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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415752 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold WarAuthor: Andreas KillenNarrator: Graham HalsteadFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 52 minutesRelease date: March 21, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ. The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, and psychology achieved dramatic breakthroughs in the treatment of illnesses like epilepsy and schizophrenia, as well as the understanding of such faculties as memory and perception. Memory was the site of particularly startling discoveries. As one researcher wrote to another in the middle of that decade, âMemory was the sleeping beauty of the brainâand now she is awake.â Collectively, these advances prefigured the emergence of the field of neuroscience at the end of the twentieth century. But the 1950s also marked the beginning of the Cold War and a period of transformative social change across Western society. These developments resulted in unease and paranoia. Mysterious new afflictionsânone more mystifying than âbrainwashingââalso appeared at this time. Faced with the discovery that, as one leading psychiatrist put it, âthe human personality is not as stable as we often assume,â many researchers in the sciences of brain and behavior joined the effort to understand these conditions. They devised ingenious and sometimes transgressive experimental methods for studying and proposing countermeasures to the problem of Communist mind control. Some of these procedures took on a strange life of their own, escaping the confines of the research lab to become part of 1960s counterculture. Much later, in the early 2000s, they resurfaced in the War on Terror. These stories, often told separately, are brought together by the historian Andreas Killen in this chronicle of the brainâs mid-twentieth-century emergence as both a new research frontier and an organ whose integrity and capacitiesâespecially that of memoryâwere imagined as uniquely imperiled in the 1950s. Nervous Systems explores the anxious context in which the mid-century sciences of the brain took shape and reveals the deeply ambivalent history that lies behind our contemporary understanding of this organ.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408655 to listen full audiobooks.Title: On to Stalingrad: Operation Winter Thunderstorm and the attempt to relieve Sixth Army, December 1942Author: Horst ScheibertNarrator: Derek PerkinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 52 minutesRelease date: March 29, 2022Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: In late November 1942, Soviet forces surrounded Paulus' Sixth Army in a pocket outside the Russian city of Stalingrad. In response the Germans planned a relief operation, Operation Winter Storm, intended to break through the Soviet forces and open the pocket, releasing the encircled units. The 6th Panzer Division was the spearhead of the German relief force. The attack started on December 12th, 1942 and was aborted on December 23rd after heavy Soviet counterattacks. This failure sealed the fate of the German 6th Army in Stalingrad. This account of the operation was first published in German in 1961, written by the well-respected military historian and retired German officer, Schiebert Horst. It covers the entire operation from the situation in mid-November through the two German offensives, the Soviet counteroffensive and ongoing fighting until early January.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/394063 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting LegacyAuthor: Robert O'Neill, Dakota MeyerNarrator: Robert O'Neill, Dakota MeyerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 51 minutesRelease date: March 1, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: âThe Way Forward will help every reader master their own challengesâthis is a must-read book!â âAdmiral Bill McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired) and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed American Sniper meets Make Your Bed in these life lessons from decorated United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert OâNeill and Dakota Meyerâan in-depth, fearless, and ultimately redemptive account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields from Afghanistan and Iraq to our daily lives, and how the perils of war help us hold onto our humanity. Rob OâNeill and Dakota Meyer are two of the most decorated and recognized US service members: OâNeill killed the worldâs most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, and Meyer was the first living Marine to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. But beyond their actions and courage in combat, OâNeill and Meyer also have much in common in civilian life: they are both sought-after public speakers, advocates for veterans, and share a non-PC sense of humor. Combining the best of military memoirs and straight-talking self-help, The Way Forward alternates between OâNeillâs and Meyerâs perspectives, looking back with humor at even the darkest war stories, and sharing lessons they learned along the way. The Way Forward presents OâNeill and Meyerâs philosophy in combat and life. This isnât a book about the glory of war and combat, but one about facing your enemies, some who are flesh and blood and some that are not: Your thoughts. Your doubts. Your boredom and your regrets. From Robâs dogged repetition at the free throw line of his childhood basketball court to Dakotaâs pursuit of EMT and firefighter credentials to aid accident victims, these two American heroes turn their experiences into valuable lessons for every reader. Gritty and down-to-earth, OâNeill and Meyer tell their stories with candor and vulnerability to help readers handle stress, tackle their biggest obstacles, and exceed their expectations of themselves, while keeping lifeâs battles in perspective with a sense of humor.