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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1118min

With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal. Neptune’s Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands, America’s first concerted offensive against the Imperial Japanese juggernaut and the true turning point of the Pacific conflict. This grim, protracted campaign has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice - three sailors died at sea for every man lost ashore - Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of “Ironbottom Sound.” Here, in brilliant cinematic detail, are the seven major naval actions that began in August of 1942, a time when the war seemed unwinnable and America fought on a shoestring, with the outcome always in doubt. But at Guadalcanal the U.S. proved it had the implacable will to match the Imperial war machine blow for violent blow. Working from new interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and newly available documents, Hornfischer paints a vivid picture of the officers and enlisted men who took on the Japanese in America’s hour of need. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robertson Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002503/bk_rand_002503_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min

An ICU and palliative care specialist featured in the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary Extremis offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care - to become an ICU physician - and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But then during her first code, she found herself cracking the ribs of a patient so old and frail it was unimaginable he would ever come back to life. She began to question her choice. Extreme Measures charts Zitter's journey from wanting to be one kind of hero to becoming another - a doctor who prioritizes the patient's values and preferences in an environment where the default choice is the extreme use of technology. In our current medical culture, the old and the ill are put on what she terms the end-of-life conveyor belt. They are intubated, catheterized, and even shelved away in care facilities to suffer their final days alone, confused, and often in pain. In her work Zitter has learned what patients fear more than death itself: the prospect of dying badly. She builds bridges between patients and caregivers, formulates plans to allay patients' pain and anxiety, and enlists the support of loved ones so that life can end well, even beautifully. Filled with rich patient stories that make a compelling medical narrative, Extreme Measures enlarges the national conversation as it thoughtfully and compassionately examines an experience that defines being human. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Nutik Zitter, M.D.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003053/bk_peng_003053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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SPQR - Der Falke von Rom (eBook, ePUB)

Sultan Suyin ist mit seiner Flotte entkommen und steuert nun ins Herz der Hegemonie, die geschwächt von der Schlacht um Dubai ihre letzten Reserven mobilisiert. Währenddessen setzt die römische Flotte die Säuberung des bisherigen islamischen Hoheitsgebietes fort, unterstützt lokale Widerstandsgruppen oder nimmt selbst ganze Systeme der ehemaligen Handelsallianz ein. Auf dem verwüsteten Susa, wo sich islamistische Verbände in Städten verschanzt haben, drohen Millionen Menschen zu verhungern, wenn es nicht gelingt den Planeten schnell zu befrieden. Und auch hier zeigt sich, dass wie auf allen ehemals besetzten islamistischen Planeten, jedes Terror- und Unterdrückungsregime die Quittung bekommt. Rom hat zunehmend Probleme, die Wut der Massen in den Griff zu bekommen, zumal es selbst noch eine realistische Lösung für den religiös-militanten Fundamentalismus des ehemaligen Sultanats sucht. Kann die Flotte des Schwarzen Sultans gestoppt werden? Findet Imperator Julius Maximilianus einen Weg dem Blutvergießen Einhalt zu gebieten? Die neue Pax Romana Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen? "Wenn Reiche fallen" schließt die kleine Trilogie innerhalb der SPQR-Reihe ab, die mit "Dunkle Schatten", dem Angriff auf Rom und Susa, begann und mit "Der Römer Zorn" dann thematisch weitergeführt wurde. Die drei Romane zeigen auf, wie schwer es ist militärische oder auch nur politische Lösungen für religiösen Wahn zu finden, deren Heilsversprechen auf ein Jenseits gerichtet sind. Sie zeigen die gesellschaftliche Herausforderung und das Problem im Angesicht der Schrecken Moral und Ethik zu erhalten und dass Rache ein menschlicher Antrieb ist, der in extremis Recht, Vernunft und auch Moral beugt.

