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    D-Day and Beyond: Forgotten Voices of the Second World War, Hörbuch, Digital, 191min
    The 1942 raid on Dieppe was an attempt to test the enemy readiness, and take some pressure off the Russian front. It was a costly disaster, but lessons learned there were of the utmost importance to the D-Day planning. After a massive build up of men and materials, the D-Day landings finally took place in Normandy on June 6th, 1944. Despite vicious battles and stubborn resistance, within 12 weeks the Allied forces invaded Paris. To compound the enemy's problems, the allies invaded southern France and rapidly advanced northwards. In desperation, Hitler released his "secret weapons", the V1 and V2, over Britain. Slowly but steadily, the Allies advanced through Belgium and Holland, and despite setbacks at Arndem and in the Ardennes, finally reached the shores of the Rhine. After a hazardous crossing they finally advanced to meet the victorious Russian Army. Hitler, Mussolini and their cohorts were all dead or captured, and the war was over, at the cost of millions of human lives. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000024/bk_rhuk_000024_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sergeant's Apprentice: Schooled in Magic, Book 11 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 804min
    The Nameless World Goes to War! The necromancers have finally resumed their assault on the Allied Lands, sending a mighty army across the Desert of Death and into the Kingdom of Tarsier. Countless farms, villages, and towns have already been destroyed as the host makes its way northwards, striking deep into the kingdom's most vulnerable lands. Hundreds of thousands have been killed, thousands more will be killed when they are sacrificed for power. If the necromancers win the coming battle, it may be the beginning of the end. When Sergeant Miles invites her to join the coalition force, Emily reluctantly accepts. The necromancers have to be stopped, even if it means taking time off from school to serve as the sergeant's apprentice. But with arguing aristocrats, reluctant soldiers, fearful civilians, shadows from her past, a dangerously-sane necromancer and treachery in the ranks, stopping the invasion may cost Emily her life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tavia Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/podm/000593/bk_podm_000593_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    SAS Italian Job , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 731min
    An impossible mission in wartime Italy: the next explosive best seller from Damien Lewis.In the hard-fought winter of 1944, the Allies advanced northwards through Italy but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in, in an effort to break the deadlock. Their mission: to penetrate deep into enemy territory and lay waste to the Germans' impregnable headquarters.At the 11th hour, mission commanders radioed for David 'The Mad Piper' Kilpatrick to be flown in, resplendent in his tartan kilt. They wanted this fearless war hero to lead the assault, piping 'Highland Laddie' as he went - so leaving an indelible British signature to deter Nazi reprisals.As the column of raiders formed up, there was shocking news. High command radioed through an order to stand down, having assessed the chances of success at little more than zero. But in defiance of orders, and come hell or high water, they were going in.Damien Lewis' new best seller tells the incredible story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Bates. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000910/bk_qpuk_000910_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Little Book Cliffs: A Volume of Poems , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 21min
    The Little Book Cliffs is a volume of poems in the series. As with other volumes in the series, The Little Book Cliffs is inspired by things which have transpired in my life and throughout my journeys. Those that caused me to reflect and write each moment is now that memory captured. As I have delved into the words and the way in which one can craft them for meaning, I have been blessed. For it is a skill that was with me all my life just now returning as my soul awoke again. They have become my passion. My life. My love. Words are poems, poems are words. I use them to share what I see with my mind’s eye and hear with my soul and my heart. To your spirit I pass them along. The Little Book Cliffs is a place in nature located on the Western Slope of the State of Colorado, just above the Colorado River stretching northwards. May you find in them yourself as I have when I journey there. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gus Farrar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157245/bk_acx0_157245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 611min