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415177 to listen full audiobooks.Title: In the Company of Heroes: The Inspiring Stories of Medal of Honor Recipients from America's Longest Wars in Afghanistan and IraqAuthor: James KitfieldNarrator: Brad SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 23 minutesRelease date: August 31, 2021Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-two soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. In the Company of Heroes will feature in-depth narrative profiles of the twenty-three post-9/11 Medal of Honor awardees who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. This book will focus on the stories of these extraordinary people, expressed in their own voices through one-on-one interviews, and in the case of posthumous awards, through interviews with their brothers in arms and their families. The public affairs offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the individual armed services, as well as the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, have expressed their support for this project. Stories include Marine Corps Corporal William "Kyle" Carpenter, who purposely lunged toward a Taliban hand grenade in order to shield his buddy from the blast; Navy SEAL team leader Britt Slabinski, who, after being ambushed and retreating in the Hindu Kush, returned against monumental odds in order to try to save one of his team who was inadvertently lost in the fight; and Ranger Staff Sergeant Leroy Petry, who lunged for a live grenade, threw it back at the enemy, and saved his two Ranger brothers.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422860 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third ReichAuthor: Daniel P. BolgerNarrator: Stephen MendelFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 2 minutesRelease date: May 25, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler's panzer crews. âThe Panzer Killers is a great book, vividly written and shrewdly observed.ââThe Wall Street Journal Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow country. Troops were spent, and American tankers, lacking the tactics and leadership to deal with the terrain, were losing their spirit. General George Patton and the other top U.S. commanders needed an officer who knew how to break the impasse and roll over the Germansâthey needed one man with the grit and the vision to take the war all the way to the Rhine. Patton and his peers selected Maurice Rose. The son of a rabbi, Rose never discussed his Jewish heritage. But his ferocity on the battlefield reflected an inner flame. He led his 3rd Armored Division not from a command post but from the first vehicle in formation, charging headfirst into a fight. He devised innovative tactics, made the most of American weapons, and personally chose the cadre of young officers who drove his division forward. From Normandy to the West Wall, from the Battle of the Bulge to the final charge across Germany, Maurice Rose's deadly division of tanks blasted through enemy lines and pursued the enemy with a remarkable intensity. In The Panzer Killers, Daniel P. Bolger, a retired lieutenant general and Iraq War veteran, offers up a lively, dramatic tale of Rose's heroism. Along the way, Bolger infuses the narrative with fascinating insights that could only come from an author who has commanded tank forces in combat. The result is a unique and masterful story of battlefield leadership, destined to become a classic.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405133 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hell Week and Beyond: The Making of a Navy SEALAuthor: Scott McEwenNarrator: Kiff VandenheuvelFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 40 minutesRelease date: May 18, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Follow America's elite warriors through the military's most grueling training and learn how they survive real special operations. â Of the 18 months required to become a Navy SEAL, one week will cause over half of the trainees to quit ("ring the bell"). Only the toughest make it through. In Hell Week and Beyond, Scott McEwen takes the readers to the sands of Coronado Beach in San Diego, where Navy SEALs are put through the most grueling training known to mankind. Grit, commitment, heart, and soul are needed to become a SEAL, because these are the elite forces who go into the toughest battles for America. Many of the most well-known SEAL warriors have been interviewed for this book, providing the stories of what got them through and the humor of those that made it. (Those that make it almost always have one thing in common: humor. Find out why!) Part Top Gun, part Bull Durham, this book delivers that goods for those in the know, as well as general readers who admire the elite forces for all they do.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405465 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the KamikazeAuthor: Brent E. JonesNarrator: Dan WorenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 8 minutesRelease date: May 11, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war. At its center lies U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer, who vowed to return to action after suffering a horrific wound. He accepted the ship's command in 1944, knowing it would be his last chance to avenge his injuries and salvage his career. Yet with the nation's resources and personnel stretched thin by the war, he found that just getting the ship into action would prove to be a battle. Tensions among the crew flared from the start. Astoria's sailors and Marines were a collection of replacements, retreads, and older men. Some were broken by previous traumatic combat, most had no desire to be in the war, yet all found themselves fighting an enemy more afraid of surrender than death. The reluctant ship was called to respond to challenges that its men never could have anticipated. From a typhoon where the ocean was enemy to daring rescue missions, a gallant turn at Iwo Jima, and the ultimate crucible against the Kamikaze at Okinawa, they endured the worst of the final year of the war at sea. Days of Steel Rain brings to life more than a decade of research and firsthand interviews, depicting with unprecedented insight the singular drama of a captain grappling with an untested crew and men who had endured enough amidst some of the most brutal fighting of World War II. Throughout, Brent Jones fills the narrative with secret diaries, memoirs, letters, interpersonal conflicts, and the innermost thoughts of the Astoria menâand more than 80 photographs that have never before been published. Days of Steel Rain weaves an intimate, unforgettable portrait of leadership, heroism, endurance, and redemption.