The Military category has 1,612 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 5,283 ratings. The most-rated is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Breve historia de Atila y los hunos
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De los hunos, y en concreto de Atila, su caudillo más importante, nos han llegado innumerables leyendas, todas ellas relacionadas con su capacidad de destrucción y su poderío militar, jefe de un ejército capaz de aterrorizar a las expertas legiones romanas. Se decía de ellos que no tenían rostro y que se comían a sus enemigos, y su sola mención vaciaba las ciudades: era necesario por tanto, un libro capaz de rescatar los hechos históricos entre el océano de leyendas. Este el encomiable trabajo al que Ana Martos se enfrenta en Breve Historia de Atila y los Hunos. Recorre la autora un segmento cronológico completo de los hunos que abarca desde el debate sobre su origen, hasta su disolución tras la muerte de Atila. Desde su derrota frente al imperio chino, los hunos fueron un pueblo en continua batalla, nómadas en búsqueda perpetua de mejores pastos y más grandes territorios. En esta migración continua hacia occidente, encontraron no pocos enemigos y devastaron a todos los pueblos que se atrevieron a enfrentarse a estas hordas de jinetes. Las dos primeras partes de la obra tratan la génesis y migración de los hunos hacia las fronteras con el Imperio romano, y en la tercera nos presenta la figura de Atila, su maestría como guerrero, pero también su educación romana y su capacidad de gobernar sabiamente a su pueblo desde Panonia, con una corte que mezclaba administradores y sabios tanto romanos como bárbaros. Concluye el estudio Ana Martos desarrollando la terrible derrota del ejército de Atila en la batalla de los Campos Catalaúnicos en el 451 d. C. y la muerte del "azote de Dios" dos años después en su noche de bodas. Tras la muerte del caudillo los hunos se disgregaron se disolvieron y perecieron en guerras fratricidas. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2011 Ediciones Nowtilus S.L. (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Trixsters Anonymous
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Sassy, dramatic, hot-headed are just some of the words used to describe me since the time I was born. A few little mishaps growing up and my mom has a running "Emerson Baker" prayer circle, and I have the reputation of a spit-fire that won't go away. I prefer the terms loyal, passionate, fiery, and possibly a bit impulsive. So when my best friend proposes the concept of starting our own business, I jump on the idea. Cheaters Beware! That should be our motto...because your secrets can't stay hidden for long with Trixsters Anonymous on the case. We are the moonlighting duo hell-bent on helping those who suspect their lovers are cheating. We're professional, careful, and completely anonymous...what could possibly go wrong? Walker Scott...that's what goes wrong. I never stood a chance against the gorgeous, hazel-eyed, fiercely determined man who storms into my life and completely blindsides me. He's the proof that opposites attract - and when they do, the chemistry is explosive. Did I mention he's also a detective? A very, very, talented detective? Pretty soon being a Trixster is a lot more complicated.
©2017 Ahren Sanders (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
Lacy Hart's Single Dad Romance Collection
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Burnt After the accident, the chief was pushing me to retire. Being a firefighter was all I had ever wanted, what I lived for. Well, other than my 12-year-old daughter, Abby. Raising her as a single dad, much less a busy firefighter, wasn't easy, but life never is. Then, a call came in from an all-too-familiar area code. I was being beckoned back to my hometown, back to Canon. I had left that small town years ago, leaving behind a lot, including...her. Change Up Baseball has always been a part of my life, but being a pro-ballplayer isn't without it's drawbacks. That big house I built back in my small hometown sits empty most of the year since Izzy, my daughter, now stays mostly with my parents...ever since her mother, Rachel, left. Now, without a team to play for, I find myself heading home. Maybe it's a good thing. I can focus on my daughter and my life. I need to get things straightened out, including that hole that I never filled after Rachel was gone. But is there anything that could keep me in town if another team came calling? After Midnight Coming back to civvy life has been difficult. I'm used to being a soldier and having a clear mission. Now, I'm a single dad with a son who's about to graduate and go off to college. I want be there for my son and I want to get back to a normal life...but something is holding me back. I can't quite pinpoint what is missing. What it is that keeps me up at night. Or I couldn't, until I walked into the Moonlight Diner and met her.
©2019 Scarlet Lantern Publishing (P)2019 Scarlet Lantern Publishing
The Raiders
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A daredevil Confederate captain challenges the Union blockade - while a bold young beauty lays siege to his wayward heart. Tawny-haired, golden-eyed Candice Pratt, whose daring was equal to the captains, and whose entanglement in his life ashore and at sea might well get him shot as a spy - or hanged as a pirate.
