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    The Stonewall of the West: The Life and Career of General Patrick Cleburne , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 121min
    As between the loss of independence and the loss of slavery, we assume that every patriot will freely give up the latter.... (Patrick Cleburne, 1864) During the Civil War, the eyes of the nation usually stayed fixed to the Eastern theater, where Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia constantly bedeviled the Union Army of the Potomac and its many commanders. Instrumental to that success at places like Second Manassas and Chancellorsville was Lee’s corps commander, Stonewall Jackson, who became one of the most popular and respected generals of the Civil War. Despite the Confederates’ success in holding off the Union’s offensives in the East, however, the Union made steady progress in the Western theater, winning battles like Shiloh, capturing New Orleans, and sealing off the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. Like the Union generals in the East, Confederate generals in the West were either mortally wounded in battle (Albert Sidney Johnston) or proved ineffective (Braxton Bragg, John Pemberton). One of the only bright spots in the West for the Confederacy was Irish immigrant Patrick Cleburne, whose successes earned him the nickname "Stonewall of the West". Where so many Confederates were failing, Cleburne's strategic tactics and bold defensive fighting earned him fame and recognition throughout the South, even leading Lee to call him "a meteor shining from a clouded sky." Unfortunately for Cleburne, he is also remembered today for reasons other than his battlefield successes. Cleburne was tasked with leading an assault that he heartily opposed during the Battle of Franklin near the end of 1864, but he obeyed the command and was killed in the assault within the Union lines. The general was so legendary even among Union soldiers that the valuables on his body were looted before his body came back to Confederate lines. Upon hearing of his death, Cleburne’s old corps commander noted, "Where this division defended, no o ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracey Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111609/bk_acx0_111609_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea...A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
    A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness For the first time, Euna Lee—the young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea—tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when they were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers. For nearly five months they remained detained while friends and family in the United States were given little information about their status or conditions. For Lee, detention would prove especially harrowing. Imprisoned just miles from where she was born and where her parents still live in Seoul, South Korea, she was branded as a betrayer of her Korean blood by her North Korean captors. After representing herself in her trial before North Korea’s highest court, she received a sentence of 12 years of hard labor in the country’s notorious prison camps, leading her to fear she might not ever see her husband and daughter again. The World Is Bigger Now draws us deep into Euna Lee’s life before and after this experience: what led to her arrival in North Korea, her efforts to survive the agonizing months of detainment, and how she and her fellow captive, Ling, were finally released thanks to the efforts of many individuals, including Bill Clinton. Lee explains in unforgettable detail what it was like to lose, and then miraculously regain, life as she knew it. The World Is Bigger Now is the story of faith and love and Euna Lee’s personal conviction that God will sustain and protect us, even in our darkest hours. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Janet Song. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002397/bk_rand_002397_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Turning the Tides , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 372min
    Ever the black sheep of her adoptive family, Lee Cooper has finally buckled down to a responsible job as a social worker in Southwest Florida. Defending her client against charges of child abuse awakens buried memories of her own abandonment in a Korean orphanage. Can she remain objective for the sake of a child?Bricker Kilbourn, the court-appointed guardian, doubts Lee’s judgments - and his opinion might determine the little boy’s fate. He's got his own family issues and haunting secrets to keep. Falling for a woman is not part of his plan.He’s running from his past. She’s searching for answers. Will their resolution to protect a child bind them together or wrench them apart? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Linda Stutsman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106558/bk_acx0_106558_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Remaining: Refugees , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 839min
    He has fought the fight, and run the race. But the enemies never stop coming, and the race has no finish line. It has been three months since Captain Lee Harden found the survivors at Camp Ryder. With winter looming, Lee is on the verge of establishing Camp Ryder as a hub of safety and stability in the region. But not everyone agrees with Lee’s mission... or his methods. Growing tensions between camp leadership are coming to a head, and as Lee struggles amid the dissention and controversy, new revelations about the infected threaten to destroy everything he has worked for. The Remaining: Refugees is the third book in the best-selling The Remaining series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Rummel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012900/bk_adbl_012900_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Drop Box: How 500 Abandoned Babies, an Act of Compassion, and a Movie Changed My Life Forever , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 262min