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414759 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Devil's Trick: How Canada Fought the Vietnam WarAuthor: John BoykoNarrator: John BoykoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 50 minutesRelease date: April 13, 2021Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Forty-five years after the fall of Saigon, John Boyko brings to light the little-known story of Canada's involvement in the American War in Vietnam. Through the lens of six remarkable people, some well-known, others obscure, bestselling historian John Boyko recounts Canada's often-overlooked involvement in that conflict as peacemaker, combatant, and provider of weapons and sanctuary. When Brigadier General Sherwood Lett arrived in Vietnam over a decade before American troops, he and the Canadians under his command risked their lives trying to enforce an unstable peace while questioning whether they were merely handmaidens to a new war. As American battleships steamed across the Pacific, Canadian diplomat Blair Seaborn was meeting secretly in Hanoi with North Vietnamâs prime minister; if American leaders accepted his roadmap to peace, those ships could be turned around before war began. Claire Culhane worked in a Canadian hospital in Vietnam and then returned home to implore Canadians to stop supporting what she deemed an immoral war. Joe Erickson was among 30,000 young Americans who changed Canada by evading the draft and heading north; Doug Carey was one of the 20,000 Canadians who enlisted with the American forces to serve in Vietnam. Rebecca Trinh fled Saigon with her husband and young daughters, joining the waves of desperate Indochinese refugees, thousands of whom were to forge new lives in Canada. Through these wide-ranging and fascinating accounts, Boyko exposes what he calls the Devilâs wiliest trick: convincing leaders that war is desirable, persuading the public that it is acceptable, and telling combatants that the deeds they carry out and the horrors they experience are normal, or at least necessary. In uncovering Canadaâs side of the story, Boyko reveals the many secret and forgotten ways that Canada not only fought the war but was forever shaped by its lessons and lies.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411993 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech ValleyAuthor: Wesley MorganNarrator: Mark DeakinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 21 hours 25 minutesRelease date: March 9, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: COLBY AWARD WINNER âą âOne of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.ââForeign Policy âA saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.ââRick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The areaâs rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of Americaâs two-decade-long Afghan war. Drawing on reporting trips, hundreds of interviews, and documentary research, Wesley Morgan reveals the history of the war in this iconic region, captures the culture and reality of the conflict through both American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing misstepsâsome kept secret from even the troops fighting thereâthat doomed the American mission. The Hardest Place is the story of one of the twenty-first centuryâs most unforgiving battlefields and a portrait of the American military that fought there.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/417269 to listen full audiobooks.Title: America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the PresentAuthor: John GhazvinianNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 27 hours 11 minutesRelease date: January 26, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR âą A hugely ambitious, âdelightfully readable, genuinely informativeâ portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and Americaâtwo powers who were once allies and now adversariesâby an admired historian and former journalist. In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the eighteenth centuryâthe subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adamsâand an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government. Drawing on years of archival research both in the United States and Iranâincluding access to Iranian government archives rarely available to Western scholarsâthe Iranian-born, Oxford-educated historian leads us through the four seasons of U.S.âIran relations: the spring of mutual fascination; the summer of early interactions; the autumn of close strategic ties; and the long, dark winter of mutual hatred. Ghazvinian makes clear where, how, and when it all went wrong. America and Iran shows why two countries that once had such heartfelt admiration for each other became such committed enemiesâand why it didnât have to turn out this way.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419240 to listen full audiobooks.Title: War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle EastAuthor: Gershom GorenbergNarrator: Fred BermanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 22 minutesRelease date: January 19, 2021Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop themâif Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet the Axis powers were not the only ones with intelligence. Brilliant Allied cryptographers worked relentlessly at Bletchley Park, breaking down the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. From decoded German messages, they discovered that the enemy had a wealth of inside information. On the brink of disaster, a fevered and high-stakes search for the source began. War of Shadows is the cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war. It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and quite possibly the outcome of the war.