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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest Author: Samuel W. Mitcham Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: An intimate biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest, arguably the most interesting figure to emerge from the Civil War—widely admired as a military genius At fourteen he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding eleven on the rough American frontier. By thirty-nine he had established himself as a successful plantation owner worth over $1 million. And at forty years old, Nathan Bedford Forrest enlisted in a Tennessee cavalry regiment—and became a controversial Civil War legend. The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest is deeply divisive. Best known for being accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow and for his role as first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan—an organization he later denounced—Forrest has often been studied as a military figure, but never before studied as a fascinating individual who wrestled with the complex issues of his violent times. Bust Hell Wide Open is a comprehensive portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest as a man: his achievements, failings, reflections, and regrets.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon Author: Rosa Brooks Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: “A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and...wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war expands, so does the role of the US military. Military personnel now analyze computer code, train Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol for pirates. You name it, the military does it. In this “ambitious and astute” (The Washington Post) work, Rosa Brooks “provides a masterful analysis” (San Francisco Chronicle) of this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective—that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and married to an Army Green Beret. By turns a memoir, a work of journalism, a scholarly exploration of history, anthropology, and law, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything is an “illuminating” (The New York Times), “eloquent” (The Boston Globe), “courageous” (US News & World Report), and “essential” (The Dallas Morning News) examination of the role of the military today. Above all, it is a rallying cry, for Brooks issues an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear, we undermine both America’s founding values and the international rules and organizations that keep our world from sliding towards chaos.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific Author: Walter R. Borneman Narrator: David Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals. World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. Macarthur at War will go deeper into this transformative period of his life than previous biographies, drilling into the military strategy that Walter R. Borneman is so skilled at conveying, and exploring how personality and ego translate into military successes and failures. Architect of stunning triumphs and inexplicable defeats, General MacArthur is the most intriguing military leader of the twentieth century. There was never any middle ground with MacArthur. This in-depth study of the most critical period of his career shows how his influence spread far beyond the war-torn Pacific. A Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New York Historical Society

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256545 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division Author: Jimmy Blackmon Narrator: Jimmy Blackmon, Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The preface is read by the author, Jimmy Blackmon. Pale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since that fateful day the war began, the narrative races from ferocious firefights and bravery in battle to the quiet moments where the courageous men and women of Task Force Pale Horse catch their breath before they take to the skies again. Jimmy F. Blackmon writes with a power and hard-hitting honesty that leaps off the page. He has the respect of the men and women of his brigade, and a command of the narrative to tell their story. From pilots of lethal Apache attack helicopters who strike fear in their enemies to the medevac soldiers who risk their lives daily, these are warriors from a variety of backgrounds who learned selflessness and found the closest brotherhood they ever knew through the crucible of war. Pale Horse both honors and commemorates the service of this elite task force from the unique vantage point of the commander who led them in battle.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author Author: Herman Wouk Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: “A sparkling memoir of a well-lived life of literature, fame, and love” (Booklist) by one of America’s most beloved authors, as he looks back over his 100 years. In this remarkable memoir “full of adventure, wit, color, and detail” (Jewish Journal), Herman Wouk finally reflects on the life experiences that inspired his most enduring novels. With a tone that is “generous and warm” (The Boston Globe), he tells of his days writing for comedian Fred Allen’s radio show, one of the most popular shows in the history of the medium; enlisting in the US Navy during World War II; falling in love with Betty Sarah Brown, the woman who would become his wife (and literary agent) for sixty-three years; writing his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Caine Mutiny; as well as a big hit Broadway play and an equally big Broadway flop; and the surprising inspirations and people behind such masterpieces as The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Marjorie Morningstar, and Youngblood Hawke. Written with the wisdom of a “trailblazing centenarian charmer” (Buffalo News) and the wit of someone who began his career as professional comedy writer, Sailor and Fiddler is an unprecedented reflection on writing and faith—“a lovely coda to the career of a man who made American literature a kinder, smarter, better place” (NPR).