    In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century - globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, war and peace, and self-determination - are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author Dean Cycon brings readers face-to-face with the real people who make our morning coffee ritual possible. In this groundbreaking and compelling book, Cycon takes the reader on a tour of ten countries in nine chapters through his passionate eye and unique perspective. Cycon, who is himself an amalgam - equal parts coffee entrepreneur, activist, lawyer and mischievous explorer - has traveled extensively throughout the world's tropical coffeelands, and shows readers places and people that few if any outsiders have ever seen. Along the way, readers come to realize the promise and hope offered by sustainable business principles and the products derived from cooperation, fair pricing, and the direct development model that Cycon pioneered. He introduces us to the Mamos of Colombia - holy men who believe they are literally holding the world together - despite the severe effects of climate change caused by us, their "younger brothers". He takes us on a trip through an ancient forest in Ethiopia where many believe that coffee was first discovered 1,500 years ago by the goatherd Kaldi and his animals. And readers learn of Mexico's infamous Death Train, which transported countless immigrants from Central America northwards to the US border. Javatrekker won the Gold Medal as The Best Travel Essay Book by the Independent Publishers Association, and has been published in English, Korean and Chinese. A Bonus Chapter has been added to this audio book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dean Cycon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026492/bk_acx0_026492_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    On Seas So Crimson: Usurper's War Collection, No. 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1148min
    This is a collection for James Young's Usurper's War. It contains Acts of War and Collisions of the Damned "Author James Young shows himself to be a master of that science fiction sub-genre called 'Alternate History'." - Midwest Book Review Adolf Hitler is dead. Great Britain lies prostrate, subdued under a storm of poison gas and incendiaries that have turned the great city of London into a blazing abattoir. The Royal Family's whereabouts are unknown, while Heinrich Himmler, new Fuhrer of the victorious Reich, prepares to dictate terms. For RAF Squadron Leader Adam Haynes, London's destruction is the nightmare outcome of years spent fighting the specter of Fascism. With his own combatant status uncertain, Adam must rush to save as many of his Polish-speaking pilots as he can. Great Britain's subjugation also has an immediate effect on Lieutenant (j.g.) Eric Cobb. Thrust unwillingly into combat between the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine, Eric must immediately make choices that not only affect himself, but will alter the course of history. In the Pacific, Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi witnesses firsthand the myriad opportunities that Germany's victory has provided for Japan. Defeated in China by Soviet forces after the Imperial Army foolishly attached northwards in December 1941, Japan has not only changed governments to a Navy dominated cabinet, but also changed strategies. It is to the south, in the oil rich Dutch East Indies, that Nippon will find her destiny. Yamaguchi, as the new head of the Kido Butai, must develop a plan that prevents American interference while simultaneously husbanding the Imperial Japanese Navy's strength for a single, great decisive battle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: K. Caldwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078045/bk_acx0_078045_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The River War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 837min
    The northeastern quarter of the continent of Africa is drained and watered by the Nile. Among and about the headstreams and tributaries of this mighty river lie the wide and fertile provinces of the Egyptian Soudan. Situated in the very centre of the land, these remote regions are on every side divided from the seas by 500 miles of mountain, swamp, or desert. The great river is their only means of growth, their only channel of progress. It is by the Nile alone that their commerce can reach the outer markets or European civilisation can penetrate the inner darkness. The Soudan is joined to Egypt by the Nile as a diver is connected with the surface by his air pipe. Without it there is only suffocation. Aut Nilus, aut nihil! The town of Khartoum, at the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, is the point on which the trade of the south must inevitably converge. It is the great spout through which the merchandise collected from a wide area streams northwards to the Mediterranean shore. It marks the extreme northern limit of the fertile Soudan. Between Khartoum and Assuan the river flows for 1,200 miles through deserts of surpassing desolation. At last the wilderness recedes, and the living world broadens out again into Egypt and the Delta. It is with events that have occurred in the intervening waste that this audiobook is concerned. The real Soudan, known to the statesman and the explorer, lies far to the south - moist, undulating, and exuberant. But there is another Soudan, which some mistake for the true, whose solitudes oppress the Nile from the Egyptian frontier to Omdurman. This is the Soudan of the soldier. Destitute of wealth or future, it is rich in history. The names of its squalid villages are familiar to distant and enlightened peoples. The barrenness of its scenery has been drawn by skilful pen and pencil. Its ample deserts have tasted the blood of brave men. Its hot, black rocks have witnessed famous traged ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Thorne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024771/bk_adbl_024771_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Trio Hemanay