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415136 to listen full audiobooks.Title: IceboundAuthor: Andrea PitzerNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 18 minutesRelease date: January 7, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: A riveting tale of Dutch polar explorer William Barents and his three harrowing Arctic expeditions â the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival. The human story has always been one of perseverance â often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of sixteenth-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew, who ventured further north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar expedition, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing hunger and endless winter. In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer masterfully combines a gripping tale of survival with a sweeping history of the great Age of Exploration â a time of hope, adventure and seemingly unlimited geographic frontiers.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422834 to listen full audiobooks.Title: SommeAuthor: Lyn MacdonaldNarrator: Alison DowlingFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 30 minutesRelease date: December 17, 2020Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...' The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. Yet while there were good political reasons to launch a joint offensive with a French Army demoralized by huge casualties at Verdun, the raw troops on the ground knew nothing of that. A hundred and fifty thousand were killed in the punishing shellfire, the endless ordeal of attack and counter-attack; twice that number were left maimed or wounded. Here, almost for the first time, Lyn Macdonald lets the men who were there give their own testimony. Their stories are vivid, harrowing, sometimes terrifying - yet shot through with humour, immense courage and an astonishing spirit of resilience. 'What the reader will longest remember are the words - heartbroken, blunt, angry - of the men who lived through the bloodbath...a worthy addition to the literature of the Great War...'Daily Mail Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin. © Lyn MacDonald 1983 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422836 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917Author: Lyn MacdonaldNarrator: Alison DowlingFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 43 minutesRelease date: December 3, 2020Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond . . .' The Third Battle of Ypres, ending in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the history of warfare. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. This book tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud, terror and increasingly desperate attacks, yet it is also a story of immense courage, comradeship, high spirits and hope. In Passchendaele, Lyn Macdonald lets over 600 soldiers speak for themselves. In doing so, she portrays events from the only point of view that really matters. © Lyn MacDonald 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414681 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation HistoryAuthor: Joe PappalardoNarrator: Matt GodfreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 48 minutesRelease date: December 1, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. Thereâs no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith. Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the war, where he served in B-17s during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. From his juvenile delinquent past in Michigan, through the war and during the decades after, Smithâs life seemed to be a series of very public missteps. The other airmen took to calling the 5-foot, 5-inch airman âSnuffyâ after an unappealing movie character. This is also the man who, on a tragically mishandled mission over France on May 1, 1943, single-handedly saved the crewmen in his stricken B-17. With every other gunner injured or bailed out, Smith stood alone in the fuselage of a shattered, nameless bomber and fought fires, treated wounded crew and fought off fighters. His ordeal is part of a forgotten mission that aircrews came to call the May Day Massacre. The skies over Europe in 1943 were a charnel house for U.S. pilots, who were being led by tacticians surprised by the brutal effectiveness of German defenses. By May 1943 the combat losses among bomb crews were a staggering 40 to 50 percent. The backdrop of Smithâs story intersects with some of the luminaries of aviation history, including Curtis Lemay, Ira Eaker and âHapâ Arnold, during critical times of their storied careers. Inferno also examines Smithâs life in a new, comprehensive light, through the use of exclusive interviews of those who knew him (including fellow MOH recipients and family) as well as public and archival records. This is both a thrilling and horrifying story of the air war over Europe during World War II and a fascinating look at one of America's forgotten heroes. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422835 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Roses of No Man's LandAuthor: Lyn MacdonaldNarrator: Alison DowlingFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 43 minutesRelease date: November 26, 2020Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD 'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War ...' Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents and draughty huts they fought another war, a war against agony and death, as men lay suffering from the pain of unimaginable wounds or diseases we can now cure almost instantly. It was here that young doctors frantically forged new medical techniques - of blood transfusion, dentistry, psychiatry and plastic surgery - in the attempt to save soldiers shattered in body or spirit. And it was here that women achieved a quiet but permanent revolution, by proving beyond question they could do anything. All this is superbly captured in The Roses of No Man's Land, a panorama of hardship, disillusion and despair, yet also of endurance and supreme courage. 