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Free Download The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America (Audiobook)
English | March 25, 2014 | ASIN: B00IREMAE0 | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 18m | 401 MB
Author: Ed Offley | Narrator: Robertson Dean
On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom of the channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on the German submarine U-701.
In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen’s rampage along the American coast and of US Lieutenant Harry J. Kane’s quest to bring him down. Since the beginning of 1942, German U-boats had prowled the waters of the Atlantic, sinking merchant ships and threatening to sever the lifeline of supplies flowing from the United States to Great Britain. But when Kane and his crew spotted the silhouette of U-701 offshore that summer, the ensuing clash signaled a critical turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic-and the beginning of an unlikely friendship between the two rival commanders.

Free Download Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRYV2NC | 2024 | 8 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Nina St. Pierre
Narrator: Nina St. Pierre
A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart. Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on, her mother’s pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment. Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual practices as often as apartments.

Free Download The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
English | March 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1837860467 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 0.5 MB
A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre.

Free Download Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery By Benjamin Carter Hett
2014 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 0199322325 | PDF | 2 MB
In February 1933, Adolf Hitler had only a tenuous grasp on power. Chancellor of Germany for merely four weeks, he led a fragile coalition government. The Nazis had lost seats in the Reichstag in the recent election, and claimed only three of thirteen cabinet posts. Then on February 27th, arson sent the Reichstag, the home and symbol of German democracy, up in flames. Immediately blaming the Communists, Hitler’s new government approved a decree that tore the heart out of the democratic constitution of the Weimar Republic and cancelled the rule of law. Five thousand people were immediately arrested. The Reichstag fire marked the true beginning of the Third Reich, which ruled for 12 more years. The controversy surrounding the fire’s origins has endured for 80.In Burning the Reichstag, Benjamin Hett offers a gripping account of Hitler’s rise to dictatorship-one that challenges orthodoxy and recovers the true significance of the part the fire played. At the scene the police arrested 23-year-old Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist stonemason. Though he was initially dismissed abroad as a Nazi tool, post-war historians since the 1950s have largely judged him solely guilty-a lone arsonist exploited by Hitler. Hett’s book reopens the case, providing vivid portraits of key figures, including Rudolf Diels, Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and the historian Fritz Tobias, whose account of the fire has, until now, been the standard. Making use of a number of new sources and archives, Hett sets the Reichstag fire in a wider context, revealing how and why it has remained one of the last mysteries of the Nazi period, and one of the most controversial and contested events in the 20th century.

Free Download Ajay Singh Chaudhary, "The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World"
English | ISBN: 1915672112 | 2024 | 400 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?

Free Download Hilary Beard, "The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1250787696, 1250878640 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 4.9 mb
One of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Free Download Steven T. Jones, "The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert Is Shaping the New American Counterculture"
English | 2011 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1888729430 | EPUB | 5,4 mb
From its anarchic early days to its present dreams of world domination, this is the untold story of Burning Man-the most popular, unique, and enduring countercultural event of recent times in which alternative lifestyle enthusiasts erect a giant statue and construct a temporary city to live in for about a week in the Nevada desert. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world have made the dusty pilgrimage to Black Rock City to take part in this experiment in participatory art, gift culture, and bacchanalian celebration-and many say their lives were fundamentally changed by the experience. This current look at the expansion of the lifestyle reveals how in recent years Burning Man has taken on a new character, with the frontier becoming a real city and the many tribes of the event-the fire artists, circus freaks, music lovers, do-gooders, grungy builders, and myriad other burner collectives-developing a perennial presence in sister cities all over the world. Chronicling Burning Man’s renaissance years from 2004 to the present, this epic journey features some of the culture’s most inspiring and colorful leaders and is a search for meaning in the most unexpected places.

Free Download Burning Pacific: Book 5 of the Pacific Alternate Series
by Max Lamirande
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0BN55VZ2X | 289 Pages | ePUB | 1.62 MB

Free Download Frederic Wehrey, "The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0374278245, 0374538239 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 4.0 mb
A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi.

Free Download Jane Schwartz, "Ruffian: Burning from the Start"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0345450000, 0345360176 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.6 mb
During two short seasons at the track, Ruffian was hailed as the greatest thoroughbred filly of all time. Unbeaten in her first ten starts, she shattered one record after another, dazzling crowds with both her beauty and her brilliant speed. Then tragedy struck on the afternoon of July 6, 1975. Ruffian broke down-on the lead-in the middle of a match race at Belmont Park. Later that night she had to be destroyed.