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.
Pickett's Charge
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Main Selection of the History Book Club The Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself America's bloodiest conflict. On the third day of fierce fighting, Robert E. Lee's attempt to invade the North came to a head in Pickett's Charge. The infantry assault, consisting of nine brigades of soldiers in a line that stretched for over a mile, resulted in casualties of over 50 percent for the Confederates and a huge psychological blow to Southern morale. Pickett's Charge is a detailed analysis of one of the most iconic and defining events in American history. This book presents a much-needed fresh look, including the unvarnished truths and ugly realities, about the unforgettable story. With the luxury of hindsight, historians have long denounced the folly of Lee's attack, but this work reveals the tactical brilliance of a master plan that went awry. Special emphasis is placed on the common soldiers on both sides, especially the non-Virginia attackers outside of Pickett's Virginia Division. These fighters' moments of cowardice, failure, and triumph are explored using their own words from primary and unpublished sources. Without romance and glorification, the complexities and contradictions of the dramatic story of Pickett's Charge have been revealed in full to reveal this most pivotal moment in the nation's life. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for listeners interested in history - books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times best seller or a national best seller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
©2016 Phillip Thomas Tucker (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
How John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was strangely happy for the first time in years. The war was almost over. He could put the crisis behind him; when this term was over, he could return home to Springfield. Maybe he would go back to his legal practice with William Herndon, or perhaps he would buy a farm along the Sangamon River and become a gentleman farmer. Everyone noticed the change. For John Wilkes Booth, it was exactly the opposite. His world was crumbling all around him. The Confederate government abandoned the city of Richmond, Virginia on April 3, 1865. Six days later General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. To the 26-year-old Booth, everything appeared lost. The only hope left for the South was for someone to make a strike so bold, so daring, and so outrageous, it would turn the tide of defeat into victory. What made it worse was the impromptu speech Lincoln gave at the White House on the night of April 11, 1865. It confirmed Booth’s greatest fear - Lincoln was a crazed “nigger” lover. Why else would he advocate giving former slaves the vote? After listening to the President’s talk, Booth edged closer to David Herold, and snarled, “That means nigger citizenship. Now, by God, I’ll run him through.” It was unacceptable. It ran against every belief Booth held. Someone had to stop Lincoln before he made a total mockery of the country. The only questions left to decide were - when, and where?
©2018 Nick Vulich (P)2018 Nicholas L Vulich
Maneuvers
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Paul Martin joined the army to escape the harsh conditions at home. When orders send him to the Carolinas for training maneuvers, he doesn’t know what to expect. He didn’t expect to find strong friends or the girl of his dreams. But with trouble at home, the war raging in Europe, and the possibility of the United States being pulled into the conflict, the future looms uncertain.
©2020 Janice Cole Hopkins (P)2020 Janice Cole Hopkins
Breve storia del Terzo Reich vol.4: Il conflitto in Africa
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Il conflitto in Africa fu uno dei campi di battaglia più importanti della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Lo scontro tra le forze dell’Asse, guidate da Eric Rommel, la “Volpe del Deserto”, e quelle alleate fu un lungo conflitto pieno di colpi di scena e rovesciamenti di fronte. Il conflitto in Africa vide in un primo momento prevalere gli Afrikakorps tedeschi ma furono le forze alleate guidate dal generale Montgomery alla fine a uscire vincitrici. Da Tobruk a El-Alamein, questo volume racconta gli eventi cruciali del conflitto in Africa del Terzo Reich. [The conflict in Africa was one of the most important battlefields of World War II. The clash between the forces of the Axis, led by Eric Rommel, the "Desert Fox", and those allied was a long conflict full of twists and reversals in the face. The conflict in Africa saw at first dominated by the German Afrikakorps but were allied forces led by General Montgomery in the end to come out victorious. From Tobruk to El-Alamein, this volume tells the crucial events of the conflict in Africa in the Third Reich..] Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.
