Tag: War

Free Download Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CG2JFRJC | 2023 | 16 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 446 MB
Author: Brooke Lindy Blower
Narrator: Nancy Peterson
A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans’ global connections. On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways’ celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York’s Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war.

Free Download When the Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BR8MDBTT | 2023 | 8 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Rich Cohen
Narrator: Cary Hite
The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and off-the-court drama between Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and Michael Jordan-from New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen. Four historic teams. Four legendary players. One unforgettable season. The 1980s were a transformative decade for the NBA. Since its founding in 1946, the league had evolved from a bruising, earthbound game of mostly nameless, underpaid players to one in which athletes became household names for their thrilling, physics-defying play. The 1987-88 season was the peak of that golden era, a year of incredible drama that featured a pantheon of superstars in their prime-the most future Hall of Famers competing at one time in any given season-battling for the title, and for their respective legacies.

Free Download War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7HGGP36 | 2023 | 8 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 255 MB
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Narrator: Sam Hill
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew. Raised for vastly different futures, one burdened with the responsibility of becoming the future king and the other destined to live in his shadow, Charles and Andrew have spent their lives on different sides of the same coin. War of the Windsors tells, for the first time, the complete story of Charles and Andrew from their diverging childhoods to their current struggles.

Free Download Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP632492 | 2023 | 11 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 323 MB
Author: Jeremy Eichler
Narrator: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes
A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past. In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal "Ode to Joy," he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace and freedom, a time when millions would be embraced as equals. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony then gave wing to Schiller’s words, but barely a century later these same words were claimed by Nazi propagandists and twisted by a barbarism so complete that it ruptured, as one philosopher put it, "the deep layer of solidarity among all who wear a human face." When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time’s Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler makes a passionate and revelatory case for the power of music as culture’s memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past.

Free Download The Civil War by Julius Caesar, Robin Field, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2011 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B005X70U7S | MP3@64 kbps | 7 hrs 40 mins | 209 Mb
The Civil War is Julius Caesar’s personal account of his war with Pompey the Great – the war that destroyed the five-hundred-year-old Roman Republic. Caesar the victor became Caesar the dictator. In three short books, Caesar describes how, in order to defend his honor and the freedom of both himself and the Roman people, he marched on Rome and defeated the forces of Pompey and the Senate in Italy, Spain, and Greece. Julius Caesar himself was one of the most eminent writers of the age in which he lived. His "Commentaries" offer a unique opportunity to read the victor’s version of events.
Julius Caeser was born on 13 July 100 BC. His family, the Julii, claimed descent from the ancient kings of Rome and from the goddess Venus. Caesar rapidly carved out an impressive political career, forging an alliance with Pompey and Crassus in 60 BC. The Civil War is Caesar’s attempt at an explanation of the war that changed the Roman world.

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Free Download The Art of War (Audiobook)
English | October 06, 2004 | ASIN: B0006IU466 | MP3@60 kbps | 12h 29m | 340.53 MB
Sun-Tzu (Author), translation by John Minford (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator), Ray Porter (Narrator)
For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals as much about human psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. The influence of Sun-Tzu’s text has grown tremendously in the West in recent years, with military leaders, politicians, and corporate executives alike finding valuable insight in these ancient words.

Free Download How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe’s Battlefield [TTC Audio]
English | July 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0CBNHC4PS | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 44m | 335 MB
Lecturer: Pamela B. Radcliff
The Spanish Civil War was a local conflict on the margins of Europe-a short yet bloody series of battles in a lull between the great World Wars-but the conflict was a microcosm of war in the 20th century. Not only did the Spanish Civil War foreshadow the global conflagration to come, but it also had its roots in the modern era’s central divides: urban versus rural, religion versus secularization, rich versus poor, progress versus tradition, democracy versus fascism and communism.

Free Download Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDCP7L62 | 2023 | 18 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 538 MB
Author: Chris Masters
Narrator: David Tredinnick
The shocking story of the case against Australia’s most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century. With a Victoria Cross and Medal for Gallantry, Ben Roberts-Smith was the most highly decorated Australian soldier, the best of the best. When he returned to civilian life, he became a poster boy for a nation hungry for warrior heroes. He embodied the myth of the classic Anzac, seven-foot-tall and bulletproof. But as his public reputation continued to grow, inside the army rumours were circulating.

Free Download Conflict: The History of the Korean War, 1950-1953 by Robert Leckie, David Rapkin, Audible Studios
English | 2013 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00GRJN6P4 | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 14:26 h | 393 Mb
In June 1950 Communist forces poured across the 38th Parallel (the arbitrary, militarily indefensible line of latitude separating the Communist North from the independent Republic of Korea) to unite the country by force. Three bloody, bitter years of fighting ensued during which the seesawing fortunes of this frustrating war thwarted North Korea’s ambitions while treating the ill-equipped, overconfident UN peacekeeping forces, mostly Americans, no less harshly. Conflict examines the war in all its military, political, and human dimensions: the battles at Pusan Perimeter, at Inchon, at Chosin Reservoir, at Heartbreak Ridge; significant figures like Syngman Rhee, Kim Il Sung, Ridgway, MacArthur, and Truman; controversies like MacArthur’s dismissal, the difficulties of P.O.W. exchanges, and charges of brainwashing and germ warfare; as well as penetrating analyses of the performance of the American soldier, and the war’s effect on the U.S. military and our national psyche. As such, Conflict stands as an unsurpassed, vivid contribution to history.

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Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWG93PQ1 | 2023 | 17 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 508 MB
Author: Rachel Chrastil
Narrator: Sarah Borges
A new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I. Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But it also produced brutal military innovations and a precarious new imbalance of power that together set the stage for the devastating world wars of the next century. In Bismarck’s War, historian Rachel Chrastil chronicles events on the battlefield in full, while also showing in intimate detail how the war reshaped and blurred the boundaries between civilian and soldier as the fighting swept across France. The result is the definitive history of a transformative conflict that changed Europe, and the history of warfare, forever.