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  Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles Seen Through Japanese Eyes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 920min

  This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific. The author was a survivor of more than one hundred sorties against the Allies and was known throughout Japan as the Unsinkable Captain. A hero to his countrymen, Capt. Hara exemplified the best in Japanese surface commanders: highly skilled, hard driving, and aggressive. Moreover, he maintained a code of honor worthy of his samurai grandfather, and, as readers of this book have come to appreciate, he was as free with praise for American courage and resourcefulness as he was critical of himself and his senior commanders. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Nishii. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013363/bk_adbl_013363_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Francis Drake, 1540 - 1596 (Dramatised): Explorers and Pioneers, Volume Two, Hörbuch, Digital, 60min

  Francis Drake, one of the great band of Tudor sea captains, was many things to many people. To his fellow-countrymen he was "The Sea King of Devon". His queen, Elizabeth, called him her "little pirate" and knighted him in defiance of the ominous rumblings of Spain. To the Spanish, his life-long enemies, he was "El Draque", the Dragon - a heretic who had deliberately sold his immortal soul to the Devil. Yet he was more than a mere buccaneer. He was also an explorer, the first captain to circumnavigate the globe - which resulted in the establishment of the British Empire in the Orient. But it was for his part in defeating Spain's "invincible" Armada that Drake assured his place in English history. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Britton, Robin Scobey, Michael Kilgarriff, Michael Sheard, Carole Ann Ford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/berg/000065/pf_berg_000065_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 866min

  U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is a central character in the movie Bridge of Spies starring Tom Hanks. In his classic 1970 memoir, Powers reveals the full story behind what happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After his U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down, Powers was captured on May 1, 1960 and endured 61 days of rigorous interrogation by the KGB, a public trial, a conviction for espionage, and the start of a 10-year sentence. After nearly two years, the US government obtained his release from prison in a dramatic exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolph Abel. The narrative is a tremendously exciting suspense story about a man who was labeled a traitor by many of his countrymen but who emerged a Cold War hero. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Lindstrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004325/bk_rand_004325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Syndrome K (eBook, ePUB)

  'We created those papers for Jewish people as if they were ordinary patients, and in the moment when we had to say what disease they suffered? It was Syndrome K, meaning "I am admitting a Jew".' Dr Adriano Ossicini IN October 1943, Adolf Eichmann sent an SS Einsatzkommando into Rome, with orders to begin rounding up and deporting Italy's Jews. He had no idea what he was up against. For over two years the Nazis had rampaged their way through Europe, invading and defeating countries before systematically murdering millions of Jews and other 'undesirables'. They saw no reason why Italy - their former ally in fascism - would be any different. They were wrong. Syndrome K is the story of how 80 per cent of Italy's Jews escaped the Holocaust, with the help of their fellow countrymen, the Allies and even some Germans. From claiming sanctuary in the Vatican to pitched battles by partisans, and even inventing a highly contagious 'Jewish disease', it was an ingenious, covert and complicated effort - and one that saved the lives of thousands of people. Drawing on original archive material from Italy, Germany, the Vatican City, Switzerland, the UK and US, acclaimed historian Christian Jennings tells the whole story in English for the first time.

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  The Lyon Affair: The Indigo Rebels, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min

  For fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, The Lyon Affair - audoibook two in the Indigo Rebels series.  A late diplomat's son with a brilliant mind; a Catholic priest with a dark past; a young woman scorned by her fellow countrymen for her German heritage; a young man who has just escaped the clutches of the ruthless Gestapo. A tentative partnership created to fight against the common enemy, where the secrets of their pasts lead to disaster, and a betrayal of one may become a death sentence for all.  An unlikely hero...a cunning villain...one Resistance cell. One traitor in their midst.  When the Gestapo are closing in, and there’s nowhere else to run, one will make a decision that could change everything.   A riveting French Resistance novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John B Leen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145834/bk_acx0_145834_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Catholic and the War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 38min

  Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was one of the great Catholic authors and historians of the twentieth century. Born in France, and raised in Great Britain, Belloc later became a naturalised British subject and served in Parliament from 1906 to 1910. After his brief political career Belloc continued his writing, commenting on a large variety of topics throughout his lifetime. This essay, written shortly after the outbreak of WWII (February 1940), examines the state of the war from a Catholic perspective. Belloc explains why the Catholic has a moral obligation to support the war effort against the Axis Powers, not only because of the crimes committed against the Polish and Jewish peoples, but because a loss for the Allies would mean the end of Western Civilization. He also expresses his shock at the attitudes of appeasement, and sympathy, some of his fellow countrymen hold for the enemy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saethon Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025802/bk_acx0_025802_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Butt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 742min

  Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking, but a moment's inattention to detail becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of his holiday apartment, it lands on the head of his fellow countrymen, Reggie Lincoln. The elderly Lincoln is badly burnt, and since the cigarette butt passed through public space before hitting him, the local authorities are obliged to regard Tom's action as an assault, despite his benign intentions. Worse is to follow: Lincoln is married to a native from one of the rigorous, mystical tribes of the desert interior, and their customary law is incorporated into the civil statute. In order to make reparations to Mrs Lincoln's people, Tom will have to leave his family behind and carry the appropriate goods and chattels deep into the arid heart of this strange, island continent.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Meyers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/000708/bk_howe_000708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  White Apache , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 567min

  It is 1857. Under President James Buchanan, the battle lines for America’s coming conflagration are being violently drawn. As the burning questions of slavery scorches the nation, another savage war takes shape in the West. In the far-off New Mexico territory, blue-coated soldiers hurl a challenge against the implacable Mimbreno Apaches: surrender or die. And in the Indians’ ranks stands the brave called Sunny Bear - the powerful, blond-haired warrior and medicine man. Once his name was Nathanial Barrington, one of the finest officers in the United States Army. Now his visions guide him and his new tribe on daring raids against his former countrymen. Amid the smoke of battle and in desire’s fiercest blaze, he must choose between the two proud peoples who fight for his loyalty and the two impassioned women who vie for his soul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Quinn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007495/bk_adbl_007495_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Forgotten Soldiers: The Tyrus Chronicle, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 537min

  A great war. A changed world. A soldier through it all. The Turine army is on the brink of victory against the Geneshans. Sergeant Tyrus and his unit are tasked to steal an artifact from the enemy that some believe has the power to destroy the world. Taking such power from the Geneshans would end the decade long war. Upon their success, Tyrus' unit is among the first wave of soldiers discharged from the army. War has robbed him of time with his wife and children, but now the life he has dreamed of every day for the last 10 years is just a long journey away. Traveling home, Tyrus finds the world he left behind changed in ways he never expected. His own countrymen view returning soldiers as a threat. His own townsmen want to forget he even existed. Danger is everywhere. His dream is in jeopardy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Brand. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/podm/000411/bk_podm_000411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Iron Duke , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 804min

  First in an all-new series where seductive danger and steampunk adventure abound in the gritty world of the Iron Seas. After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power-and fear-of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession. But when Mina uncovers the victim's identity, she stumbles upon a conspiracy that threatens the lives of everyone in England. To save them, Mina and Rhys must race across zombie-infested wastelands and treacherous oceans-and Mina discovers the danger is not only to her countrymen, as she finds herself tempted to give up everything to the Iron Duke. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Faye Adele. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001799/bk_peng_001799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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