©2014 Area51 Publishing (P)2014 Area51 Publishing
Misfire
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The M16 rifle is one of the world’s most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam War and, indeed, as the US military’s standard service rifle until only a few years ago. But the story of the M16 in Vietnam is anything but a success story. In the early years of the war, the US military had a problem: Its primary infantry rifle, the M14, couldn’t stand up to the enemy’s AK-47s. The search was on for a replacement that was lighter in weight, more durable, and more lethal than the M14. After tests (some of which the new rifle had failed) and debates (more than a few, rooted in the army brass’s resistance to change), secretary of defense Robert McNamara ordered the adoption of the M16 which was rushed through production and rushed to Vietnam, reaching troops’ hands in early 1965. Problems appeared immediately. Soldiers were often not adequately trained to maintain the new rifle (in fact, some were told the new rifle was “self-cleaning”), nor were they always given cleaning supplies or instructions. The harsh jungle climate corroded the rifle’s chamber, exacerbated by the manufacturer’s decision against chrome-plating the chamber. The ammunition that accompanied the rifles sent to Vietnam was incompatible with the M16 and was the principal cause of the failure to extract malfunctions. The result was that the M16 often jammed, making the rifle “about as effective as a muzzleloader” in the words of one officer. Men were killed in combat because they couldn’t return fire until the malfunction was cleared. Congress investigated, and the rifle and its ammunition were incrementally modified, greatly improving its reliability over the next few years. Troop training was also improved. But the damage to the M16’s reputation could not be undone, and many soldiers remained deeply skeptical of their rifle through the war’s end. Misfire combines insider knowledge of US army weapons development with firsthand combat experience in Vietnam to tell the story of the M16 in Vietnam. Even as it details the behind-the-scenes development, tests, and debates that brought this rifle into service, the audiobook also describes men and M16s in action on the battlefield, never losing sight of the soldiers who carried M16s in the jungles of Vietnam and all too often suffered the consequences of decisions they had nothing to do with.
©2019 Bob Orkand, Lyman Duryea (P)2019 Bob Orkand, Lyman Duryea
Controversies and Commanders
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Throughout the devastating years of the Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac seldom marched in step. In this provocative book, acclaimed historian and award-winning author Stephen W. Sears takes a fascinating look at some of the intriguing Union generals and the controversies that swirled around them. Delving into historical documents and the personal papers of military officers, Sears shares the compelling stories of oft-maligned Generals McClellan and Hooker, the shocking court-martial of patriotic General Stone, the failed plots to kidnap Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and more. As the facts come to light, the Union’s renowned leaders stand revealed as what they really were: ordinary men in the grip of extraordinary times. An authority on the Civil War, Sears skillfully paints a remarkable portrait of the personalities and events that shaped our nation’s greatest crisis. The rich analysis becomes ever more clear and accessible with Nelson Runger’s thoughtful narration.
©1999 Stephen W. Sears (P)1999 Recorded Books
The Greatest Battles in History: The Peloponnesian War
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"Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds.... Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history, not only of the Hellenes but of a large part of the barbarian world - I had almost said of mankind." (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War) The Peloponnesian War, as the great historian Thucydides wrote in the introduction to his eponymous book, which has become one of the greatest historical treatises of antiquity, was an event of such calamitous magnitude that Greece had never witnessed its like in all of recorded history. Not the Trojan War, not the Dorian Invasion, not even the recent Persian invasions - which had devastated mainland Greece and seen Athens herself evacuated and put to the flame, the buildings on her Acropolis razed into dust - could compare to the scale of the devastation that engulfed all of Greece for almost three decades, causing the deaths of tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands. Entire populations were displaced, whole cities destroyed, and mountainous sums of money spent, all in order for Greece's two most famous city-states to establish who had dominion over Greece. Sparta, whose invincible armies had recently led the Greeks to victory against Xerxes' hordes at Plataea, was at the head of the Peloponnesian League. Their opponents were led by proud Athens, possessors of a fleet that virtually dominated the entire Mediterranean and decimated the Persian navy at Salamis and Mycale, at the head of the Delian League.
