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A gripping look at how SOE agents of World War II trained for their work in occupied territories, the tools they used, and the paths they took to ensure victory. At the start of World War II, Winston Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive to 'set Europe ablaze'. To do this...

This fascinating history reveals the Korean War as the birth of modern jet combat, where dogfights forged heroes in the limelight of fame and the shadow of secrecy. This gripping history of the Korean War’s jet age contrasts the celebrated exploits of American fighter aces with the hidden war...

But American Half Breed is more than a military memoir—it is a raw and unfiltered story of survival. Before he ever wore a uniform, Ron Carpenter was a child growing up on the South Side of Chicago, surrounded by gangs, drugs, and violence. He witnessed murder inside his own home. He endured abuse, instability, and relentless adversity. As a biracial child in a hostile environment, the odds were stacked against him from the start. Most don’t escape that life. He did.

The definitive and moving account of America’s only World War II Holocaust refugee shelter. Nearly eighty years ago, the residents of a small town in upstate New York welcomed a group of refugees that changed the town forever. The 982 people were the only refugees to enter the United States...

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the story of Moses was not a miracle—but a memory of war, exile, and survival? In Hyksos: Storm in the Delta, José Gómez-Rivera delivers a bold and electrifying reimagining of one of history’s most enduring figures. Set against the violent...

The Vietnam experience was hellfire, privation, blood, sweat, and death. To the ground soldiers enduring it on the battlefields, the helicopter pilots flying above seemed a privileged few — removed from the "real" war, fighting at a distance from its harshest realities. But Bruce Lake's story invites a closer look. Bruce R. Lake flew hundreds of helicopter missions under hostile fire, earned 42 Air Medals and the Silver Star for a heroic rescue mission, and watched squadron brothers leave on missions they never came back from.

ナチスの強制収容所における体験を綴った名著『夜と霧』の著者であり、「生きる意味」を見出していく心理療法、実存分析(ロゴセラピー)の創始者であるビクトール・フランクルが読者に熱く語りかける「魂」を鼓舞するメッセージ。

七三一部隊にとどまらない細菌戦の実態日中戦争のさなか、人体実験や細菌兵器の開発と製造に携わったとされる関東軍防疫給水部、通称七三一部隊。組織の中心にいたのは、部隊長・石井四郎を筆頭とした、日本を代表するエリートたちだった。

A gripping firsthand account of courage, resilience, and survival during the Great War. In My German Prisons, Captain Horace Gray Gilliland delivers an uncensored, deeply personal narrative of his experiences as a British officer captured during the brutal battles of World War I. For two and a...

H. A. Guerber, the legendary historian, once again brings us this classic audiobook about one of the most fascinating civilizations in the history of our wonderful world: the Greeks. He brings to life Greek history in a way few have ever managed to do. His passion was to get people excited about the rise of Athens and Sparta, and the legends of Hercules, Theseus, and the Trojan war. Plus, who wouldn’t be inspired by the courage of Leonidas at Thermopylae, the conquests of Alexander the Great, and the wisdom of the Great Socrates.

一九九一年の金学順さんの告発に衝撃をうけた著者は関係文書を丹念に収集分析し，九五年刊行の『従軍慰安婦』で「慰安婦制度」の主体が軍であったことを明らかにした．しかし「軍慰安婦」たちの苦難を否定する声は今も後を絶たない．

American History, Volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American history from the first Native American societies to the end of the Reconstruction period, following the Civil War. Drawing on a deep range of research and years of classroom teaching experience, Thomas S. Kidd offers students an engaging overview of the first half of American history. The volume features illuminating stories of people from well known presidents and generals, to lesser-known men and women who struggled under slavery and other forms of oppression to make their place in American life.

For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his descendants to rule Japan for the next 260 years—a period in which Japanese culture as we know it today flourished.

"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The Hustle An updated edition of the...

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

広島に原爆が落とされたのは、1945年８月６日でした。11歳の米澤鐡志さんは、爆心から750メートルの電車内で母親と一緒に被爆します。

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax World History, Volume 1: to 1500 audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. World History, Volume 1: to 1500 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course to 1500 offered at...

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political...