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Author: T.J. Stiles Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person—capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charlie Mike: A True Story of War and Finding the Way Home Author: Joe Klein Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 20, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: This true story of two decorated combat veterans who find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country is “a great look at two of the best veteran organizations going and the incredible humans who make the effort work” (Jon Stewart). In Charlie Mike, a true account that “reads like a novel” (Publishers Weekly) and “explodes like a thriller” (The Huffington Post), Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-than-life war heroes who come home and use their military values to help others. Wounded in Iraq, Navy SEAL Eric Greitens returns home to find that his fellow veterans all want the same thing: to continue to serve their country. He founds The Mission Continues to provide paid public service fellowships for wounded veterans. One of the first fellows is former Marine sergeant Jake Wood, a natural leader who begins Team Rubicon, organizing 9/11 veterans for dangerous disaster relief projects around the world. “We do chaos,” he says. “A deep and compelling exploration of a group of young veterans determined to continue serving after leaving the military” (The Washington Post), this is a story that hasn’t been told before—a saga of lives saved, not wasted. The chaos these soldiers face isn’t only in the streets of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake or in New York City after Hurricane Sandy—it’s also in the lives of their fellow veterans. Charlie Mike shows how Greitens and Wood draw on the military virtues of discipline and selflessness to guide others towards inner peace and, ultimately, to help build a more vigorous nation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/243396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue Author: Frederick Forsyth Narrator: Robert Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own.     For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don’t know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life. He was the RAF’s youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent—well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that’s just for starters. It is a memoir like no other—and a book of pure delight.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/242818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident Author: Curt Gentry, Francis Gary Powers Narrator: Jon Lindstrom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is a central character in the movie “Bridge of Spies” starring Tom Hanks.  In his classic 1970 memoir, Powers reveals the full story behind what happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history.  After his U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down, Powers was captured on May 1, 1960 and endured 61 days of rigorous interrogation by the KGB, a public trial, a conviction for espionage, and the start of a 10-year sentence. After nearly two years, the US government obtained his release from prison in a dramatic exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolph Abel. The narrative is a tremendously exciting suspense story about a man who was labeled a traitor by many of his countrymen but who emerged a Cold War hero.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah Author: Kenneth C. Davis Narrator: Paul Boehmer, Mark Bramhall, Kenneth C. Davis, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 5, 2015 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War. In prose that will remind you of 'the best teacher you ever had' (People Magazine), Davis brings to life six emblematic battles, revealing untold tales that span our nation's history, from the Revolutionary War to Iraq. Along the way, he illuminates why we go to war, who fights, the grunt's-eye view of combat, and how these conflicts reshaped our military and national identity. From the Battle of Yorktown (1781), where a fledgling America learned hard lessons about what kind of military it would need to survive, to Fallujah (2004), which epitomized the dawn of the privatization of war, The Hidden History of America at War takes listeners inside the battlefield, introducing them to key characters and events that will shatter myths, misconceptions, and romanticism, replacing them with rich insight.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Legend: A Harrowing Story from the Vietnam War of One Green Beret's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines Author: Eric Blehm Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The true story of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and a Green Beret Staff Sergeant's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, from New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm.  On May 2, 1968, a twelve-man Special Forces team covertly infiltrated a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodia—where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. Their objective, just miles over the Vietnam border, was to collect evidence that proved the North Vietnamese Army was using the Cambodian sanctuary as a major conduit for supplying troops and materiel to the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. What the team didn’t know was that they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base. Soon they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of NVA, under attack, low on ammunition, stacking the bodies of the dead as cover in a desperate attempt to survive the onslaught.   When Special Forces Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez heard their distress call, he jumped aboard the next helicopter bound for the combat zone. What followed would become legend in the Special Operations community. Flown into the foray of battle by the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, Benavidez jumped from the hovering aircraft, ran nearly 100 yards through withering enemy fire, and--despite being immediately and severely wounded--organized an extraordinary defense and rescue of the Special Forces team.   