'Lyn Macdonald writes splendidly and touchingly of the work of the nurses and doctors who fought their humanitarian battle on the Western Front' Sunday Telegraph Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin. © Lyn MacDonald 1980 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420911 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941Author: Alan AllportNarrator: James LangtonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 21 hours 5 minutesRelease date: November 3, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were permanently transformed by the Second World War. Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British live up to their own values? What difference did the war make in the end to the fate of the nation? In answering these and other essential questions he focuses on the human contingencies of the war, weighing directly at the roles of individuals and the outcomes determined by luck or chance. Moreover, he looks intimately at the changes in wartime British society and culture. Britain at Bay draws on a large cast of characters--from the leading statesmen and military commanders who made the decisions, to the ordinary men, women, and children who carried them out and lived through their consequences--in a comprehensible and compelling single history of forty-six million people. For better or worse, much of Britain today is ultimately the product of the experiences of 1938-1941.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419186 to listen full audiobooks.Title: When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020Author: Caroline ScottNarrator: Chris HarperFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 0 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.92 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick They need him to remember. He wants to forget. 1918. In the last week of the First World War, a uniformed soldier is arrested in Durham Cathedral. When questioned, it becomes clear that he has no memory of who he is or how he came to be there. The soldier is given the name Adam and transferred to a rehabilitation home. His doctor James is determined to recover who this man once was. But Adam doesnât want to remember. Unwilling to relive the trauma of war, Adam has locked his memory away, seemingly for good. When a newspaper publishes a feature about Adam, three women come forward, each claiming that he is someone she lost in the war. But does he believe any of these women? Or is there another family out there waiting for him to come home? Based on true events, When I Come Home Again is a deeply moving and powerful story of a nationâs outpouring of grief, and the search for hope in the aftermath of war.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/412963 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Berlin: The Story of a CityAuthor: Barney White-SpunnerNarrator: Jamie ParkerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 9 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: 'My only complaint is that it was so fascinating I wish it had been longer. What a story!' Philip Mansel BERLIN is Europeâs most fascinating and exciting city. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism, have their origins in Berlinâs streets. With its unique dialect, exceptional museums, experimental cultural scene, its liberated social life and its honest approach to its history, it is as challenging a city as it is absorbing. Too often Berlin is seen through the prism of Nazism and its role on the front line in the Cold War. Important, frightening and interesting as those periods are, its history starts much earlier. Telling the story of its people and its rulers, from its medieval origins to the present day, this is a fascinating and informative history of an extraordinary city.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415423 to listen full audiobooks.Title: I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest GeneralsAuthor: Frank Sisson, Robert L. WiseNarrator: Grover GardnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 21 minutesRelease date: October 20, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of General George Pattonâs death, a gripping firsthand account of World War II written by a soldier with the American Third Army who served under the legendary warrior and participated in many of the most consequential events of the conflictâincluding the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Dachau. Following in the footsteps of the bestsellers All the Gallant Men, Every Man a Hero, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In, and Never Call Me a Hero, I Marched with Patton is a remarkable eyewitness account that offers priceless insights into a foot soldierâs life on the front lines during World War II under the command one of the legendary figures in American military history. Now a spry ninety-four years old, Frank Sisson looks back at his life and his service in the Third Army. Born in rural Oklahoma, Frank grew up fatherless during the Great Depression. In 1944, at age eighteen, he enlisted and was deployed to France where he marched with Patton, taking part in many of the key Allied movements of the war. Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge, nearly died crossing the Rhine with Patton, and was among the first American soldiers who liberated the notorious Dachau concentration camp. After the war, Frank continued to serve in the army as a military police inspector in Berlin. When he finally returned home, he attended college and built a career in business. Frank Sissonâs remarkable reminiscences provide a fresh, unique look at Pattonâs leadership, the final year of World War II and its direct aftermath, and the experience of combat on the front lines. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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