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Always with Honor (eBook, ePUB)

Russia, 1917. As World War I drags on, political turmoil slowly paralyzes the Empire. The Czar abdicates. His replacements are ineffectual and incompetent. Violence sweeps the country. One by one, institutions collapse under the weight of chaos and terror. The Bolsheviks, a small group of communist radicals initially supported by German intelligence, launch a revolution that sends the country into a tailspin. The nation is plunged into a terrible civil war which by its end will leave over 10 million Russians dead, with millions more scattered across the globe.Leading the anti-communist "White" forces against the new "Red" army to the end was Pyotr Wrangel. Wrangel, a career cavalry officer who fought with distinction in the Russo-Japanese War and World War i, found himself at the center of various intrigues in the early stages of the Russian Revolution. After narrowly escaping death at the hands of a Bolshevik execution squad, Wrangel joined the Volunteer Army of General Denikin. Although Wrangel accomplished the impossible repeatedly, leading his tiny cavalry force to victory over communist units many times its size, he was unable to persuade Denikin to abandon an ill-planned assault on Moscow. After that offensive failed, the Volunteer Army collapsed.Widely recognized for his tactical brilliance and unimpeachable character, Wrangel accepted the burden of command over the last remnant of anti-communist forces. Under his leadership the outnumbered and out-gunned White Army launched a devastating counterattack, retaking Crimea and the surrounding area from the Reds. There, he and his remaining men staged a heroic defense while attempting to obtain international support. After Russia was abandoned by its former allies and his position became untenable, Wrangel personally directed the evacuation of his Army and thousands of civilian refugees.Wrangel published his memoirs in 1928, shortly before his death. Although the book was translated into English in 1929, it eventually fell out-of-print. For more than 60 years, no new copies were made. The few remaining used editions became unaffordable for the average reader. Mystery Grove Publishing Company is proud to make the memoirs of one of the greatest champions in the fight for civilization available to the public for the first time in ebook form.

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Promises: A Story of Love, Betrayal & Revenge: Mountain Memories Trilogy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min

When looking for love, you sometimes find it...and sometimes you don't! Promises: A Story of Love, Betrayal & Revenge combines coming of age, romance, and suspense in a totally satisfying way. Smooth as a sip of Kentucky bourbon, it eases you into the Appalachian hill country. That wonderfully wild place of mountains and hollows, creeks and rivers, with its hardscrabble life and whiteboard churches where roots go deep, family matters, and Granny Wright is never wrong. A place where King Coal still rules, and beneath its veneer of respectability lies a hidden web of treachery.Mary Jane Combs may have gotten her momma's good looks, but her strong-willed determination came straight from Daddy. Growing up in Kentucky, she dreamed of a simple life with a loving husband, a home of her own, and healthy kids. But fate has some tricks up its sleeve, and her life has turned out to be anything but simple. Instead of a housewife, Mary Jane's become an international supermodel. She's swapped the Appalachian coal country for New York City's Upper West Side, traveling the world in her private jet, and staying in the best hotels. Things are going along fine until mystery man, Michael Cole enters her life. He's an unscrupulous businessman with connections to the Russian Mafia who'll do anything to save his floundering company, including marrying her. When she catches on to what Cole's up to and dumps him, he sets out to destroy her along with everything she's accomplished.Never one to give up without a fight, she circles her wagons and mounts a counterattack. The evidence she needs to bring down her ex-husband remains in their London penthouse. To get it she decides to break in and access his computer files. And that's when things start to get dicey. Cole unexpectedly returns, and she suddenly finds herself crouched beneath a desk while her ex seduces another woman atop it. Throughout her battle two questions remain unanswered. Can ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ruth Elsbree. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033496/bk_acx0_033496_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fate of the Ashers: The Petros Chronicles, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min