Written with extensive access to family members, surviving members of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, on-the-ground eye-witness accounts never before published, as well as recently discovered archival, and declassified military records, Blehm has created a riveting narrative both of Roy Benavidez’s life and career, and of the inspiring, almost unbelievable events that defined the brotherhood of the air and ground warriors in an unpopular war halfway around the world. Legend recounts the courage and commitment of those who fought in Vietnam in service of their country, and the story of one of the many unsung heroes of the war.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Francotirador (American Sniper - Spanish Edition): La autobiografía del francotirador mAs letal en la historia de Estados Unidos de America Author: Chris Kyle Narrator: Ricardo Cardenas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Fascinante, reveladora y poderosa, Francotirador la asombrosa autobiografía del Capitán SEAL Chris Kyle, el francotirador que tuvo el récord más alto en la historia militar estadounidense. En Francotirador, Kyle relata la extraordinaria historia de su carrera que duró una década. El fascinante relato de cómo pasó de ser un cowboy de rodeos de Texas a ser un experto franco tirador y temido asesino, ofrece una perspectiva única de la guerra actual y una de las descripciones más profundas, reveladoras y jamás escritas del mundo secreto de Special Ops (Operaciones Especiales) de Estados Unidos. Esta obra, también honra a los compañeros de guerra de Kyle, que lucharon dentro y fuera del campo de batalla, así como con conmovedores relatos de su esposa Taya, quien habla abiertamente de las presiones de la guerra en su matrimonio, sus hijos, y en Chris. Extraordinario, inolvidable y cargado de adrenalina, el relato de Kyle se sitúa como una de las mejores autobiografías de guerra de todos los tiempos.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Immediate Action Author: Andy McNab Narrator: Paul Thornley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 8 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As a member of 22 SAS Regiment he was at the centre of covert operations for nine years - on five continents. Recounting with grim humour and in riveting, often horrifying, detail his activities in the world's most highly trained and efficient Special Forces unit, McNab sweeps us into a world of surveillance and intelligence-gathering, counter-terrorism and hostage rescue.There are casualties: the best men are so often the first to be killed, because they are in front. By turns chilling, astonishing, violent, funny and moving, this blistering first-hand account of life at the forward edge of battle confirms Andy McNab's standing in the front rank of writers on modern war.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Napoleon: A Life Author: Andrew Roberts Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 126 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 28 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century. An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business Author: Jake Wood Narrator: Bo Foxworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: In this groundbreaking book on high-stakes leadership, Co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and former Marine Sniper Jake Wood, shows how to apply hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from the battlefield and disaster zone to your professional life. What do elite members of the military, first responders in the disaster zone, and high-performing leaders in fast-paced, high-pressure, modern day organizations have in common? The ability to have clarity of mind and purpose when surrounded by chaos. To operate at peak performance under risk. To be able to see clearly when others are blinded by fear, and act when others are paralyzed. To craft plans even with incomplete information, then execute those plans decisively--while still being nimble and adaptable enough to iterate as the terrain changes. To deliver in the clutch. To build teams with high impact, and then inspire those teams to follow you into the fire. While most of our jobs don’t involve leading a tour of Marines through an ambush, or rushing into a relief zone just decimated by a hurricane, in today's fast-paced, hyper-competitive business environment, we are all on the front lines. And in an entrepreneurially-minded world where technology is constantly reinventing how we work, global competition is fierce, and industries are being disrupted overnight, success requires a new kind of leadership. This book is about how to become the kind of leader who gets results when the stakes are at their highest—how to Take Command.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant Author: Ann Scott Tyson Narrator: Danny Campbell, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique, incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize–nominated war correspondent. Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face of America’s war effort in Afghanistan. A decorated Green Beret who spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq training indigenous fighters, Gant argued for embedding autonomous units with tribes across Afghanistan to earn the Afghans’ trust and transform them into a reliable ally with whom we could defeat the Taliban and counter al-Qaeda networks. The military's top brass, including General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, approved, and Gant was tasked with implementing his controversial strategy. Veteran war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson first spoke with Gant when he was awarded the Silver Star in 2007. Tyson soon came to share Gant’s vision, so she accompanied him to Afghanistan, risking her life to embed with the tribes and chronicle their experience. And then they fell in love. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, American Spartan is their remarkable story—one of the most riveting, emotional narratives of wartime ever published.