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The House with Blue Shutters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 722min

Castroux, France, 1939. In a bare farmhouse above the village, Oriane lives in desperate poverty. When the Germans invade, her simple world crumbles. Passions erupt, moral boundaries break down , and rebellion is soon in the air. Castroux, France, 2000. In an idyllic gîte overlooking the river, Claudia sunbathes on the terrace. She’s pregnant, trapped, and terrified of the future. She confides only in a reclusive neighbour, Oriane, and discovers that she too carried a shameful secret. The house with blue shutters: a place that has witnessed the horrors of wartime, the petty concerns of peacetime, and the secrets that binds past and present. A place where history echoes off every wall… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicolette McKenzie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001383/bk_isis_001383_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Blue at the Mizzen: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 20, Hörbuch, Digital, 311min

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace takes on an ugly complexion for Jack Aubrey: drunken, violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar; the desertion of nearly half his crew; and the sudden dimming of his own career prospects in a peacetime navy. To cap it all off, the Surprise is nearly sunk in a shattering night collision on the first leg of her journey to South America, where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain. In the end, Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own. The twentieth and final installment of Patrick O'Brian's hugely successful Aubrey/Maturin series. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000037/bk_rand_000037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Crown Duel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1091min

Young Countess Meliara swears to her dying father that she and her brother will defend their people from the growing greed of the king. That promise leads them into a war for which they are ill-prepared, which threatens the very people they are trying to protect. But war is simple compared to what follows, in peacetime. Meliara is summoned to live at the royal palace, where friends and enemies look alike, and intrigue fills the dance halls and the drawing rooms. If she is to survive, Meliara must learn a whole new way of fighting - with wits and words and secret alliances. In war, at least, she knew in whom she could trust. Now she can trust no one. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Galvin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014510/bk_adbl_014510_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Andrew Jackson: Great Generals Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 350min

The newest addition to Palgrave's Great Generals series focuses on Andrew Jackson's career, including his time as a general in Tennessee and his rise up the Army ranks.Jackson's effective use of spies in wartime and of martial law in peacetime sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties in the name of national security that continues to this day. Most of all, Jackson was a great motivator who could, with a few carefully selected words and by his own brave example, turn around starved, deserting troops, convincing them to fight.With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories, Remini reveals here why Jackson's bold leadership as a general led to his election as president of the United States in 1828. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Weiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002738/bk_blak_002738_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Neil Armstrong: The Life and Legacy of the First Astronaut to Walk on the Moon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 154min

Apollo 11’s trip to the moon may have started one day in 1969, but the journey had begun more than a decade earlier as part of the Space Race between the US and the Soviet Union. While landing on the moon was a noble goal proposed as early as 1961 by President Kennedy, NASA and the nation as a whole moved with urgency simply to best the Soviet Union, which had spent the 1950s beating America to important space-related firsts, including launching the first satellite and cosmonaut in orbit. In fact, President Eisenhower’s administration began the design for the Apollo program in 1960 in hopes of getting a head start to the moon, despite the fact the plans originated a year before the first Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, orbited the Earth and two years before John Glenn did. Over the decade, NASA would spend tens of billions on the Apollo missions, the most expensive peacetime program in American history to that point, and even though Apollo 11 was only one of almost 20 Apollo missions, it was certainly the crown jewel. To make Apollo 11 a success, it would take nearly a decade of planning by government officials, hard work by NASA scientists, intense training by the astronauts, and several missions preceding Apollo 11. It also cost more than $20 billion, making the Apollo program the most expensive peacetime program in American history at the time. When the Apollo program reached its pinnacle, the man at the center of it was Neil Armstrong, a farm boy and pilot who rose from a hardworking rural home to become the first to set foot on the moon and utter one of the 20th century’s most famous phrases: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Armstrong did so through education, first in high school and later at Purdue University, a lot of hard work as a pilot during and after the Korean War, and some luck, coming of age at a moment when the Space Race was in full effect. After reaching the peak of his fame and career at the young age ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145354/bk_acx0_145354_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Back to Bulletproof: A Warrior's Tactical Guide to Success , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min

Not everyone will have the chance to chase and seize Colombian cocaine cartel smuggling boats, assist in post-9/11 security in New York City, keep the peace between warring mountain tribes in Southeast Asia, or build and run successful American manufacturing companies. But everyone has the chance to become their very best self and build a bulletproof life of their own! In this riveting account of his life, former Coast Guard Special Ops Team member Darin Bibeau shares the core principles he's learned on each stop of his journey - and how they helped mold him into a peacetime warrior on a mission of helping others lock, load, and take aim at personal and professional growth. More than just a tell-all book, Back to Bulletproof is a tactical guide to success and a must-have for anyone striving to live their life to the fullest! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darin Bibeau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197528/bk_acx0_197528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1605min

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Book of the year: The Times, The Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Spectator, Evening Standard. Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it, and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the 20th century. Here, Bew pierces Attlee's reticence to examine the intellect and beliefs of Britain's greatest - and least appreciated - peacetime prime minister. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000351/bk_qpuk_000351_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Blue Goose: A USAF Security Forces - Police Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min

In 1981 the hostages in Iran had been released, the Russians were the bad guys, Reagan was the commander and chief, and the DM-to-dollar exchange rate was peaking at an all-time high since World War II. The free world was in turmoil and needed someone to secure it. At least according to the lieutenant. Spicher Air Force Base was located in a rural section of Central Germany known as the Eiffel Mountains. It was up to Sergeant Anthony Harris and the rest of the USAF Security Policemen assigned to the 44th Squadron, Delta Flight, to make sure that the world stayed free or that at least their small corner of it did. "Gentlemen, war is hell, even in peacetime." The lieutenant had actually once said that to the flight during guardmount, and he meant it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Whitfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/031155/bk_acx0_031155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Distant Valor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 738min

For Sergeant David Griffin, a "peacetime" Marine, Beirut was a chance to prove himself capable to the generation of Marines who had been blooded in the Vietnam War.For Corporal Steven Downs, Beirut was a struggle to separate the civilian from the soldier, his distrust of the politicians' decisions from the military mission.For all the Marines serving in Lebanon, it was another war in a foreign country where the enemy could be anywhere or anyone. Faced with Griffin's court-martial for engaging the enemy against orders, these two young men find themselves questioning their faith in themselves, their commanders, and eventually that which above all else they must have faith in, the Corps.Distant Valor tells the story of the United States' ill-fated mission to end the war for Lebanon, which ended in the barracks bombing that killed nearly 300 Marines. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000538/bk_brll_000538_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Parade's End - Part 4: The Last Post , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 448min

The Last Post, the fourth and final volume of Parade's End, is set on a single post-war summer's day. Valentine Wannop and Christopher Tietjens share a cottage in Sussex with Tietjens' brother and sister-in-law. Through their differing perspectives, Ford explores the tensions between his characters in a changing world, haunted by the experience of war, facing an insecure future for themselves and for England. The Tietjens' ancestral home has been let to an American, its great tree felled: those like Tietjens who have served in the war find there is no place for them in a demoralised civilian society. The celebrations of Armistice Day have been replaced by the uncertainties of peacetime. 'How are we to live?' asks Valentine, as a death and an imminent birth bring Ford's great sequence to a close. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Telfer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006110/bk_bbcw_006110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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