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    Der Drachenwald: Robert und die Ritter 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 178min
    Mit ihrem Zauberschwert landen Robert und Tim statt bei ihren tapferen Freunden auf der Wackerburg, bei den Raubrittern gegenüber: auf Burg Wolfeck. Da hören sie, dass in der Nacht eine Prinzessin verschwunden ist. Die Raubritter sind es ausnahmsweise nicht gewesen, aber wer war’s dann? Im Wald unter Wolfeck soll ja ein Drache hausen, der früher auf Prinzessinnen spezialisiert war. Gibt’s den noch? Und wenn ja, sollen sie versuchen, ihm die Prinzessin abzujagen? Ein echter Fall für Robert und die Ritter. deutsch. Katharina Thalbach. https://samples.audible.de/bk/igel/000144/bk_igel_000144_sample.mp3.
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    Tough Guys Die Hard , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 372min
    The world is their war zone! The war’s never over for the battle-toughened Rat Bastards. From one jungle hell to another, they strike raw terror and drive razor-sharp bayonets into the heart of their enemies. Always in the thick of the fight, they hit hard and die harder. And when a new band of misfits joins their ranks, you can hear the panic buttons getting pushed all the way to Tokyo. The Rat Bastards. Turning losers into hell-bent heroes. The Rat Bastards. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007490/bk_adbl_007490_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 555min
    More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms.Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JD Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053338/bk_adbl_053338_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ich weiß, ich war's, Hörbuch, Digital, 279min
    Seine Vision für ein "Operndorf Afrika" wird in Burkina Faso gerade Wirklichkeit - ein beeindruckendes Zeichen dafür, wie lebendig die Kunst Christoph Schlingensiefs auch nach seinem viel zu frühen Tod ist. Die Lücke, die dieser Ausnahmekünstler hinterlassen hat, ist groß. Seine autobiographischen Skizzen und Gedanken, die nun posthum und zu großen Teilen im O-Ton erscheinen, machen dies auf eindringliche Weise deutlich - und helfen zugleich, diese Lücke ein Stück weit zu schließen. "Die Bilder verschwinden automatisch und übermalen sich so oder so! Erinnern heißt: vergessen! (Da können wir ruhig unbedingt auch mal schlafen!)" Mit diesen Worten überschrieb Christoph Schlingensief den letzten Eintrag in seinem "Schlingenblog". Erinnern - das war für Schlingensief kein sentimentaler Vorgang, sondern ein Akt der Befreiung, um Platz für Neues zu schaffen. Und so setzte er nach der Veröffentlichung von "So schön wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein", dem vielgelesenen und vieldiskutierten Tagebuch einer Krebserkrankung, das Prinzip fort, seine Gedanken zur Kunst, seine Selbstbefragungen und Erinnerungen auf Tonband festzuhalten. Nicht um sich zurückzuziehen oder um Abschied zu nehmen, sondern um sich zurück ins Leben zu katapultieren. In "Ich weiß, ich war’s" erinnert er sich an seine Kindheit in Oberhausen und seine Anfänge als Filmemacher, an schwierige und an erfüllende Stationen seines Künstlerlebens in Berlin, Wien, auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent - sowie nicht zuletzt an seine Erlebnisse auf dem Grünen Hügel Bayreuths. Und "Ich weiß, ich war’s" zeigt einen Christoph Schlingensief, der voller Tatendrang am Leben teilnimmt, mal humorvoll, mal selbstkritisch, immer aber leidenschaftlich und mit Blick nach vorn. Mit Zwischentexten, gelesen von Martin Wuttke. deutsch. Christoph Schlingensief, Martin Wuttke. https://samples.audible.de/bk/roof/000165/bk_roof_000165_sample.mp3.
