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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502010 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps AviationAuthor: John R BruningNarrator: Brian TroxellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 53 minutesRelease date: May 14, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race of Aces. On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines between the U.S. and Australia. The night after the Marines landed and captured the partially completed airfield, the Imperial Navy launched a surprise night attack on the Allied fleet offshore, resulting in the worst defeat the U.S. Navy suffered in the 20th century, which prompted the abandonment of the Marines on Guadalcanal. The Marines dug in, and waited for help, as those thirty-one pilots and twelve gunners flew against the Japanese, shooting down eighty-three planes in less than two months, while the dive bombers, carried out over thirty attacks on the Japanese fleet. Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island follows Major John L. Smith, a magnetic leader who became Americaâs top fighter ace for the time; Captain Marion Carl, the Marine Corpsâ first ace, and one of the few survivors of his squadron at the Battle of Midway. He would be shot down and forced to make his way back to base through twenty-five miles of Japanese-held jungle. And Major Richard Mangrum, the lawyer-turned-dive-bomber commander whose inexperienced men wrought havoc on the Japanese Navy. New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning depicts the desperate effort to stop the Japanese long enough for America to muster reinforcements and turn the tide at Guadalcanal. Not just the story of an incredible stand on a distant jungle island, Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island also explores the consequences of victory to the men who secured it at a time when America had been at war for less than a year and its public had yet to fully understand what that meant. The home front they returned to after their jungle ordeal was a surreal montage of football games, nightclubs, fine dining with Americaâs elites, and inside looks at dysfunctional defense industries more interested in fleecing the government than properly equipping the military. Bruning tells the story of how one battle reshaped the Marine Corps and propelled its veterans into the highest positions of power just in time to lead the service into a new war in Southeast Asia.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545109 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at WarAuthor: Marty Skovlund, Joe KentNarrator: Joe Kent, Marty SkovlundFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 9 minutesRelease date: May 7, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance her life as a wife and mother. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military, only a tiny fraction are selected as âoperators.â Shannon Kent was one of the first women to serve at this level and was widely recognized as one of the best. Shannon served as a Navy cryptologic technician, responsible for signals intelligence and electronic warfare, but her proficiency with language set her apart. She was assigned to a unit so secretive that its name canât even be printed here, where she worked clandestinely to hunt the most wanted terrorists in the world. Send Me is Shannonâs heroic life story, revealing the truth of both her work and the challenges she faced while trying to raise a family with her husband Joe, himself a Special Forces soldier. He and Shannon met in a war zone, their love forged during a special operations training course, their dedication spanning multiple combat deployments and the birth of their two boys. It is the legacy of an extraordinary woman who rose to the apex of the military, working with the most elite forces in the world, lifting the veil from the life of a Special Forces family to share their duty, sacrifice, and humanity. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600339 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Hard Road Will Take You HomeAuthor: Anthony StazickerNarrator: Scott Britton, Sam Sheriff, Mark Omrod, Gary Bamford, Chris Billam-Smith, Aldo Kane, Alan Barratt, Nims Purja, Anthony Stazicker, Dylan Hartley, Ollie Ollerton, Steve Clark, Jason FoxFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 17 minutesRelease date: November 7, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: TThis audiobook contains exclusive bonus interviews between Staz and Special Forces TV stars Jason Fox and Ollie Ollerton, Dylan Hartley plus many more⊠'Incredible ... Staz is an inspiration' Nims Purja 'This book will only serve you well' Ant Middleton 'A must read for anyone who wants to succeed and thrive under pressure' Dylan Hartley 'Stacked with insights ... The book you need when the going gets tough' Aldo Kane Anthony 'Staz' Stazicker served an impressive 13 years of distinguished and decorated military service, ten within the Special Forces, before founding the multi-million pound technical clothing company ThruDark. Throughout his career in the Special Forces - featuring gunfights, door-kicking operations, and against-the-odds escapes - he learned hard lessons that would later provide crucial intelligence equally applicable to business, innovation and enterprise. The Hard Road Will Take You Home provides a mission plan that distils the processes and tactics Staz gathered throughout his career and translates them into tools that can be used in any number of settings, and by individuals with a wide range of experience and backgrounds. It instils the psychological cues required to bring next level success to any mission. And it lays bare the levels of discipline required to maintain that next level success. Join Staz and a powerful line-up of guests