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    America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
    Despite all that has been published on the American Civil War, one aspect that has never received the in-depth attention it deserves is the widespread use of landmines across the Confederacy. These “infernal devices” dealt death and injury in nearly every Confederate state and influenced the course of the war. Kenneth R. Rutherford rectifies this oversight with America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War, the first book devoted to a comprehensive analysis and history of the fascinating and important topic.  Modern landmines were used for the first time in history on a widespread basis during the Civil War when the Confederacy, in desperate need of an innovative technology to overcome significant deficits in materiel and manpower, employed them. The first American to die from a victim-activated landmine was on the Virginia Peninsula in early 1862 during the siege of Yorktown. Their use set off explosive debates inside the Confederate government and within the ranks of the army over the ethics of using “weapons that wait.” As Confederate fortunes dimmed, leveraging low-cost weapons like landmines became acceptable and even desirable.  The controversial weapon was the brainchild of Confederate General Gabriel J. Rains (who had experimented with explosive booby traps in Florida two decades earlier during the Seminole Wars, and other Confederates soldiers developed a sundry of landmine varieties, including command-controlled and victim-activated. The devices saw extensive use in Virginia, at Port Hudson in Louisiana, in Georgia, the Trans-Mississippi Theater, during the closing weeks of the war in the Carolinas, and in harbors and rivers in multiple states. Debates over the ethics of using mine warfare did not end in 1865, and are still being waged to this day.  Dr. Rutherford, who is known worldwide for his work in the landmine discipline, and who himself lost his legs to a mine in Africa, relies on a host of primary and secondary ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Harrison Gass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205387/bk_acx0_205387_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Reluctant Warriors , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 662min
    Here are elite soldiers, kibbutz-born, battle-bred. Their stories reveal their minds and souls, and what has tempered and annealed their hearts. They are citizen soldiers all - many officers - who refused career military appointments and returned to civilian life, as much as one can be a civilian in Israel. Descendants of Isaac who, like modern-day Ishmaels, seek peace while pursuing the Leviathan of war. Or are pursued by it. They also search for inner peace. These men and this author were transformed by the Second Intifada over a four- year period. I began this book in an era of hope following Oslo. In the political shambles after President Clinton's desperate and failed Taba diplomacy, it grew in complexity. I write today at the re-dawn of dimmed hope following Saddam Hussein's & Kaddafi's downfall, ; Arafat's death, but also Lebanon's Hariri murder. Much has changed since then. A psychoanalyst by profession, five years ago I completed a book about American youth, their journeys, successes and failures, from birth through 30. All but one of the 76 interviewees had navigated the inner turmoil of adolescence and young adulthood via the relatively pacific waters of college. In 1999, I met an Israeli graduate student at a Hanukah party who asked me what I had learned about Americans. He listened closely, then quietly remarked how different it was to become a young man in the Israeli army. To understand Israel, he continued, one must understand its army. And so, a year later, in the fall of 2000, I decided at least to try to understand that society. Before I left, I returned to a book - Children of the Dream - written by Bruno Bettelheim, one of my teachers. It is frequently misquoted, misunderstood. Bettelheim recounts the extraordinary job the kibbutzim do in communal rearing of children. Reluctant Warriors follows these children from late adolescence into young adulthood. Let us follow them together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Sterry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094175/bk_acx0_094175_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hygge: The Practical Guide to Incorporating the Secrets of the Danish Art of Happiness That Can Bring Unlimited Joy into Daily Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 166min
    If you would like to feel happier, more content, and relaxed on a daily basis then keep reading.Today’s modern world can seem like problem after problem, and we all get wrapped up in it far too much from time to time. But have you ever stopped and considered how much our busy lives can be a detriment to our happiness and quality of life? Could you imagine cultivating peace and the ability to enjoy every single moment in your life and become incredibly happy? No longer does this have to be a fantasy. You have found the solution: hygge. Hygge is a lifestyle that comes from Denmark that, in essence, means creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. Saying this, it goes beyond this and can be applied to every aspect of your life, and that is exactly what this audiobook will show you how to do. It's time to put down that buzzing phone for a bit and dive head first into what you love, whether that will be getting the mixing bowl out or getting your hiking boots on.   Here is just a sliver of what you will discover: The secret hygge strategies straight from the happiest country in the worldWhy you aren’t fulfilledHow to embrace hygge all year roundThe origins of hygge and why it still matters in the modern worldStep-by-step guide to hygge on a budget The secrets to becoming truly present in lifeHow to utilize hygge in your homeThe simplest secret to skyrocket your happiness And so much more! Just picture it now, curled up with a loved one, lights dimmed, candles on, fully present in the moment, breathing in, and just realizing, "Wow, life can be truly amazing". So if you're ready to increase the amount of joy in your everyday life, get this audiobook and listen now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alicia Foreman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145410/bk_acx0_145410_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1150min
