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  Spare Not the Brave: The Special Activities Group in Korea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 768min

  The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and ends on the night of September 12, 1950, with an amphibious raid near Kunsan. Until their inactivation on March 31, 1951, SAG simply disappears from most Korean War histories. Spare Not the Brave corrects this omission. Spare Not the Brave tells the story of the extraordinary missions carried out by this group of extraordinary soldiers. Recruited primarily from the Far East Command headquarters, these men received six weeks of training and then were thrust into combat in Korea. Boarding rubber boats in the Yellow Sea and paddling to shore far behind enemy lines, they conducted a diversionary landing near Kunsan, then landed at Inchon, and sailed to the Wonsan area of North Korea. There, SAG was augmented with a battalion of South Korean soldiers. Together they conducted counter-guerrilla operations until overwhelming Chinese intervention forced all Allied units to withdraw from the North. Drawing on his 26 years of infantry and special forces experience, Kiper brings critical analysis and insight to this previously untold story. Spare Not the Brave fills a gap in the historiography of the Korean War and adds a valuable chapter to the history of US Army special operations. The book is published by The Kent State University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Capt. Kevin F. Spalding USNR-Ret. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090115/bk_acx0_090115_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  What Does Law Mean, Mumu?: A Book About the Law for Young People , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min

  Paulyn Marrinan, Founder Post Graduate Diploma: Conflict and Dispute Resolution Studies, Trinity College, Dublin University-Adjunct Professor Mediation and ADR Studies (2000-2014) presents: What Does Law Mean, Mumu? - An Introduction to Law for Young People, in which, among other things, she discusses the essential and fundamental role of trust and respect between communities and the police, required to underpin an effective police force.     Lawyer Paulyn Marrinan - having devised and presented a series for Irish National Broadcaster RTE Radio entitled Cases that Changed People's Lives, featuring some defining court cases that changed things for the better – now launches her book about legal principles for young people: What does Law mean, Mumu? In her new book What does Law Mean, Mumu?, Irish lawyer and mediator Paulyn Marrinan introduces young people to some topics connected to Alternative Dispute Resolution processes (ADRs) such as Mediation, Ombudsman, and in relation to crime and punishment, the value of diversionary and restorative justice programs that may assist in keeping young offenders out of the courts and out of prison.  Paulyn Marrinan, lawyer, founder Conflict and Dispute Resolution Studies Trinity College Dublin University, introduces her new book - What does Law mean, Mumu? - An Introduction to the Law for Young People. It is hoped that this little book will contribute to young people thinking further, researching, and reflecting on what is needed to protect the organisation of society in a way that guarantees civil rights and freedoms - giving citizens a proportionate say in how their society is organised. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paulyn Marrinan.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209192/bk_acx0_209192_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Forlorn Hope: The Storming of Badajoz , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 194min

  In the spring of 1812, the British army under Sir Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Wellington, has driven the French from Portugal. With Napoleon obsessed by the invasion of Russia, Wellington turns toward Spain. The way is barred by two fortresses, Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. When Ciudad Rodrigo collapses after a short siege, Wellington prepares to break the fortress of Badajoz, the most formidable stronghold in Europe and commanded by the seasoned warrior, Baron Armand Philippon. Despite a shortage of engineers and equipment, Wellington must seize Badajoz if he is to have any chance of driving into Spain. When he learns that an army under Marshal Soult is en route to relieve Badajoz, Wellington risks being caught between Soult and Philippon and must execute the attack on Badajoz immediately. If he fails, the British will be trapped between two armies and lose everything for which they and their allies have fought for the past three years. Lieutenant James Webster is in mourning following the loss of his wife, and he volunteers to command the small group that will lead the assault. Second in command is Sergeant Thomas Davis; recently diagnosed with a fatal illness, he prefers a valiant death in battle. Breaches have been blown into the walls of the southern bastions, Trinidad and Santa Maria, and here Wellington will unleash the Fourth and Light Divisions, while launching diversionary assaults on the northern San Vincente bastion, as well as the Badajoz castle. Together with 100 volunteers, the Forlorn Hope, Webster and Davis will storm into the breach. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Patterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077550/bk_acx0_077550_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Information Overlord - How to Master the Information Age - Multi Level Magic Book Thirteen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min

  The volume of information, instant messages, urgent social media, emails, and texts has now reached the point that it is seriously impacting us all - to a point where it is becoming the most important thing in our lives. Despite the fact that it is impacting our productivity at work and interrupts almost every moment of our day, to be disconnected from it is almost unthinkable. How have we become so addicted to being always connected? International author Ron G. Holland believes you can take back control of your life and still enjoy the benefits of social media and your gadgets - providing you have a strategy! Since the birth of the Internet and cheap access to technology with amazing functions, our interaction with information has grown exponentially. While this has brought huge value to people's lives, it has also brought with it the massive challenge of dealing with ever-increasing volumes of information, much of which has no relevance to us whatsoever. So how can we manage our lives at home and at the workplace effectively with all this diversionary data and information coming our way? How can we make sure that we get only the valuable insights into our hands, use them to make important decisions, and confidently share them with friends and colleagues? This incredible nontechnical book written by best-selling self-help author Ron G. Holland will transform your life. In simple layman's terms, together with practical tips and advice, it will show you how to better understand the global age; make information your slave and not your master; free your mind from multiple sources of information and "data noise"; and free up valuable time and increase your productivity. By listening to this book, you can become an Information Overlord! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Mayes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041122/bk_acx0_041122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Last Chance to Save American Democracy: Republicans Will Permanently Take Power in the 2022-2024 Elections Unless Democrats Follow This Plan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min