in conversation, including Ollie Ollerton and Jason âFoxy' Fox, stars of TV's SAS: Who Dares Wins; former England Rugby captain Dylan Hartley; Record breaking mountaineer and Special Forces veteran Nims Purja; Former Royal Marine, Invictus Games athlete and motivational speaker Mark Ormrod; Former Royal Marines Commando Sniper turned TV adventurer Aldo Kane, plus insights from Sam Sheriff, Scott Britton, Steve Clark, Chris Billam Smith, Alan Barratt and Gaz Bamford. Introducing four concepts that make up the life of an elite operator - battle prep; techniques, tactics and procedures; teamwork and the lessons we should all consider when learning how to innovate, persevere and succeed - this audiobook comes stacked with insight, easily applicable techniques and psychological processes gathered from Staz's time serving with the most resilient fighting force in the world. As a creative resource, it's a weapon.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612613 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Road to Unafraid: How the Army's Top Ranger Faced Fear and Found Courage throughAuthor: Jeff StrueckerNarrator: Jeff StrueckerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 22 minutesRelease date: May 23, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Jeff Struecker, a 'Black Hawk Down' hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.S. initiative since Panama, and tells how God taught him faith from the front in fear-soaked times. As readers go on-mission with Struecker through his harrowing tales, they will learn how to face their own fears with faith in a mighty God. Just as he told one of his charges in Mogadishu: 'The difference between being a coward and a hero is not whether you're scared, it's what you do while you're scared.' Photos are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620373 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lost at Sea: Eddie Rickenbacker's Twenty-Four Days Adrift on the Pacific--A World War II Tale of Courage and FaithAuthor: John WukovitsNarrator: Nathan AginFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 55 minutesRelease date: May 16, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible twenty-three-day crusade to keep his crew alive In the darkest days of World War II, an unlikely civilian was sent to deliver a letter from Washington to General MacArthur in New Guinea. Eddie Rickenbacker was a genuine icon, a pioneer of aviation, the greatest fighter pilot of the First World War, recipient of the Medal of Honor, whoâd retired to become a renowned race car driver. Now in his fifties, one of the most admired men in America, Rickenbacker was again serving his nation, riding high above the Pacific as a passenger aboard a B-17. But soon the plane was forced to crash-land on the ocean surface, leaving its eight occupants adrift in tiny rubber life rafts, hundreds of miles from the nearest speck of land. Lacking fresh water and with precious little food, the men faced days of unrelenting sun, followed by nights shivering in the cold, fighting pangs of hunger, exhaustion, and thirst, all the while circled by sharks. Each prayed to see a friendly vessel on the horizon, and dreaded the arrival of a Japanese warship. Meanwhile, as the US Navy scoured the South Pacific, American radio and newspapers back home parsed every detail of Rickenbacker's disappearance, and an adoring public awaited news of his fate. Using survivorsâ accounts and contemporary records, award-winning author John Wukovits brings to life a gripping story of survival, leadership, and faith in a time of crisis.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615588 to listen full audiobooks.Title: SAS: The History of the SASAuthor: Joshua LevineNarrator: Dan MorganFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 59 minutesRelease date: May 11, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The authorised history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With unheard stories, this is the SASâs wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. The SAS began as a lie, a story of a British parachute unit in the North African desert, to convince the Axis they were under imminent threat. The lie was so effective that soon a small band of men were brought together to make it real. These recruits were the toughest and brightest of their cohort, the most resilient, most dynamic and most self-sufficient. Their first commanders, David Stirling and Paddy Mayne, would go down in history as unorthodox visionaries. Yet this book tells much more than the usual origin story of the unit and seeks out less well-known leaders like Bill Fraser, who was essential in helping the SAS achieve fame for their devastating raids. By looking beyond the myth, this book brings back to life a group of men who showed immense bravery and endured unimaginable risks behind enemy lines. Written with the full cooperation of the SAS and with exclusive access to SAS archives, Levine draws on individual stories and personal testimony, including interviews with veterans and family members. The book gives a visceral sense of what it was like to fight and train in the SAS in both North Africa and Europe during the Second World War, focusing on their failures as well as their successes. This book is vivid with the characters of the men, their eclectic personalities, their strengths, weaknesses and many disagreements. Levine has uncovered a remarkable portrait of this enigmatic unit with stories long thought lost to history