They thought the war was over, but it was only just beginning....One month after Chloe’s victory over Mania, everything seems back to normal. Actually, it’s better than normal. For one thing, her parents are alive, tensions between she and her brother, Damian, have eased, more Ashers exist, and she and Ethan are more than fellow former fugitives - they’re a couple.But things take a downward spiral when Mount Aetna, a volcano thought to be extinct, erupts in Petros’ capital. Soon, what initially seemed like nothing more than a a natural disaster proves to be a sign of an imminent supernatural threat. The Olympian gods of old, heretofore chained in Tartarus, have been freed by the sea nymph Eione and will do everything in their limitless power to bring the Ashers down.Chloe and Damian’s cousin Hector is a dejected high school student who, as an only child, is hopeful his 18th birthday will bring him a life-changing doma. When he outruns the track team’s fastest sprinter, he’s certain his days as a benchwarmer are over. Little does he know that Ares, one of the most merciless and bloodthirsty gods, has taken notice of his power, a power Hector has barely tapped into.Kidnapped and whisked off to Mount Olympus, Hector soon finds that being an Asher isn’t so great after all. Compelled by threats from the entire pantheon, he’s forced to embark upon a mission that will destroy every Asher and ensure the gods regain their former glory.When Athena, goddess of wisdom, informs Chloe and the others of Zeus’ plan, they plan a daring counterattack: time travel back to heaven, before Petros was created, and thwart the rebels’ revolt against the all-powerful. It’s two Ashers against an army of ruthless, power-hungry immortals who together possess an endless arsenal of deadly superpowers. How hard can it be?Full of twists and turns and thrilling surprises, this final audiobook in the Petros Chronicles is a riveting fantasy adventure for lo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Margaret Glaccum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141463/bk_acx0_141463_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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P.G.T. Beauregard Saves Richmond: The First and Second Battles of Petersburg , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 74min

“The remarkable resistance of Beauregard's troops alone saved the city from capture on the 15th, 16th, and 17th.” (Confederate cavalry officer Fitzhugh Lee) After the last major pitched battle of the Overland Campaign was fought at Cold Harbor in early June, Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac had suffered more casualties during the campaign than Robert E. Lee had in his entire Army of Northern Virginia at the start of May. Understandably, the American public was shocked by the carnage, and to this day Grant has been accused of being a butcher, but attrition had become a vital war aim for the North, and Grant remained undeterred. Refusing to attack Lee in frontal assaults, and aware that Lee dared not venture out to counterattack, Grant nearly captured Richmond in mid-June by stealing a march on Lee’s army and crossing the James River. With that, Grant’s forces had a golden opportunity to capture Petersburg, a critical railroad hub and supply line for Richmond, before Lee even realized where they were. All that stood in their way was an elaborate set of defensive fortifications manned by just a few thousand men under the command of P.G.T. Beauregard, who had been the Confederate hero of Fort Sumter and First Bull Run but had fallen out of favor well before June 1864. As it would turn out, the fog of war, poor luck, and a skillful impromptu defense by Beauregard and his troops, which at times consisted of young boys, old men, and wounded veterans, stopped Benjamin Butler from taking Petersburg on June 9 and then stopped Grant from taking Petersburg from June 15 to 18. Amazingly, Beauregard managed to defend Petersburg while being heavily outnumbered, at times having less than 15 percent of the armies opposing him, and despite the fact that he received virtually no reinforcements from Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia during that time because Lee refused to believe Beauregard’s reports that Grant’s army had crossed the James and was no longe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119527/bk_acx0_119527_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two - Spearhead of Victory , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 901min

In a return to sweeping social history of wartime, Patrick Bishop - author of best-selling Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys - explores the lives and wartime experiences of thousands of men and women who served in all units of the air force, to mark the centenary of the RAF in 2018. On 1st April 2018, the Royal Air Force will be 100 years old - a short life by military standards but an extraordinarily important and eventful one. From the start it was special, standing sometimes awkwardly but always proudly a little apart from the existing services. It was a product of the modern age, whose fortunes depended on ever-more sophisticated machines and the right calibre of men to fly them and to keep them airborne. Its achievements between 1939 and 1945 - when it was Britain's last line of defence and the spearhead of its counterattack - were central to the entire war effort. During these years one in four of those in uniform wore air force blue, and the ethos of the RAF was indistinguishable from the spirit of the nation. Following his best-selling books Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, Airforce Blue tells personal stories of those who served, using the letters, diaries and memoirs of the participants to create a true picture of what it was like to be a pilot, a navigator, a gunner, a fitter or a WAAF ops room clerk. It re-creates the reality of operations, whether wheeling over Kent in a Spitfire in 1940, rumbling towards the Ruhr in a Halifax in 1942 or looking down from the cockpit of a Liberator at the grey corrugated waters of the North Atlantic in 1943. It will also light up the humanity of the participants at every level - their values and motivations, their desires and ambitions. Air Force Blue is a substantial work of history, a monument to the wartime RAF as a whole and a must-buy for the descendants of the million-plus men and women from not just Britain but Canada, Australia and New ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Frances. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003075/bk_hcuk_003075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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