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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A vibrant, gritty, and realism-driven historical tale set against the tension and mud of the Philadelphia campaign and the fierce Battle of Germantown during the American Revolutionary War. The plot follows Ira Parcel, an artillery lieutenant who...

On April 6, 1967, twenty-year-old US Navy Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell off his ship, a guided-missile cruiser, in the Gulf of Tonkin. Close to exhaustion after nearly four hours in the water, he was picked up by a small fishing boat and soon found himself in Hỏa Lò Prison, the...

The epic story of the last bridge standing over the Rhine and the daring men and mission that helped end World War II, by bestselling author and historian Alex Kershaw Late winter, 1945: Allied forces have pushed the Germans toward the Rhine River. An elite reconnaissance unit from the Ninth...

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How the Word Is Passed takes us on an astonishingly original—and heartbreakingly intimate—journey to meet some of World War II's witnesses before they're gone. “This is a riveting, serious tour de force.” —Ken Burns Clint Smith’s...

The thrilling true story of the unlikely American codebreakers who cracked Japan’s top cipher machine, eavesdropped on Hitler, and helped win World War II. In 1937, Japanese engineers invented Purple, a cipher machine capable of scrambling a message more than 500 quadrillion ways. It encrypted...

World War I. Thousands of soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. The German Army executing anyone who helped them. But three fearless women — a nurse, a teacher, and a princess — ran a secret network to save them. An astonishing true story of heroism, betrayal, and daring by the New York Times...

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From the foremost scholar of the subject, a groundbreaking history of American involvement in Iraq to the present day Since 1979, the United States has waged at least five wars with or against Iraq. Yet the history of American involvement there has not been told in full, and what has been told...

Den 18 juli 2022 stupade Edvard Selander vid fronten i Ukraina. "Aldrig mer på något sätt" får vi följa Edvards resa från författarens perspektiv, redan från barnsben på ett litet dagis i Uppsala. Rutger Brattström berättar om kommunikationen med Edvard under tiden i Ukraina och delar...

Gösta närmade sig marken med en hastighet som var alldeles för hög; från 1 500 meters höjd hade han kastat sig ut i den svarta natten, ut ur det svartmålade bombplanet som några timmar tidigare lyft från en flygplats utanför Bryssel. Detta är den spännande berättelsen om svensken...

Courage has long been a favorite theme of philosophers, generals, and poets alike. A fundamental virtue since ancient times, courage is perhaps most readily identified with military exploits. But what does courage mean beyond the battlefield? And what do traditional ideals of bravery, dedication...

Två dagar efter Adolf Hitlers självmord, den 2 maj 1945, mottar den tyske agenten Leonhard ett sista meddelande från sitt hemland. Meddelandet innehåller uppmuntrande ord och tyskarna tackar sin agent för dennes rapportering om de allierades minering av inloppet vid ryska Kolahalvön. Den...

As general of the Union army and president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant faced problems as grave and demanding as any in the life of the nation: civil war, an ultimately thwarted project of Reconstruction, the early years of the sordid Gilded Age, and the battle for African American...

“En gave til menneskeheden. En af de sjældne og evige historier, som efterlader dig for altid forandret.” – Desmond Tutu I 1944 bliver Edith Eger som 16-årig deporteret til koncentrationslejren Auschwitz. Ved ankomsten bliver hun adskilt fra sine forældre, der bliver sendt direkte i...

William Pitt the Younger sometimes gets lost in the historical shuffle, overshadowed by his famous father and the drama of Napoleon Bonaparte in France. But few prime ministers in any country have left a deeper mark. Taking office at just 24 years old, making him the youngest prime minister in world history, he spent nearly two decades reshaping Britain's finances and steering it through a war that would define a generation. He might not have been a smooth operator, but he was certainly a shrewd one.

A DITADURA DE 1964 ACABOU? O QUE NOS FICOU DAQUELES ANOS NEGROS? Este livro empolgante, que se lê de um fôlego, nos revela que a ditadura de 1964 estende seus tentáculos aos dias de hoje, quando parte da população, insuflada pela mídia, bate panelas e desfila nas ruas com palavras de ordem...

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembers them as antagonists, and for most of the years the two men knew each other, they were. In the 1830s, they debated politics around the stove in the back of Joshua Speed's store in Springfield, Illinois. In the 1850s...

March 21st, 1945. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission: destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the port, while leaving the floating city unscathed. As bombs rained down upon Europe, flattening city after...

Hours before the liberation of Brussels in 1944, the Germans loaded more than 1,400 members of the Resistance, SOE agents, and Allied airmen onto a train bound for the Neuengamme concentration camp. What happened next came to be known as the miracle of “The Ghost Train,” as members of the...

The Defector is the untold story of how the defection of KGB agent Oleg Lyalin led to the expulsion of more than a hundred Soviet spies from Britain. At the heart of Lyalin’s story is a narrative entwined with lies, disinformation, Kremlin deception campaigns, paranoia, intelligence failures...