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620419 to listen full audiobooks.Title: To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945Author: John C. McManusNarrator: Walter DixonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 46 minutesRelease date: May 2, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more monthsâor yearsâof fight does the enemy have left. John C. McManusâs magisterial series, described by the Wall Street Journal as being âas vast and splendid as Rick Atkinsonâs Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberation Trilogy,â returns with this brilliant final volume. On the island of Luzon, a months-long stand-off between US and Japanese troops finally breaks open, as American soldiers push into Manila, while paratroopers and amphibious invaders capture nearby Corregidor. The Philippines are soon liberated, and Allied strategists turn their eyes to China, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Japanese home islands themselves. Readers will walk in the boots of American soldiers and officers, braving intense heat, rampant disease, and a by-now suicidal enemy, determined to kill as many opponents as possible before defeat, and they will encounter Japanese soldiers faced with the terrible choice between capitulation or doom. At the same time, this outstanding narrative lays bare the titanic ego and ambition of the Pacific Warâs most prominent general, Douglas MacArthur, and the complex challenges he faced in Japanâs unconditional surrender and Americaâs lengthy occupation. Photo courtesy of the National World War II Museum, accession number 2013.495.1300.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620404 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Len Lomell: D-Day HeroSeries: Part of American War HeroesAuthor: Steven M. GillonNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 48 minutesRelease date: May 2, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The exhilarating, inspiring story of Len Lomell, an Army Ranger who on D-Day almost single-handedly knocked out the big German guns before they could fire on the American invasion force, and whose later exploits spanned the most dramatic battles of World War II. Len Lomell was drafted to the United States Army in 1942, became an Army Ranger, and was soon sent to England to prepare for the D-Day invasion. At Point du Hoc, Lomell and his men were given a daunting missionâto scale the steep cliffs and disable the big German guns at the top, guns that could otherwise destroy the rest of the D-Day landing fleet. Despite incredible odds, it was a mission that Lomell completed almost single-handedly. In this stirring, action-packed book, Gillon details the incredibly heroic actions on D-Dayâand throughout World War IIâthat ultimately won Lomell the Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, and a Bronze Star. Lomell was later praised by Stephen Ambrose as the single most important person in the success of D-Day after General Eisenhower. With propulsive writing, nuanced research, and multiple personal interviews with Lomell, Gillon brings an unforgettable WWII hero to life, finally giving him the recognition he so richly deserves.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556508 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Brown Boy: A MemoirAuthor: Omer AzizNarrator: Omer AzizFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 18 minutesRelease date: April 27, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Aziz's story is a story that is common to many but one that is rarely told. It is the story of growing up the child of immigrants and trying to progress in a society where the realities of racism and xenophobia are all too obvious. It gives voice to the experience of finding oneself caught between worlds and the concomitant feelings of shame, insecurity and powerlessness that this can engender. As he describes it, he found himself âa hyphenated manâ struggling to create an identity that fused East and West. Brown Boy is a hugely important and desperately needed book, which asks the most important questions and answers them in a way that is sometimes uncomfortable but always incredibly stimulating. Like Richard Wright's Black Boy, from which it draws inspiration, Brown Boy will be read for years to come. It is an enormously significant contribution to the contemporary debate around race and identity, and a work of deep literary sensitivity that will stand the test of time.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617007 to listen full audiobooks.Title: SOG Kontum: Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 1968â1969Author: Robert Dumont, Joe ParnarNarrator: Corey M. SnowFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 33 minutesRelease date: April 11, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States Special Forces unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War. The unit conducted strategic reconnaissance missions in South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; carried out the capture of enemy prisoners, rescued downed pilots, and conducted rescue operations to retrieve allied prisoners of war throughout Southeast Asia; and conducted clandestine agent team activities and psychological operations. This book tells the story of the Teams operating out of FOB2 Kontum, near the tri-border area, in 1968â69. From recon missions over the fence to the heroic, and sometimes fatal efforts undertaken to try and rescue missing SOG members, the events are told through the words of the men themselves, supported by previously unreleased official documents.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511909 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)Author: William H. McRavenNarrator: William H. McRavenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 44 minutesRelease date: April 4, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bedâa short, inspirational book of advice and leadership lessons that Admiral McRaven collected over his four decades as a Navy SEAL. The title âBullfrogâ is given to the Navy SEAL who has served the longest on active duty. Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community. In the ensuing four years, he served as Chancellor to the entire University of Texas System, with its 230,000 students and 100,000 faculty and health care workers. During those four decades, Admiral McRaven dealt with every conceivable leadership challenge, from commanding combat operationsâincluding the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Phillips, and the raid for Osama bin Laden. THE WISDOM OF THE BULLFROG draws on these and countless other experiences from Admiral McRavenâs incredible life, including crisis situations, management debates, organizational transitions, and ethical dilemmas, to provide readers with the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of his forty years of service. Each chapter provides a Make Your Bed-like parable, rich with insights like those featured in his bestselling memoir, Sea Stories, about the specific leadership traits required to be at the top of your game, including: - Who Dares, Wins - Run to the Sound of the Guns - No Plan Survives First Contact with the Enemy THE WISDOM OF THE BULLFROG is Admiral McRavenâs clear-eyed treatise on the leadership qualities that separate the good from the truly great.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620080 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Call Me Commander: A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece AmericaAuthor: Daniel M. Freed, Jeff TestermanNarrator: Marc VietorFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 42 minutesRelease date: March 7, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: When Lieutenant Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity, the US Navy Veterans Association. But something was amiss. Bobby Thompsonâs charityâs addresses were just maildrops, his members nonexistent, and his past a black hole. Yet, somehow, the commander had stood for photos with President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, and other political luminaries. The USNVA, it turned out, was a phony charity where Thompson used pricey telemarketers, savvy lawyers, and political allies to swindle tens of millions from well-meaning donors. After Testermanâs story revealed that the nonprofit was a sham, the commander went on the run. US Marshals took up the hunt in 2011 and found themselves searching for an unnamed identity thief who they likened to a real-life Jason Bourne. When finally captured in 2012, Thompson was carrying multiple IDs and a key to a locker that held nearly $1 million in cash. But, who was he? Eventually, investigators discovered he was John Donald Cody, a Harvard Law School graduate and former US Army intelligence officer who had been wanted since the 1980s on theft charges and for questioning in an espionage probe. As Codyâs decades as a fugitive came to an end, he claimed his charity was run at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency. After reporting on the story for CNBCâs American Greed in 2014, Daniel M. Freed dug into Codyâs backstoryâuncovering new information about his intelligence background and the evolution of his con.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604218 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Above the Pacific: Three Medal of Honor Fighter Aces of World War II SpeakSeries: Part of American War HeroesAuthor: Colin HeatonNarrator: Colin Heaton, Gary Bennett, Steve Hendrickson, Sean RunnetteFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 49 minutesRelease date: February 7, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Three legendary fighter pilots from the Pacific Warâall recipients of the Medal of Honorâtell their own stories in this remarkable collection. Marine ace Pappy Boyington is perhaps the most celebrated of all American pilots in the war against Japan, fighting in the skies with both the famed Flying Tigers and his own Black Sheep Squadron. Marine Joe Foss joined Guadalcanalâs Cactus Air Force and destroyed a Japanese Zero on his first missionâthe first of twenty-six aerial kills achieved during the war. Navy captain David McCampbell didnât notch his first kill until June 1944, but he would quickly go on to assemble one of the most remarkable aerial-combat records in history with thirty-four victories, including nine in one day. In this gripping oral historyâwhich spans the entire warâ from the Americans who fought the Japanese in China to the final, desperate battle for Okinawa, these three heroes tell their own stories, in their own words. These interviews, personally conducted by military veteran and historian Colin Heaton, are the final testimony of some of Americaâs greatest warriors.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562436 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield & the Pentagon about America's Most Dangerous EnemiesAuthor: Christopher C. MillerNarrator: John PrudenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 12 minutesRelease date: February 7, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an "important" insider look at the tumultuous final days of the administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden (Sean Hannity). If you know one thing about Chris Miller, it's that he was President Donald Trumpâs final Secretary of Defense, elevated to that position in the days after the 2020 election. If you know a second thing about Chris Miller, itâs that he oversaw the U.S. Armed Forces during one of the most controversial and tumultuous periods the military has experienced in decades, culminating in the shocking events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Yet Chris Miller is no political partisan. On the contrary, Miller has spent his adult life in the crosshairs of Americaâs most dangerous enemies--from Middle Eastern deserts to the bowels of U.S. intelligence agencies--and emerged as one of the leading national security minds of his