©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors
The War of the Spanish Succession
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The War of the Spanish Succession, fought at the beginning of the 18th century, was the last major war engaged in by French King Louis XIV, the legendary Sun King, and it was also the most famous of all military conflicts during his reign. While the length and the scope of the conflict are the primary reasons why people have given so much attention to it, another reason for its historical popularity is, no doubt, the fact that its outcome humbled the French king, to the delight of his many critics. He was, after all, the one who had given himself the lofty nickname of “the Sun King". During this lengthy European conflict, King Louis XIV of the Bourbon dynasty was pitted against Emperor Leopold of the Habsburg Dynasty of Austria as well as Leopold’s British and Dutch Allies. Lasting 13 years, the war spread from France and Austria to involve countries across the globe. All of it centered on what would become of Spain’s massive empire after the death of King Carlos II, who had no obvious successor to his crown. As an only child who had no children himself, Carlos II had been sickly his entire life, but as enfeebled as he was, he did preside over a rich empire that spread all the way across the Iberian Peninsula and included European territories in Italy and the Low Countries, land in North Africa, North and South America, and even as far away as the Philippines. Such an immense and wealthy empire needed a ruler, and as King Carlos II aged and weakened, everyone wanted to know who that would be. Considering the age-old rivalry between the kingdom of France and the Austrian Empire, it is no surprise that those two powers both set their sights on the Spanish throne. As each side started to advance a claim that they were the legitimate heir to the throne, the initial idea across the continent was to find a peaceable solution that would manage to avoid a full-blown conflict. At the end of the 17th century, it seemed as though diplomacy would prevail and that King Louis XIV would emerge victorious, but the prideful king made some unexpected mistakes that pushed the continent and then the globe into a lengthy war. Indeed, the War of the Spanish Succession ended up being one of the largest wars the world had ever seen, with fighting taking place all across Western Europe, southern Germany, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, a significant portion of the Italian Peninsula, and even Scotland, the West Indies, and French Canada. Despite the massive scope of the conflict and the magnitude of the stakes, historians mostly concur that the War of the Spanish Succession was fought in a civilized manner, such that even prisoners of war were well treated, generally speaking. The generals in command on each side actually knew one another, counting some of their “enemies” as friends and even family. When the war finally came to an end, the Spanish people found themselves happy with the king who declared victory, a satisfactory solution after 13 bloody and expensive years. The War of the Spanish Succession: The History of the Conflict Between the Bourbons and Habsburgs That Engulfed Europe looks at the events that brought about the war, the major battles, and the results.
©2019 Charles River Editors (P)2019 Charles River Editors
Hot
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They could run from everything...except each other. Grounded by fog, Zoe Chestain is stuck in an airport bar with the choice of spending the night with her two drunk roommates or one dark and delicious stranger. The Vegas show dancer decides to live dangerously and succumbs to a night of the stranger's dominant passion. But her cloud of sensual bliss is blown apart when she and her friends are taken hostage during the next morning's plane hijacking. Zoe's horror deepens when her kidnapper reveals himself as her partner from the night before. Shay Bommer is one of the army's best. A Special Forces soldier following the footsteps of his brother, he's aware of the risks of infiltration with the enemy. But going deep undercover on this mission with one of the CIA's most sought-after criminals has cost him dearly. He's lost the trust of the most breathtaking submissive he's ever had in his arms, the camaraderie of his unit, and the esteem of his brother. But he's on a quest to rescue a priceless treasure - his mother. Zoe's danced to some crazy songs in her time, but no amount of wild choreography has prepared her for the adventure with Shay - or the return to his bed that means surrendering more than just her body. As they run from the bad guys, the good guys, and everyone in between, she learns about the man behind the masks, and the Dominant for whom she's always longed. But staying with him means dying with him. The heat is on. Can Shay and Zoe's love survive the flames?
