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  Operation Rolling Thunder: The History of the American Bombardment of North Vietnam at the Start of the Vietnam War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min

  “Targeting bore little resemblance to reality in that the sequence of attacks was uncoordinated and the targets were approved randomly - even illogically. The North's airfields, which, according to any rational targeting policy, should have been hit first in the campaign, were also off-limits.”(Earl Tilford, US Air Force historian)The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren’t so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. The seeds of Operation Rolling Thunder, America’s elaborately constrained air war against North Vietnam, appeared almost from the first moment that the USA inherited the conflict from the French. The half-communist, half-nationalist Viet Minh rebels of Ho Chi Minh evicted the French in 1954, but not before the latter partially created an anticommunist state, South Vietnam, in the lower half of the nation. Home to many Vietnamese who stood to lose property and potentially their lives in the event of the country’s reunification, the new state struggled with both Viet Cong guerrillas supplied by the north and its own internal corruption and factionalism. Many thousands of North Vietnamese fled there to escape Ho Chi Minh’s repression and occasional mass executions as well.Faced with such a determined opponent, skilled in asymmetrical warfare and enjoying considerable popular support, the Americans would ultimately choose to fight a war of attrition. While the Americans did employ strategic hamlets, pacification programs, and other kinetic counterinsurgency operations, they largely relied on a massive advantage in fire ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163947/bk_acx0_163947_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 963min

  Hell to Pay is a comprehensive and compelling examination of the many complex issues that encompassed the strategic plans for the proposed American invasion of Japan. U.S. planning for the invasion and military occupation of Imperial Japan began in 1943, two years before the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In its final form, Operation Downfall called for a massive Allied invasion - on a scale dwarfing D-Day - to be carried out in two stages. In the first stage, Operation Olympic, the U.S. Sixth Army would lead the southernmost assault on the Home Island of Kyushu preceded by the dropping of as many as nine atom bombs behind the landing beaches and troop concentrations inland. Sixth Army would secure airfields and anchorages needed to launch the second stage, Operation Coronet, five hundred miles to the north in 1946. The decisive Coronet invasion of the industrial heartland of Japan through the Tokyo Plain would be led by the Eighth Army, as well as the First Army, which had previously pummeled its way across France and Germany to defeat the Nazis. These facts are well known and have been recounted - with varying degrees of accuracy - in a variety of books and articles. A common theme in these works is their reliance on a relatively few declassified high-level planning documents. In contrast, Hell to Pay examines the invasion of Japan in light of the large body of Japanese and American operational and tactical planning documents unearthed by the author in both familiar and obscure archives, as well as postwar interrogations and reports that senior Japanese commanders and their staffs were ordered to produce for General MacArthur's headquarters. Hell to Pay brings to light the political and military ramifications of the enormous casualties and loss of material projected by both sides in the climatic struggle to bring the Pacific War to a conclusion through a brutal series of battles on Japanese soil./ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danny Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001633/bk_tant_001633_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Road to Berlin: Until the Night, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min

  The Road to Berlin is the second audiobook of the Until the Night series and is set in October 1943. The Until the Night series is about Bomber Command in the winter of 1943 to '44 and follows the experience of Adam Chantrey, a 25-year-old veteran of the Bombing War sent to Ansham Wolds in Lincolnshire to rebuild a shattered Lancaster squadron. Exhausted and tormented by his own demons, he discovers amidst the chaos of war and loss an unlikely inner peace up on the high wold of Lincolnshire while all around him the world is enveloped in madness.  It is October 1943, and Bomber Command is gathering itself for what many in the High Command believe will be its final victorious campaign; but even the true believers in the "main aim" know the coming winter battle will be bloodier than anything which has come before.  Here in the heart of rural England, in Lincolnshire and elsewhere on the East Coast airfields of the Main Force, all the years of building up and preparation are about to come to fruition, and everybody knows this is the lull before the coming storm.  For Adam Chantrey, looking forward to the fifth year of his personal odyssey, duty has become his watchword and life on the squadrons his only reality. Then one day, while waiting for a train that is late, he encounters a different fate, and afterwards, nothing will ever be the same again.  But for a man like Adam Chantrey, who lives his life rubbing shoulders with the countless ghosts of the never-ending war with the distant cities, whose dreams are filled with burning aircraft falling into clouds soaked like mile upon mile of blood-soaked cotton wool, what has hope become?  Please be aware - this audiobook is also available in an omnibus edition titled Until the Night, a revised second edition of a previously published title of the same name. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Calverley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117152/bk_acx0_117152_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Aleutian Islands Campaign: The History of Japan's Invasion of Alaska During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min