generation. Needless to say, Chris Miller has stories to tell. In Soldier Secretary, he reveals for the first time everything he saw--in a book that is candid, thought-provoking, and like that of no Secretary of Defense before him. This book is not just the inside story of what happened during the Trump administration--itâs the inside story of what happened to America, its military, and its institutions during the two decades after September 11, 2001. Part badass, part iconoclast, Miller is an irreverent, heterodox, and always-fascinating thinker whose personal journey through war and the White House has led him to some shocking conclusions about the state of American power in 2021. With a perspective that will surprise and interest both Republicans and Democrats, Miller argues for a radical rethinking of U.S. national security strategy unlike anything since the creation of the joint armed forces in the 1980s. He offers a roadmap for how the United States can win in the era of unrestricted warfare by shedding the bloated defense bureaucracy, bringing American forces home from endless conflicts, renewing our national unity, and beating China at its own game. Miller is a true American warrior whose incredible journey from Iowa to Afghanistan to Iraq to the White House endeared him to the troops, prepared him for the unprecedented crisis of January 6, and left him deeply concerned about the future of our military and the future of our nation.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595050 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the TalibanAuthor: Chad RobichauxNarrator: Chad Robichaux, Glenn BeckFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 32 minutesRelease date: January 17, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Now a Wall Street Journal Bestseller It was the right thing to do. And someone had to do it. Aziz was more than an interpreter for Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux during Chad's eight deployments to Afghanistan. He was a teammate, brother, and friend. More than once, Aziz saved Chad's life. And then he needed Chad to save his. When President Joe Biden announced in April 2021 that the United States would be making a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, Robichaux knew he had to get Aziz and his family out before Taliban forces took over the country. As the rescue team began to go to work, they became aware of thousands more--US citizens, Afghan allies, women, and children--facing persecution. This gripping account of two war heroes and friends puts human hearts and names alongside the headlines of one of the most harrowing moments in our history, giving you a closer look at: - The resilience of Afghanistan and its people - The twenty-year war that took place under four presidents - A mission accomplished and the work thatâs still to be done Saving Aziz is more than a story of war and rescue: it's about breaking down prejudice and apathy--and why risking it all is worth it when it comes to loving one another. Praise for Saving Aziz: 'Saving Aziz is the story of two warriors...brought together by war and a brotherhood forged through years of battling...for the cause of freedom and captures the heroic efforts of those who took action to not only rescue Aziz and his family in the US withdrawal but thousands of others.' --Tim Kennedy, New York Times bestselling author, US Army Special Forces, Sniper
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593523 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spyâand the Sister She BetrayedAuthor: Jim PopkinNarrator: Jim PopkinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 24 minutesRelease date: January 3, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance. Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to work. She never saw the undercover cars tracking her every turn. As she settled into her cubicle on the 6th floor of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, FBI Agents and twitchy DIA officers were hiding in nearby offices. For this was the day that Ana Montes--the US Intelligence Community superstar who had just won a prestigious fellowship at the CIA--was to be arrested and publicly exposed as a secret agent for Cuba. Like spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen before her, Ana Montes blindsided her colleagues with brazen acts of treason. For nearly 17 years, Montes succeeded in two high-stress jobs. By day, she was one of the governmentâs top Cuba experts, a buttoned-down GS-14 with shockingly easy access to classified documents. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages over shortwave radio, passing US secrets to handlers in local restaurants, and slipping into Havana wearing a wig. Montes didnât just deceive her country. Her betrayal was intensely personal. Her mercurial father was a former US Army Colonel. Her brother and sister-in-law were FBI Special Agents. And her only sister, Lucy, also worked her entire career for the Bureau. The highlight of her distinguished 31 years as a Miami-based language specialist: Helping the FBI flush Cuban spies out of the United States. Little did Lucy or her family know that the greatest Cuban spy of all was sitting right next to them at Thanksgivings, baptisms, and weddings. In Code Name Blue Wren, investigative journalist Jim Popkin weaves the tale of two sisters who chose two very different paths, plus the unsung heroes who had to fight to bring Ana to justice. With exclusive access to a âSecretâ CIA behavioral profile of Ana, family memoirs, and Anaâs incriminating letters from prison, Popkin reveals the making of a traitorâa woman labelled âone of the most damaging spies in U.S. historyâ by Americaâs top counter-intelligence official. After more than two decades in federal prison, Montes will be freed in January 2023. Code Name Blue Wren is a thrilling detective tale, an insiderâs look at the clandestine world of espionage, and an intimate exploration of the dark side of betrayal. