOT to offend the British make for a nostalgic - and in places humorous - relic of World War II.
Auteur(s): U.S. War Department
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Strong Ending
- A Journey from Combat to Comedy
- Auteur(s): Audible Originals
- Narrateur(s): Mary-Louise Parker
- Durée: 1 h et 16 min
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This heartfelt Audible Original, narrated by Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker, follows three military veterans as they reclaim their most painful memories and turn them into comedy. Michael Garvey, Isaura Ramirez, and Patrick Harth left combat zones to challenge themselves in a stand-up comedy boot camp. As they learn to transform their raw emotions into cathartic experiences, they face the daunting challenge of trying to make an audience laugh with jokes about war, trauma, and mental health.
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strong ending
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-02-23
Auteur(s): Audible Originals
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Born on the Fourth of July
- Auteur(s): Ron Kovic
- Narrateur(s): Holter Graham, Bruce Springsteen - introduction
- Durée: 5 h et 29 min
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This New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold) details the author's life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film version) - from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
Auteur(s): Ron Kovic
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A Rumor of War
- Auteur(s): Philip Caputo
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
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When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man's experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today's students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate extremes men are forced to confront in any war.
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Good to know material
- Écrit par James Rudzinski le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Philip Caputo
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Christmas Eve, 1914
- Auteur(s): Charles Olivier
- Narrateur(s): Cameron Daddo, Xander Berkeley, Cody Fern, Autres
- Durée: 1 h et 13 min
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In 1914, the war which was to have been wrapped up by Christmas had - in reality - only just begun, as all sides entrenched themselves deeper into the Great War. Christmas Eve, 1914 follows one company of British officers as they rotate forward to spend their Christmas on the front lines, a mere 80 yards from the German guns. Upper- and working-class men and boys are thrown together into one trench and struggle to survive.
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Fantastic Story
- Écrit par asatattack le 2021-08-25
Auteur(s): Charles Olivier
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The Things They Carried
- Auteur(s): Tim O'Brien
- Narrateur(s): Bryan Cranston
- Durée: 7 h et 47 min
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Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.
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Chilling, Remorseful Story
- Écrit par ken l. le 2020-01-21
Auteur(s): Tim O'Brien
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942
- Auteur(s): U.S. War Department
- Narrateur(s): Alexei Grebisch
- Durée: 40 min
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Here is a recording of a War Department pamphlet aimed at U.S. Servicemen in Britain in 1942. The jovial tone of the document and its advice about how NOT to offend the British make for a nostalgic - and in places humorous - relic of World War II.
Auteur(s): U.S. War Department
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Strong Ending
- A Journey from Combat to Comedy
- Auteur(s): Audible Originals
- Narrateur(s): Mary-Louise Parker
- Durée: 1 h et 16 min
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This heartfelt Audible Original, narrated by Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker, follows three military veterans as they reclaim their most painful memories and turn them into comedy. Michael Garvey, Isaura Ramirez, and Patrick Harth left combat zones to challenge themselves in a stand-up comedy boot camp. As they learn to transform their raw emotions into cathartic experiences, they face the daunting challenge of trying to make an audience laugh with jokes about war, trauma, and mental health.
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strong ending
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-02-23
Auteur(s): Audible Originals
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Born on the Fourth of July
- Auteur(s): Ron Kovic
- Narrateur(s): Holter Graham, Bruce Springsteen - introduction
- Durée: 5 h et 29 min
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This New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold) details the author's life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film version) - from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
Auteur(s): Ron Kovic