©2016 Wolfpack Publishing (P)2018 Wolfpack Publishing
Warbride
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When Zoe's fiance Chase O'Connell is lost in combat she is devastated beyond her comprehension. Sensing the coming danger, Chase's last words were to his brother and fellow soldier Reed, instructing him to take care of Zoe. When Reed comes home he finds Zoe distraught to the point of self harm and vows to honor his brother's request to care for her. As time passes, Zoe heart heals and she sees the echoes of her lost fiance in his brother Reed. As she begins to develop feelings for him as well, she is terrified of tarnishing the memory of her first love. Just as she is willing to accept her loss and is preparing to move on with Reed she is shocked to the core by a surprise visitor. Standing on her doorstep was Chase, alive despite all odds and wanting nothing more than to be with her again. Zoe now faces the most heartbreaking decision of her life. No matter what she chooses one life will be destroyed, and if she she is not very careful, all three...
©2017 Amie Heights (P)2017 Amie Heights
Courage (Billionaire Steamy Romance)
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By USA Today Best-selling Author, Lexy Timms. The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past as better than what is was and the present worse than it actually is. Simon Diesel, billionaire extraordinaire, is being played. Either by the woman he’s hopelessly in love with, or by someone he trusts. That narrows the list down significantly. There’s only a handful of people Simon trusts, so it shouldn’t be that hard to find the perpetrator. However, how much is he willing to risk for his company? For his heart? Will falling in love with Heather a second time be second chance or payback for the heartbreak he caused her years ago? “The harder thing to do and the right thing to do is usually the same thing.” Billionaire Secrets Series: The Secret Freedom Courage Trust Impulse
©2018 W.J. May (P)2020 W.J. May
No Silent Night
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On Christmas Eve, the holiest of nights for the many Christian peoples of Europe, Adolf Hitler was unleashing the full fury of his remaining Luftwaffe bomber force on Bastogne. For hundreds of German and American soldiers facing off in the siege, the events of Christmas 1944 would destroy any sense of holiness and peace on Earth. For the soldiers on both sides, and for the brave people of Bastogne, this would be no silent night.
©2012 Leon Barron & Don Cygan (P)2013 Recorded Books
The Napoleonic Wars: One Shot at Glory
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The French Revolution of the late 1790s was one of the critical events in the history of Europe. It was the defining moment - a historic landslide that ushered the world into a new, completely different epoch. Alas, all such changes come at a great cost. In the wake of the Revolution, a series of large scale conflicts ensued, which are collectively known as the Napoleonic Wars. Their magnitude, their ferocity, and the loss of lives they caused were unprecedented up to that time, and shown to the observing world that the changing of a thousand-year-old history can be brutal, vicious, and tumultuous.
©2020 AM Publishing (P)2021 AM Publishing
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
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General Robert E. Lee was the most heroic figure of the Civil War, but to many, he is a solitary figure. This book fleshes out the man and reveals the workings of a great military mind and a warm, understanding, and generous human being. It shows all the facets of the general during the war; at the conclusion, when he was an outspoken proponent of a reasonable peace which would allow the South to rejoin the Union; and after the war, when he served as president of Washington College, and became a driving force for the creation of a viable educational system. This anthology shows all these facets of the general, through his correspondence and through the revealing insight supplied by his son. No other collection of source materials gives such a whole and rewarding picture of one of the South's greatest sons and heroes.
Public Domain (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Arsenal of Democracy
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In Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II, award-winning historian Charles K. Hyde details the industry's transition to a wartime production powerhouse and some of its notable achievements along the way. Hyde examines several innovative cooperative relationships that developed between the executive branch of the federal government, US military services, automobile industry leaders, auto industry suppliers, and the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, which set up the industry to achieve production miracles. He goes on to examine the struggles and achievements of individual automakers during the war years in producing items like aircraft engines, aircraft components, and complete aircraft; tanks and other armored vehicles; jeeps, trucks, and amphibians; guns, shells, and bullets of all types; and a wide range of other weapons and war goods ranging from search lights to submarine nets and gyroscopes. Hyde also considers the important role played by previously underused workers - namely African Americans and women - in the war effort and their experiences on the line. Arsenal of Democracy includes an analysis of wartime production nationally, on the automotive industry level, by individual automakers, and at the single plant level. The book is published by Wayne State University Press. "The definitive history of Detroit's role in World War II." (Detroit Free Press) "This well-written book is one of the most important studies of industrial mobilization to appear in a long time." (Michigan Historical Review) "Masterful study of automobile makers and parts suppliers who shifted gears to achieve miracles of military production in World War II." (Patrick Malone, professor emeritus, Brown University)
©2013 Wayne State University Press (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
Lincoln's Last Hours
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When John Booth made his lethal attack on Abraham Lincoln, Charles Leale was the first doctor on the scene. He had been watching the play along with the president, and when the call for a doctor was made Dr Leale was there immediately. As an experienced military surgeon he was able to immediately put his skills to work in an attempt to save the President’s life. This book, as the title suggests, describes the final hours of the President’s life from the moment he was shot to the moment when he breathed his last, told by the attending physician. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this moving account by Charles A. Leale MD.
