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Publisher's summary
In December of 1979, Soviet tanks rolled across the borders of Afghanistan, beginning a period of barbaric aggression that triggered a turning point in modern history. Idries Shah's brilliant novel chronicles the courageous 10-year resistance of the Afghan people, an epic story of triumph over tyranny that deserves to be immortalized.
Kara Kush is the definitive story of freedom fighters. It is a story of patriotism in action, mobilized and fueled not by a mass-media propaganda machine or the charisma of a single individual, but by a thousands-of-years-old tradition of proud independence, deep love of one's land, and fierce will to survive.
Kara Kush was first published in 1986, at a time when most of the outside world dismissed the Afghan resistance as a ragtag lot of rival guerrilla factions in a futile holdout against an invincible military machine. With extraordinary insight into human nature and the course of human history, Kara Kush told the real story.
According to Shah, almost all of the people in the text of the novel actually exist or did exist. The accounts of battles and raids, precise military details, and the stories of Soviet and red Afghan atrocities were all from primary sources eye witnesses, participants, defectors, victims, and prisoners.
This remarkable audiobook, among all other sources, offers keys to understanding not only this important strategic region, but the very phase in world history in which we find ourselves today. Much more than a novel, even more than a tribute, Kara Kush stands as a model of human vision, leadership, cooperation, and capacity at a time when we need it most.
"I collected this material from freedom fighters, some of them my own relatives, from refugees, and from men and women, fighting shoulder to shoulder, from all over Afghanistan." (Idries Shah)
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Using humor, pop culture, and even musical references, Michael Friedman re-creates the wartime experience in a narrative that is part memoir, part journalism, part military history. The years in question were pivotal ones, seeing the perfection of a type of warfare that would eventually be exported to Afghanistan and Iraq and has come to seem like the only kind of warfare in existence - wars in which there is never any clear victory, but not quite enough lives are lost to rally the country against it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Israeli Defense Fighter’s Story of War in Lebanon
- By Debbie on 05-02-19
By: Matti Friedman
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The Forever War
- By: Dexter Filkins
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 337
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 338
Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, we witness the chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today's battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America's wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A memorable "read"
- By TCinDC on 02-16-09
By: Dexter Filkins
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Behind Japanese Lines
- With the OSS in Burma
- By: Richard Dunlop
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 591
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 538
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 534
The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II!
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5 out of 5 stars
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The OSS in Burma
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). on 08-03-14
By: Richard Dunlop
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The Lion of Sabray
- The Afghani Warrior Who Defied the Taliban and Saved the Life of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story5 out of 5 stars 123
Best-selling author Patrick Robinson helped Marcus Luttrell bring his harrowing story of survival in Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 to the page and the big screen. But the Afghani man who saved his life was always shrouded in mystery. Now, with The Lion of Sabray, Robinson reveals the amazing backstory of Mohammed Gulab.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting follow up to Lone Survivor
- By Mr Wright on 08-27-16
By: Patrick Robinson
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Hunting Che
- How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary
- By: Mitch Weiss, Kevin Maurer
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Che Guevara was a threat to American foreign policy - and when he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be eliminated. Hunting Che follows the exploits of Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton, Felix Rodriguez, and Gary Prado - the Bolivian Ranger commander who ultimately captured him. With the White House and the Pentagon secretly monitoring every move, Shelton and his team changed history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- By David Keirns on 10-21-23
By: Mitch Weiss, and others
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Devil's Guard: The Real Story
- By: Eric Meyer
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
Following the myths and legends about Nazis recruited by the French Foreign Legion to fight in Indochina, Eric Meyer's new book is based on the real story of one such former Waffen-SS man who lived to tell the tale.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Fairytale
- By Robert Lion on 11-09-19
By: Eric Meyer
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The Road to Kalamata
- By: Mike Hoare
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Col. Mike Hoare describes how his 4 Commando supported Moise Tshombe's breakaway state of Katanga against both the UN forces, and the Baluba tribesmen who used poison arrows, pit traps, marijuana, spells, jungle drums...and even reorted to ritual torture and cannibalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Account
- By Anthony Nana Kwamu on 05-13-24
By: Mike Hoare
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
- A True Story of World War II
- By: Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 126
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labor camp, E715, near the site of Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, great story
- By Anonymous User on 08-12-11
By: Denis Avey, and others
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A Desert Called Peace
- Carrera, Book 1
- By: Tom Kratman
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 248
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 227
He raised an army against those who took everything from him. They should have picked their enemies more carefully. Five centuries from now, on a remarkably Earthlike planet that is mankind's sole colony in space, religious fanatics called the "Salafi Ikhwan" have murdered the uncle of former colonel Patrick Hennessey. That was their first mistake, because uncle was rich and Hennessey was rather a good colonel. But they also murdered Hennessey's wife, Linda, and their three small children, and that was their worst mistake for she was the only restraint Hennessey had ever accepted.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The description is better than the execution
- By Dan on 02-21-14
By: Tom Kratman
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Presumed Innocent: Booktrack Edition
- By: Scott Turow
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial - including his own life. It's an audiobook that lays bare a shocking world of betrayal and murder, as well as the hidden depths of the human heart. It will hold you and haunt you...long after you have reached its shattering conclusion.