  How Democrats can win the 2020 decade by saving democracy in 2021Despite four awful years with Trump as president, Democrats were barely able to defeat him in the 2020 elections. They lost seats in the House, lost winnable races in the Senate, and even lost a handful of state legislatures.How can this be?For that matter, how did Trump win in 2016, and why did Republicans control Congress for almost the entire 2010 decade despite zero accomplishments?In Last Chance to Save American Democracy, political strategist Haven Scott McVarish takes us through the intentional dismantling of democracy begun by Republican party funders after Obama's landslide in 2008. These funders and their willing Republican servants weaponized unlimited dark money, extreme gerrymandering, voter suppression, and diversionary propaganda to make it impossible for Democrats to effectively govern or win a majority. Only Trump’s massive unpopularity allowed Democrats to barely win the trifecta in the 2020 elections.In this masterful and compelling political analysis, McVarish unveils a set of 12 comprehensive solutions for our besieged democracy, along with an organizing plan to get these solutions into law. McVarish shows Democrats exactly how they must fix the filibuster, reform the Supreme Court, revise the Electoral College and Congress to provide fair representation, and equalize voters’ influence through campaign finance reform, to name a few, all without needing constitutional amendments.Defeating Trump and McConnell in 2020 is only the first step. Unless Democrats make the necessary changes in a very short window of opportunity in 2021, the GOP’s decade-long assault on our democracy will give Republicans permanent control of our government within the next two elections, and we will lose our democracy forever.You don't have to feel frustrated and scared.This blueprint lays out a clear path for us to compel ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Larry Herron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230155/bk_acx0_230155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Emperor's Coloured Coat: The Otto Prohaska Novels, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 832min

  Early in the year 1912, the recently-promoted Lieutenant Ottokar Prohaska finds himself stuck as a gunnery officer aboard a battleship mostly moored in harbor. He answers a War Ministry advertisement for training as a naval air pilot, but he soon finds himself appointed aide-de-camp for aviation to the appalling, boorish, near-insane Austro-Hungarian heir-apparent: the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. After breaking a leg in a flying accident, Prohaska is relieved of his duties, and upon his recovery, he is posted to a river gunboat on the Danube. After an ill-considered liaison with a Polish opera singer, he flees her vengeful husband into Serbian territory. There, a case of mistaken identity enmeshes him in a Serbian anarchist plot to kill the Austro-Hungarian chief of staff with a small diversionary operation in the town of Sarajevo - the assassination of the Archduke. His warnings of the assassination plot are mysteriously disregarded by Austrian officials, and Prohaska is whisked off to Shanghai aboard an Austrian liner, where he arrives just in time for the outbreak of World War One. Plenty more outlandish adventures await him: an insider's view of the Japanese siege of a German colony, an escape aboard a Chinese junk, and instruction in the art of flat-earth marine navigation. Finally, Prohaska must come to grips with the decision, by a not-very-bright commandant of a Turkish fort in the Arabian desert, that he should be hanged as a spy. With irony, wit, historical accuracy, and telling detail, Biggins brings alive a time and place that spawned two World Wars, the Cold War, and the Balkan wars of the late 20th century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Patterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104645/bk_acx0_104645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945

  The SAS Pocket Manual is an incredible insight into the origins, training and earliest operations of the special service volunteer soldiers who formed the original units of the world's most famous military force. The Special Air Service was the brainchild of Scots Guards' officer Lieutenant David Stirling, serving with No 8 Commando. He advocated a specially organised, specially equipped and specially trained unit dedicated to the 'unrelenting pursuit of excellence' that could act covertly and operate behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy enemy aircraft and attack their supply and reinforcement routes. The 1st SAS Regiment was officially designated after successful raids against enemy airfields in the Middle East in 1941-1942. In May 1943 a 2nd SAS Regiment was raised in Algeria and would also serve in Sicily and Italy. SAS troopers were at the forefront of the action on D-Day, serving behind the enemy lines, assisting the French Resistance in diversionary attacks and in support of Allied armies. The SAS served with great distinction through 42 significant actions in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany until the end of the war in Europe. This new addition to the bestselling Conway pocket-book series is compiled from wartime and post-war memorandums, manuals and documents. They include unit after-action reports and lecture notes from the centres used to train special services soldiers, gathered from the Liddell Hart Military Archive, National Archives, wartime periodicals and post-war memoirs. The book covers: - training methods - weapons handling - fieldcraft - sabotage training - operations in North Africa and the Middle East (1941-1942), Sicily and Italy (1943) and France (1944-1945)