    He traveled to South Korea to film an amazing rescue...his own. Brian Ivie was filled with compassion as he read an LA Times article about Pastor Lee’s solution to unwanted newborns in South Korea - a baby drop box. Brian traveled halfway around the world to film the documentary The Drop Box. But God had even bigger plans. For in the midst of filming the plight of these abandoned and forgotten children, Brian realized his own spiritual brokenness. At its heart this is a story of spiritual orphans - young and old - discovering their true identities as children of God. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon Batchelar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/001451/bk_oasi_001451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 252min
    “Grant and Lee were about as evenly matched in military talent as any two opposing generals have ever been. Grant's strength was unwavering adherence to his strategic objective. He made mistakes, but the overall pattern of his campaign reveals an innovative general employing thoughtful combinations of maneuver and force to bring a difficult adversary to bay on his home turf. Lee's strength was resilience and the fierce devotion that he inspired in his troops. He, too, made mistakes and often placed his smaller army in peril. But each time - Spotsylvania Court House and the North Anna River come to mind- he improvised solutions that turned bad situations his way.” - Gordon C. Rhea The Overland Campaign that pitted Robert E. Lee against Ulysses S. Grant is one of the most famous campaigns of the Civil War, and perhaps its greatest chess match. While Grant sought to destroy Lee's Army of Northern Virginia along the way to Richmond, Lee aimed to defend his capital while staying alert for a golden opportunity to strike a decisive blow against Grant's Army of the Potomac. The result was an incredibly costly campaign that saw four major battles and near continuous fighting in May and June 1864. At the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5-7, 1864), Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee had fought to a standstill in their first encounter, failing to dislodge each other despite incurring nearly 30,000 casualties between the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Despite the fierce fighting, Grant continued to push his battered but resilient army south, hoping to beat Lee’s army to the crossroads at Spotsylvania Court House, but Lee’s army beat Grant’s to Spotsylvania and began digging in, setting the scene for on and off fighting from May 8-21 that ultimately inflicted more casualties than the Battle of the Wilderness. In fact, with over 32,000 casualties among the two sides, it was the deadliest battle of the Overland Campaign.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124139/bk_acx0_124139_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 460min
    Valley Thunder is the first full-length account in more than three decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864 - the battle that opened the pivotal 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign.Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide-ranging operation to subjugate the South in 1864, intended to attack the Confederacy on multiple fronts so it could no longer “take advantage of interior lines". One of the keys to success in the Eastern Theater was control of the Shenandoah Valley, a strategically important and agriculturally abundant region that helped feed Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Grant tasked Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, a German immigrant with a mixed fighting record, and a motley collection of units numbering some 10,000 men to clear the Valley and threaten Lee’s left flank. Opposing Sigel was John C. Breckinridge, a former vice president. Included within the ranks of his 4,500-man army were cadets from the Virginia Military Institute under the direction of VMI Commandant of Cadets Lt. Col. Scott Ship, who had marched eighty miles in just four days to fight Sigel.When the two armies faced, Breckinridge boldly announced, “I shall advance on him. We can attack and whip them here and we will do it!” As the general rode by the cadets he shouted, “Gentlemen, I trust I will not need your services today; but if I do, I know you will do your duty”.The Confederate victory drove Union forces from the Valley, but they would return, reinforced and under new leadership, within a month. Before being repulsed, these Federals would march over the field at New Market and capture Staunton, burn VMI in Lexington (partly in retaliation for the cadets’ participation at New Market), and very nearly capture Lynchburg. Operations in the Valley on a much larger scale that summer would permanently sweep the Confederates from the “Bread Basket of the Confederacy".Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market is base ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John B Leen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146998/bk_acx0_146998_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Getting Your Teenager Through Their Exams: Practical, Down to Earth Advice on Revision and Exams for Parents and Carers. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 56min
