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The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1078min

A shocking expos of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians during America’s war in Vietnam, with a new introduction by the author. In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America’s Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly known as the “Viet Cong.” The victims of the Phoenix Program were Vietnamese civilians, male and female, suspected of harboring information about the enemy - though many on the blacklist were targeted by corrupt South Vietnamese security personnel looking to extort money or remove a rival. Between 1965 and 1972, more than eighty thousand noncombatants were “neutralized,” as men and women alike were subjected to extended imprisonment without trial, horrific torture, brutal rape, and in many cases execution, all under the watchful eyes of US government agencies.Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with former participants and observers, Douglas Valentine’s startling expos blows the lid off of what was possibly the bloodiest and most inhumane covert operation in the CIA’s history.The ebook edition includes “The Phoenix Has Landed,” a new introduction that addresses the “Phoenix-style network” that constitutes America’s internal security apparatus today. Residents on American soil are routinely targeted under the guise of protecting us from terrorism - which is why, more than ever, people need to understand what Phoenix is all about. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Souer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019179/bk_adbl_019179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Heartland Horrors: Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Notorious USA: A True Crime Box Set , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 285min

Welcome to Heartland Horrors, the newest box set of the New York Times best-selling series of tales of America’s most notorious criminals and the crimes that shaped the places we call home. In this collection, you’ll have no better guide through the darkest sides of Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas than Katherine Ramsland, one of America’s most legendary true crime authors and researchers. Dr. Ramsland is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author and one of America's favorite authors in any genre. Dr. Ramsland digs in deep and uncovers things that others before her have simply missed. With each story, she gives listeners a look deep into the heart of darkness. You will love every word. When you're finished with this volume, be sure to pick up Bodies of Evidence, Overkill, and other box sets available as audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118075/bk_acx0_118075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Executive Command , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1020min

The third political thriller in the "Executive" series by Gary Grossman. The clock is ticking down to an attack on America’s most vulnerable natural resource: Water. Our nation’s water resources are high on terrorist target lists, but low on America’s consciousness. Water sources are largely unprotected, providing open access to any enemy with chemicals and biotoxins. So far we’ve been lucky. But that luck won’t last. This is the all-too-real-and-present danger facing President Morgan Taylor and Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke as they desperately try to prevent hell-bent terrorists from destroying America and its infrastructure city by city, and state by state. Fact-based in frightening detail, Executive Command is a political thriller that will leave you pondering its strong possibility the next time you pour a glass of water. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010500/bk_adbl_010500_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Tragedy of Liberty's Lost Blood: A War Correspondence from the Battle of Boston , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 17min

America’s beloved and distinguished first president is hunted down by Gen. C.P. "Mad Dog" Ehrlichmann from aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Ehrlichmann must use every weapon in his arsenal to capture the dangerous insurgent, dead or alive. In this work of short fiction, author Antonio J. Hopson blends speculative fiction, historical fiction, and narrative force to imagine what it would be like if our nation's forefathers were attacked by the world’s most deadly war machine: The United States of America. Washington, Franklin, and Revere are insurgent foes pursued by Allied Forces. Their actions lead to instability in the troubled colonies, marred by guerrilla tactics, sabotage, and collateral damage. The Battle of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) is recounted by an embedded reporter, who pens a stark, first-person reflection of America’s war on terror/war on itself. Liberty is at stake. Join or die. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Mick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100092/bk_acx0_100092_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Enemies: A History of the FBI , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1112min

Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI as the most formidable intelligence force in American history. Here is the hidden history of America’s hundred-year war on terror. The FBI has fought against terrorists, spies, anyone it deemed subversive—and sometimes American presidents. The FBI’s secret intelligence and surveillance techniques have created a tug-of-war between protecting national security and infringing upon civil liberties. It is a tension that strains the very fabric of a free republic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002871/bk_rand_002871_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min