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories From the Secret War: CIA Special Ops in Laos Author: Terrence M. Burke Narrator: Michael Pearl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 25, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In 1962, the International Geneva Accords declared Laos to be neutral and generally restricted from foreign interference and foreign troops. Thus began the CIA’s secret war in Laos, led by a handful of CIA paramilitary officers in the mountains of Laos against North Vietnamese and Lao Communist forces. One of those secret warriors, CIA Silver Star recipient Terrence Burke, gives a vivid account of primitive guerrilla warfare that eventually led to an attempt by the North Vietnamese to capture him. Burke’s stories of that war are of gritty and often deadly hit and run tactics against the North Vietnamese, attempted rescues of downed pilots, and daily survival far from American support.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror Author: Erik Prince Narrator: Jeff Gurner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 18, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 12 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping, previously untold story of the world’s most controversial military contractor Blackwater is one of the most misunderstood companies of our time. As Erik Prince, its founder and former CEO, writes: “Hundreds of American citizens employed by private military contractors, or PMCs, would lose their lives helping our government wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, only to have their memory tarnished by the unfair and/or ignorant depiction of PMCs as profiteers, jackbooted thugs, or worse.” Because of the secrecy requirements of Blackwater’s contracts with the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA, Prince was unable to speak out when his company’s opponents spread false information. But now he’s free to tell the often shocking story of Blackwater’s rise and fall.  Blackwater hired Special Forces veterans and others with the skills and courage to take on the riskiest security jobs in the world. As its reputation grew, demand for its services escalated. Its men eventually completed nearly 100,000 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prince’s narrative includes newly-revealed details about many controversial events. It debunks myths that have been spread by TV shows and movies. It honors our armed forces while challenging the Pentagon’s top leadership. Above all, it will make people rethink exactly who the “good guys” and “bad guys” have been since 9/11.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch: Skull-Crushing True Stories of the Most Hardcore Duels, Showdowns, Fistfights, Last Stands, Suicide Charges, and Military Engagements of All Time Author: Ben Thompson Narrator: Stephen Bowlby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Unstoppable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands, and military engagements of all time! When only one can live, it's an Ultimate Deathmatch! This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You're here to witness the catastrophically awesome exploits of history's greatest badasses. Not only that, you're here to see what happens when badasses collide, when glory and doom hang in the balance, when two men enter one man leaves. If you dare listen, you'll hear the stories of . . . Cyrus the Great The king who forged the Persian Empire with blood, steel, and a few thousand rampaging camels St. Moses the Black The Patron Saint of Asskickings, who taught bandit thugs a lesson in turning the other cheek The War of Aracau The only successful indigenous resistance to Spanish colonization, led by a Mapuche warrior who strapped blades to his arms after the conquistadors sawed off his hands The Rani of Jhansi The Indian warrior princess who took on the British crown with a sword in each hand and her baby strapped to her back Tango Mike-Mike One lone Green Beret single-handedly rescues an entire Special Forces squad from a pinned-down position deep behind enemy lines in Cambodia The Charge of the Australian Light Horse Eight hundred horsemen armed with bayonets embark on the last great cavalry charge in history, rushing toward trenches filled with machine guns, rifles, and huge bullets

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Blue Cascade: A Memoir of Life after War Author: Mike Scotti Narrator: Mike Scotti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 15, 2012 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In this searing and beautifully written memoir, Marine Lieutenant and CNN Op-Ed contributor Mike Scotti charts a course from the front lines of Iraq back home to New York, showing how sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. Sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. As one of the soldiers on the front line of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Scotti was taught that weakness is what gets you killed: no hesitation, focus your energies on your objective, and complete the mission. Upon returning from war, Scotti approached his new life the same way. He ignored the creeping depression and numbness he called "The Blue Cascade" and charged ahead toward his goal to get an MBA, secure a high-paying finance job, and retire young and rich. But he was being eaten away inside, and scenes of drunken emotion and raging violence were becoming more and more frequent. Years after returning from active combat, he eventually found himself contemplating suicide. Through a series of powerful events, Scotti was ultimately able to find a path to healing and begin his journey back to life, finally emerging with the following wisdom for fellow sufferers of post-traumatic stress:It's ok if you are not ok.