    Biographical information Trio Hemanay was formed at the beginning of 1997. Since then it has had extraordinary success throughout South Africa. Well known Johannesburg music critic Thys Odendaal has singled it out as "one of the very few ensembles here who can compete in the international market", while Paul Boekkooi has praised it's "enterprise, style and flair." It is the chamber group, he concludes, "that shows us the way". Trio Hemanay has also made a name for it's commitment to the performance and promotion of works by South African composers. The South African Music Rights Organization (SAMRO) has commissioned several works for the Trio, amongst them Stefans Grové's very evocative The Soul Bird and, more recently, the young Stellenbosch composer Hans Huyssen's The Cattle Have Gone Astray. Arrangements of well known pieces by Satie and Bartók have also been specially commissioned for them, and are included on this album. Hendrik Hofmeyr's Notturno Elegiaco is dedicated to the group. Trio Hemanay performs at major concert venues throughout South Africa, and is featured in the programmes of the Johannesburg and Cape Town Music Societies, Northwards, Mount Grace, and The Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts in Grahamstown. In 2000 the group enjoyed successful tours both to the United States and The Netherlands. Marian Lewin is South Africa's best known and best loved cellist. She began playing at the age of 5, studying with her aunt, the indomitable Betty Pack. A UNISA Scholarship took her overseas for a time, and in 1964 she began her almost 30-year long orchestral career. After a stint in the SABC Orchestra, she joined the newly formed PACT Orchestra as Principal Cello, a post that she held for 20 years. During the International Cello Week in Holland in 1967 she was adjudged best cellist and appeared on Eurovision. Remembered for her solo performances with the SABC, Natal Philharmonic and PACT Symphony Orchestras, Marian is also a veteran broadcaster and was a founding member of the Alma Musica Piano Trio. She currently plays with the Rosamunde String Quartet, Enigma Piano Quartet and Trio Hemanay. She has been nominated for 3 Artes Awards. Amongst her many CD performances are recordings of the complete Glière Cello Duets. Malcolm Nay is one of the most charismatic of South African chamber musicians. His mentors and teachers were pianists Pauline Nossel and Isabel Stengel and he obtained the B. Mus. Degree and Postgraduate Performer's Licentiate (cum laude) at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1978 he won the P.J. Lemmer Scholarship for Overseas Study, gaining a place with the famous Hungarian pianist, Bela Siki. During his time in the USA he performed and recorded extensively, winning numerous prizes. On the competition circuit he was awarded Silver Medal in the International Piano Competition in Montevideo and fifth place in the UNISA/Transnet International Piano Competition of 1984. Since his return to South Africa, Malcolm has appeared as a soloist with most major local orchestras, and is a popular solo recitalist throughout the country. He now heads the practical teaching staff at Wits University, at the same time managing a very active concert career. Helen Vosloo is Principal Flute with the Johannesburg Philharmonic and Johannesburg Festival Orchestras, as well as the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. She appears regularly as a soloist and is much sought after as a chamber musician. She has been the recipient of several of South Africa's top music awards, including the D.J. Roode and Nina Barry Overseas Study Scholarships. She was placed fourth and awarded the Mozart prize in the SABC Music Prize Competition. She has undertaken frequent and extensive study tours to Europe and the USA, studying with some of the world's leading flautists and performing in prestigious master classes, such as those of William Bennett in London and Peter Lukas Graf in Switzerland. In 2002 Helen was engaged as a member of the celebrated Tapiola Sinfonietta in Finland, and worked with conductors such as Paavo Berglund and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. While resident in Finland she also performed at the Kuhmo Chamber Music and Oulunsalo Festivals. South African composer Hendrik Hofmeyr chose her to premiere his much acclaimed Flute Concerto.
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