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  Sinbad Forever , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1352min

  The name actually means "greatest of sages," but let's face it: Sinbad is synonymous with adventure. His voyages are legendary, but only a few are really well-known. Here, then, are three consecutive tales brought to light for the first time, a trilogy of epic scope that spans not just the seven seas but the universe - and even time itself! Ride along with the sea captain as he heroically faces off against deadly sorcerers, fearsome creatures, and dark deities, most of them fiercely determined to either enslave humanity or destroy it. In the opener, Sinbad's path crosses that of the legendary Argo, bringing him face-to-face with the tortured hero Jason of Thessaly as they meet on a forbidden island where the Greek gods are safeguarding magical items too dangerous even to be kept on Olympus. Up next, is Sinbad at the End of the Universe, wherein Sinbad's search for his missing father takes him to the Scylla and Charybdis - and from there across the galaxy - all the while pursued by a treacherous and frequently invisible alchemist and conjurer dead set on revenge. And in the staggering conclusion to the Sinbad Forever Trilogy, Sinbad at the Dawn of Time, Sinbad and his unique band of comrades must find their way back to modern day (well, their modern day, anyway) from the Triassic Era if they are to help the outmatched heroes of Greece save Olympus from falling to the mighty Egyptian deity Sin and his winged legions of corrupted humanity. Adventure doesn't come any bigger than this. Fun for the whole family, especially those who grew up with the movies of Ray Harryhausen such as Jason and the Argonauts and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. In fact, those two movies are where the trilogy begins. Where does it go from there? Everywhere. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bridger Conklin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/186838/bk_acx0_186838_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The 300 Body: How to Build a Spartan Physique , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min

  Would you like to look like one of the 300? Here are the training secrets to build a Spartan-like physique in the fastest time possible! Download and listen to discover how you too can look like one of the 300 by following a simple training plan fit for the Spartans. Have you ever watched the movies on the famous 300 and thought to yourself "How can I look like one of them? Is it even possible"? Six day a week gym sessions lifting weights lasting nearly two hours followed by marathon cardio. Complicated split training programs, twice-a-day training, isolation exercises, German Volume Training. I've had the pleasure (and sometimes the misfortune) of trying them all in my quest for the perfect workout plan. What if I told you against tradition and what may seem like common sense, that the best way to look like a Spartan is to actually train much less, with basic exercises, but with total effort and focus? That this method has been developed and followed ever since man has lifted weights to improve his physique, and some of the top bodybuilders of all time have been its advocates? That the results when followed heroically are mind blowing? It's all true! Introducing The 300 Body How To Build A Spartan Physique. This powerful guide will provide you with the vital ingredients you need for quick and effective results. These are not myths or miracle pills or revolutionary training machines...this is the tried and tested truth! By grabbing this guide and incorporating it into your life you will be well on your way to packing on quality slabs of muscle and having a Spartan body. You can make muscle gain promises to yourself all day and night, but actually sticking to your goals is the hard part! Within this guide you will discover what works. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Trevor Clinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066180/bk_acx0_066180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min

  May 6, 1986: Nick Popaditch arrives at the Receiving Barracks, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California. April 9, 2003: An AP photographer captures a striking image seen around the world of the Gunny Sergeant smoking a victory cigar in his tank, the haunting statue of Saddam Hussein hovering in the background. Popaditch is immortalized forever as "The Cigar Marine." April 6, 2004: The tanker fights heroically in the battle for Fallujah and suffers grievous head wounds that leave him legally blind and partially deaf. The USMC awards him with a Silver Star for his valor and combat innovation. April 18, 2004: "Gunny Pop" comes home to face the toughest fight of his life - a battle to remain the man and Marine he was. This is the central drama of Nick's inspiring memoir, Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery. Listeners in and out of the military will stand up and cheer for this valiant Marine's Marine, a man who embodies everything noble and proud in the Corps' long tradition. Never has modern mechanized combat seemed so immediate and real, or the fight in Iraq seemed so human and worth believing in. At first, Nick fights to get back to where he was in Iraq-in the cupola of an M1A1 main battle tank, leading Marines in combat at the point of the spear. As the seriousness and permanence of his disabilities become more evident, Nick fights to remain in the Corps in any capacity, to help the brothers in arms he so aches to rejoin. Facing the inevitable following a medical retirement, he battles for rightful recognition and compensation for his permanent disabilities. Throughout his harrowing ordeal, Nick fights to maintain his honor and loyalty, waging all these battles the same way - the Marine way - because anything less would be a betrayal of all he holds dear. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danny Delk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/011439/bk_acx0_011439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min

