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Into the Breach at Pusan: The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War: Campaigns and Commanders Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 329min
In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional Marine Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea. The brigade's actions loom large in marine lore. According to most accounts, traditional Marine Corps discipline, training, and fighting spirit saved the day as the marines rescued an unprepared US Eighth Army, which had been pushed back to the "Pusan Perimeter" at the southeastern tip of the Korean peninsula. Historian and retired marine Kenneth W. Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines' and Eighth Army's fight for Pusan. Into the Breach at Pusan corrects discrepancies in earlier works (including the official histories) to offer a detailed account of the campaign and place it in historical context. Estes describes the mobilization, organization, and operations of First Brigade during the first three months of American participation in the Korean War. Focusing on the battalions, companies, and platoons that faced the hardened soldiers of the North Korean army, he brings the listener directly to the battlefield. The story he reveals there, woven with the voices of soldiers and officers, is one of cooperation rather than interservice rivalry. At the same time, he clarifies differences in the organizational cultures of the US Army and the Marine Corps. Into the Breach at Pusan is scrupulously fair to both the army and the marines. Estes sets the record straight in crediting the Eighth Army with saving itself during the Pusan Perimeter campaign, but he also affirms that the army's suffering would have been much greater without the crucial, timely performance of the First Provisional Marine Brigade. The book was published by University of Oklahoma Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stuart Appleton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044494/bk_acx0_044494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Falling in Love with America Again , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 530min
In his new role as president and CEO of The Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint has travelled the country talking to Americans about how to return to our founding principles and restore and protect our economy and culture for future generations. He's realized that he - and all of us as fellow citizens - must fall in love with America - again. In this audiobook, DeMint introduces Americans all across the country who are working toward the same goal, We see example after example of Americans coming together locally in what DeMint calls the "little platoons" - the families, churches, communities and voluntary organizations succeeding on the model that smaller is better. They are the hands-on citizens who make America the exceptional, caring and can-do country it has always been. DeMint illustrates why each of us - regardless of political party, age, race, religion or ethnicity - must rediscover the power we represent. The country's future is at risk, not just because of constant pressure from "the Bigs" (big government, big banks, big labor, big Wall Street cronies, etc.), but because so many of us fear it's too late to solve problems so huge and seemingly intractable. Jim DeMint is here to reassure us that this is not true. In riveting yet plainspoken style, he tells real-life success stories and affirms the compelling truth that conservative ideas are really American ideas, and they must guide us as we turn our institutions upside down, taking them from the top-down centrally controlled bureaucracies they've become back to the bottom-up democratic framework the Constitution intended. Through this heartfelt, fascinating, and inspiring look inside the America of both yesterday and today, and the everyday citizens who are working tirelessly and selflessly to insure its future fulfills the promise of its beginnings, Jim DeMint is beckoning us to join him on one of the most meaningful and momentous journeys we have ever undertaken together: Falling in Love w ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001303/bk_gdan_001303_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Our Vietnam Wars, Volume 2: As Told by More Veterans Who Served , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 948min
Want to know what Vietnam was really like? From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM sites in North Vietnam, a nurse on the USS Repose, combat medics deep in the jungle, machine gunners in I-Corps, mechanics working on the rolling deck of a big carrier on Yankee Station, squad leaders on infantry sweeps in “the Arizona Territory”, truck convoys under fire, riverine patrol boats in the Delta, Coast Guard “Jolly Green” search and rescue helicopters pulling downed pilots from the jungle, tank platoons in an all-out armor assault, Loach pilots in hunter-killer teams, and many more - from the Delta to the DMZ, this book puts you in their boots. Some of us were drafted. Some enlisted. Some were true war heroes, but most were just trying to survive. As everyone “in-country” knew, Vietnam was all about luck, good or bad. If you were there, you understand. If you weren’t, grab a copy and start listening, anywhere in the book. The stories are like Doritos. Try a few and you won’t be able to stop. The Vietnam War was the seminal event of my generation and affected so many lives. Over 58,200 of us paid the ultimate price, but the war didn’t end when the last US helicopter lifted off from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. It continues to take its ugly toll on many who did come home. Instead of bands and parades, we got PTSD and Agent Orange, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, neuropathy, leukemia, Hodgkin’s Disease, and prostate cancer, and many more. As they say, “Vietnam is the gift that keeps on giving.” Unfortunately, what little our kids and grandkids know of the war comes from books that only focus on one soldier, one unit, and one year, or movies like Oliver Stone’s Platoon and Hamburger Hill, leaving people to think that all we did was crawl through the jungle on the Cambodian border smoking dope. But that wasn’t how most of us spent ou ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eddie Frierson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165798/bk_acx0_165798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bullets and Bandages: A Soldier's Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
