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Fall of Light: The Second Book in the Kharkanas Trilogy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2680min

It is a bitter winter, and civil war is ravaging Kurald Galain. Urusander's Legion prepares to march on the city of Kharkanas. The rebels' only opposition lies scattered and weakened - bereft of a leader since Anomander's departure in search of his estranged brother. The remaining brother, Silchas Ruin, rules in his stead. He seeks to gather the Houseblades of the Highborn families to him and resurrect the Hust Legion in the southlands, but he is fast running out of time. The officers and leaders of Urusander's Legion, led by the ruthless Hunn Raal, want the Consort, Draconus, cast aside and their commander to marry Mother Dark and take his place at the side of the Living Goddess. But this union will be far more than simply political. A sorcerous power has claimed those opposing Mother Dark: given form by the exiled High Priestess Syntara, the Cult of Light rises in answer to Mother Dark and her Children. Far to the west, an unlikely army has gathered, seeking an enemy without form, in a place none can find and commanded by a Jaghut driven mad with grief. It seems Hood's call has been heard, and the long-abandoned city of Omtose Phellack is now home to a rabble of new arrivals: Dog-Runners from the south and Jheck warriors. From the Western Sea strange ships have grounded upon the harsh shore, bearing blue-skinned strangers to offer Hood their swords. And from mountain fastnesses and isolated valleys of the North, Toblakai arrive to pledge themselves to Hood's seemingly impossible war. Soon they will set forth - or not at all - under the banners of the living. Soon weapons will be drawn, with Death itself the enemy. Beneath the chaos of such events, and spanning the realm and those countless other realms hidden behind its veil, magic now bleeds into the world. Unconstrained, mysterious and savage, the power that is the lifeblood of the Azathanai, K'rul, runs loose and wild - and following its scent, seeking the places of wounding and hurt ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barnaby Edwards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002361/bk_rhuk_002361_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Under Fire: Battleground Vietnam, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min

Under Fire is the incredible fictional story of PFC Carl Yeager’s arrival in Vietnam for his first tour and a life or death mission deep inside the Iron Triangle.PFC Carl Yeager, a rookie infantryman, is on his first tour of Vietnam. Like most new arrivals to war-torn South Vietnam, he has no idea of what he’ll be up against. Going on his first patrol with mixed feelings, his platoon runs into a VC ambush. Fighting off an enemy who appeared from nowhere, he gathers together a scratch unit and pursues the Vietcong ambush party deep into the jungle. Until they disappear, melting into the gloom like ghosts.Where did they come from, and where did they go? Desperate for tunnel "experts", the army commander in South Vietnam assigns him to a recon unit. Their task is to enter the Iron Triangle and search for the elusive tunnels, despite his terror of dark, cramped, and enclosed spaces - a terror he must overcome if he is to fight and defeat the Vietcong on their own ground.Soon, he discovers a shocking and gruesome discovery. The bodies of his former platoon mutilated and dismembered in a gruesome attempt to undermine American morale. Yeager is now a man with a life-or-death mission. To find and kill Commissar Trinh Tac, the man who ordered the massacre. He is reported to be hiding inside the Iron Triangle, just as Operation Cedar Falls begins. The plan is to wipe out the nest of VC dug into the subterranean maze. Yeager’s unit is tasked to go in and wipe out one man: Commissar Trinh Tac.Under Fire is the incredible fictional story of PFC Carl Yeager’s arrival in Vietnam for his first tour, a prequel to Under Siege, a story set during the Siege of Khe Sanh. A full-length novel by the best-selling author of many special-ops books. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, Heroes of Afghanistan, Raider, Echo Six, and Devil's Guard titles. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James R. Cheatham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233103/bk_acx0_233103_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Helga Paris. Leipzig Hauptbahnhof 1981/82

Der Leipziger Hauptbahnhof war in den 1970er Jahren ein uneingelöstes Versprechen auf Welt. Die Züge quietschten herzzerreißend, die Lautsprecheransagen verhallten im Nirwana der riesigen Bahnhofshalle. Es war ein einfacher, lauter, mechanischer Ort. Reisende und das Personal hatten sich in den unterschiedlichen Räumen des Ankommens und Abfahrens eingerichtet. In der Mitropa, wo das Geschirr selbst abgeräumt werden musste, versammelten sich sämtliche soziale Schichten - 24 Stunden lang. Die Zeit scheint auf den rund 80 Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografien von Helga Paris nicht voranzuschreiten. Man sieht nur selten jemanden nach einem Zug hasten. Uhren gibt es nicht. Alle warten: die Klofrau auf das Schichtende, die Lotterieverkäuferin auf den nächsten Glückssucher, die Rentnerin auf ihr Bier. Helga Paris' Serie ist eine meisterhafte Milieustudie mit unverwechselbaren Charakteren gelungen - die Randfiguren bestimmen die Szenerie des unendlichen Wartesaals.Helga Paris (1938) ist eine der wichtigsten deutschen Fotografinnen. Sie wurde mit ihrem Band »Diva in Grau« berühmt, in dem sie den Verfall der Altstadt von Halle / Saale in den 1980er Jahren festhielt und damit das Ende der DDR vorwegnahm.In the 1970s, Leipzig central station was an unfulfilled promise to the world. The trains creaked and squealed piteously and the loudspeaker announcements went unheard in the nirvana of the huge station hall. It was a simple, loud, mechanical place. Travellers and staff had settled themselves into the different rooms for arrivals and departures. In the Mitropa, where the dish- es had to be cleared away by themselves, all the different social strata gathered together-for twenty-four hours. Time seems to stand still in Helga Paris's eighty black-and-white photographs. Only rarely do you see anyone hurrying for a train. There are no clocks. Everyone is waiting: the toilet attendant for the end of her shift, the woman selling lottery tickets for the next person seeking to make their fortune, the pensioner for her beer. Helga Paris' series is a masterful study of a particular milieu with unmistakable characters-the marginal figures define the scenery of the endless waiting room.Helga Paris (b. 1938) is one of the most important photographers in Germany. She made a name for herself with her volume Diva in Grau, in which she recorded the decline of the historic town centre of Halle / Saale in the 1980s, thus anticipating the end of the GDR.

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