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Secondborn: Secondborn, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min

Firstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic. On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St. Sismode's eighteenth birthday arrives with harsh realizations: she's to become a soldier for the Fate of Swords military arm of the Republic during the bloodiest rebellion in history, and her elite firstborn mother is happy to see her go. Televised since her early childhood, Roselle's privileged upbringing has earned her the resentment of her secondborn peers. Now her decision to spare an enemy on the battlefield marks her as a traitor to the state. But Roselle finds an ally - and more - in fellow secondborn conscript Hawthorne Trugrave. As the consequences of her actions ripple throughout the Fates Republic, can Roselle create a destiny of her own? Or will her Fate override everything she fights for - even love? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reinders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009221/bk_brll_009221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min

Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, showing how Rome reconciled the needs of war and agriculture throughout the middle republic.The key, Rosenstein argues, lies in recognizing the critical role of family formation. By analyzing models of families' needs for agricultural labor over their life cycles, he shows that families often had a surplus of manpower to meet the demands of military conscription. Did, then, Roman imperialism play any role in the social crisis of the later second century B.C.?Rosenstein argues that Roman warfare had critical demographic consequences that have gone unrecognized by previous historians: heavy military mortality paradoxically helped sustain a dramatic increase in the birthrate, ultimately leading to overpopulation and landlessness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rene Ruiz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001744/bk_adbl_001744_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Trigger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 43min

In the dying days of South Africa's Apartheid Era, as protests around the world call for an end to minority white rule, Cobus Steyn is on patrol with his local Commando Unit near the isolated Afrikaans village where he lives. His beloved wife Sannie and their young son are at the center of his world and his news comes from Apartheid government broadcasts and alarmist gossip. Warned that terrorists will lay siege by bombing water towers, cutting phone lines, and attacking homesteads, Cobus dutifully spends his Saturdays searching for armed members of the liberation struggle, watching for movements in the bush as he clutches his assault rifle. But when a sadistic Lieutenant baits him, Cobus finds himself battered by memories of the brutality he experienced as a conscript in the South African Defence Force. And as Cobus recollects the rite of passage he endured - starved, humiliated, and berated by his military superiors - he reassesses which side of the war he is on. Trigger is a story about how brutal regimes maintain power and the costs and possibilities of challenging that power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027786/bk_adbl_027786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Waterloo

Waterloo ab 17.99 € als Taschenbuch: A Sequel To The Conscript Of 1813 Translated From The French Of Erckmann-Chatrian. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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The Night Raid , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 634min

Wartime secrets threaten one woman's life in the latest thrilling drama from the author of The Gunner Girl and The English Agent. World-renowned war artist Dame Laura Knight is commissioned to paint propaganda portraits of factory girls and is sent to the ordnance factories in her hometown of Nottingham. At first she relishes the opportunity for a nostalgia trip, but when she starts work on a portrait of two particular women, Violet Smith and her coworker Zelah Fitzlord, memories begin to resurface that she has spent half a lifetime trying to forget. Violet is an industrial conscript, and her wages help support a sprawling family back home in Kent. But working in munitions also means freedom from a small-town mentality and the disappointment of a first love turned sour. For Zelah, too, working in the gun factory means escape: her dreams of the future were dashed in the carnage of the Plymouth Blitz, and she found refuge in the numbing repetition of manual work. But just like war artist Laura, Violet and Zelah have something hidden, mistakes that they have tried to leave behind with their old selves. Will the night shift keep these women’s secrets, or will the past explode into the present and change all of their lives forever? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Penelope Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ssuk/000129/bk_ssuk_000129_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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One Soldier's War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 709min

One Soldier's War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier's experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor Fisher in the Guardian as right up there with Catch-22 and Michael Herr's Dispatches, and the book won Russia's inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write despite, not because of, their life circumstances. In 1995 Arkady Babchenko was an 18-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war - the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror - and twists them into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war by an extraordinary storyteller. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021785/bk_adbl_021785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Destruction: Galactic Empire Wars, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 490min