  Fought over bitterly cold flecks of rock and tundra scattered across the remote waters marking the boundary between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the Aleutian Islands campaign represented one of the strangest encounters of World War II. Curving southwestward from the southwest coast of Alaska like the tail of a stingray, the rugged, volcanic Aleutians belong to both the United States and Russia. The westernmost island, Attu, lies much closer to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula than to Alaska; the distance to Anchorage, Alaska measures approximately 2,000 miles. The moral impact of the Doolittle Raid in response to Pearl Harbor far outweighed the relatively minor material damage it inflicted; Japan lost face and the faith of its people in ultimate victory declined sharply. Americans responded with delight and a fresh upsurge of hope. Despite interrogating the eight American aircrew they captured (and butchering tens of thousands of Chinese civilians in reprisal for assisting the rest in their escape), the Japanese leadership remained divided in their opinions about the bombers' origin. Many believed that the Americans had indeed devised a method of launching such large aircraft from an ordinary aircraft carrier. Many others, however, insisted the B-25s came from a land base, and only the Aleutians lay within a medium bomber's operational range. In any case, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku planned a move against Midway. Attacking the Aleutians provided an excellent diversion, in his opinion, permitting him time to take Midway and organize land-based strike aircraft there. He could then take his carriers to annihilate America's Pacific Fleet, caught between the Aleutian Islands and Midway. Due to the belief that the Aleutian Islands might support the airfields from which the Doolittle bombers launched, Navy Order Eighteen from Imperial general HQ included a section decreeing "the invasion and occupation of the western Aleutians... in order to ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Zarbock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/073086/bk_acx0_073086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Operation Barbarossa: The History of Nazi Germany's Invasion of the Soviet Union During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 188min

  In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, three million men waited along a front hundreds of miles long, stretching from the Baltic coast of Poland to the Balkans. Ahead of them in the darkness lay the Soviet Union, its border guarded by millions of Red Army troops echeloned deep throughout the huge spaces of Russia. This massive gathering of Wehrmacht soldiers from Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and his allied states - notably Hungary and Romania - stood poised to carry out Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise attack against the country of his putative ally, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. At precisely 1:00 am that morning, the radios of command and headquarter units all along the line crackled to life. Officers and generals heard a single code word: "Dortmund" for Army Group North, and "Wotan," the name of the one-eyed pre-Christian god of knowledge, war, and runes, for Army Group South. In answer to shouted orders and tactical-level radio transmissions, men threw aside camouflage nets, truck, halftrack, and panzer engines started with a throbbing rumble, and artillerists prepared their weaponry for the terrific barrage generally preceding a Wehrmacht assault. Soldiers swarmed onto trains, and the propellers of thousands of German aircraft, including the still-formidable Stuka dive-bombers, roared amid the nighttime stillness on dozens of airfields throughout Eastern Europe. The Soviets were so caught by surprise at the start of the attack that the Germans were able to push several hundred miles into Russia across a front that stretched dozens of miles long, reaching the major cities of Leningrad and Sevastopol in just three months. The first major Russian city in their path was Minsk, which fell in only six days. In order to make clear his determination to win at all costs, Stalin had the three men in charge of the troops defending Minsk executed for their failure to hold their position. This move, along with unspeakable atrocities by th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Ray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076195/bk_acx0_076195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Pillar of Fire by Night: Carrera, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 895min

  The seventh installment in the popular Carrera military science-fiction series.  Carrera's held off his enemies coming by sea from the north, in the process dealing the naval and amphibious forces of the Zhong Empire a stinging defeat. The Zhong won't soon forget the blood-stained waters and the heaped-up bodies on the shores of Balboa's Isla Real.  Now, though, his adopted country of Balboa is under assault from the east, from the south, from the west, from the air, and from space. The Zhong, smarting from the butchery around the island, have bounced back and forced a lodgment east of the capital. Their lodgment is still abuilding, but when it is done, Carrera can expect several hundred thousand brave and determined Zhong to show up on his barely defended flank.The Taurans, remembering their military roots, have assaulted Balboa from the south, taking half the area of and cutting the Transitway that joins Terra Nova's Mar Fusioso and her Shimmering Sea. In the process, they've cut off and besieged the second city of the country, Cristobal, trapping inside the city Carrera's Fourth Corps and overrunning and capturing a large portion of Carrera's artillery train.  West of Cristobal, the Taurans have created, almost from scratch, a series of small ports and airfields to support their siege. Inside the town, a sense of desperation is growing among the men and women of the Fourth Corps: Has their leader forgotten about or abandoned them?  Meanwhile, another Tauran Expeditionary force secures Balboa's eastern neighbor, Santa Josefina, as a base against them. In space, the United Earth Peace Fleet, under the command of High Admiral Marguerite Wallenstein, keeps as low a profile as possible, all the time spying and feeding intelligence to both Zhong and Tauran.  It's beginning to look like the game is up for Balboa and Patricio Carrera. But Carrera's been planning this war for 15 years. He certainly hopes his enemies think they' ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Fouhey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/034201/bk_adbl_034201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Valiant Boys: True Stories from the Operators of the UK's First Four-Jet Bomber , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min