    Do you have teenagers in their last years of school or revising for their exams? Do you want to see them achieve their true potential? Or maybe you just want some help to keep them "on track"? This short book is full of practical wisdom and experience for parents and carers, written by Lee Jackson who has over 23 years of experience working with students in schools and colleges across the UK. As well as a parent of teenage twins who've just passed their English GCSEs, Lee is also one of the UK's most popular and experienced motivational speakers and the author of many books, including a study skills book for Collins. His down-to-earth style helps parents really grasp how they can encourage their children to do their very best. Discover easy tips to help you and your teenager through the crucial and challenging season of revision and exams. Learn how to help them focus, beat procrastination, and critical ways to help you lead your teenager successfully through the last years of school and college. "Partnership between parents and teachers is vital and Lee's book strengthens that link and will help your child succeed at school." (Helen Loveday-Sims, English Teacher)"This is a great little book. Easy to read and packed with really practical ideas that feel doable as parents trying to help our kids. It makes a big difference to know that this book is all drawn from Lee’s experience as a youth worker, school speaker and parent – very down to earth stuff. A really good pointer on how I can best help my kids." (Tim Morfin, CEO TLG The Education Charity)“Lee’s book will help all families navigate the stress that is exam-time. Along the way, don’t forget to let your teens know you love them whatever grade they get.” (Rob Parsons OBE, CEO Care for the Family)"Simply brilliant! Lee provides practical no-nonsense tips and techniques to help parents guide their children through one of the most stressful, but arguably important ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lee Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/189983/bk_acx0_189983_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of the Wilderness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
    With Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia continuing to frustrate the Union Army of the Potomac’s attempts to take Richmond in 1862 and 1863, President Lincoln shook things up by turning command of all the armies of the US to Ulysses S. Grant in March 1864. Lee had won stunning victories at battles like Chancellorsville and Second Bull Run by going on the offensive and taking the strategic initiative, but Grant and Lincoln had no intention of letting him do so anymore. From May 5 to 7, the two most famous generals of the Civil War squared off for the first time. The 100,000-strong Army of the Potomac was double the size of Lee’s hardened but battered Army of Northern Virginia. Nevertheless, Lee proved more than capable on the defensive.The Battle of the Wilderness was fought so close to where the Battle of Chancellorsville took place a year earlier that soldiers encountered skeletons that had been buried in shallow graves in 1863. Moreover, the woods were so thick that neither side could actually see who they were shooting at, and whole brigades at times got lost in the forest. Both armies sustained heavy casualties while Grant kept attempting to move the fighting to a setting more to his advantage, but the heavy forest made coordinated movements almost impossible.On May 5 and May 6, both armies attempted desperate attacks and counterattacks to strike a knockout blow, but they were ultimately unable to dislodge each other. Given the terrain and the nature of the fighting, it was one of the most horrendous battles of the war, with some wounded men literally burning to death in fires ignited by the battle that sparked the nearby underbrush and spread rapidly. The defending Confederates technically won a tactical victory by holding their ground, but they did so at a staggering cost, inflicting 17,000 casualties on the Army of the Potomac and suffering 11,000 of their own. On May 7, Grant disengaged his army from the battle. His objec ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121948/bk_acx0_121948_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    P.G.T. Beauregard Saves Richmond: The First and Second Battles of Petersburg , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 74min
    “The remarkable resistance of Beauregard's troops alone saved the city from capture on the 15th, 16th, and 17th.” (Confederate cavalry officer Fitzhugh Lee) After the last major pitched battle of the Overland Campaign was fought at Cold Harbor in early June, Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac had suffered more casualties during the campaign than Robert E. Lee had in his entire Army of Northern Virginia at the start of May. Understandably, the American public was shocked by the carnage, and to this day Grant has been accused of being a butcher, but attrition had become a vital war aim for the North, and Grant remained undeterred.  Refusing to attack Lee in frontal assaults, and aware that Lee dared not venture out to counterattack, Grant nearly captured Richmond in mid-June by stealing a march on Lee’s army and crossing the James River. With that, Grant’s forces had a golden opportunity to capture Petersburg, a critical railroad hub and supply line for Richmond, before Lee even realized where they were. All that stood in their way was an elaborate set of defensive fortifications manned by just a few thousand men under the command of P.G.T. Beauregard, who had been the Confederate hero of Fort Sumter and First Bull Run but had fallen out of favor well before June 1864.  As it would turn out, the fog of war, poor luck, and a skillful impromptu defense by Beauregard and his troops, which at times consisted of young boys, old men, and wounded veterans, stopped Benjamin Butler from taking Petersburg on June 9 and then stopped Grant from taking Petersburg from June 15 to 18. Amazingly, Beauregard managed to defend Petersburg while being heavily outnumbered, at times having less than 15 percent of the armies opposing him, and despite the fact that he received virtually no reinforcements from Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia during that time because Lee refused to believe Beauregard’s reports that Grant’s army had crossed the James and was no longe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119527/bk_acx0_119527_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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