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Intrepid Spirit by David Tunno

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625621 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625621] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Intrepid Spirit Author: David Tunno Narrator: David Tunno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 15, 2024 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In an ironic twist of fate, past and present cross swords. USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” must foil a world-wide jihadist plot by the descendants her historic foes, the Barbary Coast pirates in this multiple-award-winning, swashbuckling and cinematically explosive blend of action, history, romance, humor and the supernatural. Following is the full review by Charla White, Audiobookreviewer.com. 'Action-Packed & Vividly Realistic!' 'Moses Redding, a Navy man known for his decisive actions was reassigned to the USS Constitution for a goodwill tour of the Mediterranean because of this earlier move disobeying orders. This decision places him in an ideal setting with little chance of sparking an international incident. In an unexpected turn of events, terrorists underestimated the military’s ability to implement, be resourceful, and use antiquated weaponry! This miscalculation leads to an epic battle between Moses and the terrorists.' 'The author, David Tunno, crafts an exciting tale, interwoven with authentic historical details and military maneuvers. The action-packed narrative achieves realism through well-crafted dialogue and vivid descriptions. Tunno also expertly crafts vivid characters and skillfully executes plot twists.' 'As the narrator, he delivers an ardent performance, infusing the story with depth of emotion, excitement, and subtle nuances only the author can provide. He speaks clearly and concisely.' 'Overall, this is a great thriller to hear whether or not one enjoys military-based books. Tunno’s skill at bringing a book to life and captivating the listener takes many shapes!' 'There were no issues with the quality or production of this audiobook.'

What the Taliban Told Me by Ian Fritz

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637379 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637379] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Taliban Told Me Author: Ian Fritz Narrator: Ian Fritz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: An “essential” (Kevin Maurer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn’t been accepted into colleges thanks to an indifferent high school career. He’d too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people’s most intimate conversations over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz’s fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a “fraught, moving” (Kirkus Reviews) coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in Afghanistan.

Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan by Miles Lagoze

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633591 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633591] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan Author: Miles Lagoze Narrator: Miles Lagoze Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: “The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura. At just eighteen years old, Miles Lagoze joined the Marine Corps a decade after the war began and found himself surrounded by people not unlike those he’d left behind at home—aimless youth searching for stability, community, and economic security. Deployed to Afghanistan as a Combat Cameraman—an active-duty videographer and photographer—Lagoze produced slick images of glory and heroism for public consumption. But his government-approved footage concealed a grim reality. Here, Lagoze pulls back the curtain and illustrates the grisly truth of the longest war in American history. As these young men and women were deployed to an unfamiliar country half a world away—history’s “graveyard of empires”—they carried the scars of the fractured homeland that sent them. Lagoze shows us Marines straddling the edge of chaos. We see forces desensitized to gore and suffering by the darkest reaches of the internet, unsure of their places in an unraveling world and set further adrift by the uncertain mission to which they had been assigned abroad. Whistles from the Graveyard shows the parts of the Afghanistan War we were never meant to see—Afghan locals and American infantry drawn together by their fears of the ghostly, ever-present terror of the Taliban; moments of dark resignation as the devastating toll of years in war’s crossfire reveals itself between bouts of adrenaline-laced violence; and nights of reckless, drug-fueled abandon to dull the pain. In full, vivid color, Miles Lagoze shows us an oft-overlooked generation of young Americans we cast out into the desert, steeped in nihilism, and shipped back home with firsthand training in extremism, misanthropy, and insurrection.

Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945–1948 by Neill Lochery

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650343 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650343] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945–1948 Author: Neill Lochery Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain “neutral” countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take their wealth with them.   Their escape routes were diverse: Sweden and Switzerland boasted proximity, banking, and industrial closeness, while Spain and Portugal offered an inviting Atlantic coastline and shipping routes to South America. And in various ways, each of these so-called neutral nations welcomed the Nazi escapees, along with the clandestine wealth they carried.   Cashing Out tells the riveting history of the race to intercept the stolen assets before they disappeared, and before the will to punish Germany was replaced by the political considerations of the fast-approaching Cold War. Bestselling author Neill Lochery here brilliantly recounts the flight of the Nazi-looted riches—the last great escape of World War II—and the Allied quest for justice.

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640012 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640012] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine Author: David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES ‘A hugely important book … elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ** FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE NEW MATERIAL ON THE ISRAEL/GAZA CONFLICT ** Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past, and anticipate in the future, in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world. In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, the former CIA director who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over seventy years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have been repeated time and again, and explore the challenge, for statesmen and generals alike, of learning to adapt to various new weapon systems, theories and strategies. Among the conflicts examined are the Arab – Israeli wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the two Gulf wars, the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia, and both the Soviet and Coalition wars in Afghanistan, as well as guerrilla conflicts in Africa and South America. Conflict culminates with a bracing look at Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine, yet another case study in the tragic results that occur when leaders refuse to learn from history, and an assessment of the nature of future warfare. Filled with sharp insight and the wisdom of experience, Conflict is not only a critical assessment of our recent past, but also an essential primer of modern warfare that provides crucial knowledge for waging battle today as well as for understanding what the decades ahead will bring.