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A Must For Travelers To Manila
- De Pete Andresen en 06-20-17
De: Peter Eisner
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Pathfinder Pioneer
- The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II
- De: Raymond E. Brim
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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In this engaging audiobook, we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America's air counteroffensive in Europe. Pathfinder Pioneer gives us vivid insights into the genesis of the American air campaign, told with the humor, attention to detail, and humility that captures the heart and soul of our Greatest Generation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Good Recounting of WW2 Bomber Missions
- De Sean en 07-25-17
De: Raymond E. Brim
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The German Aces Speak II
- World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
- De: Colin D. Heaton, Anne-Marie Lewis, Dr. Dennis Showalter - foreword, y otros
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 304
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In The German Aces Speak II, Heaton and Lewis paint a picture of the war through the eyes of four more of Germany's most significant pilots, put together from numerous interviews personally conducted by Heaton from the 1980s through the 2000s. The four ex-Luftwaffe fighter aces bring the past to life as they tell their stories about the war, their battles, their off-duty lives, their lives after the war, and perhaps most importantly, how they felt about serving under the Nazi leadership of Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too Slow!
- De zur45 en 05-01-20
De: Colin D. Heaton, y otros
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The Reluctant Communist
- My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
- De: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Fredrick
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 7 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for 40 years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history and human story
- De Anonymous User en 09-16-21
De: Charles Robert Jenkins, y otros
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No Ordinary Joes
- The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life
- De: Larry Colton
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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Their names were Bob Palmer, Gordy Cox, Tim McCoy, and Chuck Vervalin, and in 1941, when they joined the Navy, they were not trying to prove their patriotism - they were just looking for a job that would provide "three hots and a cot". But on April 22, 1943, the war took a terrible turn for them. Their submarine, the USS Grenadier, was torpedoed. Listed as lost in action and given up for dead, all four had in fact miraculously escaped, only to be captured by the Japanese.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Prisoner of War Tale
- De Lynn en 03-20-11
De: Larry Colton
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The Good Man of Nanking
- The Diaries of John Rabe
- De: Edwin Wickert
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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This unique and gripping document contains the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now being honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe mobilized the remaining Westerners in Nanking and organized an "International Safety Zone" which guaranteed safety to all unarmed Chinese by virtue of Germany's pact.
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4 out of 5 stars
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why is it narrated by a woman?
- De Anonymous User en 11-10-20
De: Edwin Wickert
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Soldier Girls
- The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
- De: Helen Thorpe
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 289
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Soldier Girls follows the lives of three women on their paths to the military. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Valor Knows No Gender
- De Cynthia en 03-21-15
De: Helen Thorpe
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The Forgotten 500
- De: Gregory A. Freeman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Here is the astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II: when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines. During a bombing campaign, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers, and for months the airmen lived in hiding, waiting for rescue.
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4 out of 5 stars
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an amazing tale
- De Ron en 10-28-07
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The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- De: Sam Kleiner
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Sam Kleiner’s The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the group of young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending China. Led by legendary army pilot Claire Chennault, these men left behind an America still at peace in the summer of 1941 using false identities to travel across the Pacific to a run-down airbase in the jungles of Burma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This really happened.
- De Jason en 07-26-20
De: Sam Kleiner
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Operation Thunderbolt
- Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
- De: Saul David
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. The plane was forced to divert to Entebbe in Uganda - ruled by the murderous despot Idi Amin, who had no interest in intervening. Days later, Israeli commandos disguised as Ugandan soldiers assaulted the airport terminal, killed all the terrorists, and rescued all the hostages but three who were killed in the crossfire. The assault force suffered just one fatality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of true courage and political resolve
- De Gabe Schwartz en 01-28-16
De: Saul David
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Consequence
- A Memoir
- De: Eric Fair
- Narrado por: Eric Fair
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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In 2004, after several months as an interrogator, Eric Fair’s call to serve his country has led him to a dark and frightening place. By the time he leaves Iraq after that first deployment, Fair will have participated in or witnessed a variety of aggressive interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, diet manipulation, exposure, and isolation. Years later, with his health and marriage crumbling, haunted by the role he played in what we now know as “enhanced interrogation,” it is Fair’s desire to speak out that becomes a key to his survival.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Sad, desperate story with NO RESOLUTION.
- De CARL en 04-07-16
De: Eric Fair
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Warriors at 500 Knots
- Intense Stories of Valiant Crews Flying the Legendary F-4 Phantom II in the Vietnam Air War.
- De: Robert F Kirk
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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As the ground war struggled for success in Vietnam, it became intensely clear that the skies had to be owned by the allies for victory to have a chance. It was the F-4 and its pilots that made that possible. The author, a Phantom pilot himself, details intense stories of undaunted and valiant American pilots with their legendary fierce Phantom. These are personal stories of intrepid courage and self-sacrifice to get the mission done - whatever the cost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Material
- De Mark Murphy en 12-31-14
De: Robert F Kirk
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Call of Duty
- My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers
- De: Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton, Marcus Brotherton
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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As part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton fought in the critical battles of Normandy and Market Garden and in the freezing cold of Bastogne. Easy Company, immortalized as the Band of Brothers, stands today as an unparalleled icon of brotherhood and bravery under fire.
This is the true story of a real-life hero who traveled to a faraway place and put his life on the line for the cause of freedom---and an insightful memoir about courage, leadership, camaraderie, compassion, and the opportunities for success that can only happen in America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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No content
- De Amazon Customer en 06-16-08
De: Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton, y otros
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My Hitch in Hell, New Edition
- The Bataan Death March
- De: Lester I. Tenney, Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale USN - Ret.
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in Japanese prison camps. My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor's epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering. This edition features a new introduction and epilogue by the author.e by the author.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Story I have ever listened to
- De Amazon Customer en 09-03-20
De: Lester I. Tenney, y otros
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Target Tokyo
- Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
- De: James M. Scott
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
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The dramatic account of one of America's most celebrated - and controversial - military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid. In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious counterstrike against the heart of the Japanese Empire: Tokyo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vengence is Mine, Thus Sayeth Doolittle
- De Jonathan Love en 06-13-16
De: James M. Scott
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Come Up and Get Me
- An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
- De: Joe Kittinger, Craig Ryan
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp, in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set several ballooning distance records, including the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in 1984. But the aeronautical feats that first made him an American hero had occurred a quarter of a century earlier....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A rewarding read
- De Andrew Braddick en 03-25-13
De: Joe Kittinger, y otros
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The Wild Blue
- The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Jeffrey DeMunn
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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The very young men who flew the B24s over Germany in World War II against terrible odds were an exemplary band of brothers. In The Wild Blue, Stephen Ambrose recounts their extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship. Stephen Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and chose those few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required Reading
- De Lyle en 11-22-11
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- nancy
- 10-08-14
Interesting idea of what might happen
What made the experience of listening to The Squadron Executive the most enjoyable?
Well the story flowed really well together however it was hard to be completely believable. I mean it is a work of fiction but there were some parts where I thought that wouldn't happen in real life.
What other book might you compare The Squadron Executive to and why?
This is my third book by the author. I do like that his books aren't drawn out but they get right down to the point. Its great for a short listen.
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