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The Bone Traders , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 267min

Mad Max meets "Blue Velvet" It's 2026. The world has suffered massive deprivation; man has been exposed to the wrath of a solar storm. Mother Nature has dealt her ace. Transportation as we know it, communication as we know it, no longer exist. Extinction approaches. Has God abandoned man as well? Can one man prevail over human perversity in extremis? Can love prevail in a dog eat dog existence? The solar storm lasted for eight months. Those that survived nature's warning, mainly the young, managed to migrate. The elderly were less fortunate. They were left abandoned to live in sweltering heat and forced to recreate a past life that is void of a baby's cry. Can two separate communities where dying has become an industry continue to survive? The disillusioned Reverend Dickinson shepherds his aging community by false-hope, while, a few miles away, Trader barters life for death using a macabre reminder of the past to gain economic superiority. In the midst stands the beautiful young woman, Danya. Protected by her shotgun wielding, abrasive mother, Danya is the only remaining hope of escaping the poverty and aridness that surround them all. Into this environment, a young man arrives accompanied by Dog, a scavenger of the sky. Joe communicates with the dead and is able to learn the secrets of the past and, consequently, change the future. He is gifted with the ability to use his internal, positive energy to traverse the often hostile and temperamental gap in time left between life and death. Every moment Joe spends in the past is a personal sacrifice and what he dangerously learns may, or may not, agree with the insatiability of those around him. "I am Dog. It is not because he fears pain that he bites into the leather, but for the fear of past horrors and being forever entrapped by them." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roberto Scarlato. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022910/bk_acx0_022910_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Comics by Warren Ellis

Comics by Warren Ellis ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: Thunderbolts The Authority FreakAngels Astonishing X-Men Newuniversal Black Summer Extremis Transmetropolitan Planetary Ultimate Galactus Trilogy Doom 2099 Nextwave List of Transmetropolitan story arcs Global Frequency. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,

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The Spymaster of Baghdad

'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey Hilsum The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. More so than that of any foreign power, the information they gathered turned the tide against the insurgency, paving the way to the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. Against the backdrop of the most brutal conflict of recent decades, we chart the spymaster's struggle to develop the unit from scratch in challenging circumstances after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, we follow the fraught relationship of two of his agents, the al-Sudani brothers - one undercover in ISIS for sixteen long months, the other his handler - and we track a disillusioned scientist as she turns bomb-maker, threatening the lives of thousands. With unprecedented access to characters on all sides, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Margaret Coker challenges the conventional view that Western coalition forces defeated ISIS and reveals a page-turning story of unlikely heroes, unbelievable courage and good old-fashioned spycraft. 'Moving, visceral, utterly revelatory. A stunning tour de force by an author who has lived every word of it on the ground' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo 'This compelling account of how Iraqi agents infiltrated ISIS takes us deep beneath the lurid headlines and into a sharply focused world of courage, ingenuity, terror and love' Sinclair McKay, author of Dresden 'In Margaret Coker's deeply reported, unputdownable account, the previously unknown Iraqi heros of the war against the Islamic State turn out to be braver than Bond and as subtle as Smiley' Lindsey Hilsum, author of In Extremis 'We all owe a debt of gratitude to the Falcons Unit for their important role in the fight against the most lethal terrorist group of our time' Anne Speckhard, Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism

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The Spymaster of Baghdad

'The amazing true story of the secret war against ISIS' Peter Bergen, author of Manhunt 'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey Hilsum The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. More so than that of any foreign power, the information they gathered turned the tide against the insurgency, paving the way to the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. Against the backdrop of the most brutal conflict of recent decades, we chart the spymaster's struggle to develop the unit from scratch in challenging circumstances after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, we follow the fraught relationship of two of his agents, the al-Sudani brothers - one undercover in ISIS for sixteen long months, the other his handler - and we track a disillusioned scientist as she turns bomb-maker, threatening the lives of thousands. With unprecedented access to characters on all sides, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Margaret Coker challenges the conventional view that Western coalition forces defeated ISIS and reveals a page-turning story of unlikely heroes, unbelievable courage and good old-fashioned spycraft. 'Moving, visceral, utterly revelatory. A stunning tour de force by an author who has lived every word of it on the ground' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo 'This compelling account of how Iraqi agents infiltrated ISIS takes us deep beneath the lurid headlines and into a sharply focused world of courage, ingenuity, terror and love' Sinclair McKay, author of Dresden 'In Margaret Coker's deeply reported, unputdownable account, the previously unknown Iraqi heros of the war against the Islamic State turn out to be braver than Bond and as subtle as Smiley' Lindsey Hilsum, author of In Extremis 'We all owe a debt of gratitude to the Falcons Unit for their important role in the fight against the most lethal terrorist group of our time' Anne Speckhard, Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism