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: SEAL of God Author: Chad Williams Narrator: Chad Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: 'There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.' —John 15:13. Just days before Chad Williams was scheduled to report for basic training at the Great Lakes naval base, he turned on the television and was greeted with the horrifying image of his mentor and training partner, US Navy SEAL Scott Helvenston, being brutally murdered in a premeditated ambush on the streets of Fallujah, Iraq. Steeled in his resolve, Chad committed himself to completing the US military’s most difficult training to become a Navy SEAL—and avenge his friend’s death. One of only thirteen out of a class of 173 to make it straight through to graduation, Chad went on to serve on SEAL Teams 1 and 7, completing tours of duty in the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and finally Iraq. There, Chad’s journey came full circle when his team was ambushed by enemy machine gunners—close to the same road where his hero had been killed five years earlier. SEAL of God follows Chad’s extraordinary journey through twenty-five grueling weeks of BUD/S training and onto the hostile streets of Al Anbar Province, Iraq, where he witnessed the horrors of war up close. Along the way, Chad shares his own radical conversion story and discovers the true meaning of ultimate sacrifice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/126949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea Author: Walter R. Borneman Narrator: Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power. Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet. In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men -- who were both friends and rivals -- worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway Author: Elliot Carlson Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 9, 2012 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from the decrypt unit at Pearl and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders. For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort's love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to code-breaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo at Pearl Harbor. He traces Rochefort's career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy's code-breaking desk at age twenty-five, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his code-breaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet. An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort's colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942, a drive that finally paid off in 1986, when the medal was awarded posthumously.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fighting the Flying Circus Author: Eddie V. Rickenbacker Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 26, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker, originally from Ohio, was best known as one of the commanders of the 94th 'Hat-in-the-Ring' Squadron, a crack unit of pilots that included many former members of the famed Lafayette Escadrille. The 94th ended the war in France with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. Captain Rickenbacker later belonged to an association of pilots and Great War air veterans who, in the years immediately following the Second World War, invited many of the new 'young' aces from the Pacific and European theaters for informal lectures. These men never lost their keen interest in aviation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/119666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History Author: Scott McEwen, Chris Kyle, Jim DeFelice Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 3, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 711 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 154 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: NOW A BLOCKBUSTER MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY CLINT EASTWOOD—NOMINATED FOR SIX ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during the Iraq War, called him “The Legend”; meanwhile, the enemy feared him so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle, who was tragically killed in 2013, writes honestly about the pain of war—including the deaths of two close SEAL teammates—and in moving first-person passages throughout, his wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their family, as well as on Chris. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/244372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hannibal Author: Ernle Bradford Narrator: Peter Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 28, 2011 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: At the bloody battle of Cannae, he trounced a Roman army twice the size of his own. With his brothers, he subdued nearly all of Italy, Spain and Northern Africa. A cunning tactician, he secured victory for Bithynia at sea by catapulting poisonous snakes onto the decks of his enemy's ships. Biographer Ernle Bradford draws on the historical writings of Livy, Polybius, Plutarch and others in re-creating the fantastic story of the greatest general since Alexander the Great.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Napoleon In a Nutshell Author: Neil Wenborn Narrator: Rupert Degas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Release date: May 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Napoleon is one of the giants of modern history. From the last days of the French Revolution to the epochal battle of Waterloo he bestrode the political landscape of Europe like a colossus, and the age to which he gave his name remains one of the most tumultuous in the history of the continent. But who was Napoleon Bonaparte? And why does he still arouse such powerful passions? This audiobook traces the remarkable rise and fall of a man who, as military leader and lawgiver, left his mark on the lives of millions in France and beyond, and whose presence continues to be felt in Europe and the wider world to the present day.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/130210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Narrator: Michael Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 17, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 226 Ratings of Narrator: 3.79 of Total 57 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: This story is about a young soldier, Henry Fleming, fighting in the American Civil War. It is a vivid and stark portrayal of war on the human psyche, interspersed with symbolic imagery and biblical metaphors. The story realistically portrays the young soldier's physical and psychological struggles after fleeing from his first encounter with a battle. He returns to his regiment to become a strong soldier and even taking on the task of the flag bearer in the final battle. Though Stephen Crane had never been in any combat situations, his interviews with a wide number of veterans enabled him to create this novel, widely regarded as a unusually realistic depiction of a young man in battle.