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  Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 522min

  Before 1882, the U.S. federal government had never formally deported anyone, but that year an act of Congress made Chinese workers the first group of immigrants eligible for deportation. Over the next 40 years, lawmakers and judges expanded deportable categories to include prostitutes, anarchists, the sick, and various kinds of criminals. The history of that lengthening list shaped the policy options U.S. citizens continue to live with into the present.Deportation covers the uncertain beginnings of American deportation policy and recounts the halting and uncoordinated steps that were taken as it emerged from piecemeal actions in Congress and courtrooms across the country to become an established national policy by the 1920s. Usually viewed from within the nation, deportation policy also plays a part in geopolitics; deportees, after all, have to be sent somewhere. Studying deportations out of the United States as well as the deportation of U.S. citizens back to the United States from abroad, Torrie Hester illustrates that U.S. policy makers were part of a global trend that saw officials from nations around the world either revise older immigrant removal policies or create new ones.A history of immigration policy in the United States and the world, Deportation chronicles the unsystematic emergence of what has become an internationally recognized legal doctrine, the far-reaching impact of which has forever altered what it means to be an immigrant and a citizen.The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."A tour-de-force of U.S. policy history…a timely and urgent work." (Kelly Lytle Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles)"Impressive research and detailed analysis." (Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211478/bk_acx0_211478_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Chickamauga , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min

  I know Mr. Davis thinks he can do a great many things other men would hesitate to attempt. For instance, he tried to do what God failed to do. He tried to make a soldier of Braxton Bragg. - General Joseph E. Johnston Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War and its biggest battles, particularly Gettysburg, Antietam, and Shiloh, all of which involved Robert E. Lee or Ulysses S. Grant. But the second biggest battle of the entire war mostly gets overlooked among casual listeners, despite the fact it represented the last great chance for the Confederates to salvage the Western theater. In mid-September, the Union Army of the Cumberland under General William Rosecrans had taken Chattanooga, but rather than be pushed out of the action, Army of Tennessee commander Braxton Bragg decided to stop with his 60,000 men and prepare a counterattack south of Chattanooga at a creek named Chickamauga. To bolster his fire-power, Confederate President Jefferson Davis sent 12,000 additional troops under the command of Lieutenant General James Longstreet, whose corps had just recently fought at Gettysburg in July. On the morning of September 19, 1863, Bragg's men assaulted the Union line, which was established in a wooded area thick with underbrush along the river. That day and the morning of the next, Bragg continue to pummel Union forces, with the battle devolving from an organized succession of uncoordinated assaults into what one Union soldier described as "a mad, irregular battle." Late that second morning, Rosecrans was misinformed that a gap was forming in his front line, so he responded by moving several units forward to shore it up. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Abell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038819/bk_acx0_038819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Operation Rolling Thunder: The History of the American Bombardment of North Vietnam at the Start of the Vietnam War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min

  “Targeting bore little resemblance to reality in that the sequence of attacks was uncoordinated and the targets were approved randomly - even illogically. The North's airfields, which, according to any rational targeting policy, should have been hit first in the campaign, were also off-limits.”(Earl Tilford, US Air Force historian)The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren’t so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. The seeds of Operation Rolling Thunder, America’s elaborately constrained air war against North Vietnam, appeared almost from the first moment that the USA inherited the conflict from the French. The half-communist, half-nationalist Viet Minh rebels of Ho Chi Minh evicted the French in 1954, but not before the latter partially created an anticommunist state, South Vietnam, in the lower half of the nation. Home to many Vietnamese who stood to lose property and potentially their lives in the event of the country’s reunification, the new state struggled with both Viet Cong guerrillas supplied by the north and its own internal corruption and factionalism. Many thousands of North Vietnamese fled there to escape Ho Chi Minh’s repression and occasional mass executions as well.Faced with such a determined opponent, skilled in asymmetrical warfare and enjoying considerable popular support, the Americans would ultimately choose to fight a war of attrition. While the Americans did employ strategic hamlets, pacification programs, and other kinetic counterinsurgency operations, they largely relied on a massive advantage in fire ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163947/bk_acx0_163947_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tea Cleanse Diet: How to Lose Weight, Get Rid of Toxins & Boost Your Metabolism in No Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 28min

  Losing weight, detoxing your body, and boosting your metabolism just by drinking tea is not possible? I will show you that it is and how in this book! You're about to learn brand new information about the power beverage and the incredible benefits of tea drinking. Besides the fact that working out every day is necessary to lose weight, there are different natural fat burners which can boost the process of losing body fat. All the different tea types have their own specific benefits for your body. In this book you will get to know the world of tea better so you can make your choice.Over many years of your poor and uncoordinated nutrition, smoking, drinking alcohol and living within a completely polluted city and environment, your body has no chance on preventing disease and cleaning itself. With nature given products you can help your body to clean up from the inside and flush out all the toxins. You just have to do it right and know how.Here are three reasons why you should try Tea Cleanse:Boost your diet process with drinking Tea.Flush out the Toxins in your body.Feel overall more healthy and happy.Here's what you'll find in the book:How does cleanse tea diet work?10 best teas for detox and cleansingBest teas for weight lossWhen is the best time to drink green tea?Sample of good tea drinking routineWhy tea is better than coffee?When you download Tea Cleanse Diet: How to Lose Weight, Get Rid of Toxins & Boost Your Metabolism in No Time you will be on your way to a fuller, more enjoyable and swifter experience of your own health and fitness. Buy this book today!Would you like to start today? If you do, just scroll up and hit the buy button.Enjoy! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Trevor Clinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100502/bk_acx0_100502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Submarine Warfare in the Pacific: The History of the Fighting Under the Waves Between Japan and America During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

  Submarines exercised a decisive impact on the outcome of the Pacific Theater in World War II. The US submarine fleet, largely though not exclusively under the overall command of Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood, strangled the supply lines and shipping traffic of the Empire of Japan. Their commerce raiding crippled both Japan's ability to keep its frontline units supplied and to manufacture the weapons, vessels, and vehicles needed to successfully carry on the struggle. The United States and Japan both produced excellent, high-tech submarines in the context of the World War II era. Japanese I-boats showed excellent seakeeping capabilities and offered the versatility created by their large size, including the ability to serve as motherships for midget submarines or aircraft carriers for scouting aircraft or even specialized bombers. The Type 93 Long Lance and Type 95 torpedoes they carried packed enough punch to sink capital ships like battleships and carriers at ranges of several miles. American submarines, though smaller, could dive deeply, move quickly, and provide both firepower and survivability. Though their type XIV and type XVIII torpedoes could not match the Japanese type 93, they still gave a lethal punch, particularly after improvements in late 1943. The USS Archerfish demonstrated the deadliness of American submarines to Japanese capital ships also. The submariners of both fleets showed immense courage, daring, and skill in carrying out their duties. Both groups of men exhibited aggression, patriotism, and fighting spirit in equal measure, regardless of the different cultural lenses through which these traits manifested themselves. Both navies successfully produced professional, highly capable submarine officers. The Japanese, however, decided to use their submarines mainly to support a grand fleet action at visual ranges, which never occurred. Instead, the submarines carried out sporadic, uncoordinated attacks and the rest of the time ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/073085/bk_acx0_073085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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