  A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-Black armored unit to see combat in World War II. “More than a combat story...it’s also the story of how Black soldiers had to fight (literally and figuratively) for the right to fight the Germans.” (USA Today)Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first became immersed in the history of the 761st Battalion through family friend Leonard “Smitty” Smith, a veteran of the unit. Working with acclaimed writer Anthony Walton, Abdul-Jabbar interviewed surviving members of the battalion to weave together a pause-resisting narrative based on their memories, stories, and historical accounts, from basic training through the horrors of the battlefield to their postwar experiences. Trained essentially as a public relations gesture to maintain the support of the Black community for the war, the battalion was never intended to see battle. In fact, General Patton originally opposed their deployment, claiming African Americans couldn’t think quickly enough to operate tanks in combat conditions. But in the summer of 1944, following heavy casualties in the fields of France, the Allies - desperate for trained tank personnel - called the battalion up anyway. While most combat troops fought on the front for a week or two before being rotated back, the men of the 761st served for more than six months, fighting heroically under Patton’s Third Army at the Battle of the Bulge and in the Allies’ final drive across France and Germany. Despite a casualty rate that approached 50 percent and an extreme shortage of personnel and equipment, the 761st would ultimately help liberate some 30 towns and villages, as well as several branch concentration camps. The racism that shadowed them during the war and the prejudice they faced upon their return home are an indelible part of their story. Shining through most of all, however, are the lasting bonds that u ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000214/bk_bkot_000214_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1184min

  Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this third volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, we again meet Widmerpool, doggedly rising in rank; Jenkins, shifted from one dismal army post to another; Stringham, heroically emerging from alcoholism; Templer, still on his eternal sexual quest. Here, too, we are introduced to Pamela Flitton, one of the most beautiful and dangerous women in modern fiction. Wickedly barbed in its wit, uncanny in its seismographic recording of human emotions and social currents, this saga stands as an unsurpassed rendering of England's finest yet most costly hour. Includes the novels: The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's Art, and The Military Philosophers. As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Anthony Powell's book, you'll also receive an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. This interview – where James Atlas interviews Charles McGrath about the life and work of Anthony Powell – begins as soon as the audiobook ends. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001044/bk_adbl_001044_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Summary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 28min

  This is a summary of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. Clearly, Krakauer remains haunted by the disaster, and although he relates a number of incidents in which he acted selflessly and even heroically, he seems unable to view those instances objectively. In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in 57 hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), 20 other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds. Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed outside journalist and author of the best-selling Into the Wild. Taking the listener step by step from Katmandu to the mountain's deadly pinnacle, Krakauer has his listeners shaking on the edge of their seat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Hawking. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059726/bk_acx0_059726_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes, Hörbuch, Digital, 296min

  Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Black Panthers, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first learned about the battalion from family friend Leonard "Smitty" Smith, a veteran of the battalion. Working with acclaimed writer Anthony Walton, Abdul-Jabbar interviewed the surviving members of the battalion and their descendants to weave together a narrative based on their memories and stories, from basic training through the horrors on the battlefield to their postwar experiences in a racially divided America. Trained essentially as a public relations gesture to maintain the support of the black community for the war, the battalion was never intended to see battle. In fact, General Patton originally opposed their deployment, claiming African Americans couldn't think quickly enough to operate tanks in combat conditions. But the Allies were so desperate for trained tank personnel in the summer of 1944, following heavy casualties in the fields of France, that the battalion was called up. While most combat troops fought on the front for a week or two before being rotated back, the men of the 761st served for more than six months, fighting heroically under Patton's Third Army at the Battle of the Bulge and in the Allies' final drive across France and Germany. Despite a casualty rate that approached 50 percent and an extreme shortage of personnel and equipment, the 761st would ultimately help liberate some 30 towns and villages, as well as the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp. The racism that shadowed them during the war and the prejudice they faced upon their return home is an indelible part of their story. What shines through most of all, however, are the lasting bonds that united them as soldiers and brothers, the bravery they exhibited on the battlefield, and the quiet dignity and patriotism that defined their lives. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Francis James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000423/bk_rand_000423_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Arthur: Shadow of a God , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 352min

