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Take Whiteman (CANZUK at War, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

CANZUK: An alliance including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom ------------------- The United States is into the third year of a terrible civil war. Once great American cities are now nuclear wastelands. As the world watches the former United States tear itself apart, Canada and the CANZUK alliance can standby no longer. Their freedom on the line. A Canadian paratrooper, a British tanker and an Australian commando lead their countries into the former United States and a war that will shape the rest of the world. In Canada, an untested deputy prime minister is confronted by an unthinkable home-grown plot and shadowy international forces who do not want her country to succeed. Through the eyes of frontline soldiers and pilots, intelligence officers and political leaders, Canada and her allies must overcome insurmountable odds to secure not only its freedom, but the freedom of democratic states across the world. Take Whiteman is a first of its kind a techno-military thriller written for Canadians but it is a story that will resonate with anyone who keeps a close eye on world events. Fans of Clancy (Red Storm Rising), Bond (Red Phoenix, Vortex), Lunnon-Wood (Long Reach) or Greaney (Red Metal) will enjoy this action-packed, politically savvy near-future novel. Take Whiteman is the first book in the CANZUK at War series. Caribbean Payback is a standalone novella that takes place in the CANZUK fictional universe.

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Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min

I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper's case has become the stuff of legend and obsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Gray delves into this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamous case.Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promising suspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trained paratrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of a decades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining a first-ever look at Cooper's FBI file. Beginning with a heartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself, from cabin to cockpit to tower, and uncanny portraits of characters who either chased Cooper or might have committed the crime, including Ralph Himmelsbach, the most dogged of FBI agents, who watched with horror as a criminal became a counter-culture folk hero who supposedly shafted the system.With explosive new information and exclusive access to FBI files and forensic evidence, Skyjack reopens one of the great cold cases of the 20th century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffrey Gray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002722/bk_rand_002722_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Right You Are, Mr. Moto , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min

In the final installment of John P. Marquand's classic espionage series, Mr. Moto returns - 15 years after his previous adventure. After serving his country as a paratrooper in World War II, Jack Rhyce takes on an even more dangerous mission when he becomes a secret agent in the early years of the Cold War. Now he and fellow spy Ruth Bogart have been dispatched to Tokyo to foil an assassination attempt on a leading liberal politician. Murder is only the first part of this nefarious Communist plot; the ultimate objective is to stir up anti-American sentiment in a country that has formed close bonds with its former adversary in the West. Undercover as do-gooders employed by the Asia Friendship League, Jack and Ruth are met at the airport by Mr. Moto, a would-be tour guide who offers to make their stay more hospitable. The American spies immediately suspect that there is more to Mr. Moto than meets the eye. But whose side is he on? To stop the cunning mastermind behind the sinister scheme, Jack and Ruth will have to learn the secrets of post-war Japan as quickly as possible. The mysterious Mr. Moto might just be their greatest ally, or their worst enemy. First serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, John P. Marquand's popular and acclaimed Mr. Moto Novels were the inspiration for eight films starring Peter Lorre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Christy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023244/bk_adbl_023244_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Grindhouse Lounge: Video World Vol. 4 - Ihr Filmführer durch den Videowahnsinn...

Grindhouse Lounge: Video World Vol. 4 - Ihr Filmführer durch den Videowahnsinn... ab 3.99 € als epub eBook: Mit den Retro-Reviews zu Gate - Die Unterirdischen Mörderischer Tausch Carnosaur 2 Amok Train Paratrooper Sirene 1 und vielen Mehr. . .. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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The Greatest Generation - World War 2: Diary of a 1st & 6th Airborne Paratrooper during the Second World War: Heroes of the Second World War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 166min

The Greatest Generation is the firsthand account of an English soldier who began his army career with the Long Range Desert Group in 1940, raided with David's Sterling's Special Air Service, volunteered for the 1st Airborne Division, and took part in their first ever jump. He then transferred to the 6th Airborne in 1943, and with them, he dropped at Pegasus Bridge, battled the Bulge, jumped the Rhine, and fought through Northern Germany to meet the Russians on the Baltic Coast, where they celebrated together with vodka.Albert arrested Joseph Kramer, the Beast of Belsen, escorted Prince Olaf of Norway during peacekeeping duties, and finally confronted Jewish nationalists in Palestine.Now, for the first time, his personal account is available and provides a fascinating insight into the minds of the men of the parachute brigade who carried out such dangerous wartime operations.Narrated by his grandson Albert Jack. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Albert Jack. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146776/bk_acx0_146776_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II, Hörbuch, Digital, 353min

A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he embarks upon his most ambitious epic, a trilogy about the military conflict that defined the 20th century. The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation's most poignant chronicle of World War II. With you-are-there immediacy, painstaking historical detail, and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic events that pulled America into the vortex of this monumental conflict. As Hitler conquers Poland, Norway, France, and most of Western Europe, England struggles to hold the line. When Germany's ally Japan launches a stunning attack on Pearl Harbor, America is drawn into the war, fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest of the Pacific, while standing side-by-side with their British ally, the last hope for turning the tide of the war. More than an unprecedented and intimate portrait of those who waged this astonishing global war, The Rising Tide is a vivid gallery of characters both immortal and unknown: the as-yet obscure administrator, Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose tireless efficiency helped win the war; and his subordinates, clashing in both style and personality, from George Patton and Mark Clark to Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery. In the desolate hills and deserts, the Allies confront Erwin Rommel, the battlefield genius known as "the Desert Fox", a wounded beast who hands the Americans their first humiliating defeat in the European theater of the war. From tank driver to paratrooper to the men who gave the commands, Shaara's stirring portrayals bring the heroic and the tragic to life in brilliant detail. A new level of accomplishment from this already acclaimed author, The Rising Tide will leave readers eager for the next volume of this superb saga of the war that saved and changed the world./ Language: English. Narrator: Larry Pine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000962/bk_rand_000962_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1012min

