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Free Download The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick, George Guidall, Penguin Audio
English | May 04, 2010 | ISBN: B003KQMG26 | 12 hours and 12 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 353 Mb
The best-selling author of Mayflower sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West.
Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer’s Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans’ defeat at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
In his tightly structured narrative, Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly sketches the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, whose charisma and political savvy earned him the position of leader of the Plains Indians, and George Armstrong Custer, one of the Union’s greatest cavalry officers and a man with a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage.

Free Download Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy by Peter S. Canellos, Skipp Sudduth, Simon Schuster Audio
English | February 17, 2009 | ISBN: B001THVZNE | 7 hours and 13 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 213 Mb
No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy – the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father’s enormous ambitions – would go on to live a life that no one could have predicted. Dismissed as a spent force in politics by the time he reached middle age, Ted became the most powerful senator of the last half century and the nation’s keeper of traditional liberalism.
As Peter S. Canellos and his team of Boston Globe reporters show, the gregarious, pudgy, and least academically successful of the Kennedy boys has witnessed greater tragedy and suffered greater pressure than any of his siblings. At the age of 36, Ted Kennedy found himself the last brother, the champion of a generation’s dreams and ambitions. He would be expected to give the nation the confidence to confront its problems and to build a fairer society at home and abroad.
He quickly failed in spectacular fashion. Late one night in the summer of 1969, he left the scene of a fatal automobile accident on Chappaquiddick Island. The death there of a young woman from his brother’s campaign would haunt and ultimately doom his presidential ambitions. Political rivals turned his all-too-human failings – drinking, philandering, and divorce – into a condemnation of his liberal politics.

Free Download Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR4H57QL | 2024 | 17 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: M. G. Sheftall
Narrator: Brian Nishii
The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience. In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha-the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors-in harrowing detail, to give a minute-by-minute report of August 6, 1945, in the leadup and aftermath of the world-changing bombing mission of Paul Tibbets, Enola Gay, and Little Boy. These survivors and witnesses, who now have an average age over ninety years old, are quite literally the last people who can still provide us with reliable and detailed testimony about life in their cities before the bombings, tell us what they experienced on the day those cities were obliterated, and give us some appreciation of what it has entailed to live with those memories and scars during the subsequent seventy-plus years.

Free Download THE LAST STRAW: When God Says Enough Is Enough by Michael Yeager
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DB13WV8M | 199 pages | EPUB | 0.47 Mb
In life, there comes a moment when we reach the tipping point, where a wrong decision, no matter how small, spells disaster. This moment is encapsulated in the proverb "the straw that broke the camel’s back." In "The Last Straw: When God Says Enough Is Enough," Dr. Michael H. Yeager delves deep into this powerful metaphor, exploring how seemingly minor actions or decisions can lead to profound consequences when we persistently ignore God’s warnings and guidance.

Free Download Sergei Lukyanenko, "The Last Watch"
English | 2009 | pages: 382 | ISBN: 1401309275, 043401737X | PDF | 0,6 mb
The fourth novel in the blockbuster series from one of Russia’s most popular authors, Last Watch returns us to the hyperimaginative world of Sergei Lukyanenko, where the endless battle between good and evil is about to reach its climax.

Free Download The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar, translated by Frank Wynne
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 0063349760 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.98 MB
Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction.

Free Download The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals by Laura Mason
English | May 24, 2022 | ISBN: 0300259557 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 2.5 MB
The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republic’s defeat

Free Download The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress by James R. Jones
English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 0691223637 | 248 pages | PDF | 1.91 Mb
A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplace

Free Download The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress by James R. Jones
English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 0691223637 | 248 pages | PDF | 1.91 Mb
A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplace

Free Download Robert M. Citino, Tom Beyer (Narrator), "The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945"
English | ASIN: B0DBJ8TL5J | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~25:29:00 | 714 MB
By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world’s leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this book, Citino charts the path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a "war of movement," inexorably led to Nazi Germany’s defeat.
The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or "death ride," from January 1944-with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine-until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino’s previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army’s strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies in World War II.
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