Public Domain (P)2018 FNH Audio
Dawn of Infamy
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New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harding explores the little-known episode of a US cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. After that one cryptic message, the humble lumber carrier Cynthia Olson and her crew vanished without a trace, sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. What happened to the ill-fated ship? What happened to her crew? And was she Japan's first American victim of the Pacific War? Based on years of research, Dawn of Infamy explores both the military and human aspects of the Cynthia Olson story, bringing to life a complex tale of courage, tenacity, hubris, and arrogance in the opening hours of America's war in the Pacific.
©2016 Stephen Harding (P)2016 Recorded Books
Patton at the Battle of the Bulge
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December 1944. For the besieged American defenders of Bastogne, time was running out… Hitler's forces had pressed in on the small Belgian town in a desperate offensive designed to push back the Allies, starting the Battle of the Bulge. So far, the US soldiers had managed to repel waves of attackers and even a panzer onslaught, but as their ammunition dwindled, the weary paratroopers of the 101st Airborne could only hope for a miracle - a miracle in the form of General George S. Patton and his Third Army. More than a hundred miles away, Patton, ordered to race his men to Bastogne, was already putting in motion the most crucial charge of his career. Tapped to spearhead his counterstrike against the Wehrmacht was the Fourth Armored Division, a bloodied but experienced unit that had fought and slogged its way across France. But blazing a trail into Belgium meant going up against some of the best infantry and tank units in the German Army. Failure to reach Bastogne in time could result in the overrunning of the 101st - a catastrophic defeat that could turn the tide of the war and secure victory for the Nazis. In Patton at the Battle of the Bulge, Army veteran and historian Leo Barron explores one of the most famous yet little understood clashes of the war, a vitally important chapter in one of history's biggest battles.
©2014 Leo Barron (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
L'Italia in guerra - Epoche. Capolinea dei miti
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"Internazionalismo", "classe", "nazione"... E poi ancora "irredentismo", "Risorgimento", "patria"... I miti - forse mai come in questo periodo - giungono al capolinea per poi subitaneamente ripartire in direzione opposta. Un'apocalisse in cui l'intransigenza si oppone ad improvvisi cedimenti, il clericalismo più rigido lascia spazio alla più intransigente laicità. Una congerie di sentimenti e di ragioni che disegna una nuova geografia del pensiero.
©2019 Gius. Laterza & Figli S.p.a. (P)Emons 2019. Edizione su licenza di Gius. Laterza & Figli S.p.a.
The Castaway's War
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In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving crewmen, scores were submerged in the ocean as the shattered warship sank beneath the waves - and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with key participants, The Castaway's War tells the entirely unique and very personal tale of Navy Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller's fight for survival against both a hostile environment and an implacable human enemy.
