Tag: War

Free Download The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1TDVBHN | 2023 | 14 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 419 MB
Author: Andrew Pettegree
Narrator: Sean Barrett
A top literary historian illuminates how books were used in war across the twentieth century-both as weapons and as agents for peace. We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath-one ranks among humanity’s greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at War explores the various roles that books have played in conflicts throughout the globe. Winston Churchill used a travel guide to plan the invasion of Norway, lonely families turned to libraries while their loved ones were fighting in the trenches, and during the Cold War both sides used books to spread their visions of how the world should be run. As solace or instruction manual, as critique or propaganda, books have shaped modern military history-for both good and ill. With precise historical analysis and sparkling prose, The Book at War accounts for the power-and the ambivalence-of words at war.

Free Download Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVGKMV1L | 2023 | 11 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 331 MB
Author: William R. Hogan
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father’s tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany-against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf-and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II. At twenty-eight, Sam Hogan is one of the youngest lieutenant colonels in the US Army. The West Point graduate from Texas stands in the commander’s hatch of his Sherman tank, behind him a steel wedge of seventeen other Shermans of his tank battalion. Two weeks after the now-infamous D-Day landings, Sam is preparing to give the order to advance into the German defenses that enclose the Normandy beachheads. Ahead of Sam lies seemingly impossible odds for survival: technologically superior Nazi tanks, camouflaged anti-tank guns, and infantry armed with new anti-tank rockets. But Sam has prepared for this moment for the past seven years. With a guttural call to move out accompanied by diesel fumes and the squeak of tank treads, Sam and his men begin their long journey to liberate Europe-a journey from which many of them would not return.

Free Download Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHFVXFKL | 2023 | 31 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 904 MB
Author: Gary J. Bass
Narrator: Simon Vance
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals-the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg. In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against civilians in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of prisoners of war in notorious incidents such as the Bataan death march. For the Allied powers, the trial was an opportunity to render judgment on their vanquished foes, but also to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war, building a more peaceful world under international law and American hegemony. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was victors’ justice.

Free Download Ike in Love and War: How Dwight D. Eisenhower Sacrificed Himself to Keep the Peace (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNFW21LP | 2023 | 14 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 405 MB
Author: Richard Striner
Narrator: Bob Souer
Behind the demeanor that made Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower so popular was a cold-as-steel intelligence that kept his country prosperous and out of danger. Because his operating methods were so deeply hidden, it is only in the past few decades that historians have grasped the full extent of his achievements. Ike in Love and War shows the hidden sacrifices that made Eisenhower remarkable. It probes the mission that was driving him: the quest to reconcile his skill as a fighter with his mother’s pacifism, which led him to become the greatest peacekeeper of his age.

Free Download Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNFCVK2D | 2023 | 13 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 369 MB
Author: Jennet Conant
Narrator: EJ Lavery
Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman. While the Herald Tribune exploited her feminine appeal-regularly featuring the photogenic "girl reporter" on its front pages-it was Maggie’s dogged determination, talent for breaking news, and unwavering ambition that brought her success from one war zone to another.

Free Download Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHX4NPP4 | 2023 | 12 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Caroline E. Janney
Narrator: Ed Cunningham
The Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself.

Free Download Damn This War!: Between the Blitz and the Desert, a Story of War-Crossed Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNS815LH | 2023 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Julie Hankey
Narrator: Julie Hankey
The love story of Zippa and Tony is nothing without the context of the Second World War. The war introduced them-they met as blackout wardens in London. It gave them darkened streets to wander in, hand in hand, then, by sending Tony away to officer training camps, it sharpened their hunger for each other, casting a glow over his comings and goings. It turned them into schemers and wanglers against fate and army regulations. It pressed them into marriage, and when the war decided to deploy him to North Africa, it whispered the urgent question of a baby. To which Tony, thinking of the war, replied maybe not; and Zippa, thinking of the war, said yes. In spite of themselves, the war experience was changing them both, and yet both were hanging on, looking back, suspended in memory and time, and living from letter to letter. Decades later, their daughter Julie discovered their letters, and piecing them together began to create a portrait of her parents and their relationship that was completely unfamiliar to her. Vivid, honest and completely absorbing, Damn This War! is a true insight into a wartime love story.

Free Download Damn This War!: Between the Blitz and the Desert, a Story of War-Crossed Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNS815LH | 2023 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Julie Hankey
Narrator: Julie Hankey
The love story of Zippa and Tony is nothing without the context of the Second World War. The war introduced them-they met as blackout wardens in London. It gave them darkened streets to wander in, hand in hand, then, by sending Tony away to officer training camps, it sharpened their hunger for each other, casting a glow over his comings and goings. It turned them into schemers and wanglers against fate and army regulations. It pressed them into marriage, and when the war decided to deploy him to North Africa, it whispered the urgent question of a baby. To which Tony, thinking of the war, replied maybe not; and Zippa, thinking of the war, said yes. In spite of themselves, the war experience was changing them both, and yet both were hanging on, looking back, suspended in memory and time, and living from letter to letter. Decades later, their daughter Julie discovered their letters, and piecing them together began to create a portrait of her parents and their relationship that was completely unfamiliar to her. Vivid, honest and completely absorbing, Damn This War! is a true insight into a wartime love story.

Free Download Containing History: How Cold War History Explains US-Russia Relations (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFW23YPK | 2023 | 17 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 948 MB
Author: Stephen P. Friot
Narrator: Gary Roelofs
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with US and Russia relations approaching a breaking point, this book provides a key to understanding how we got here. Specifically, Stephen P. Friot asks, how do Russians and Americans think about each other, and why do they see the world so differently? The answers, Friot suggests, lie in the historical events surrounding the Cold War and their divergent influence on politics and popular consciousness. Cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural in its scope, Containing History employs the tools and insights of history, political science, and international relations to explain how 21st century public attitudes in Russia are the product of a thousand years of history, including searing experiences in the 20th century that have no counterparts in US history.

Free Download Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLMBN1HD | 2023 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Peter Hart
Narrator: Julian Elfer
This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable-the sheer nerve-wracking tension of serving in highly inflammable Sherman tanks, the sudden impact of German shells, the desperate scramble to bail out, and the awful fate of those who couldn’t. Even if they made it out of the tank, they were still vulnerable to being brutally cut down by German infantry. Yet amidst these horrors, the humanity of these men shines through. And as we follow in their tracks, through letters, diaries, and eye-witness accounts, they will change how we think about tank warfare forever.