In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Today it is clear that America is vulnerable - to domestic and international decline, and unregulated greed. Speaking from decades of experience, Brzezinski considers the implications of the changing distribution of global power, ponders why America’s global appeal is waning, speculates on the likely geopolitical consequences if America declines by 2025 (will China assume America’s central role in world affairs?), and describes a vision of a resurgent America: responsive to challenges, strategically deliberate, and historically enlightened in its global engagement with the new East. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000627/bk_high_000627_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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North America's Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 778min

North America’s Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey recounts the story of a group of researchers, naturalists, adventurers, cooks, immigrants, and scientifically curious teenagers who came together in the late 1930s to embark upon a series of ambitious expeditions never before, or since, attempted. Their mission: to piece together the broken shards of the Channel Islands’ history and evolution. California’s eight Channel Islands, sometimes called “North America’s Galapagos", each support unique ecosystems with varied flora and fauna and differing human histories. The 33 men and women who set out to explore the islands hoped to make numerous discoveries that would go down in history along with their names. More than 80 years ago, a lack of funds and dearth of qualified personnel dogged the pre-WWII expeditions, but it was only after America entered the war and the researchers were stranded on one of the islands that the survey was aborted, their work left for future scientists to complete.This untold saga of adventure, discovery, and goals abandoned is juxtaposed against the fresh successes of a new generation of Channel Island scholars. Engagingly written, North America’s Galapagos illuminates the scientific process and reveals remarkable modern discoveries that are rewriting archaeological textbooks and unraveling the answer to the age-old question: How and when were the Americas populated?Anyone interested in the work conducted behind closed museum doors will want to listen to this book - so will history buffs, environmentalists, scientists, and general listeners curious about our world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judith Surjaatmadja. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/238613/bk_acx0_238613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1118min

With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal. Neptune’s Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands, America’s first concerted offensive against the Imperial Japanese juggernaut and the true turning point of the Pacific conflict. This grim, protracted campaign has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice - three sailors died at sea for every man lost ashore - Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of “Ironbottom Sound.” Here, in brilliant cinematic detail, are the seven major naval actions that began in August of 1942, a time when the war seemed unwinnable and America fought on a shoestring, with the outcome always in doubt. But at Guadalcanal the U.S. proved it had the implacable will to match the Imperial war machine blow for violent blow. Working from new interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and newly available documents, Hornfischer paints a vivid picture of the officers and enlisted men who took on the Japanese in America’s hour of need. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robertson Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002503/bk_rand_002503_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Stories of Elders: What the Greatest Generation Knows About Technology That You Don't , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min

America’s Greatest Generation (born before 1945) witnessed incredible changes in technology and social progress. From simple improvements in entertainment to life-changing medical advances, technology changed the way they live, work, and identify. Sadly, with each passing year, fewer members of the Greatest Generation remain alive to share their wisdom as the last Americans to grow up before the digital revolution. In 2015, millennial author and cultural anthropologist Veronica Kirin drove 11,000 miles across more than 40 states to interview the last living members of the Greatest Generation. Stories of Elders is the result of her years of work to capture and share their perspective for generations to come. Stories of Elders preserves the wisdom, thoughts, humor, knowledge, and advice of the people who make up one of America’s finest generations, including the Silent Generation. Their stories include the devastation that came from major events in US history like World War I, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and World War II. The Greatest Generation (many of whom are now centenarians) saw the routine use of airplanes, cars, microwave ovens, telephones, radios, electricity, and the Internet come to fruition in their lifetimes. Their childhoods were simple, relying on outdoors games and their imagination for fun. How they went to school, pursued their careers, and raised their kids were radically different than the way we live today. By chronicling more than 8,000 years of life lived during the most transitional time in American history, Stories of Elders offers old-fashioned wisdom and insight for America’s future generations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Veronica Kirin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128853/bk_acx0_128853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Meaningless Multilateralism: In International Diplomacy, South America Chooses Quantity Over Quality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 14min

Latin America’s new regional groups claim to share lofty goals, from resolving conflicts to coordinating political and economic policies. But there is little reason to believe that they are capable of achieving them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Stillwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pe/peri/000024/pe_peri_000024_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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