  King Arthur has fascinated the Western world for over a thousand years and yet we still know nothing more about him now than we did then. Layer upon layer of heroics and exploits has been piled upon him to the point where history, legend, and myth have become hopelessly entangled. In recent years, there has been a sort of scholarly consensus that "the once and future king" was clearly some sort of Romano-British warlord, heroically stemming the tide of wave after wave of Saxon invaders after the end of Roman rule. But surprisingly, and no matter how much we enjoy this narrative, there is actually next-to-nothing solid to support this theory except the wishful thinking of understandably bitter contemporaries. The sources and scholarship used to support the "real Arthur" are as much tentative guesswork and pushing "evidence" to the extreme to fit in with this version as anything involving magic swords, wizards, and dragons. Even archaeology refuses to speak out. Arthur is, and always has been, the square peg that refuses to fit neatly into the historians' round hole. Arthur: Shadow of a God gives a fascinating overview of Britain's lost hero and casts a light over an often-overlooked and somewhat inconvenient truth: Arthur was almost certainly not a man at all, but a god. He is linked inextricably to the world of Celtic folklore and Druidic traditions. Whereas tyrants like Nero and Caligula were men who fancied themselves gods, is it not possible that Arthur was a god we have turned into a man? Perhaps then there is a truth here. Arthur, "The King Under the Mountain", sleeping until his return will never return, after all, because he doesn't need to. Arthur the god never left in the first place and remains as popular today as he ever was. His legend echoes in stories, films, and games that are every bit as imaginative and fanciful as that which the minds of talented bards such as Taliesin and Aneirin came up with when the mists of the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Greville. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155197/bk_acx0_155197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The War of the Sicilian Vespers: The History and Legacy of Sicily’s Rebellion Against the French in the Late 13th Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min

  The largest island of the Mediterranean has always been a complicated place with a fraught relationship to the Italian mainland. Separated by only the narrow Strait of Messina, Sicily feels like a different country in many ways, and the differences between Sicilians and Italians are much vaster than the tiny geographical separating them might intimate. For example, the linguistic differences between the two are substantial, as Sicilian is practically its own language, rather than just a dialect. In fact, most Italians have difficulty understanding Sicilian if they can comprehend any of it, at all.However diverse Sicily might be, it is also paradoxically considered to be an emblem of Italy itself - a paradox it shares with Naples. In fact, Frederick II was the last ruler of a fully autonomous Sicily, and his son Manfred (r. 1254 - 1258), was the final Norman ruler in Sicily. Manfred met his death heroically on the battlefield, fighting the army of Charles of Anjou after Charles was made King of Rome by the Vatican in 1266.Charles chose Naples as the capital of his lands, and this created tensions between his people and the Sicilians, culminating with a rebellion known as the Sicilian Vespers of 1282. According to legend, the rebellion started after a French soldier harassed a Sicilian woman on Easter Sunday outside the Church of Santo Spirito.When it started, the rebellion inaugurated a period of anarchy in Sicily, and for a time, it was unclear who would take the crown. Two warring factions, the Aragonese and the Angevins, competed for the crown for 90 years, to the detriment of all involved.At one point, there were two different kings of Sicily, one from each side, and it was not until 1372 that peace was finally reached and the Aragonese were awarded rule of Sicily. As a result of all this geopolitical turmoil, Sicily’s status in the world was greatly diminished. Spain was on the rise, and even if Palermo received certain bureaucrati ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221558/bk_acx0_221558_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Shattered by Fate: Part Two of Fate's Path , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 586min

  This is part two of Fate's Path. For your enjoyment, hear part one, Surrender to Fate, first! One heart cannot remember. Another heart cannot forget. Both hearts reach toward something to grasp. For Sarah, it is her past. For Will, it is to bring that past back. The only thing standing squarely in their way is their future. Each has promised their heart and life to another. But where happiness should be instead are the dark, billowing clouds of a storm of reckoning. The thunder of regret splits a horizon now raining down upon them in shards of shattered promises and unreachable memories. In book one of this three-part romance series, fate seemed it would not be denied, bringing Sarah and Will together in a turbulent world, uniting two hearts for the right reason: young love. But, almost as if it has eyes, fate sees to it that no love that is meant to be is allowed to be, without it being tested to the passionate edges of chance. Accidents. Small ones are remembered and retold with a laugh. Useful ones are celebrated. But shattering ones, those are the ones that slip from the fingers of fate. The kinds that are followed by silence as it roars the sound of life changing. And it is this pounding drone that Sarah and Will, once inseparable, now hear when they listen to their hearts. After her accident, Sarah awakens in a hospital room and into a very different life. Will, accidentally buried by heavy timber when he heroically saves a fellow worker, is also delivered into his own unforeseen, disoriented new life. Destiny's dust never settles. And nothing is clear when doubts appear. Sarah is betrothed to Adley, while Will is engaged to Margaret, yet both are still connected to each other by an indescribable draw seemingly groping out from the deepest reaches of fate. A fate that deliberately leaves the door of temptation cracked open, and leaves both to fight the desperate desires of wanting what each knows they cannot have. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kiana Reye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107517/bk_acx0_107517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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