New York Times best-selling author Michael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States - a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East - provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region. Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed office. During Oren's tenure in office, Israel and America grappled with the Palestinian peace process, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by international terrorism and the Iranian nuclear program. Forged in the Truman administration, America's alliance with Israel was subjected to enormous strains, and its future was questioned by commentators in both countries. On more than one occasion, the friendship's very fabric seemed close to unraveling. Ally is the story of that enduring alliance - and of its divides - written from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home. No one could have been better suited to strengthen bridges between the United States and Israel than Michael Oren - a man equally at home jumping out of a plane as an Israeli paratrooper and discussing Middle East history on TV's Sunday morning political shows. In this fast-paced book, Oren interweaves the story of his personal journey with behind-the-scenes accounts of fateful meetings between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, high-stakes summits with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and diplomatic crises that intensified the controversy surrounding the world's most contested strip of land. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael B. Oren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004232/bk_rand_004232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min

It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contractor DynCorp International. Throughout the world similar scenarios are playing out daily. The United States can no longer go to war without contractors. Yet we don't know much about the industry's structure, its operations, or where it's heading. Typically led by ex-military men, contractor firms are by their very nature secretive. Even the U.S. government - the entity that actually pays them - knows relatively little. In The Modern Mercenary, Sean McFate lays bare this opaque world, explaining the economic structure of the industry and showing in detail how firms operate on the ground. A former US Army paratrooper and private military contractor, McFate provides an unparalleled perspective into the nuts and bolts of the industry as well as a sobering prognosis for the future of war. While at present the US government and US firms dominate the market, private military companies are emerging from other countries, and warlords and militias have restyled themselves as private security companies in places like Afghanistan and Somalia. To understand how the proliferation of private forces may influence international relations, McFate looks back to the European Middle Ages, when mercenaries were common and contract warfare the norm. He concludes that international relations in the twenty-first century may have more in common with the twelfth century than the twentieth. This "back to the future" situation, which he calls "neomedievalism," is not necessarily a negative condition, but it will produce a global system that contains rather than solves problems. The Modern Mercenary is the first work that combines a broad-ranging theory of the phenomenon with an insider's un ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Holsopple. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019800/bk_adbl_019800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Son of a Gun: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 412min

In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001: Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. "A real-life old West murder mystery", the local TV announcers intone, while barroom gossips snicker cruelly. But for her 20-year-old son, Justin St. Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after. Distancing himself from the legendary town of his childhood, Justin makes another life a world away in San Francisco and achieves all the surface successes that would have filled his mother with pride. Yet years later he’s still sleeping with a loaded rifle under his bed. Ultimately, he is pulled back to the desert landscape of his childhood on a search to make sense of the unfathomable. What made his mother, a onetime army paratrooper, the type of woman who would stand up to any man except the men she was in love with? What led her to move from place to place, man to man, job to job, until finally she found herself in a desperate and deteriorating situation, living on an isolated patch of desert with an unstable ex-cop? Justin’s journey takes him back to the ghost town of Wyatt Earp, to the trailers he and Debbie shared, to the string of stepfathers who were a constant, sometimes threatening presence in his life, to a harsh world on the margins full of men and women all struggling to define what family means. He decides to confront people from his past and delve into the police records in an attempt to make sense of his mother’s life and death. All the while he tries to be the type of man she would have wanted him to be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003604/bk_rand_003604_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hell Week , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 297min

Performing at your best, what are you really capable of? Hell Week will show you how to be your best self all of the time and learn in a week a set of skills that will change the rest of your life. Imagine your life as a straight line. Now imagine that you could break that line and leave behind all your regular habits and nagging doubts for just seven days. Hell Week shows how you can change your life's path in a single week, replacing your old self with your best self, by going through a specially tailored (and totally safe) version of the elite military exercise where participants are pushed to the limit to find out just how much they can take. Hell Week is about defeating limiting beliefs and demonstrating that you are capable of far more than you ever thought - and maintaining that level of performance for the rest of your life. Norway native Erik Bertrand Larssen is many things: a veteran paratrooper who served in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan, a successful entrepreneur and a mental coach. He has helped catapult the success of countless high achievers, including Microsoft and Stat Oil executives and Olympic medallists Martin Sundby and Suzann Pettersen. His life-altering method improves performance by getting people to push themselves past the brink of self-imposed limitations. Central to his technique is the commitment by clients to live and experience just one week as their best selves. It's this week, Larssen says, that will be the catalyst to making the most of the rest of one's life. Offering accessible tools and a pragmatic, inspirational advice, Larssen's game-changing Hell Week shows listeners how to apply the principles of military 'hell week' to their everyday lives, leading to lasting improvement, personal and professional success, and, most importantly, a new way of living to a higher standard. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shaun Grindell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001923/bk_hodd_001923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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