©2018 Waterhouse Press, LLC (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved
Aaron
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Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab center. Safe haven. Second chance at life and love. Former Navy SEAL Aaron Hammond has no idea how he wound up at Hathaway House, Texas. Nor does he particularly care. All he can see is his anger. Anger at the betrayal that destroyed his physical body and at the loss of the future he wanted but that he’ll never have now. He’s a cripple, less than half a man, and all he can look forward to is a half life, alone with himself and his pain. Dani Hathaway runs Hathaway House with her father, an ex-military man nicknamed the Major, and she knew Aaron and his brother SEAL Levi in another life. Levi was a good friend to her through her difficult teen years, but it was Aaron who caught her eye more than a decade ago. When she heard what happened to him, she moved heaven and earth to get him to Hathaway House, where she could help him regain his health and return him to the man he used to be. Old feelings resurface as Dani continues to push Aaron to acknowledge that his life is not over and that, if he chooses, he can find both love and a future at Hathaway House. Welcome to Hathaway House, a heartwarming series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Here, you’ll meet wounded warriors as they’re given a second chance at happiness and love at a special physical rehab facility, including heroes from Dale’s other books as they continue on their journeys. Magic happens here!
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
A Macat Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners
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American author Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's 1996 work, Hitler's Willing Executioners, is one of the most controversial history books of modern times. While most historians have sought to explain the horror of the Holocaust by focusing on Nazi leaders and their ideologies, Goldhagen set out to investigate whether ordinary Germans enthusiastically embraced their goals. His conclusion: "eliminationist anti-Semitism" - a genocidal hatred of Jews unique to Germany - caused the Holocaust. Hitler's Willing Executioners topped best-seller lists in Britain, Germany, and America and won prestigious awards. But historians almost universally disagreed with Goldhagen's arguments, which ran counter to those of Christopher Browning in his 1992 book, Ordinary Men. Browning examined members of a police unit who carried out acts of genocide and found that regular people acted out of fear and as a result of peer pressure. A ferocious historical dispute raged between partisans of the two authors. This Goldhagen Controversy, as it became known, proved to be one of the most significant debates of the 1990s.
©2016 Macat Inc (P)2016 Macat Inc
2nd Chance Ranch
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Contemporary romance. Captain Chance Gordon dedicates his life to military service. The disabled veteran returns to Sweetwater, Kentucky to recover. His future depends on the woman he wronged, the one who owns his heart. Dory Farmer faces more rejection than most women could survive, but carves out a unique niche for herself and a great life for her family. The fate of the disabled, heroic Navy Seal who deserted her lies in Dory's hands.
©2020 Linda Rees, Sweetwater Publishing Company (P)2020 Linda Rees, Sweetwater Publishing Company
Ancient Battle Formations and Tactics
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As far as I can remember, movie battle formations always fascinated me; tactics were deceptively simple, and many people in conversations slam this or that king or general as "not being a genius" by using very simple tactics. However, now knowing more, there are two reasons why things are simple.
©2019 Gabriel Ramirez (P)2019 Gabriel Ramirez
Kriget i Norden
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När Hitler 1939 sätter Europa i brand, hoppas alla de nordiska länderna kunna hålla sig utanför konflikten. Redan tre månader senare angriper Röda armén dock Finland och tvingar landet att slåss för sin överlevnad. Våren 1940 rullar tunga tyska divisioner upp genom Danmark och Norge, och inte heller Sverige går fritt. Hitlers krav på fri passage för tyska styrkor genom landet sätter den svenska diplomatin på prov. Motståndet växer dock överallt. Norska frihetskämpar smugglar in agenter från England, danska sabotörer genomför ockupationstidens största bombdåd, och finska soldater går till motanfall. Del 13 av serien "En värld i krig" följer de dramatiska åren i Sverige, Norge, Danmark och Finland under världskriget. "Allt om Historia" tar med dig på en halsbrytande resa till svunna tider, så att du kan njuta av historiens största händelser. Följ med tillbaka i tiden - tillbaka till andra världskrigets frontlinjer, vikingarnas räder och egypternas gudsdyrkan. "Allt om Historia" är för dig som vill veta mer om spännande och dramatiska händelser i det förflutna.