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622860 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Support Troops: Behind the scenes of the air war in VietnamAuthor: William MongerNarrator: Jim SeybertFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 12 minutesRelease date: December 27, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: This story is a chronicle of the year 1968 as seen through the eyes of the author while serving at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand, supporting the air war in Vietnam. It was an odd juxtaposition, repairing the fire-control systems on F-105s that were making twice-daily bombing runs over North Vietnam, while living in relative comfort and safety. For every combatant in a time of war, there are thousands of men and women serving in support roles. These soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen are doing their jobs every day to support the overall effort. They are cooks and clerks, logistics experts, truck drivers and administrators, mechanics and technicians, doctors, nurses, dentists, and chaplains of every faith. They may not be getting shot at or shelled, but they are vital to the mission in every sense. They serve on bases at home as well as overseas in nearly every corner of the globe. They deploy and leave their families and loved ones. They miss birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, school plays, football games, weddings, and funerals. They, too, serve their country honorably. This story is dedicated to support personnel serving everywhere, past, and present.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620881 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Point ManAuthor: Kevin Dockery, Chief James WatsonNarrator: David De VriesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 14 minutesRelease date: December 6, 2022Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Chief Petty Officer James 'Patches' Watson was there at the start. One of the first to come out of the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was an initial memberâa 'plank owner'âof America's deadliest and most elite fighting force, the U.S. Navy SEALs. Through three tours in the jungle hell of Vietnam, he walked the pointâstaying alert to trip wires, booby traps, and punji pits, guiding his squad of amphibious fighters on missions of rescue, reconnaissance, and demolitionâconfronting a war's unique terrors head-on, unprotected . . . and unafraid. This is the story of a hero told from the heart and from the gutâan authentic tour of duty with one of the most legendary commandoes of the Vietnam War.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577606 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Chuck Yeager: World War II Fighter PilotSeries: Part of American War HeroesAuthor: Don KeithNarrator: Josh Robert ThompsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 21 minutesRelease date: December 6, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true story of United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager. Bold, brash, and brimming with courage, Chuck Yeager burst onto the scene as a national hero in 1947, when he became the first to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound. Yet even before his days as Americaâs most famous test pilot, Yeager was a young fighter ace in the US Army Air Force, flying a P-51 Mustang over Nazi-occupied Europe. His exploits are the stuff of legend. Soon after downing his first enemy fighter, Yeager, too, was shot down, surviving thanks to the help of the French Resistance and his own skills as a bomb makerâand earned a Bronze Star for saving the life of a fellow American. Against regulation, and only with the approval of General Eisenhower himself, Yeager returned to duty as a fighter pilot. While fiercely protecting Allied bombers, he shot down eleven enemy planes, including a lightning-fast Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first jet-powered airplane, and completed more than sixty missions. In Chuck Yeager, acclaimed author Don Keith tells the true story of the American icon during the war in which Yeager first proved he had the right stuff. Cover image courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619317 to listen full audiobooks.Title: 617 Squadron: The Dambusters at WarAuthor: Tom BennettNarrator: Dennis KleinmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 48 minutesRelease date: November 29, 2022Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: In May 1943, Guy Gibson led 617 Squadron on an audacious assault on the dams of the Ruhr valley using Barnes Wallis' ingenious 'bouncing bombs.' What happened to RAF 617 Squadron after the completion of Operation Chastise? The raid had been a success, but the bombing offensive against Nazi-occupied territories did not let up and 617 Squadron continued to be at the heart of these operations. Squadron Leader Tom Bennett, who flew as one of the lead navigators of 617's Mosquito marker force, recounts many of the precision attacks made by 617's Lancasters on vital targets in occupied Europe. A number of personalities who served with the Squadron leap from the pages, like Tom McLean, who managed to destroy three night-fighters while wounded from his position as rear gunner, as well as the unpredictable Australian Colin Keith 'Aspro' Astbury who after being retired from active duty snuck out of his dull job with the Air Ministry to continue flying with his crew. 617 Squadron: The Dambusters at War provides unique insight into the reminiscences of the men who flew in this crack Royal Air Force squadron during the last three years of World War Two.
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