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 Author: Paul Fussell Narrator: Joel Leffert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: National Book Award Winner Paul Fussell tells the breathtaking story of WWII from the young soldiers' points of view. WWII was not the glorified picture it is often depicted to be. For the American soldier it was a tiring, emotional, and gruesome experience. Fussell's extensive details and insight help to make this story come alive.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/132998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War Author: William B. Styple Narrator: John Lescault Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 1, 2008 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In the decades that followed the American Civil War, artist James E. Kelly (1855–1933) conducted in-depth interviews with more than forty Union generals in an effort to accurately portray them in their greatest moment of glory. “I had always felt a great lack of certain personal details,” Kelly explained. “I made up my mind to ask from the living officers every question that I would have asked Washington or his generals had they posed for me, such as what they considered the principal incidents in their career and particulars about costumes and surroundings.” When, during one interview, a general declared, “I don't see how you can show this in a picture,” Kelly responded, “Just tell me the facts, and I’ll attend to the picture.” By recording those stirring facts, Kelly left us a truly unique picture of the great figures of the American Civil War.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245119 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MacArthur Series: Part of The Great Generals Series Author: Richard B. Frank Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his adaptability that hoisted him to his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability now reigns as the most indispensable trait for high military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary career. No American figure better exemplifies this trait than the man who was commissioned before the Wright Brothers’ first flight but became a keen exponent of an entirely new dimension in warfare. He was also in charge of the US occupation of Japan, the most successful occupation in history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sherman: A Biography Series: Part of The Great Generals Series Author: Steven E. Woodworth Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, as well as criticism for the harshness of the “scorched earth” policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate states. Military historian Basil Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was “the first modern general.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pershing: A Biography Series: Part of The Great Generals Series Author: Jim Lacey Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In this persuasive biography, Jim Lacey sheds light on General Pershing’s legacy as the nation’s first modern combat commander, setting the standard for today’s four-star officers. When the US entered into World War I in 1917, they did so with inadequate forces. In just over a year, Pershing built and hurled a one-million-man army against forty battle-hardened German divisions, defending the hellish Meuse-Argonne and turning the tide of the war. With focus and clarity, Lacey traces Pershing’s development from Indian fighter to guerrilla warrior against the Philippine insurgency to victorious WWI commander.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patton: A Biography Series: Part of The Great Generals Series Author: Alan Axelrod Narrator: Brian Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command. An outspoken racist, he led the only racially integrated US military unit in World War II. A profoundly insecure individual, he made his Third Army the most self-confident and consistently victorious fighting force in the European theater. An exuberantly profane man, he prayed daily and believed God had destined him for military greatness. Alan Axelrod delivers a fascinating account of Patton’s extraordinary life and legacy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 3, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.51 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.59 of Total 17 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—'a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy' (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/141967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raoul Wallenberg, Revised Edition Author: Harvey Rosenfeld Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 26, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Now an international symbol of twentieth-century humanitarianism, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, issued countless “false” visas and other documents which were virtual life certificates that saved approximately one hundred thousand Jews from the Nazis in wartime Hungary. Then in 1945, as the war drew to a close, he disappeared after being taken into custody by Soviet military police. Today Wallenberg’s fate remains unknown. This authoritative biography discusses previously sealed prison records and archives, reports of sightings of Wallenberg, the Wallenberg family’s historic multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the former Soviet Union, and the worldwide activities in honor of this great man who refused to be a bystander.