©2020 SAGA Egmont (P)2020 SAGA Egmont
1861: Civil War Beginnings
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Think you know what started the Civil War? In hindsight, we can say no one man or event served as a catalyst for the Civil War. It was not the John Brown Raid, no matter how many historians say it was the pivotal event. It was not the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the war was not about slavery - not in the beginning anyway. The Civil War got its start 73 years earlier when the Founding Fathers set aside the hot potato that was slavery - so they could ratify the Constitution. The signers knew they were passing the issue on to a future generation. Their hope was their progeny could answer the questions they could not. 1861 will change everything.
©2018 Nick Vulich (P)2018 Nicholas L Vulich
Nazi and Esoterism
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Why did Hitler persecute the Jews? This is what everyone is asking. Even though many years have passed since those dire events, the world will never forget everything that happened. Was there something behind his madness? Maybe there was an ideology that went beyond what everyone knows? For some, yes. According to some scholars, Adolf Hitler hid a truth that went far beyond all expectations. The Führer seems to have been a follower of a philosophical and religious movement called Ariosophy. This movement was based on magical and esoteric ideologies inspired by the teachings of some particular figures of the society of the time. The so-called "spiritual masters" of Ariosophy were Guido von List, Lanz von Liebenfels, Savitri Devi, and Miguel Serrano. The term "Ariosophy" is based on the word "Aryan", on which the insane Führer based his entire struggle against the Jews. The different components that implied the occult ideology of National Socialism have never been openly declared nor have a syncretic and complete vision of them ever been had. The only historical-cultural moment of National Socialism in power in which this synthesis was sought was the decade that went from 1935 to 1945. On January 5, 1919, the 35-year-old railway worker Anton Drexler founded, together with a small handful of companions, the Deutsche Arbeitpartei, the German Workers' Party, a new socialist political group with clearly reformist ideals. A pamphlet entitled "My Political Awakening" had imposed Drexler on the public stage. The ultimate goal of this railway worker and his movement was in fact to bring the working masses closer to the new ideal of national socialism, thus removing them from the influence of the young Marxism. At the same time, a recently born cultural and political society, which we will discuss shortly, had shown itself intrigued by the new developments that the Drexler movement could have brought about within the working class. Thule society soon showed itself in favor of these ideals while also trying to create a sort of bridgehead between it and the same political movement. The police, and the state security services, obviously could not be considered "excluded" from such mass unrest, which, although initially moderate enough, could have contributed and constituted the cradle from which new insurrectional and anti-government ideals could sprout. Thus, at the state level, a certain Adolf Hitler was sent to monitor the movements and trends that Drexler's creation seemed to want to assume. Sometimes, however, ideals can take precedence over duties to the point that a young Hitler will soon find himself becoming an extremely active member of the party, to the point that after only four months of his arrival the party was, on his advice, renamed "National Socialist Party of German Workers". Finally, a short time later, in May 1920, the Swastika became the symbol of the newly formed NSDAP. In short, this was the story that Nazism lived at the time of its foundation. This is what can be found in history books or a regular encyclopedia. However, these texts are silent on other attitudes and tendencies that were typical of this historical period, events, and characters who also played a considerable role in the genesis of Nazism itself. In fact, since its beginnings, numerous esotericists, lovers of arcane sciences, philosophers, and theorists of new religions joined and were supported by high hierarchs of Nazism, probably contributing to shaping certain ideas and programs that would soon be updated. Hitler himself during an interview, granted when he was already in power, externalized concepts and ideals that, even today, are difficult to interpret except by placing them within that vein of mysticism and esotericism that probably followed the Nazi ideal.