    I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer, John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing". In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural world. A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards. Yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California after the Civil War and up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite the most prominent. Yet the audiobook also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, a self-made man of wealth and political influence. A man for whom mountaineering was "a pathway to revelation and worship." For anyone wishing to more fully understand America's first great environmentalist, and the enormous influence he still exerts today, Donald Worster's biography offers a wealth of insight into the passionate nature of a man whose passion for nature remains unsurpassed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Frangione. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014004/bk_adbl_014004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dancing Girls: Detective Jo Fournier, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min
    An absolutely gripping crime thriller with nail-biting suspense The light in her wide brown eyes dimmed as she drew her last breath. She might have been beautiful lying there on the floor, if it wasn’t for the purple marks on her neck and the angry red line on her finger where her wedding band used to be....When Jeanine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town of Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine’s husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine’s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the truth, another woman is found strangled in a hotel, arms placed gracefully above her head like a dancer. While digging through old case files, Jo makes a terrifying link to a series of cold cases: each victim bears the same strangulation marks. But the FBI won’t take Jo seriously, and if she disobeys direct orders by investigating the killings outside of her jurisdiction, it will mean the end of the career she’s already sacrificed so much for, even her relationship. Just as Jo is beginning to lose hope, she finds messages on the victims’ computers that make her question whether these small-town women were hiding big lies. Jo thinks this is the missing link between the victims, but she knows the killer is moments away from selecting his next victim. Will it lead her to the most twisted killer of her career in time, or will another innocent life be lost? An absolutely brilliant new crime thriller series that fans of Robert Dugoni, Lisa Regan and Melinda Leigh will devour in one sitting. "That ending! Holy moly I did not see that coming. A twist to end all twists! It was fantastic.... Really look forward to more books in this series. If they are anything like this one, they are all going to ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151691/bk_acx0_151691_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    BDSM Training: The Complete Guide for the Healthy BDSM, Submissive Women and Their Alphas, Training a New Submissive, Total Dominance Techniques Any Dom/Master Must Know , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min, (USK 18)
    Looking for a book that shares some of the best erotic BDSM experiences while teaching you the art of healthy BDSM as well as dominant and submissive techniques to keep you entertained and educated? Here you go!We all have a part of us that wants to be submissive or dominant when it comes to matters to do with sex. Think about it; very few people would not be turned on by the idea of being tied (even if loosely), spanked, teased, fingered, or doing that to other people.But if, for whatever reason, you’ve never explored that wild side, maybe the first place you want to start is to hear erotic, spell-binding BDSM stories that will not only teach you the art of BDSM but also help you live your fantasy!And that’s what this book offers - a collection of erotic BDSM stories that will quench your innermost fetishes desires without all the judgment or fear of anything going wrong!Here is a glimpse of some of the stories:In efforts to manage your overwhelming fetish for the smell of female clothing items including their shoes, you head over to the psychiatrist’s office where things get a little beyond the kind of help you were expecting. In a quick succession of events, the doctor and her secretary tie your squirming body up and lock you up in a room filled with stockings, stilettos, and other female items literally begging you to hold them and smell them, albeit your trouser drenching wet as pre-cum drips successively from your head….The Mistress takes it a notch higher with an experienced punisher and proficient dominant who works in one of the largest BDSM clubs in the country. Her confidence and job nature have continually veiled some of her deepest desires so much that she is totally oblivious of their existence.Her fiery sexual glory is unpredictably dimmed by Mr. Bastille, the new owner, and so much to her amazement, she feels it all- everything pleasurable she’d never felt or know ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nikki Diamond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192430/bk_acx0_192430_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
    The true story of Abraham Lincoln’s last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which played out in the nation’s newspapers as he began his presidential campaignAt the end of the summer of 1859, 22-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than 3,000 cases - including more than 25 murder trials - during his two decades-long career, was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer.What normally would have been a local case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln’s debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had gained him a national following, transforming the little-known, self-taught lawyer into a respected politician. He was being urged to make a dark-horse run for the presidency in 1860. Taking this case involved great risk. His reputation was untarnished, but should he lose this trial, should Harrison be convicted of murder, the spotlight now focused so brightly on him might be dimmed. He had won his most recent murder trial with a daring and dramatic maneuver that had become a local legend, but another had ended with his client dangling from the end of a rope.The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer, the young man Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office - and who had bitterly slandered Lincoln as an “infidel...too lacking in faith” to be elected.Lincoln’s Last Trial captures the presidential hopeful’s dramatic courtroom confrontations in vivid detail as he fights for his client - but also for his own blossoming political future. It is a moment in his ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner, Dan Abrams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007188/bk_harp_007188_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Blood-Dimmed Tide
    The Blood-Dimmed Tide: ab 5.62 €
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    A Blood-Dimmed Tide
    A Blood-Dimmed Tide - The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It: ab 10.99 €
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    The Blood-Dimmed Tide
    The Blood-Dimmed Tide: ab 12.49 €
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