  Following on from the success of Victor Boys and Vulcan Boys, Tony Blackman, in collaboration with Anthony Wright, brings you Valiant Boys to complete the V Force set. This is a fascinating collection of personal accounts of operating Britain's first V bomber by aircrew and ground crew. The book tells the story from the aircraft's birth taking off from Vickers' tiny airfield at Wisley near Brooklands to its premature death from fatigue. There are tales of testing atom bombs in the Australian desert, dropping hydrogen bombs in the middle of the Pacific and, as a complete contrast, attacking airfields with conventional bombs in Egypt during the very brief and abortive Suez campaign. We are reminded of how the Valiant provided the UK's first nuclear deterrent by always having some armed aircraft on stand-by 24 hours a day, supported by their air and ground crews, ready to be flown at a moment's notice on a one-way trip to launch an atomic war. Some Valiants were given a photographic role providing accurate images from high altitude and were used not only to gather military intelligence but also to survey the UK and countries overseas. Others were developed into flight refueling tankers breaking point to point records before enabling Britain's fighter aircraft to be refueled and fly anywhere in the world. This book completes Tony Blackman's trilogy of the three V bombers. As Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham makes it clear in his foreword: 'It is good to have a book written by aircrew and ground crew telling their stories and how they operated the aircraft so that all these things are recorded and not forgotten.' Not as well known as the Vulcan and Victor, the Valiant is often overlooked; this book will go a long way to redress the balance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069620/bk_acx0_069620_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Iwo Jima , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

  On February 23, 1945, one of the most famous photographs in American history was taken atop Mount Suribachi, as five American soldiers began to raise an American flag. The picture, which most Americans are instantly familiar with, has come to symbolize the strength and sacrifice of America's armed forces, and though many realize it was taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima, much of the actual battle and the context of the picture itself have been overshadowed. The Battle of Iwo Jima, code name "Operation Detachment," is more of a misnomer than anything. It was fought as part of a large American invasion directed by steps toward the Japanese mainland, and it was more like a siege that lasted 36 days from February-March 1945, with non-stop fighting every minute. In fact, the iconic flag-raising photo was taken just four days into the battle, and as that picture suggests, the battle was not a pristine tactical event but an unceasing horror with no haven for protection. As veteran and author James F. Christ put it in the foreword of his exhaustive study of the action, "it is carnage...that is what Iwo was...the Gettysburg of the Pacific." Iwo Jima defined the classical amphibious assault of the World War II era, as much as the Normandy invasion did, but it came later in the war. In Europe, the Battle of the Bulge had already been won, and German forces would surrender in early May. However, the Japanese Empire was still at a considerable level of strength and state of resolve, and an essential offensive, grinding from island to island with naval unit to naval unit and air to air was met with maniacal resistance by the enemy. When Admiral Chester Nimitz was directed to capture an island in the Bonin group, Iwo Jima stood out for its importance in making progress against the mainland, with three airfields that would allow American air forces to attack the Japanese mainland. But the Japanese were also well aware of how important Iwo Jima was, and they f ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Patrick Lally. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035039/bk_acx0_035039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Inspector Barnaby - Vol. 25