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Le 3e oeil du professeur Margerie (eBook, ePUB)

En l'absence de Mary Lester, le lieutenant Fortin se charge de l'enquête sur la mort brutale d'un professeur de physique... Voilà le lieutenant Fortin bien embarrassé ! Un professeur de physique vient d'être découvert dans sa classe avec une balle entre les deux yeux. En l'absence de Mary Lester partie enquêter à Noirmoutier (Casa del Amor), voilà le grand Jipi chargé d'élucider un meurtre commis dans le lycée le plus huppé du département. Un établissement privé qui ne reçoit que les enfants des notables et qui est dirigé d'une main de fer par une femme peu commode. Le pauvre Jipi patauge lamentablement dans ce monde qui lui est totalement étranger, entre une directrice jalouse de ses prérogatives et cruellement affligée par ce terrible fait divers qui secoue son établissement, fissure son autorité et des élèves (et leurs parents !) aux noms à rallonge qu'il s'agit de ménager. Heureusement, Mary rentre à point de Noirmoutier pour voler au secours de son ami Jipi. Elle découvre un univers clos qui n'est lisse qu'en apparence : le professeur Margerie, une sommité dans sa discipline, la physique, était un être odieux unanimement détesté par ses élèves, par ses collègues, par les employés de l'établissement. Mary Lester, on le sait, n'est pas de celles qui s'écrasent devant les gens influents. Il y a un mort tué par balle, donc un criminel. Le professeur Margerie poursuivait-il, comme il aimait à le laisser entendre, des recherches intéressant la Défense Nationale ? Il faudra bien entendu toute la perspicacité et l'intuition du capitaine Lester pour découvrir qui a tué le professeur Margerie. Découvrez le tome 36 des aventures de Mary Lester, une enquêtrice originale et attachante ! EXTRAIT Ce qu'elle avait vu lui arracha un nouveau sanglot agrémenté d'un spasme nauséeux. Elle se récupéra in extremis en hoquetant comme un vieux moteur qui ferait de l'auto-allumage et finit par retrouver une respiration à peu près normale encore qu'aussi sifflante qu'une bouilloire de camping parvenue à ébullition. - Et qu'est-ce que vous avez vü? demanda le lieutenant Fortin d'un ton blasé. Il avait posé une fesse sur le bord d'un pupitre, dominant de toute sa carrure son interlocutrice qui se tenait, elle, sur le banc, à la place où, d'ordinaire, s'asseyaient ses élèves. Cette fois, c'était la prof qui était interrogée, et, pour tout dire, elle ne paraissait pas brillante à l'oral. CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE J'ai beaucoup apprécié ce roman écrit tout en finesse et délicatesse, qui aborde des questions graves comme la filiation, l'identité sexuelle et la réussite sociale. -  Shelton, Critiques Libres À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Cet ancien mareyeur breton devenu auteur de romans policiers a connu un parcours atypique ! Passionné de littérature, c'est à 20 ans qu'il donne naissance à ses premiers écrits, alors qu'il occupe un poste de poissonnier à Quimper. En 30 ans d'exercice des métiers de la Mer, il va nous livrer pièces de théâtre, romans historiques, nouvelles, puis une collection de romans d'aventures pour la jeunesse, et une série de romans policiers, Mary Lester. À travers Les Enquêtes de Mary Lester, aujourd'hui au nombre de quarante-sept, Jean Failler montre son attachement à la Bretagne, et nous donne l'occasion de découvrir non seulement les divers paysages et villes du pays, mais aussi ses réalités économiques. La plupart du temps basées sur des faits réels, ces fictions se confrontent au contexte social et culturel actuel. Pas de folklore ni de violence dans ces livres destinés à tous publics, loin des clichés touristiques, mais des enquêtes dans un vrai style policier.

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