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Ghost Army of World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 605min

In 1941, the US began to form a hand-picked army to fight in Europe. What made it different is that its troops were composed of artists, actors, meteorologists, and sound technicians, and their true mission was not to fight, but to deceive the German Army. Information about the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops was classified top secret until 1996. Following the declassification, Jack Kneece interviewed many of the key personnel involved in this elaborate ruse, including fashion designer Bill Blass. Until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, many Americans were opposed to becoming involved in the war in Europe, and the military was ill-prepared to fight, with only 130,000 enlisted troops and equipment left over from World War I. One solution was to create a special force that gave the illusion of 30,000 heavily armed men. In fact, there were only 1,000. German soldiers referred to them as the "Phantom Army" because one moment they were in one place, and the next, they were attacking their flanks or from the rear. This small army duped the Germans successfully in 21 separate operations during World War II, many of which took place within a few hundred yards of the front lines. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Woodson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007123/bk_tant_007123_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Night in October: Tales from the Hurricane Coast , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 844min

This is a story of hurricane survival; a story of the costs and comforts of living on our hurricane coasts. This story of one family's encounter with a storm named Sandy tells of weaknesses and strengths known to all of us, within a setting of beauty and terror, along the Atlantic coast. In this place, where the soul is fed as stoutly as the body on the ocean's riches, and to which people have been drawn for millennia, two worlds collide - one solid and one fluid - one in which people can dwell and one in which we cannot. This collision of worlds, across a changeable, unknowable boundary, holds an attraction that cannot be resisted and sometimes must be escaped. On Monday, October 22, 2012, a weather system in the Caribbean caught the attention of meteorologists as a matter of routine. Its heavy clouds gave scattered showers to splash on the heaving surface of the darkened sea. By the next Monday this storm named Sandy, born on the sands of the Sahara, had traveled over 6000 miles - over ocean and island - to one of the most populous coastlines in the world, and, there, it irrevocably changed the lives of tens of thousands of people. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert J. Illo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098831/bk_acx0_098831_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Weather Experiment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 888min

In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm-warning system and 'forecasts' would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God's great wrath, 19th-century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma. But buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a generation of mavericks set out to explain the secrets of the atmosphere and learned to predict the future. Among them were Luke Howard, the first to classify the clouds; Francis Beaufort, who quantified the winds; James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon; Samuel Morse, whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings; and FitzRoy himself, master sailor, scientific pioneer, and founder of the Met Office. Reputations were built and shattered. Fractious debates raged over decades between scientists from London to Galway, Paris to New York. Explaining the atmosphere was one thing, but predicting what it was going to do seemed a step too far. In 1854, when a politician suggested to the Commons that Londoners might soon know the weather 24 hours in advance, the House roared with laughter. Peter Moore's exhilarating account navigates treacherous seas and rough winds and uncovers the obsession that drove these men to great invention and greater understanding. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018535/bk_adbl_018535_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Firestorm: Surviving the Tasmanian Bushfire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 108min

The photographs stop you in your tracks. Five children and their grandmother sheltering under an old wooden jetty as the air around them burns a fierce orange. Seen around the world, these were the images from the heart of the inferno that showed the Tasmanian township of Dunalley fighting for survival. On the morning of 4 January 2013, the people of Dunalley had watched with caution as a bush fire burned slowly on top of the hill. It was not an unusual occurrence - fires are a part of Australian life - and Dunalley had never been troubled before. They made their preparations, just in case. Even so, they had no idea what was about to hit them. In the aftermath of the Inala Road fire, Jon Henley visited Dunalley. Minute by minute, he reconstructed what had happened - the residents, the emergency services…the moment the flames struck the first houses. Firestorm explores what it means to live in a natural environment that has evolved to burn. Meteorologists and firefighters alike fear the growing ferocity of the fires it produces as Australia's summers grow ever hotter. Scientific facts suggests that the Inala Road fire may have been just a hint of what is to come. Firestorm is the story of the terrifying fire, and of the remarkable and resilient character of its inhabitants as they seek to raise their homes from the ashes. But most of all, it is the story of the family under the jetty, clinging on as Dunalley burned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cat Gould. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019361/bk_adbl_019361_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Man Who Caught the Storm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 519min

A tale of obsession and daring. A contest between humankind and nature’s fiercest phenomenon. The saga of the greatest storm chaser who ever lived. At the turn of the 21st century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider. In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed impossible, it was as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks. And when he finally met his match - in a face-off against the largest tornado ever recorded - it upended everything he thought he knew. Brantley Hargrove delivers a masterful tale, chronicling the life of Tim Samaras in all its triumph and tragedy. He takes readers inside the thrill of the chase, the captivating science of tornadoes, and the remarkable character of a man who walked the line between life and death in pursuit of knowledge. Following the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, Hargrove’s debut offers an unforgettable exploration of obsession and the extremes of the natural world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacques Roy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008704/bk_sans_008704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thelonious Rising , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 539min

Over the hot tropical waters of West Africa, a fitful breeze flung salt spray in the faces of fishermen. Storms are common in the Atlantic between June and November. Most weather disturbances falter and die, no sooner born than ended. Wind blowing from the east six miles high may collide with wind blowing from the opposite direction, creating a shear that will decapitate a storm and rip it apart before an eye can solidify. Warm waters fuel a hurricane, but cold ocean currents can destroy the system before it gains strength. For the moment, this particular disturbance has no name. Meteorologists say she is a tropical depression that should be watched, but five days east of Florida, with gale force winds, she is worthy of no more than a warning to seafaring ships. When winds reach hurricane force, they will dignify her with a name: Katrina. Nine-year-old Thelonious Monk DeCay lives in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward with his grandmother. His mother dead and his father missing, Monk is determined to find his father. With their harmonicas and bottle-cap taps, Monk and his best friend entertain the tourists in Jackson Square under the watchful eyes of eccentric historian Quinton Toussaint, who knows where to find Monk's father. Hurricane Katrina changes everything. Left homeless and alone after the storm, Monk befriends a deranged man and survives by sneaking across the rooftops and courtyards of the French Quarter, stealing food and supplies while hiding from both a murderer and the police. In the midst of the storm and its aftermath, a woman Monk has never met appears in New Orleans with answers to his questions about his long-lost father. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: A.J Carter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123530/bk_acx0_123530_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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