©2020 Jack Stew Barretta (P)2020 Jack Stew Barretta
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Breve historia de Hitler [Brief History of Hitler]
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“Tengo que decir que la cronología de los hechos es perfecta, la añadidura de otros hechos en paralelo a los principales es situada con verdadera maestría y sin distraer al lector del objeto del capítulo en cuestión. No voy a descubrir nada si digo que Jesús Hernández es uno de los mejores escritores divulgativos de España." (Blog Las historias del Tercer Reich) “Para escribir una biografía sobre aquel führer que quiso gobernar con puño de hierro el sueño de una Gran Alemania, es necesario tener antes unos conocimientos impresionantes sobre el siglo XX, un dominio perfecto de lo que se escribe y un compromiso fuerte con el lector para que comprenda de manera sencilla y directa como fue aquella época tan turbulenta. Es difícil encontrar un autor en el que se fundan estas características, pero por su suerte para todos nosotros, y para la editorial Nowtilus en concreto, tenemos en nuestro país un escritor de esta clase: Jesús Hernández." (Blog Historia con minúsculas) “ La mayoría de las personas conocen a Hitler, o al menos deberían conocerlo, pero este libro conseguirá aportar datos desconocidos sobre él y tirar por tierra mitos que giran en torno al mismo." (Web Anika entre libros) Una de las figuras más controvertidas de la historia, dejó tras de sí un reguero de destrucción pero aún hay aspectos de la vida de Hitler que se deben iluminar. Que Hitler es una de las personalidades más relevantes del pasado siglo es algo que está totalmente admitido por cualquier persona, tanto si está interesado en la historia como si no. Es también un hecho admitido que conocer la biografía del Führer y la historia del Tercer Reich es la única manera de impedir que la historia de muerte y destrucción que extendieron por Europa se repita. Jesús Hernández trae esta vez una biografía de Adolf Hitler accesible a cualquier oyente, exacta y novedosa, ya que profundiza en algunos de los aspectos menos conocidos del hombre que asoló Europa y que planificó y ejecutó una de las mayores masacres que se han dado en la historia mundial: el Holocausto. Breve Historia de Hitler presenta una cronología de la vida del Führer rigurosa que combina con hechos adyacentes añadidos con verdadera maestría. No pretende demonizar de un modo sensacionalista la figura del hombre y separa perfectamente el mito de la realidad, pero tampoco esconde la responsabilidad política del mandatario que devastó naciones enteras y exterminó a más de seis millones de judíos. Nos presenta las desconocidas etapas de abandono personal y de vida bohemia de Hitler en Viena, sus buenas relaciones personales y el aprecio que le tenían, en su juventud, aquellos que le rodeaban. Ahondará en la infancia y adolescencia de Hitler y descubrirá el maltrato al que fue sometido por su padre o las intensas amistades que tuvo con Rudolf Häuser y con Ernst Schmidt. Razones para comprar la obra: El libro es una novedad porque no existe en el mercado editorial una biografía de Hitler que no demande unos conocimientos previos abundantes sobre el Tercer Reich. Es una biografía rigurosa pero breve y con un lenguaje accesible para todo el mundo. La obra incluye datos poco conocidos de la biografía de Hitler además de un anexo que detalla los escenarios relevantes en la vida del dictador y describe su situación actual, la mayoría de ellos ocultados u olvidados. El autor no da ningún dato por supuesto por lo que puede ser escuchado e interpretado por cualquier tipo de oyente. Conocer todos los detalles de la vida de Adolf Hitler es imprescindible para evitar que se reproduzcan figuras tan devastadoras para el ser humano como la del Führer. Este libro nos ayudará en esta tarea y nos hará disfrutar con su ágil prosa y su narración vibrante. Please note: This audiobook is in Latin American Spanish.
