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    Spanish-American War: A Captivating Guide to the War Between the United States of America and Spain Along with the Philippine-American War That Followed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
    If you want to discover the captivating history of the Spanish-American War, then pay attention...Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook:The Spanish-American War: A Captivating Guide to the Armed Conflict Between the United States of America and Spain That Took Place after the U.S. Intervened in the Cuban War of IndependenceThe Philippine-American War: A Captivating Guide to the Philippine Insurrection That Started When the United States of America Claimed Possession of the Philippines after the Spanish-American WarThe Spanish-American War really only lasted about 10 weeks (the buildup and decision to go to war took longer than the war itself), but a peace treaty was not signed until December of 1898.This was an event that was the tipping point for the end of the Spanish Empire and the rise of the US as a formidable player on the world stage.Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include:Spain’s Waning InfluenceThe Tense Relationship between Cuba and the USHalf-Way around the World - The Philippine-American RelationshipA Changed WorldAnd much, much more!Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include:A Quick OverviewThe World After RomeLasting Effects and Hope of ReunificationAnd much, much more!So if you want to learn more about the history of the Spanish-American War and Philippine-American War, get this audiobook now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Zenobia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184532/bk_acx0_184532_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm: Centennial of Flight Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min
    Since the Wright brothers made their famed flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, aviation has emerged as the indispensable arm of American military power. In this detailed and informative history, Charles J. Gross traces its development from the technological antecedents of the Wright brothers' triumph through the air war for Kosovo. Drawing on examples from all periods and all service branches, he explains the roles of politics, economics, and technology in shaping air power in the US armed forces and assesses the actual impact of military aviation on warfare. Gross discusses major developments in aircraft, doctrine, training, and operations. He also provides discussions of airlift, in-flight refueling, military budgets, industry, and interservice squabbling. He provides assessments of Eisenhower's New Look and MAD (mutually assured destruction); of McNamara's effort to use commonality of equipment to cut costs and Kennedy's buildup of the military; of the Nixon Doctrine and the failure of air power to resolve the long, drawn-out conflict in Southeast Asia; and of the growing reliance on American airpower in the post-Cold War world. Military professionals, scholars, civilian government policy makers and planners, members of the media who concentrate on defense matters, and interested members of the general public will all rely on this book as an invaluable guide. The book is published by Texas A&M University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Woods. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065036/bk_acx0_065036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Empire Rising , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 811min
    Xiang Li Cheng, the President of the People's Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country's economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet. After a decades-long largely secret military buildup, Cheng sets his plan in motion by suddenly invading Taiwan and drawing the Pacific Fleet in to its defense. With a faster, larger fleet with more capable long range missiles, China is able to surprise and quickly overwhelm the American fast attack fleet, all but wiping out the U.S. forces on deployment. Then China turns to its real objective - invasion and expansion across Asia, starting with the four main Islands of Japan. While the Atlantic Fleet surges westward to defend its allies and respond to the destruction of their counterparts, it falls to an unlikely alliance of three people to stop this incursion and prevent World War III. National Security Advisor Christine O'Connor has critical information, but she's trapped in Beijing; Captain Murray Wilson, C.O. of the submarine USS Georgia must somehow infiltrate the Chinese submarine blockade; and Navy SEAL Jake Harrison must lead a strike team into the most hostile of territories with only hours to implement the most daring plan ever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Berman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001908/bk_aren_001908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nightmare: The First Ever Dark Fantasy Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 256min
    Also published as Nightmare: A Tale of Waking Terror by Francis Stevens. The Nightmare was the first in a type of fiction that became known as dark fantasy, and remains a high water mark in the genre. First published in 1916, this debut novel began the three-year career in which Francis Stevens became the person that launched entire genres of modern fictions.With her vast imagination and flair for the unusual and exciting, Gertrude Barrows Bennett created a seed that has grown into thousands of great works. An exciting adventure tale in which "The air of mystery and the atmospheric buildup are superbly done, indicating a ranking talent" (Sam Moskowitz)Come along for a voyage on a great ocean liner to an uncharted land, filled with strange beasts and secrets of alchemy, and a woman strong enough to win over them.Gertrude Barrows Bennett is better known by her pen name Francis Stevens. With a career that only spanned three years - between 1917 and 1920, when she stopped writing after her mother's death - she is credited as "the woman who invented dark fantasy". She was a direct influence on H.P. Lovecraft, and in the words of Sam Moskowitz was the "greatest woman writer of science fiction in the period between Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and C.L. Moore." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chirag Patel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206515/bk_acx0_206515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 736min
    The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the buildup to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution - the War of 1812. At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle of Tripoli, is dispatched to Charleston to outfit and take command of a new 20-gun brig, the USS Tempest. Later, aboard the Constitution, he sails into the furious early fighting of the war. Prowling the South Atlantic in the Tempest, Bliven takes prizes and disrupts British merchant shipping until he is overhauled, overmatched, and disastrously defeated by the frigate HMS Java. Its captain proves to be Lord Arthur Kington, whom Bliven had so disastrously met in Naples. Onboard he also finds his old friend Sam Bandy, one of the Java's pressed American seamen kidnapped into British service. Their whispered plans to foment a mutiny among the captives may see them hang when the Constitution looms over the horizon for one of the most famous battles of the War of 1812 in a gripping, high-wire conclusion. With exquisite detail and guns-blazing action, The Tempest illuminates an unforgettable period in American history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Boehmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003265/bk_peng_003265_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 852min
