211 Results for : vindictive
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Churchill: The End of Glory (eBook, ePUB)
Of the three revisionist works John Charmley has written about British foreign policy in the mid-twentieth century this is the centrepiece. The author argues that Churchill deserves more credit for 'their finest hour' than has been granted, but just as his virtues were built on the heroic scale, so too were his faults and failures. The statesman who had struggled to destroy Nazism and restore Europe's balance of power ended by allowing Stalin to dominate central and eastern Europe.This is no mere exercise in debunking, in many ways the complex man presented in these pages is more interesting than the more hagiographical portraits.'This is not instant history run up to cause a sensation, but a meticulously documented reappraisal of Churchill's war leadership and of the career that led up to it. Nor is its tone contemptuous or vindictive. The author accepts that Churchill was a great man. His starting point is that even great men make mistakes.' John Keegan, Daily Telegraph 'Probably the most important revisionist text to be published since the war.' Alan Clark, The Times- Shop: buecher
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Holding the Light , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 590min
In 1849, the Poltraze Estate has been deserted by Squire Nankervis, and 16-year-old Clemency Kivell is stunned when her father, Seth, announces that he wants to buy it. Trespassing in the abandoned big house, rebel-in-spirit Clemency encounters Kingsley Faraday, who tells her he’s bought Poltraze, but will not be the new squire.Seth is furious he’s lost out, but when Poltraze Farm is bequeathed to Clemency by Squire Nankervis, grateful for her rescue of his infant son, Seth sees his chance, moving the family there and renaming it Trenbarvear.But his vindictive bullying causes tragedy, and the family deserts him. He plots murder and revenge on them all, and only the strength and wits of Clemency can save those she loves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patricia Gallimore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001220/bk_isis_001220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Devil in the Microscope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
When "science-fair geek" Anika goes to live with her scientist father in a town built around his mysterious genetics laboratory, she is determined to prove herself worthy of his legacy. But all preconceptions about her new life are thrown out the window when Anika discovers her father is a megalomaniac living in a town populated entirely by mad scientists. Now Anika will have to navigate her way through a high school filled with vindictive evil geniuses, deadly science projects, and unspeakable human experimentation. Relying on her wits, scientific know-how, and talented allies, Anika fights for her very life, and the lives of her new friends. Will Anika have to become like her mad scientist father in order to save the day? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michaela Gilchrist. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116580/bk_acx0_116580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ursa: Ursa, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min
Rome is reeling from the after-effects of a civil war. The troops that marched through Italia have left a wave of destruction. A vindictive message, left on the wall of a family estate, galvanizes Ursa’s father into tracking down the perpetrators and seeking answers. Before undertaking his quest, the sickly former centurion informs his son Ursa that he is adopted. Caught between two worlds, Ursa seeks both to remedy the cause of his father’s dishonor and learn more about his heritage. In this, the first book in the Ursa series, we follow Ursa as he joins the legions, finds what it means to become a soldier, and is deployed to a Britannia that is now weakened and depleted. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hayden Palmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230171/bk_acx0_230171_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Perry Mason and the Case of the Howling Dog: A Radio Dramatization, Hörbuch, Digital, 78min
Criminal lawyer and all-time #1 mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote close to 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. His most popular books starred the incomparable attorney-sleuth Perry Mason. In The Case of the Howling Dog, Arthur Cartwright, an anxious man, goes to Perry Mason to have his neighbor arrested for his vindictive and noisy dog. He is under the belief that his howling is an indication that somebody has been murdered in the neighborhood. He demands that his will be written bequeathing the estate to the lady living at the neighbor's house. However, the will is mysteriously altered by an unknown person and Cartwright goes missing, along with the lady. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Robbins, The Colonial Radio Players. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003104/bk_brll_003104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
A riveting spy story set in World War Two. Using declassified documents and extensive original research, Secret Pigeon Service tells the dramatic untold story of MI 14(d) and its spy networks including the remarkable 'Leopold Vindictive', a Belgian resistance cell who used the pigeon they found in 1941 to spy on the Nazis. Everyone has heard of MI5 and MI6. Some may even have heard of MI9, which helped downed airmen escape in World War II. Few have heard of MI14(d) - home to Operation Columba. In this new spy story set during the Second World War, Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. Between 1941 and 1944, 16,000 pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' - a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds - authentic voices from rural France, Holland, Belgium, sometimes comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable, with details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar systems or the deployment of the V-1 and V-2 rockets that terrorized London. Who were the people who provided this rich seam of intelligence? Many were not trained agents nor people with experience of spying. At the centre of this audiobook is the 'Leopold Vindictive' network - a small group of Belgian villagers prepared to take huge risks. They were led by an extraordinary priest, Josef Raskin - a man connected to royalty and whose intelligence was so valuable it was shown to Churchill, leading MI6 to parachute agents to assist him. A powerful and tragic tale of espionage, the book brings together the British and Belgian sides of Leopold Vindictive's story and reveals for the first time the wider history of a quirky, quarrelsome ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Hope. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003297/bk_hcuk_003297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane - the Truth That Had to Be Told , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 289min
In 2001 Hoffmann-La Roche's drug Accutane was selling in the billions worldwide as a treatment for acne. For those who suffered from extreme, scarring acne, it was something of a miraculous treatment; however evidence started to mount that for others it was a death sentence. Over the next few years, it was estimated that between 300 and 3,000 young people being prescribed Accutane since its launch had committed suicide. Dr. Doug Bremner, a professor of psychiatry and radiology at Emory University, found that the drug did have an effect on the brain likely to cause acute depression in some patients, which was not surprising as it is a molecular cousin of Vitamin A, which is known to cause depression in excessive quantities. One might think the drug company would have welcomed these findings. You might like to think again on that one. The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg is the account of what Hoffmann-La Roche did next, which was to prosecute a determined, energetic, and vindictive campaign against Dr. Bremner, designed to suppress his findings and destroy his career and livelihood. Knowing that the life of a whistleblower is rarely a happy one, why did Dr. Bremner decide to take anything that Hoffman-La Roche could throw at him rather than back down? It could be that he had a strong belief that the public should be well informed about the side effects of drugs in order to be able to make an objective decision, but maybe there was also a more emotional one stretching back to an equally determined, energetic, and vindictive web of secrecy based on a pivotal and traumatic event in his childhood, which he was also determined to get to the bottom of. From the pen of the author of Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health, this is a truly riveting and emotional listen detailing just what it costs to take on the full might of one of the largest corporations in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Edwards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/031967/bk_acx0_031967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Darcy vs. Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
Elizabeth Bennet is drawn to a handsome, mysterious man she meets at a masquerade ball. However, she gives up all hope for a future with him when she learns he is the son of George Darcy, the man who ruined her father’s life.Despite her father’s demand that she avoid the younger Darcy, when he appears in Hertfordshire, Elizabeth cannot stop thinking about him, seeking him out, or welcoming his kisses....Fitzwilliam Darcy has struggled to carve out a life independent from his father’s vindictive temperament and domineering ways, although the elder Darcy still controls the purse strings.After meeting Elizabeth Bennet, Darcy cannot imagine marrying anyone else, even though his father despises her family.More than anything, he wants to make her his wife, but doing so would mean sacrificing everything else.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160910/bk_acx0_160910_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Banebringer: The Heretic Gods, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 892min
Book one of The Heretic GodsBanebringers. Source of the bloodbane who stalk the land. Cause of a thousand wrongs. Despised. Cast out. Hunted.Vaughn never asked for the powers of a long-forgotten moon goddess. But rarely do the gods give humans a choice when using them in their machinations. Now Vaughn is a Banebringer, loathed by all who discover his true identity - even his father, a man obsessed with his own power and bent on destroying Vaughn's miserable life.Vaughn is desperate to end his father before the madman ends him. But to do so, he'll need the skills of Ivana, a vindictive assassin with her own scores to settle. The only question is whether Vaughn can keep himself from becoming another of her targets long enough to see his father eliminated. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Bryan Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166810/bk_acx0_166810_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crashing the Game: The Hidden Level Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
Now that he's settled on a world where video games don't exist, 17-year-old Brandon thinks his gaming days are over. Not a bad thing. Life on a farm is simple and straightforward. Most importantly, he is free of his abusive father and living with a family who dotes on and encourages him. His life has taken a huge u-turn for the better. His shattered spirit is slowly healing, his confidence gradually blooming.But his old escape from reality catches up to him on an epic scale. So does his dangerous and vindictive father. Can he and his friends deliver the blue screen of death to an entire dimension as well as keep Brandon safe from being dragged back into a life of terror and pain? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Ann Weathers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160459/bk_acx0_160459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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