©2012 Ediciones Nowtilus S.L. (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Ancient Greek Cavalry
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In virtually all fields of human endeavors, Athens in the fifth century BCE was so much at the forefront of dynamism and innovation that the products of its most brilliant minds remain not only influential but entirely relevant to this day. In the field of medicine, the great physician Hippocrates not only advanced the practical knowledge of human anatomy and caregiving, but changed the entire face of the medical profession. The great philosophers of Athens - men like Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato - interrogated themselves with startling complexity about the nature of good and evil and questioned the existence of divinity, advocated intelligent design, and went so far as to argue that all life was composed of infinitesimal particles. Great architects and sculptors such as Phidias produced works of art of such breathtaking realism and startling dynamism that they later formed the driving force behind the resurgence of sculpture during the Renaissance and served as masters to artists such as Michelangelo, Bernini, and Donatello. The plays of dramatists such as Aristophanes not only displayed an acerbic wit and a genius for political satire so pronounced that their works continue to be performed - and topical - to this day, but also served as the inspiration for virtually all playwrights from Shakespeare to the present day. And this does not take into account the host of equally brilliant mathematicians, natural philosophers, historians, astronomers and politicians that the city’s great schools nurtured and produced. Modern perceptions of ancient Greece are almost always based on Athens and Sparta, which is why other city-states and other military units besides the hoplites have been overlooked for thousands of years. For this reason, Greek cavalry forces - including their composition, purpose, techniques, equipment, and developments - are still not very well understood when compared with their naval or infantry counterparts. In fact, one of the most important epochs in the history of Greek warfare was the transition from the use of chariot warfare to mounted fighting and infantry-based action. The heroes of Homer’s epics, the Iliad and Odyssey, used chariots both on and off the battlefield as a means of transportation, but by the time Greece emerged from the Dark Ages, the chariot had almost entirely disappeared from Greek life. The main exception to this rule was in the world of athletics, where chariots continued to be used in competitive horse racing events, but the amount of public and private funds and the sheer effort which went into maintaining these expensive, highly trained knights demonstrated how important the ancient Greeks themselves felt it was to have an effective cavalry. Indeed, even though they don’t often find themselves in the historical spotlight, Greek cavalry actually played a crucial role in many famous battles, from the fall of Troy to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Ancient Greek Cavalry: The History and Legacy of Classical Greece’s Forgotten Soldiers traces the development of Greek cavalry from the Bronze Age chariots to the classical cavalry, examining how and why these transitions took place.
©2020 Charles River Editors (P)2020 Charles River Editors
Aerial Warfare
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Aerial warfare has dominated war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. In this Very Short Introduction, Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of aerial warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken center stage, and the changes in technology and air power capabilities over time. Highlighting the role played by air power in the First and Second World Wars, he also sheds light on the lesser-known theaters where the roles of air forces have been clearly decisive in conflicts, in Africa, South America, and Asia. Along the way, Ledwidge asks key questions about the roles air power can deliver, and whether it is conceptually different from other forms of combat. Considering whether bombing has ever been truly effective, he discusses whether wars can be won from the air, and concludes by analyzing whether there is a future for manned air power, or if it is inevitable that drones will dominate 21st century war in the air.
©2020 Frank Ledwidge (P)2020 Tantor
Sublime Vanity
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Sadie I crave attention. It’s not frowned upon to want someone’s love and affection, but it is when you know that you’ll never return the same for another person. He loved me every day for nine years. He gave me everything I asked for. His affection was only for me. But when he wanted a stable position in our relationship, I couldn’t give it, because there were some many others that could offer the same. I didn’t want to settle. Or at least I didn’t think I did, until I learned he was getting married. How do you trap a man that’s loved you for years, even if he’s about to say "I do"? You come back into his life pregnant and make sure he believes wholeheartedly that the baby is his. He’ll believe it, because he always thought we were exclusive. What he doesn’t know is that he was the only one that was. What I didn’t expect was for one of my indiscretions to make an appearance. But I can handle him just like I did the week I spent with him in Louisiana. I’m good at getting what I want. I’ve been using people since I was a teenager. Just ask my father. Watch me get the one person I know without a doubt will jump through hoops for me. Watch him leave his fiancée for me. Watch her fall from grace as I take the one person away from her she’s always wanted. This is a standalone, but to better understand some of the situations, you should enjoy the previous books in the series first. This audiobook is meant for an audience 18 and older. There are some scenes that may not be suitable for some listeners.
©2018 Dana Arden (P)2018 Dana Arden