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    The Final Mission: A Boy, a Pilot, and a World at War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 358min
    In July 1944, Lt. Henry Supchak was flying his second-to-last mission over Germany when his B-17 bomber was hit by antiaircraft fire, disabling two engines and wounding him in the thigh. He attempted to reach neutral Switzerland, but was forced instead to order his eight crewmen to bail out over Austria. He parachuted into a pasture where a shepherd boy and his aunt stared in disbelief at this “man who fell from the sky”. Almost immediately, German infantry surrounded the pilot and took him away to solitary confinement. Although slightly burned by the exploding aircraft, the boy managed to find out where the wounded pilot was being held and snuck food and water to him before Supchak and his crew were taken away to a notorious prison camp for the rest of the war.Liberated by Patton’s Third Army in April 1945, Supchak remained in the air force after World War II and even advised Gregory Peck during the filming of Twelve O’Clock High. But he carried deep scars from his war experience. But an inspired quest to find his former crew members before they all passed away put the pilot on a path of peace. The Final Mission is a gripping and uplifting story of forgiveness, reconciliation, and healing from the devastation of war.The book is published by Westholme Publishing. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellery Truesdell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154866/bk_acx0_154866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Seeds of Dissolution: A Science Fantasy Space Opera Novel (The Dissolution Cycle Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 909min
    A young man with anxiety stands between the ten homewolds and a shivering death.Sam van Oen barely escapes freezing to death in his house, as his watch stops and fire ceases to burn. He is pulled into the Nether where he discovers the nexus of an intergalactic society. In this place, changing the musical Symphony underlying the universe alters reality. Sam is surrounded by aliens strange and familiar, some non-binary or gender-fluid. Soon, he meets sister and brother twins, also new to the Nether, who support him during his anxiety attacks. Sam finds he is attracted to both of them and does not want to choose.While coping with the anxiety prompted by his new surroundings, Sam must learn to hear and change the Symphony in order to discover what happened to his home. But more freezing voids like the one that started his journey are appearing, and Sam’s chances of getting back are fading. Not only that, but the Assembly of Species is threatening to dissolve, and the maji are being attacked by those they protect. Meanwhile, rumors grow of an ancient shape-changing species of assassins returning to wage war.The Dissolution is coming.If you like epic fantasy, space opera, music-based magic, and diverse cultures, genders, and alien species, you'll love this first book in William C. Tracy's Dissolution Cycle. Download The Seeds of Dissolution and start an epic science fantasy space opera sequence today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William C. Tracy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158928/bk_acx0_158928_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    World War 2: Tank Battles: The Famous Tank Battles That Defined WWII : Famous Battles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min
    Learn about the Tanks of World War II and the Subsequent Changes in Warfare. The Second World War was the beginning of a revolution in war and combat. Prior to WWII, the use of armoured vehicles for warfare was completely unheard of. WWII ushered in a new era with the invention and evolution of tanks. This audiobook covers the journey of how these incredible machines became a norm for combat by the time 1945, and then end of the World War came around. Follow the journey of these muscled armoured monsters from their unusual beginnings when devised in the 15th/16th century by the ever-famous Leonardo Da Vinci, through to their use during some legendary battles during World War II.Prepare to marvel at the revolutionary innovative nature of these killing machines during World War II. Uncover the role that Charles DeGaulle and other famous figureheads held in the inception and evolution. Find yourself gripped as you discover the stories of some of the most well-known and decisive tank battles during the war.The enthralling stories include the very famous and fear-inducing blitzkrieg story of the invasion of Poland that completely revolutionized armored combat, the battle of El Alamein led by British Commander Montgomery, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union stronghold Kursk.Your journey will conclude with the ultimate discovery of how tanks literally changed the game when it comes to war and combat. This is something still seen in modern-day warfare. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Dysart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156726/bk_acx0_156726_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Romanticised History of the War of Troy: A Novel Freely Based on The Iliad of Homer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 148min