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1 out of 5 stars
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PIANO BACKGROUND MUSIC!!!
- By HDB III on 01-26-19
By: Scott Turow
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Wingman #1
- Wingman
- By: Mack Maloney
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4 out of 5 stars 107
Disarmed and leaderless, the United States is united no longer! Evil Russian warlords have reduced the Capitol to a smoking pile of radioactive rubble. While the destitute citizens are frozen in a state of panic, one man steps forward to seek retribution. He is a brilliant ace fighter pilot: Hawk Hunter, a lone warrior on a mission to keep alive the indomitable spirit of a forgotten dream called "America".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- By Audiobook Addict on 02-14-11
By: Mack Maloney
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Eye of the Storm
- Twenty-Five Years in Action with the SAS
- By: Peter Ratcliffe, Noel Botham, Brian Hitchen
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 103
Peter Ratcliffe served in the SAS for 25 years. Blooded in Oman in the 1970s, he also saw action in Northern Ireland, in the Falklands War, and in the Gulf campaign. From his early days in the Paras to his time as Regimental Sergeant-Major in the Gulf, he has lived and fought by the motto 'who dares wins'. Eye of the Storm is his insider's account of that exceptional career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Peter is the real deal
- By LARRY on 10-19-19
By: Peter Ratcliffe, and others
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The Centurions
- By: Jean Larteguy, Robert D. Kaplan - foreward
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the "age of heroics is over". As relevant today as it was half a century ago, The Centurions is a gripping military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superbly read. Unbelievably timely
- By Benjamin on 05-05-21
By: Jean Larteguy, and others
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On Desperate Ground
- The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,857
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,665
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,659
Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash in the Korean War relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt's-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances.
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1 out of 5 stars
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typical armchair critic armed with hign site
- By Brent on 10-03-18
By: Hampton Sides
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American Spartan
- The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant
- By: Ann Scott Tyson
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 567
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 509
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 508
Some have called him "Lawrence of Afghanistan". To the Pashtun tribesmen he is "Commander Jim", leader of the "bearded ones". He is Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant, one of the most charismatic and controversial U.S. commanders of modern memory, a man who changed the face of America's war in Afghanistan when his critical white paper, "One Tribe at a Time", went viral at the Pentagon, the White House, and on Capitol Hill in 2009.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE TRUE ARMY OF ONE!!!"THE SPARTAN"
- By Hunter on 07-17-14
By: Ann Scott Tyson
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- JK
- 09-15-22
A MUST READ
I found this to be a very interesting story, unlike any war story I have ever read. There are many characters in the book and it is difficult at times to keep track of them. “Google Earth” is an amazing tool to look up the location of the places mentioned in the book and get a general idea of the geography. I highly recommend listening. Mr. Idries Shah is an amazing author and I certainly will read more of his books in the future.
The narrator, mr. David Ault is a pleasure to listen to. I did up the speed a notch, 1.25, but that can be my personal preference.
My thanks to all involved, JK.
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