©2016 Stephen Harding (P)2016 Recorded Books
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
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WASP of the Ferry Command is the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft - 115,000 pilot hours - for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, during World War II. In the spring of 1942, Col. William H. Tunner lacked sufficient male pilots to move vital trainer aircraft from the factory to the training fields. Nancy Love found 28 experienced women pilots who could do the job. They, along with graduates of the army’s flight training school for women - established by Jacqueline Cochran - performed this duty until fall 1943, when manufacture of trainers ceased. In December 1943 the women ferry pilots went back to school to learn to fly high-performance WWII fighters, known as pursuits. By January 1944 they began delivering high -erformance P-51s, 47s, and 39s. Prior to D-day and beyond, P-51s were crucial to the air war over Germany. They had the range to escort B-17s and B-24s from England to Berlin and back on bombing raids that ultimately brought down the German Reich. Getting those pursuits to the docks in New Jersey for shipment abroad became these women’s primary job. Ultimately, more than 100 WASP pursuit pilots were engaged in this vital movement of aircraft. The book is published by University of North Texas Press. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks. “A compelling account of the unorthodox women who brilliantly helped sustain the vital flow of military aircraft around the country at the height of World War II.” (Dorothy Cochrane, curator of the National Air and Space Museum) “A thorough, well-researched record of the derring-do and grit of these women in trying wartime conditions.” (History.net)
©2016 Sarah Byrn Rickman (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
Bone Frog Bachelor
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I have done it all. I have built three global security companies, including foreign subsidiaries which include an airline company and a shipping conglomerate, partnered with some of the biggest industry titans in the realm of international trade. But my love is in protecting and securing the safety of those I care about. And I’ve done this, as it turns out, at the expense of my own security and fortune. I’ve cared for everyone else’s assets, and left mine wide open to plunder. Well, that was then. This is now. This is me fighting back. I’m going to screw that witch of a former wife, who, while she was screwing me in my own bed, was slutting with other men. I was naive, but now, fully awakened, I will have my revenge. And it will be sweet!
©2020 Sharon Hamilton (P)2020 Sharon Hamilton
Nine Days in May
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Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of "Lai day, lai day" ("Come here, come here"), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call "the nine days in May border battles". Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. Published by University of Oklahoma Press. "Stunning insight into a largely unknown campaign...transports us into the foxholes of exhausted, dirty soldiers battling for their lives in a strange land." (George J. Veith, author of Black April) "A magnificent addition to our understanding of the American war in Vietnam." (Gregory A. Daddis, author of Westmoreland's War) "This work is a great addition to the history of the Vietnam War." (Robert O. Babcock, president and historian, National 4th Infantry Division Association)
©2017 Warren K. Wilkens (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
The War for the Common Soldier
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How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience - the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.
©2018 The University of North Carolina Press (P)2019 Tantor
Roma invicta (Spanish Edition)
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Cuando las legiones fueron capaces de derribar el cielo. "Pero ¿no os dabais cuenta de que, aunque me hubierais destruido a mí, el pueblo romano tiene tales legiones que no solo podrían venceros a vosotros, sino incluso derribar el cielo?"- Julio César Esta historia comienza en el año 146 a.C. cuando los romanos, tras añadir Grecia a sus numerosas provincias, emprendieron su tercera guerra contra Cartago. Los cartagineses se defendieron con uñas y acero pero nada pudieron hacer ante el poder imbatible de las legiones comandadas por Escipión Emiliano. Tras Cartago cayó Numancia; Mario venció a Yugurta y después se enfrentó a la amenaza de los misteriosos pueblos del norte; Pompeyo arrasó las riquezas de Oriente y César conquistó las Galias. Sin embargo, pese a su poderío allende sus fronteras, los romanos estaban sumidos en sangrientas luchas internas que sus enemigos no fueron capaces de aprovechar. Tras cada guerra civil, la República se levantó una y otra vez, siempre aumentando su autoridad, siempre ampliando sus territorios. La última de estas luchas fue un auténtico duelo entre dos titanes, Julio César y Pompeyo el Grande, que sacudió todo el Mediterráneo. Cuando las últimas llamas de aquel conflicto se apagaron, los romanos descubrieron que la República se había convertido en otra cosa: un Imperio. Esta es la amena crónica de los acontecimientos que provocaron la metamorfosis. Javier Negrete (Madrid, 1964) es licenciado en Filología Clásica. Desde 1991 vive en Plasencia, donde imparte clases de griego en el IES Gabriel y Galán. Tiene una hija llamada Lydia. Desde su primera publicación, La luna quieta, ha cultivado diversos géneros, como la ciencia ficción (Buscador de sombras), la novela juvenil (Memoria de dragón), o la fantasía épica (La espada de guego, El espíritu del mago). Profundo conocedor del mundo clásico y traductor de varias biografías de Plutarco, ha ambientado varias de sus obras de ficción en el mundo griego: Amada de los dioses (finalista del XXV premio Sonrisa Vertical), la fantasía mitológica Señores del Olimpo (premio Minotauro 2006 y Européen Utopiales 2008), la ucronía Alejandro Magno y las águilas de Roma (premio Celsius 232 de la Semana Negra), la novela histórica Salamina y el ensayo La gran aventura de los griegos, publicado con gran éxito en esta editorial. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2013 Javier Negrete Medina (P)2017 Audible, Inc.