  -> DER TRÜFFELSCHWEIN-MÖRDER / wild harvest:Der wohlhabende Bauer, Martin Strickland, wird tot im Wald aufgefunden, von Wildschweinen zerfleischt. Seine Witwe erzählt von seinem Ärger über geraubte Trüffeln aus seinem Wald und gerät außer sich vor Zorn, als sich Martins Tochter Amy als Alleinerbin herausstellt. Die Ermittlungen führen John Barnaby und Charlie Nelson zum Nobel-Restaurant Wyvern House, wo Amy als Sous-Chefin arbeitet. Als Amy in der Küche des Restaurants vergiftet wird, ist zunächst unklar, ob der Anschlag ihr oder der tyrannischen Inhaberin, Ruth Cameron, galt. Barnaby taucht tief hinein in einen Strudel aus enttäuschten Liebeshoffnungen und ehrgeizigen Intrigen.-> FLIEG, MÖRDER FLIEG / the flying club:Bernard King, der Eigentümer des Finchmere Airfields, wird tot aus einem Flugzeug abgeworfen. Staunend dringen Barnaby und Nelson in die Welt von Stunt-Fliegern und Flieger-Helden ein und entdecken Schlimmes. Da gibt es eine aggressive Bürger-Initiative gegen den Flughafen und dessen Lärm. Doch noch geheimnisvoller sind die Spuren von Ereignissen und Affären aus der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Bei der großen Flugschau brechen Konflikte aus, die Barnaby schließlich zur Lösung führen.-> FOLGE 100: BARNABY MUSS REISEN / the killings of copenhagen:Eric Calder, der Geschäftsführer von Calders Biscuits in Badgers Drift, wird während einer Dienstreise in Kopenhagen ermordet - vergiftet durch eine mit Strychnin versetzte Keksdose. Da diese aus Midsomer stammt, bitten die dänischen Ermittlerinnen, DCI Birgitte Poulsen und DS Anna Degn, Barnaby und Nelson um Hilfe. Offenbar verband Eric Calder mehr mit Kopenhagen als nur das Keks-Geschäft. Doch wer kannte die Wahrheit über sein Doppelleben, und wer geht zur Wahrung dieser Geheimnisse über Leichen?-> BRITISCHES ROULETTE / the dagger club:Die Entdeckung eines unveröffentlichten Romans des verstorbenen Schriftstellers George Summersbee sollte während des Luxton Deeping Crime Festivals bekanntgegeben werden. Doch dann wird das Manuskript gestohlen und seine Nachlassverwalterin kommt auf grausame Weise ums Leben: Ein mit einer Sprengfalle versehener Roulette-Tisch verpasst ihr einen tödlichen Stromschlag. Um den Mörder zu finden, muss Barnaby ein Netz aus Eifersucht und Besessenheit entwirren. Wird dies dem frischgebackenen Vater gelingen?

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  Inspector Barnaby - Vol. 25 - 2 Disc Bluray

  -> DER TRÜFFELSCHWEIN-MÖRDER / wild harvest:Der wohlhabende Bauer, Martin Strickland, wird tot im Wald aufgefunden, von Wildschweinen zerfleischt. Seine Witwe erzählt von seinem Ärger über geraubte Trüffeln aus seinem Wald und gerät außer sich vor Zorn, als sich Martins Tochter Amy als Alleinerbin herausstellt. Die Ermittlungen führen John Barnaby und Charlie Nelson zum Nobel-Restaurant Wyvern House, wo Amy als Sous-Chefin arbeitet. Als Amy in der Küche des Restaurants vergiftet wird, ist zunächst unklar, ob der Anschlag ihr oder der tyrannischen Inhaberin, Ruth Cameron, galt. Barnaby taucht tief hinein in einen Strudel aus enttäuschten Liebeshoffnungen und ehrgeizigen Intrigen.-> FLIEG, MÖRDER FLIEG / the flying club:Bernard King, der Eigentümer des Finchmere Airfields, wird tot aus einem Flugzeug abgeworfen. Staunend dringen Barnaby und Nelson in die Welt von Stunt-Fliegern und Flieger-Helden ein und entdecken Schlimmes. Da gibt es eine aggressive Bürger-Initiative gegen den Flughafen und dessen Lärm. Doch noch geheimnisvoller sind die Spuren von Ereignissen und Affären aus der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Bei der großen Flugschau brechen Konflikte aus, die Barnaby schließlich zur Lösung führen.-> FOLGE 100: BARNABY MUSS REISEN / the killings of copenhagen:Eric Calder, der Geschäftsführer von Calders Biscuits in Badgers Drift, wird während einer Dienstreise in Kopenhagen ermordet - vergiftet durch eine mit Strychnin versetzte Keksdose. Da diese aus Midsomer stammt, bitten die dänischen Ermittlerinnen, DCI Birgitte Poulsen und DS Anna Degn, Barnaby und Nelson um Hilfe. Offenbar verband Eric Calder mehr mit Kopenhagen als nur das Keks-Geschäft. Doch wer kannte die Wahrheit über sein Doppelleben, und wer geht zur Wahrung dieser Geheimnisse über Leichen?-> BRITISCHES ROULETTE / the dagger club:Die Entdeckung eines unveröffentlichten Romans des verstorbenen Schriftstellers George Summersbee sollte während des Luxton Deeping Crime Festivals bekanntgegeben werden. Doch dann wird das Manuskript gestohlen und seine Nachlassverwalterin kommt auf grausame Weise ums Leben: Ein mit einer Sprengfalle versehener Roulette-Tisch verpasst ihr einen tödlichen Stromschlag. Um den Mörder zu finden, muss Barnaby ein Netz aus Eifersucht und Besessenheit entwirren. Wird dies dem frischgebackenen Vater gelingen?

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