104 Results for : downed
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Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
A riveting spy story set in World War Two. Using declassified documents and extensive original research, Secret Pigeon Service tells the dramatic untold story of MI 14(d) and its spy networks including the remarkable 'Leopold Vindictive', a Belgian resistance cell who used the pigeon they found in 1941 to spy on the Nazis. Everyone has heard of MI5 and MI6. Some may even have heard of MI9, which helped downed airmen escape in World War II. Few have heard of MI14(d) - home to Operation Columba. In this new spy story set during the Second World War, Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. Between 1941 and 1944, 16,000 pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' - a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds - authentic voices from rural France, Holland, Belgium, sometimes comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable, with details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar systems or the deployment of the V-1 and V-2 rockets that terrorized London. Who were the people who provided this rich seam of intelligence? Many were not trained agents nor people with experience of spying. At the centre of this audiobook is the 'Leopold Vindictive' network - a small group of Belgian villagers prepared to take huge risks. They were led by an extraordinary priest, Josef Raskin - a man connected to royalty and whose intelligence was so valuable it was shown to Churchill, leading MI6 to parachute agents to assist him. A powerful and tragic tale of espionage, the book brings together the British and Belgian sides of Leopold Vindictive's story and reveals for the first time the wider history of a quirky, quarrelsome ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Hope. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003297/bk_hcuk_003297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Erotic Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min, (USK 18)
My vacation was shaping up to be a momentous disappointment. I'd been on the island for five days, and it had done nothing but rain. I'd seen nothing but the inside of my hotel room. This was supposed to be my "single woman finds hot sex on vacation" trip. Instead, the hottest sex I'd had was when I decided I shouldn't waste my Brazilian wax job, and indulged in a bit of self-abuse with a lovely tingling lube. I called down to the lobby to find out about the nightlife on the island. The cheery girl who answered told me that the entire lobby was transformed into a club at night. I put on a dress that was more about exposing skin than covering it up. I piled my hair high on my head and slipped into a pair of heels that I normally wouldn't wear. I ordered room service for dinner, and then headed down to the transformed lobby. There were bodies everywhere, and it seemed that the dress code on the island beaches carried over to the club. I saw more skin just walking to the bar than I usually encountered in a few months. Everyone was gyrating and grinding, dancing wildly. I figured I'd join in and see where the night took me. I ordered a hurricane and a shot of rum. Before I could down the shot, there was a second one placed in front of me. I looked around and spotted a sexy shirtless guy at the end of the bar, he raised his shot to me and downed it. I followed suit with both of my shots. I picked up my drink and wandered in his direction. When I got there he grabbed my hand and kissed it gallantly, then gestured to the dance floor. Before I knew it, I was “this close” to his naked chest, and his hands were getting acquainted with all the skin my barely-there dress served up to him. We danced the evening away in between shots of rum and innocent tasting mixed drinks. We made our way back to my room hours later, carrying my shoes by their straps and still sipping on those lovely drinks. There was no need for words, as we got naked with a passi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathryn Ricks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005976/bk_acx0_005976_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Towerld Level 0018: The Lost Paradise of the Tricked Dumped and Downed
Towerld Level 0018: The Lost Paradise of the Tricked Dumped and Downed: ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Red Baron
Europe, 1916. a living legend flies in on painted wings to become famous the world over. For millions of his countrymen, he becomes an idol, a symbol of hope and pride, the provocative red paint adorning his Fokker aircraft earning him the nickname 'The Red Baron'. Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighofer) is the crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces, a legend in his own time, a hero at home and a man both feared and respected by the enemy, including Allied Forces' Canadian pilot, Captain Roy Brown (Joseph Fiennes). He and his fellow officers, including Lieutenant Voss (Til Schweiger), see their duels in the sky as almost sportsmanlike, clever challenges that, at least at first, obscure the reality of the horrors of the battlefields below. Unwittingly, he allows the German high command to manipulate his chivalrous code of honor and misuse him for propaganda purposes, until the young pilot falls in love with KSte (Lena Headey), a beautiful and resolute nurse who opens his eyes to the tragic fact that there is more to war than dogfights won and adversaries downed. With a torn heart, despite the heavy losses in his squadron, von Richthofen cannot help but take to the sky where each new combat mission could be his last.- Shop: odax
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