    The fascinating historical-mythological epic, with its enormous weight of pain and death, but above all, the splendid timeless scenes of the Trojan War.The fascinating historical-mythological epic, with its enormous weight of pain and death, starts with a simple love triangle whose sides are: Elena, ”femme fatale” ante litteram of the Homeric legend; Paris, hero in possession of a classic virile charm; and Menelaus, pale ruler of Sparta, overwhelmed by the continuous confrontation with his valiant brother Agamemnon. The meeting between these characters creates a destiny that is filled with pathos.Paris, son of King Priam and who is madly in love with Helen, escapes with her. Menelaus, former husband of Helen, blinded by jealousy and lust for revenge, will declare war on Troy. It will be the beginning of a ruinous tragedy that will last 10 years.Around this central nucleus, infinite events come to life that are linked by invisible fate, now tangling, now dissolving. Unfathomable and mysterious - the true deus ex machina of Greek mythology - fate exceeds, with its absolute determinism, even the will of the gods.In this fictionalized version of the Trojan epic, the author seems to already know that listeners will remain, in spite of themselves, ensnared by the plot and that, like children placed in front of a fairy tale, at the end of each chapter they will ask with irrepressible curiosity, ”And then?” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian A. Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194023/bk_acx0_194023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mr. Tidwell Gunner: A 19th-Century Seafaring Saga of War, Self-reliance, and Survival , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 133min
    Mister Tidwell is a scholarly Oxford professor snatched out of his bookish world and pressed into service aboard Lord Nelson’s legendary British fleet - in the position of schoolmaster. Such is the life of the land-loving, seafaring Mister Tidwell, Gunner.Thrust into service at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Tidwell soon finds himself directly in the line of fire and way out of his depth. Fate has cast him into a terrible and terrifying spot - alone on deck to face the fearsome approach of a French man-o’-war.The professor is about to get an object lesson in war, self-reliance...and survival. Overwhelmed by the smell of gunpowder, the sound of cannons, and the sight of death, he will either experience the sweet taste of victory...or the bitter taste of his own blood.Also includes the sea adventures “The Drowned City”, the story of two deep-sea divers who set out in search of a long-lost treasure only to find that the waters are full of treacherous currents and even more treacherous men; and “Submarine”, in which a young sailor on leave enjoys a quiet interlude with his girlfriend - only to have it interrupted by a call to duty and danger.Sail into history and into battle as the audio version of Mister Tidwell, Gunner takes you into the heart of one of the greatest wars for dominance of the seas.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley, Brooke Bloom, Ron Paulson, Enn Reitel, Jim Meskimen, Michael Yurchak, Christina Huntington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000117/bk_gala_000117_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Seven Samurai
    In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that evokes the cultural upheavalbrought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism in the 16th century, but at the same time echoes also the sweeping cultural changes occurring in the aftermath of the American Occupation that followed Japan's defeat in the Second World War.The plot is deceptively simple. A village of farmers is beleaguered by a horde of bandits. In desperation, the farmers decide to hire itinerant samurai to protect their crops and people and defeat the bandits. There had never been a Japanese film in which peasants hired samurai, or an evocation of the social transformation that made such an idea credible.There are six samurai and one who is accepted as such. Together they reflect the ideals and values of a noble class near the point of extinction. Seven Samurai may be the greatest action film, a technical masterpiece unmatched in its depiction of movement and violence, but running beneath the sound and fury is a lament for a lost nobility, 'a dirge for the spirit of Japan,' writes Joan Mellen, 'which will never again be so strong.'Mellen's study contextualises Seven Samurai, marking its place in Japanese cinema and in Kurosawa's film-making career. She explores the film's roots in medieval history and, above all, the astonishing visual language in which Kurosawa created his elegiac epic.
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    Seven Samurai (eBook, ePUB)
    In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that evokes the cultural upheavalbrought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism in the 16th century, but at the same time echoes also the sweeping cultural changes occurring in the aftermath of the American Occupation that followed Japan's defeat in the Second World War.The plot is deceptively simple. A village of farmers is beleaguered by a horde of bandits. In desperation, the farmers decide to hire itinerant samurai to protect their crops and people and defeat the bandits. There had never been a Japanese film in which peasants hired samurai, or an evocation of the social transformation that made such an idea credible.There are six samurai and one who is accepted as such. Together they reflect the ideals and values of a noble class near the point of extinction. Seven Samurai may be the greatest action film, a technical masterpiece unmatched in its depiction of movement and violence, but running beneath the sound and fury is a lament for a lost nobility, 'a dirge for the spirit of Japan,' writes Joan Mellen, 'which will never again be so strong.'Mellen's study contextualises Seven Samurai, marking its place in Japanese cinema and in Kurosawa's film-making career. She explores the film's roots in medieval history and, above all, the astonishing visual language in which Kurosawa created his elegiac epic.
