Tag: Story

Free Download Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell, Dorje Swallow, Penguin Random House Australia Audio
English | 2012 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0933HBG3R | MP3@128 Kbps | Duration: 13:53 h | 795 Mb
March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s Indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know little about Dayaks, other than that they were once headhunters who might kill them on arrival. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face.
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than 100 Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on two of Borneo’s great rivers – the Baram and Rejang – the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II’s and Semut III’s brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation.

Free Download Racing for the Bomb: The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age by Robert S. Norris, Peter Johnson, Audible Studios
English | 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00P71I0TA | M4B@64 kbps | 23h 1m | 627 Mb
In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project’s remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was Groves who drove manufacturers, construction crews, scientists, industrialists, and military and civilian officials to come up with the money, the materials, and the plans to solve thousands of problems and build the bomb in only two years. It was his operation, and in Racing for the Bomb, he emerges as a take-charge, can-do figure who succeeds in the face of formidable odds. Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves’s actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed. Groves’s extensive influence on key institutions of postwar America has been overlooked for too long. In this full-scale biography, which includes archival material and family letters and documents and features several previously unpublished photographs, Norris places Groves at the center of the amazing Manhattan Project story.

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Free Download Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: N/A | 2023 | 11 hours and 52 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 654 MB
Author: Peter Taylor
Narrator: Peter Taylor
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5’s top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland. April 1998: the Good Friday Agreement is signed, ending decades of violence and bloodshed in Northern Ireland. The process of getting the IRA to end its so-called ‘armed struggle’ was always the prerequisite of the search for peace. It was Operation Chiffon that finally helped make it possible. Operation Chiffon takes us inside the top-secret intelligence operation whose roots go back to the bloodiest years of the conflict in the early 1970s, involving officers from MI6 and, later in the 1990s, MI5.

Free Download No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of a League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGSNFZH | 2023 | 10 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Erin Carlson
Narrator: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
The inside story of how A League of Their Own-one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time-developed from an unheralded piece of American history into a perennial cinematic favorite. Featuring exclusive interviews and behind the scenes memories from the original cast and creators. No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one‑of‑a‑kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys).

Free Download My Transgender Coming Out Story by Parker Marie Molloy, Audible Studios
English | 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00MOR9W4W | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 1:24 h | 38 Mb
My Transgender Coming Out Story is the memoir of Parker Marie Molloy, a transgender woman from Chicago, detailing her upbringing, the struggles she had coming to terms with her transgender status, her experience starting hormone replacement therapy, and the act of building and sustaining relationships in a post-transition life. She also shares thoughts on gender, coming out, and the concept of self-discovery. This is an audiobook for anyone who has ever felt out of place, out of touch with themselves and the world around them.

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Free Download Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGML64VN | 2023 | 7 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Roy A. Meals
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
An entertaining deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the latest science of strength training. Muscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump, and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athleticism. We can mold our muscles with exercise and observe the results. In this lively, lucid book, orthopedic surgeon Roy A. Meals takes us on a wide-ranging journey through anatomy, biology, history, and health to unlock the mysteries of our muscles. He breaks down the three different types of muscle-smooth, skeletal, and cardiac-and explores major advancements in medicine and fitness, including cutting-edge gene-editing research and the science behind popular muscle conditioning strategies. Along the way, he offers insight into the changing aesthetic and cultural conception of muscle, from Michelangelo’s David to present-day bodybuilders, and shares fascinating examples of strange muscular maladies and their treatment. Brimming with fun facts and infectious enthusiasm, Muscle sheds light on the astonishing, essential tissue that moves us through life.

Free Download Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV4Y5XZ3 | 2023 | 11 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 648 MB
Author: Jerry Dunleavy, James Hasson
Narrator: Maxwell Hamilton
This hard-hitting book is the definitive account of the Biden administration’s most disgraceful hour-and the chaos it unleashed in the world. America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield. Desperate Afghans fell from the landing gear of departing planes. Taliban fighters mercilessly whipped and humiliated U.S. civilians trying to access the few square miles still controlled by American forces. Countless Afghan interpreters were abandoned to the mercy of the Taliban after risking their lives alongside American troops for years.

Free Download Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C28QL2J1 | 2023 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Marisa Meltzer
Narrator: Cassandra Medcalf
The bombshell exposé that reveals-for the first time-exactly what happened at Glossier, one of America’s hottest and most consequential startups, and dives deep into the enigmatic, visionary woman responsible for it all. Called "one of the most disruptive brands in beauty" by Forbes, Glossier revolutionized the beauty industry with its sophisticated branding and unique approach to influencer marketing, almost instantly making the company a juggernaut with rabid fans lining up for a chance to buy its coveted products. It also taught a generation of business leaders how to talk to Millennial and Gen Z customers and build a cult following online. At the center of the story lies Emily Weiss, the elusive former Teen Vogue "superintern" on the reality show The Hills turned Into the Gloss beauty blogger who had the vision, guts, and searing ambition needed to launch Glossier. She cannily turned every experience, every meeting into an opportunity to fuel her own personal success.

Free Download Calling Detective Crockford: The Story of a Pioneering Policewoman in the 1950s (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFN74GH8 | 2023 | 10 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Ruth D’Alessandro
Narrator: Rachel Atkins
This nostalgic and absorbing memoir tells the story of a real-life female police detective in post-war Britain, as she navigates a man’s world. It’s 1956, and the Berkshire Constabulary has never had a woman detective before. That is, until bright and ambitious WPC Gwen Crockford passes out of Hendon Detective Training School with flying colours…After five years serving as one of Britain’s first policewomen, Gwen Crockford becomes one of its first female detectives. Swapping crime prevention for detection, she must soon become comfortable with attending murder scenes and post-mortems, investigating sex crimes and going undercover.

Free Download Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTQ5HYY9 | 2023 | 10 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Pardis Mahdavi
Narrator: Pardis Mahdavi, Shila Ommi, Suzanne Toren, Sitara Attaie, Nikki Massoud, Sean Rohani
The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters-horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse-and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them. Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country’s first line of defense from marauding warlords.