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  Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min

  One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces commander, an unparalled warrior with multiple deployments to the theater who has only recently returned from combat. Southern Afghanistan was slipping away. That was clear to then-Captain Rusty Bradley as he began his third tour of duty there in 2006. The Taliban and their allies were infiltrating everywhere, poised to reclaim Kandahar Province, their strategically vital onetime capital. To stop them, the NATO coalition launched Operation Medusa, the largest offensive in its history. The battlefield was the Panjwayi Valley, a densely packed warren of walled compounds that doubled neatly as enemy bunkers, lush orchards, and towering marijuana stands, laced through with treacherous irrigation ditches. A mass exodus of civilians heralded the carnage to come. Dispatched as a diversionary force in support of the main coalition attack, Bradley’s Special Forces A-team and two others, along with their longtime Afghan Army allies, watched from across the valley as the NATO force was quickly engulfed in a vicious counterattack. Key to relieving it and calling in effective air strikes was possession of a modest patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar. Bradley’s small detachment assaulted the hill and, in the midst of a savage and unforgettable firefight, soon learned they were facing nearly a thousand seasoned fighters - from whom they seized an impossible victory. Now Bradley recounts the whole remarkable story as it actually happened. The blistering trek across Afghanistan’s infamous Red Desert. The eerie traces of the elusive Taliban. The close relations with the Afghan people and army, a primary mission focus. Sperwan Ghar itself: unremitting waves of fire from machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades; a targeted truck turned into an inferno; th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric G. Dove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003839/bk_brll_003839_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The O Line Mystery Shorts, Book 10 (Dramatized), Hörbuch, Digital, 76min

  The O Line Mystery Shorts books 1 through 11 comprise the complete dramatization of the mystery series of short stories. Originally released as podcasts, they have been remastered for audiobook listening. Book 10 features the following episodes: 41, "Greed and Loathing"; 42, "Red, White, and Scotch"; 43, "The Elderly Renegades"; and 44, "Trust Building". Set on Ohlone Island in the San Francisco Bay, island inhabitants Lorna and Annie have a penchant for discovering fraud, corruption, and murder. In episode 41, "Greed and Loathing", Michael and Sally follow their suspects giving Lorna time to think and prepare her own special way. When Michael's suspect turns up dead there is only one conclusion, and thanks to Lorna's preparedness training they lose no time in chasing down their only lead. Episode 42, "Red, White, and Scotch", is their final push to find Annie's contact. The women end up in a foreign land, slogging through the snow and confusion as Michael directs them via a satellite phone to a bullet-riddled former CIA safe house. But the safe house is where the real chase - through the streets of Prague - begins. Just when they think it is over, in episode 43, "The Elderly Renegades", there are clandestine services, corporate contractors, and the Russians chasing them and the device, so the women make some snap decisions that could cost another life. After Lorna deploys her diversionary tactics so Annie and Sally can escape to safety, Annie takes a page from Lorna's preparedness lectures and doesn't lose hope and continues to prepare for their next steps. Then in episode 44, "Trust Building", with their trust in one another on shaky ground anyway, Michael, Sally, and Annie are on their way to Virginia to be debriefed. And in Roberta's attempt to build trust again with Lorna, she asks for help in creating an Island Watch and puts Lorna on a police ride along to disastrous results when the police officers have other p Language: English. Narrator: Nina Greeley, Beth Hutchens, Taisha Rucker, Colin Cahill, M. Saylor Billings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004744/bk_acx0_004744_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Numbers

  The various number systems are usually taken for granted by most people, and rightly so. But at least once in the career of every person seriously interested in mathematics, they should be looked at with a critical eye. Why were they created, and why are their properties what they are? Numbers is intended to be a readable but rigorous book that addresses these points. Edmund Landau's 1930 book Grundlagen der Analysis (Foundations of Analysis) is still in print, showing the continuing desire for such a book, but it is extraordinarily terse, and is famous for it. It is a long string of definitions and theorems with no informal material at all. We have tried to find a good mix of informality and formal development. We spend much time on motivation, giving informal reasons why a formal development can proceed as it does. Then and only then do we present the formal material. Thus the reader learns not only the mechanism of the number systems, but also how formal mathematics gets created and thought about at a pre-formal level. The role of set theory and its relationship to the number systems is important, but in a book concentrating on numbers it is rather diversionary. Some set theory is necessary, of course, but the principles needed are simple and straightforward. We assume they are part of the reader's logical machinery and go on from there. A few foundational issues are mentioned, but this is not a book on set theory. Common pencil-and-paper algorithms for arithmetical computation are discussed along the way. They are, after all, among the great human creations and should be seen as such. The system of real numbers is often presented using Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences. We have chosen an approach whose intuition is more familiar to most: infinite decimals. We develop them in a simple, yet rigorous, way that builds naturally on what people have already had exposure to. Exercises are included. Some are computational and some are of the supply-a-proof type. If successfully done, the reader will not only have come to know something, but will have come to know that he or she has come to know it.

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