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war - and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons. In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s, as well as the arms-reduction campaign that followed, and Reagan’s famous 1986 summit meeting with Gorbachev. Rhodes’s detailed exploration of events of this time constitutes a prehistory of the neoconservatives, demonstrating that the manipulation of government and public opinion with fake intelligence and threat inflation that the administration of George W. Bush has used to justify the current “war on terror” and the disastrous invasion of Iraq were developed and applied in the Reagan era and even before. Drawing on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S. participants, and on a wealth of new documentation, memoir literature, and oral history that has become available only in the past 10 years, Rhodes recounts what actually happened in the final years of the Cold War that led to its dramatic end. The story is new, compelling, and continually surprising - a revelatory re-creation of a hugely important era of our recent history.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robertson Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/001005/bk_bkot_001005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shiloh, 1862 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
    SHILOH, 1862 - The Battle of Shiloh, fought in the wilderness of southern Tennessee in April 1862, marked a violent crossroads in the Civil War. What began as a surprise attack by Confederate troops on a Union stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River Valley became a bloody two-day conflict that would eerily foretell the brutal reality of the next three years. Pitting up-and-coming Union general Ulysses S. Grant against Confederate firebrand Albert Sidney Johnston, the engagement was a perfect storm of advanced weaponry, a West Point–educated officer corps, and a decades-long buildup of hatred that bore devastating consequences. One hundred thousand soldiers clashed in the vicious melee, and losses for both sides totaled nearly 24,000, more than had been lost during the American Revolution and the War of 1812 combined. Bestselling author and Civil War historian Winston Groom skillfully re-creates the drama of the event in a gripping, eye-opening, and heartrending narrative that highlights the major personalities, politics, and mind-set of the day. But perhaps the most alarming outcome, Groom poignantly reveals, was the realization that for all its horror, the Battle of Shiloh had not vanquished the Rebel army in the West, and the thousands of maimed and slain were merely wretched symbols of things to come. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric G. Dove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003640/bk_brll_003640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Yoga Poses for Weight Loss , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 28min
    Yoga isn't just known as a stress buster, but it is also rates as one of the most popular and effective workout regimens for eliminating stubborn fat buildup. Yes, yoga can be used for weight loss and it's very effective. The reason behind this is that: research study has shown that yoga lowers stress causing hormones and in turn increases insulin sensitivity - telling your body to burn up food as fuel instead of storing it as fat. Also known as yoga asanas for weight loss, this guide will discuss different methods at how this ancient practice can help you shed some pounds while at the same time toning your skin and firming up your abs, butt, arms, and legs. You can expect to see results in as little as three weeks. When practiced regularly, yoga can be a great way to cut down on weight. It is very light on the joint and if done properly under the initial guidance of a professional reduces the chances of injury. Furthermore, you don't even have to spend thousands of bucks on annual gym subscriptions as yoga can be practiced in the comfort of your own home. The following chapters will discuss some effective yoga asanas for weight loss, and most of all you don't pay a dime. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: E. Jonathan Kessler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048720/bk_acx0_048720_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Carpenter’s Dilemma: Family Secrets, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
    Family secrets can be buried but never erased. Eventually, the unspoken shadows of the past will threaten even the strongest promise of love. Dean Matthews should be enjoying the steady and fulfilling life he's built for himself. He's triumphed over the land, making a real go of a new life working and rebuilding his late grandfather's farm. He found love and laughter with his intensely passionate boyfriend, Mikael. And, if the man he loves occasionally shapeshifts into a werewolf? Oh well, we all have our quirks, right? It had taken some time, but Dean eventually came to accept that at least some of the animalistic ardor his new boyfriend exhibited was due to the fact that he sometimes was...an animal.Dean wants to settle into a comfortable honeymoon period now that he has everything he's ever wanted, but finds he's dealing with a whole new set of complications. The meddling and overbearing ways of his new boyfriend's family for starters, plus the dark secrets of this isolated community Mikael is from. Just how much will Dean be able to compromise? Will there be any love left once they've traversed these new battlegrounds? Gay paranormal romance at its hottest, The Carpenter's Dilemma exposes the wild side of men and beasts, featuring a buildup of sexy storytelling and a pack of steamy scenes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nic Lazar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100478/bk_acx0_100478_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Spanish-American War: A Captivating Guide to the Armed Conflict Between the United States of America and Spain That Took Place After the US Intervened in the Cuban War of Independence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 203min
    If you want to discover the captivating history of the Spanish-American War, then pay attention....The Spanish-American War really only lasted about 10 weeks (the buildup and decision to go to war took longer than the war itself), but a peace treaty was not signed until December of 1898. This was an event that was the tipping point for the end of the Spanish Empire and the rise of the US as a formidable player on the world stage. Not all Americans were happy with the change, with famous Americans like Mark Twain speaking out about the US occupation of the lands that it was meant to save.In The Spanish-American War: A Captivating Guide to the Armed Conflict Between the United States of America and Spain That Took Place Ater the U.S. Intervened in the Cuban War of Independence, you will discover topics such as:Spain’s waning influenceAmerica – a country itching to break out of isolationismBuilding tensionsAmerica's sensationalized sympathy with CubaRemember the Maine! – an excuse for warA brief war with huge implicationsRough Riders – the beginning of the legend of Theodore RooseveltHow the Smoked Yankees ensured Roosevelt’s successThe price of peaceThe anti-Imperialist leagueThe Foraker Act of 1900 and new territoriesThe tense relationship between Cuba and the USHalf-way around the world – the Philippine-American relationshipA changed worldAnd much, much more!So if you want to learn more about the Spanish-American War, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Zenobia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184745/bk_acx0_184745_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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