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    The Modern Scholar: Total War: World War II and Its Lasting Legacy, Hörbuch, Digital, 260min
    Mark R. Polelle of the University of Findlay examines the origins, major events, and consequences of the Second World War. Taking into account the First World War’s effect on politics, economics, culture, and the international system as a whole, the course illustrates the ideologies at play as communism, fascism, and democratic capitalism came into direct conflict. Throughout these lectures, Polelle also imagines a number of "what ifs," including what would have happened if Hitler had not invaded the Soviet Union, and concludes with a consideration of the legacy of World War II. Language: English. Narrator: Professor Mark R. Polelle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/007674/bk_reco_007674_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Don't Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min
    George Gordon Meade could hardly believe it: only three days earlier, he had been thrust unexpectedly into command of the Army of the Potomac, which was cautiously stalking its long-time foe, the Army of Northern Virginia, as it launched a bold invasion northward. Meade had hardly wrapped his head around the situation before everything exploded. Outside the small college town of Gettysburg, Confederates had inexplicably turned on the lead elements of Meade’s army and attacked. The first day of battle had ended poorly for Federals, but by nightfall, they had found a lodgment on high ground south of town. There, they fortified - and waited. “Don’t give an inch, boys!” one Federal commander told his men. The next day, July 2, 1863, would be one of the Civil War’s bloodiest. Confederate commander Robert E. Lee would launch his army at the Federal position in a series of assaults that would test the mettle of men on both sides in a way few had ever before been tested - and the Pennsylvania landscape would run red as a result. With names that have become legendary - Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, the Peach Orchard, the Wheatfield, Culp’s Hill - the second day at Gettysburg encompasses some of the best-known engagements of the Civil War. Yet those same stories have also become shrouded in mythology and misunderstanding.In Don’t Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, historians Chris Mackowski and Daniel T. Davis peel back the layers to share both the real and often-overlooked stories of that fateful summer day. In the same engaging style that has invited thousands into the Civil War’s most important stories, Mackowski and Davis share their intimate knowledge of the battlefield they both grew up on. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph A Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/186690/bk_acx0_186690_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1021min
    November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11 a.m., yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered - more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. Joseph E. Persico puts the listener in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous - among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that led up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war’s last hour. Persico recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, and Paths of Glory. The pointless fighting on the last day of the war is the perfect metaphor for the four years that preceded it, years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called “the hardest, cruelest, and least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.”  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Marosz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000331/bk_bkot_000331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1352min
    A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decades-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the 20th century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the "Long Peace" actually was. In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold War, long viewed as a mostly peaceful, if tense, diplomatic standoff between democracy and communism, was actually a part of a vast, deadly conflict that killed millions on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. For half a century, as an uneasy peace hung over Europe, ferocious proxy wars raged in the Cold War’s killing fields, resulting in more than 14 million dead - victims who remain largely forgotten and all but lost to history. A superb work of scholarship, The Cold War’s Killing Fields is the first global military history of this superpower conflict and the first full accounting of its devastating impact. More than previous armed conflicts, the wars of the post-1945 era ravaged civilians across vast stretches of territory, from Korea and Vietnam to Bangladesh and Afghanistan to Iraq and Lebanon. Chamberlin provides an understanding of this sweeping history from the ground up and offers a moving portrait of human suffering, capturing the voices of those who experienced the brutal warfare. Chamberlin reframes this era in global history and explores in detail the numerous battles fought to prevent nuclear war, bolster the strategic hegemony of the US and the USSR, and determine the fate of societies throughout the Third World. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007621/bk_harp_007621_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Combat Veterans' Stories' of the Vietnam War: Vietnam War, Volume 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min
    This volume contains the United States’ explanation for the war, a review of Vietnam’s history and the war’s and US armed forces in it, as well as various problems during it, including drug and racial problems, desertion, sedition, and treason. There is also information about POW treatment, POWs and MIAs, the CIA and the drug trade, war crimes, PTSD, moral Injury, and history lessons not learned. The autobiographies in the first four volumes of Combat Veterans’ Stories of the Vietnam War are told by 57 Americans, Canadians, and Australians who fought in that war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: CAPT Kevin F Spalding USNR-Ret. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113424/bk_acx0_113424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    John Murray's Diary 1914-1918: Australia in the Great War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
    Discover the story of Australia in the Great War through the eyes and stories of John Murray - a would-be journalist, aspiring artist, and young soldier. John’s dairies capture the history, events, and experiences of Australians, as each instalment builds to tell the story of Australia’s journey from peacetime through to the war’s end. Share a young Australian’s hopes, his insights, and his pain, as war changes the fabric of his world and his family. The diaries have been compiled through meticulous research and historically accurate accounts of this momentous period in world history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott McCann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134949/bk_acx0_134949_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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