From the author of The Slaver Wars comes a new military science fiction series. To the Kleese, the Earth is nothing more than a planet full of conscripts to fight in their numerous wars of aggression. The Kleese are one of three large Galactic Empires that control the majority of the galaxy. To them, Earth is an extremely dangerous planet due to the aggressiveness of the humanoid species that inhabits it. The humans that inhabit Earth will make excellent conscripts, but something must be done to prevent them from expanding out into the galaxy. To the Kleese the solution is simple, take the conscripts they need and then destroy the planet. Mason Randle controls the Smithfield Mining Corporation. His main headquarters is inside the asteroid Vesta. The Kleese know nothing about what resides inside of the asteroid and the role it will play in saving the human race. Lieutenant Wade Nelson is a marine taken as a conscript by the Kleese. His primary goal is to find a way back to Earth. In the meantime, he will fight in the wars the Kleese are involved in until he knows enough to take the fight to the Kleese themselves. He will bid his time in the hope that someday he will find a way back home for himself and his marines. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Rheinstrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/024967/bk_acx0_024967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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One Soldier's War (eBook, ePUB)

A visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier's experience in the Chechen wars. In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of One Soldier's War was hailed by Tibor Fisher in The Guardian as "right up there with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Michael Herr's Dispatches." Mark Bowden, bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, hailed it as "hypnotic and terrifying" and the book won Russia's inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write despite, not because of, their life circumstances. "If you haven't yet learned that war is hell, this memoir by a young Russian recruit in his country's battle with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, should easily convince you." -Publishers Weekly

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The RIP: Mining the Subconscious Artifact , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 733min

The Quest: To pass through conscript meaning, enter the emotional-sensorial parallel, feel deeply and bring forth the full essence of whole consciousness. Born with five perfectly balanced senses, the human mind is bathed in dynamic sensing. In mathematical terms, this represents five to the fifth power conscious awareness. Are you aware that the creature-being exists within an encoded/emotional first voice that is immediately activated at birth? Is fear your friend or enemy? When fear is your enemy, you lose your essence. Did you know that knowledge has no essence? Do you think your feelings belong to you? They do not - via psychological implant, losses or gains are predetermined circumstances governed by the word sanction given to others. What makes the idea of truth a hypocrisy? Can you define fact as anything more than mental impasse or define truth as more than paradoxical conscription? The Word-Language is a mono-dimensional syllabus and noun-verb inversion that is unfit for an essence creature - the human being. Are you using your first voice to access total consciousness rather than remembering performance-rated acts? How do you stimulate and use this natural treasure? Once you learn how to enter the world of emotion... your feelings will evolve and take flight! The RIP will remain as one of the most important, fresh and poignant works to eclipse this century. Until you listen to The RIP, who and what you are will never be as clear. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thom Bowers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116137/bk_acx0_116137_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Sea Is Only Knee Deep - Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 706min

Volume 2 describes how Paulina's personal crisis became a powerful motivator to overcome obstacles and demonstrated the power and potential of the human spirit. Finding herself embroiled in a Cold War drama on the Island of Cuba, where Soviet and American military forces were vying for supremacy during a secret nuclear confrontation, Paulina decided on a dangerous escape to freedom with her two small children rather than become an obedient slave and an informant for a cruel and rogue tyrannical state. When in 1971 the KGB attempted to conscript Paulina as an informant, she defected with her two young children to Canada in a bizarre feat of courage and audacity. This episode is sure to elevate your heart rate. Who said that women are the weaker sex? She enacted the assertion of "I am mad as hell, and I am not going to take it anymore" and, despite the long odds, succeeded. She became the only defector from a communist country that made such an escape with small children in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A seemingly discouraging and difficult situation for a young, penniless immigrant with two small children did not prevent Paulina from rapidly adjusting to a new country. She reestablished herself professionally and even brought her parents to Canada four years later. Paulina's family proudly integrated into Canadian society. Her boys graduated from Canadian universities as scientists. They became confident, responsible, and independent individuals in the entrepreneurial high-tech sector.A literate and beautifully written account of a Jewish girl growing up in Stalin's Russia and her creative approach to the problems of survival and achievement under a rigid dictatorship. Highly recommended as an example of women's determination and achievement if and when they take themselves seriously and pursue their objectives with conviction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paulina Zelitsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107647/bk_acx0_107647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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