157 Results for : peacetime

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    Brides of War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
    In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie Brown starts her married life living with her husband Jeff's family: an overbearing mother-in-law and a brother-in-law whom her husband detests. Valerie Brampton and her lawyer husband, Ross, have their own property, but with a past girlfriend still holding on to hope of a relationship with him, all is far from settled. As they learn more about their new husbands, can their marriages, formed in the uncertain times of war, survive through peacetime? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Penelope Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002599/bk_isis_002599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Douglas MacArthur: What Greater Honor (Heroes of History) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 315min
    Whether masterminding strategy and fighting on the front lines to secure Allied victory in World War I and World War II or guiding war-torn nations to recovery in peacetime, five-star General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) faced every challenge with unwavering courage and resolve. The general began his honored army career by leading his fellow cadets at West Point and ultimately commanded all U.S. forces in Asia. Remembered especially for directing the fight against Japanese expansion during WWII and later governing the defeated Japanese people with grace and wisdom, General MacArthur won the respect of millions, both allies and enemies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Gregory. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/001056/bk_hove_001056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Yalu River Boys: The True Story of a B-29 Bomber Crew's Combat and Captivity in the Korean War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
    The Yalu River Boys is the true story of the forgotten men from the forgotten war. Follow a B-29 bomber crew as it battles Russian MiG-15 fighters in the heart of MiG Alley during the Korean War. Learn the heartbreaking truth of the communist prison camp gulags, the cruelty of the North Korean enemy, and the propaganda attacks from friend and foe. Marvin King joined the US Air Force in peacetime but soon found himself in the midst of jet-age aerial combat, captured and taken into China, and later subjected to the abject horror of a place in North Korea known only as The Caves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Perry Storkson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158770/bk_acx0_158770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blue at the Mizzen: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 20 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 617min
    Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America - where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain - the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ric Jerrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021281/bk_adbl_021281_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Danger's Hour , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min
    The Mediterranean, 1943... The HMS Rob Roy. A tiny machine, just 230 feet from stem to stern. In peacetime she would have trawled for cod. Now her catch is deadlier by far. Lieutenant-Commander Ian Ransome is a veteran of the treacherous front line of naval combat. For three years, he’s swept the explosive curtain of Nazi mines that shrouds the British Isles. Now, under sealed orders in the battle-tossed waters of the Mediterranean, he and his jack-tired crew face one final test of their courage and seamanship under fire. Their secret mission: to spearhead the Allies’ desperate invasion of Italy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Rintoul. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004003/bk_bbcw_004003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Other Times Than Peace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 846min
    Heed the Slammers Battle Cry! A warrior's truth: "In the long run, everybody's dead. So screw the long run!" Patriotic hoo-ha may be well and good for recruitment parades, but David Drake's battle-hardened mercenaries know it takes tanks, guns, and grit to win when the real fighting flares. Yet peace brings its own problems to old soldiers - for killing potential enemies in battle is self-limiting, but once the killing starts in peacetime, there may be no end to the madness. Two new "Hammer's Slammers" adventures crown this masterful collection of hard-hitting SF tales from legendary military SF action-master and best seller David Drake. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Rummel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019764/bk_adbl_019764_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dragonplague , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 865min
    Terence Strong takes the listener into a new and unchartered nightmare world. It is a world where the twin evils of today stalk side by side, creating the greatest peacetime menace ever known to civilised society: terrorism and hard drugs. No one will escape the nightmare. Not the former Royal Marine who dares to fight it. Not his wife and son for whom he risks everything. Nor past and future lovers. All will feel the tentacles of terror during the desperate struggle for freedom - and life itself. Tortured passions, human frailty and strength combine in this powerful story of courage against all odds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Cormack. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002857/bk_isis_002857_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    DEFCON One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 614min
    DEFCON: DefenseReadiness Condition DEFCON Five: normal peacetime activities DEFCON Four: increase intelligence watch and increase security DEFCON Three: forces on standby, awaiting further orders DEFCON Two: forces ready for combat DEFCON One: forces deployed for combat In this explosive best seller, the United States and the Soviet Union are poised on the brink of Armageddon. Glasnost has failed, Russia is economically desperate, and Gorbachev's successor has launched the first strike in what may become World War III. Only one man knows the full extent of the impending horror - a CIA operative trapped in the Kremlin. Written by a former Marine Corps pilot, DEFCON One is a blistering scenario of men and war - exciting, tense, and frighteningly real. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Szarabajka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006016/bk_blak_006016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ostland , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 857min
    February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains and leaving their battered bodies by the tracks. Heuser must confront evil eye-to-eye as he helps track down the murderer. July 1959, peacetime West Germany: a pioneering young lawyer, Paula Siebert, is in a federal unit investigating men who have committed crimes of unimaginable magnitude and horror. Their leader has just been arrested. His name is Georg Heuser. Siebert is sure of his guilt. But how could a once decent man have become a sadistic monster? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000447/bk_oakh_000447_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Home for Christmas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 775min
    Will her soldier sweetheart make it home for Christmas? Lydia is in training to be a nurse when she first meets Robert, and, despite the differences in their classes and backgrounds, they fall head over heels for one another. Robert is the nephew of a Lord, and Lydia is a mere doctor’s daughter - and a German doctor at that. While her parentage is no hindrance to their relationship in peacetime, when war is declared Robert’s family makes it clear they no longer approve of the match. With no means of contacting Robert on the Western Front, Lydia volunteers herself, joining the Red Cross. But her love affair with Robert has had more than one consequence.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Dover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002174/bk_rhuk_002174_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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