Tag: War

Free Download The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00BFUPRWA | 2013 | 8 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Lord Russell of Liverpool
Narrator: Simon Vance
When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the Holocaust. While the Final Solution was a unique and unparalleled horror, German atrocities did not end there. The Nazis terrorized their own citizens, tortured and murdered POWs, and carried out countless executions throughout occupied Europe. Lord Russell of Liverpool was part of the legal team that brought Nazi war criminals to justice, and from this first-hand position, he published the sensational, best-selling The Scourge of the Swastika in 1954. Liverpool shows that the actions of the Third Reich, including the Holocaust, were illegal, not merely immoral.

Free Download The Civil War: The War That Divided The United States (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868653773 | 2023 | 3 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Lance T. Stewart
Narrator: Jim D. Johnston
The Civil War: even today, it is arguably the most divisive subject in American history. Why did the southern states secede from the Union? What did the north hope to achieve by fighting against the south? Was Abraham Lincoln really an abolitionist? Why is Ulysses S. Grant the most famous Union general, when he didn’t take command of all the Union armies until near the very end of the war? How did Robert E. Lee end up having to deal with issues left unresolved by George Washington’s will, and was he a hero or a traitor?

Free Download The Civil War: In Their Own Words (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKBZWYB3 | 2023 | 5 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Anna Lyse Erikson, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator: Scott Brick, Moira Quirk, Matthew Wolf, P.J. Ochlan, Karen Malina White, Michael Crouch, Nick Nerangis, Alison Larkin
In this star-studded audiobook commissioned specially for audio, Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s narration is woven together with powerfully acted scenes from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the speeches and writing of Lincoln, Emerson, and others, bringing the Civil War to dazzling, authentic new life. Riveting dialogue, personal letters, and the infamous Lincoln-Douglas debates reverberate with powerful relevance today.

Free Download Hellcats: The Epic Story of World War II’s Most Daring Submarine Raid (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B004MC5XWW | 2011 | 9 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Peter Sasgen
Narrator: Grover Gardner
The incredible true story of nine Hellcat submarines assigned to penetrate the dense minefields protecting the sea of Japan. In 1945 – with no knowledge of the development of the atomic bomb- American submarine commanders, desperate to avoid an invasion of the home islands, believed that if the Japanese merchant fleet was sunk, the enemy would be forced to surrender. The problem: the ships were protected in the Sea of Japan from American submarines by a seemingly impenetrable barrier of deadly minefields. For the first time, Peter Sasgen tells the gripping story of Operation Barney, a mission in which nine submarines, nicknamed Hellcats, were tasked with the impossible – get through the underwater mines and decimate the enemy fleet. Success would hinge on a new experimental sonar system that would, with luck, guide American submarines safely past the mines. Drawing on original documents and the poignant personal letters of one brave Hellcat commander, Sasgen crafts a classic naval tale of the heroic submariners and one of World War II’s most ambitious and dangerous missions.

Free Download Jeffrey J. Engle, Tristan Wright (Narrator), "All the War They Want: Special Operations Techniques for Winning in Cyber Warfare, Business, and Life"
English | ISBN: 9798886451689 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~04:49:00 | 141 MB
An unconventional approach to gaining the competitive advantage
All the War They Want presents counterintuitive problem-solving techniques, using as its case in point one of the most existential threats to our national security and American way of life: cyber warfare. Informed by Jeffrey Engle’s experience as a member of the U.S. military’s elite special ops community, his Brazilian jiujitsu training, and his leadership of a premier cyber defense company, All the War They Want offers an alternative perspective on overcoming tough leadership challenges-a perspective previously available only to those bearing the scars of a lifetime at war.

Free Download Yamashita’s Ghost: War Crimes, MacArthur’s Justice, and Command Accountability (Modern War Studies) By Allan A. Ryan
2012 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0700618813 | EPUB | 2 MB
"I don’t blame my executioners. I will pray God bless them."So said General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japan’s most accomplished military commander, as he stood on the scaffold in Manila in 1946. His stoic dignity typified the man his U.S. Army defense lawyers had come to deeply respect in the first war crimes trial of World War II. Moments later, he was dead. But had justice been served? Allan A. Ryan reopens the case against Yamashita to illuminate crucial questions and controversies that have surrounded his trial and conviction, but also to deepen our understanding of broader contemporary issues-especially the limits of command accountability.The atrocities of 1944 and 1945 in the Philippines-rape, murder, torture, beheadings, and starvation, the victims often women and children-were horrific. They were committed by Japanese troops as General Douglas MacArthur’s army tried to recapture the islands. Yamashita commanded Japan’s dispersed and besieged Philippine forces in that final year of the war. But the prosecution conceded that he had neither ordered nor committed these crimes. MacArthur charged him, instead, with the crime-if it was one-of having "failed to control" his troops, and convened a military commission of five American generals, none of them trained in the law. It was the first prosecution in history of a military commander on such a charge. In a turbulent and disturbing trial marked by disregard of the Army’s own rules, the generals delivered the verdict they knew MacArthur wanted. Yamashita’s lawyers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, whose controversial decision upheld the conviction over the passionate dissents of two justices who invoked, for the first time in U.S. legal history, the concept of international human rights.Drawing from the tribunal’s transcripts, Ryan vividly chronicles this tragic tale and its personalities. His trenchant analysis of the case’s lingering question-should a commander be held accountable for the crimes of his troops, even if he has no knowledge of them-has profound implications for all military commanders.

Free Download Where War Began: A Military History of the Middle East from the Birth of Civilization to Alexander the Great and the Romans by Arthur Cotterell
English | October 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0811771458 | 288 pages | MOBI | 13 Mb
Bloody fighting between rival tribes and clans has existed since the dawn of Homo sapiens, but war as we knew it began to take the more organized forms we recognize today in the ancient Near East, starting in the vital region near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (modern Iraq) and ultimately extending west to the Mediterranean Sea through what became the Holy Land of the Bible, a region eventually contested by Egypt, the Roman Empire, and others, and extending north and east into the mountains of Persia (modern Iran). In this informed and accessible history, Arthur Cotterell tells the story of how the story of the development of civilization is also the story of the development of organized warfare

Free Download War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry that has Defined the Royal Family by Nigel Cawthorne
English | October 17, 2023 | ISBN: 1802797181 | 320 pages | PDF | 1.77 Mb
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew.

Free Download The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by William Inboden
English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1524745898 | 608 pages | PDF | 31 Mb
Winner of the Society of Presidential Descendants Book Award and the Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize

Free Download The Man Who Shot the Great War: The Remarkable Story of George Hackney – The Belfast Soldier Who Took His Camera to War by Mark Scott, Tim Collins
English | August 25, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BC3V2ZJN | 123 pages | PDF | 14 Mb
Lance Corporal George Hackney of the 36th Ulster Division was an ordinary Belfast soldier who, contrary to military law at the time, took his camera away to war in 1915. The images he took have become an exceptional and rare collection that documents The Great War first hand.