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    Seven Samurai (eBook, PDF)
    In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that evokes the cultural upheavalbrought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism in the 16th century, but at the same time echoes also the sweeping cultural changes occurring in the aftermath of the American Occupation that followed Japan's defeat in the Second World War.The plot is deceptively simple. A village of farmers is beleaguered by a horde of bandits. In desperation, the farmers decide to hire itinerant samurai to protect their crops and people and defeat the bandits. There had never been a Japanese film in which peasants hired samurai, or an evocation of the social transformation that made such an idea credible.There are six samurai and one who is accepted as such. Together they reflect the ideals and values of a noble class near the point of extinction. Seven Samurai may be the greatest action film, a technical masterpiece unmatched in its depiction of movement and violence, but running beneath the sound and fury is a lament for a lost nobility, 'a dirge for the spirit of Japan,' writes Joan Mellen, 'which will never again be so strong.'Mellen's study contextualises Seven Samurai, marking its place in Japanese cinema and in Kurosawa's film-making career. She explores the film's roots in medieval history and, above all, the astonishing visual language in which Kurosawa created his elegiac epic.
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    Hither Page: Page & Sommers, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 387min
    A jaded spy and a shell-shocked country doctor team up to solve a murder in postwar England.James Sommers returned from the war with his nerves in tatters. All he wants is to retreat to the quiet village of his childhood and enjoy the boring, predictable life of a country doctor. The last thing in the world he needs is a handsome stranger who seems to be mixed up with the first violent death the village has seen in years. It certainly doesn't help that this stranger is the first person James has wanted to touch since before the war.The war may be over for the rest of the world, but Leo Page is still busy doing the dirty work for one of the more disreputable branches of the intelligence service. When his boss orders him to cover up a murder, Leo isn't expecting to be sent to a sleepy village. After a week of helping old ladies wind balls of yarn and flirting with a handsome doctor, Leo is in danger of forgetting what he really is and why he's there. He's in danger of feeling things he has no business feeling. A person who burns his identity after every job can't put down roots.As he starts to untangle the mess of secrets and lies that lurk behind the lace curtains of even the most peaceful-seeming of villages, Leo realizes that the truths he's about to uncover will affect his future and that of the man he's growing to care about. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Leslie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181191/bk_acx0_181191_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 273min
    On a sweltering August night in 1876, Methodist minister William England, his wife, Selena, and two of her children were brutally slaughtered in their North Texas home. Acting on Selena’s deathbed testimony, a neighbor, his brother-in-law, and a friend were arrested and tried for the murders. Murder in Montague tells the story of this gruesome crime and its murky aftermath. In this engrossing blend of true crime reporting, social drama, and legal history, author Glen Sample Ely presents a vivid snapshot of frontier justice and retribution in Texas following the Civil War.The sheer brutality of the Montague murders terrified settlers already traumatized by decades of chaos, violence, and fear - from the deadly raids of Comanche and Kiowa Indians to the terrors of vigilantes, lynchings, and reconstruction lawlessness. But the crime's aftermath - involving five Texas governors, five trials at Montague and Gainesville, five appeals to the Texas Court of Appeals, and three life sentences at hard labor in the state's abominable and inhumane prison system - offered little in the way of reassurance or resolution.Viewed from any perspective, the 1876 England family murders were both a human tragedy and a miscarriage of justice. Combining the long view of history and the intimate detail of true crime reporting, Murder in Montague deftly captures this moment of reckoning in the story of Texas, as vigilante justice grudgingly gave way to an established system of law and order.The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Moriarty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219695/bk_acx0_219695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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