Bullets and Bandages is inspired by the true stories of a US army field medic during the Vietnam war between 1968 and 1969. Through those stories, the author gives listeners the unique insight into the bullets and bandages of war. Parts of this audiobook are also about the author's own experiences and that time period in our history.The trails and victories of Rob and his comrades pull you into a world of survival through willpower, tenacity, and wit. Bullets and Bandages is a story of love, faith, friendship, and humanity. What was it like for our military and their time of war as they fought together to survive in the jungles of Vietnam. Chapter One: ExcerptSome memories exist because they are etched into one’s mind with fire and anguish of true experience, not by choice. From my tour of duty in Vietnam, I am filled with the experiences that cannot be wiped away. I can recall the events, the names, and the faces as if they had been in front of me only a short time ago. To this day, I thank the Lord in my prayers for helping me survive. Sometimes, I dream of the tranquil rice fields or of the hot steamy jungles - very quiet and peaceful. Occasionally, the dreams are of the men that I could not save and of the ghastly shadows of my enemies. These images are a contradictory and discordant collage of the real horror of war.I have no misgivings about what was done; I was a soldier doing my duty for my country, in a war far away from my home. It was a war where our forces could not fully engage the enemy. The army could not move on a strategic offensive and take the ground war into Hanoi or Cambodia.I had to learn a new type of warfare or would not have survived. After some time, I began to know the enemy and anticipate his movements. My unit traveled the jungles in platoons of heavy infantry in search of Charlie. Our nerves were constantly on edge. It was a guerrilla war, and I learned to adapt.Wi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph M. Clarke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172230/bk_acx0_172230_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Long Range Desert Group: The History of the Elite British Army Unit During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 103min
“The desert was quivering with heat. The gun detachments and the platoons squatted in their pits and trenches, the sweat running in rivers down their dust-caked faces. There was a terrible stench. The flies swarmed in black clouds upon the dead bodies and excreta and tormented the wounded. The place was strewn with burning tanks and carriers, wrecked guns and vehicles, and over all drifted the smoke and the dust from bursting high explosives and from the blasts of guns.” (Cecil Ernest Lucas-Phillips) The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary “Desert Fox”, Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa began all the way back in the summer of 1940, when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Italy’s entrance into the war. Although British maneuvering in North Africa began successfully against the Italians, the British forces suffered a series of defeats over the next two years, due to several problems the British army faced as a result of inadequate preparation and weaponry. Dealing with the Italians was one thing, but the British faced an entirely different monster in North Africa when Erwin Rommel, a German general who had gained much fame for his role in the invasions of Poland and France, was sent to North Africa in February 1941. For the next two years, the Allies would face off against the legendary Desert Fox and his Afrika Korps. On August 1, 1945, a month before the formal end of World War II, the British War Office announced the disbanding of a small, eclectic unit, the Long Range Desert Group. Since its founding five years earlier, in June 1940, the LRDG had pioneered and refined the concept and tactics of deep penetration, covert reconnaissance in the North African desert, and later as a more var ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108471/bk_acx0_108471_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Combined Action Platoons In The Vietnam War:
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Analyse von Tim O'Briens Kurzgeschichte -The Things They Carried- Die Aufgabe und Entwicklung der Person des Lieutenant Jimmy Cross und die Aufgabe und Nichtentwicklung der restlichen Männer des Platoons
Analyse von Tim O'Briens Kurzgeschichte -The Things They Carried- Die Aufgabe und Entwicklung der Person des Lieutenant Jimmy Cross und die Aufgabe und Nichtentwicklung der restlichen Männer des Platoons: ab 12.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Little Platoons
Little Platoons - How a revived One Nation can empower England's forgotten towns and redraw the political map: ab 11.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America
Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America - Little Platoons: ab 45.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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