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fighting Pattons Author: Brian M. Sobel Narrator: Adams Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 22, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: This book gives readers a unique look at a bold and legendary general, and the compelling story of his only son, who followed in his father’s footsteps. In America’s triumph over Nazi Germany, no name was more legendary than Patton, the general feared and admired even by his enemies. While Patton cut a path of victory in Europe, his son was growing up in his father’s footsteps, rubbing shoulders with the sons and daughters of presidents, generals, and kings. Decades later, George S. Patton would get his chance to prove his valor. But this was a different kind of war, in a place called Vietnam. Brimming with never-before-published information, plus interviews with such intriguing historical figures as Richard Nixon and General William Westmoreland, The Fighting Pattons captures a remarkable family through seasons of tragedy and victory. From their actions on the field to the abiding sense of duty that motivated them, here are two men who found a home in war, two men who served with brilliance, loyalty, and above all, an abiding commitment to the men who followed them into battle. Using a biographical format, this book provides a personal and candid look at General George S. Patton and his son. It is the most personal view of the Patton legacy ever presented.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Terrible Terry Allen: Combat General of WWII - The Life of an American Soldier Author: Gerald Astor Narrator: Reathel Bean Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 44 minutes Release date: March 30, 2004 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Terry de la Mesa Allen’s mother was the daughter of a Spanish officer, and his father was a career U.S. Army officer. Despite this impressive martial heritage, success in the military seemed unlikely for Allen as he failed out of West Point—twice—ultimately gaining his commission through Catholic University’s R.O.T.C. program. In World War I, the young officer commanded an infantry battalion and distinguished himself as a fearless combat leader, personally leading patrols into no-man’s-land. In 1940, with another world war looming, newly appointed army chief of staff Gen. George C. Marshall reached down through the ranks and, ahead of almost a thousand more senior colonels, promoted Patton, Eisenhower, Allen, and other younger officers to brigadier general. For Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, Allen, now a two-star general, commanded the Big Red One, the First Infantry Division, spearheading the American attack against the Nazis. Despite a stellar combat record, however, Major General Allen found himself in hot water with the big brass. Allen and his troops had become notorious for their lack of discipline off the battlefield. When Seventh Army commander George Patton was pressed by his deputy Omar Bradley to replace “Terrible Terry” before the invasion of Sicily, he demurred, favoring Allen’s success in combat. At the end of the Sicily campaign, with Allen’s protector Patton out of the way (relieved for slapping a soldier), Omar Bradley fired Allen and sent him packing back to the States, seemingly in terminal disgrace. Once again, however, George Marshall reached down and in October 1944, Terrible Terry was given command of another infantry division, the 104th Timberwolves and took it into heavy combat in Belgium. Hard fighting continued as Allen’s division spearheaded the U.S. First Army’s advance across Germany. On 26 April 1945, Terrible Terry Allen’s hard-charging Timberwolves became the first American outfit to link up with the Soviet Union’s Red Army. Terrible Terry Allen was one of the most remarkable American soldiers of World War II or any war. Hard bitten, profane, and combative, Allen disdained the “book,” but he knew how to wage war. He was a master of strategy, tactics, weaponry, and, most importantly, soldiers in combat.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mekong First Light Author: Joseph W. Callaway Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 30, 2004 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: “Before we got to Vietnam, the troops all thought you would be the first lieutenant killed, and in the end, you were the only one left. We were all wrong. You were the best.” —Sgt. Lonnie “Tallman” Caldwell December, 1966: Platoon leader Lt. Joseph Callaway had just turned twenty-three when he arrived in Vietnam to lead forty-two untested men into battle against some of the toughest, most experienced, and best-trained guerrilla soldiers in the world. Callaway soon learned that most events in this savage jungle war were beyond his control. But there was one thing he could do well: take the best damn care of his troops he knew how. In the Viet Cong–infested provinces around the Mekong Delta where the platoon was assigned, the enemy was always ready to attack at the first sign of weakness. And when the jungle suddenly erupted in the chaos of battle, the platoon leader was the Cong’s first target. Mekong First Light is at times horrific, heartrending, and heroic, but is always brutally honest. Callaway’s account chronicles a soldier’s painful realization of the true nature of America’s war in Vietnam: It was a war that could not be won.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/250339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne Author: Larry Chambers Narrator: Brian Hallas Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 3, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: For firefights in the swamps, ambushes in the jungle, or just facing the enemy dead-on, Recondo trained LRRPs to win. They will never be able to duplicate the 5th Special Forces Recondo School and the training that gave its grads something they desperately needed—the skills to survive Long Range Patrol missions in the jungle that NVA considered its own. Vietman veteran Larry Chambers vividly describes the grit and courage it took to pass the tough volunteer-only training program in Nha Trang and the harrowing graduation mission to scout out, locate, and out-guerrilla the NVA. Here is an unforgettable account that follows Chambers and the Rangers every step of the way—from joining, going through Recondo, and finally leading his own team on white-knuckle missions through the deadly jungles of Vietnam. “I made this book mandatory reading for my Rangers. . . . We went from the worst platoon in the regiment to the best platoon in six months. In training we'd get to the objective so fast they had to hold us back.”—U.S. Army Master Sergeant H. “Max” Mullen Ret. 75th Ranger Regiment

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/250338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh Author: John Corbett Narrator: Eric Conger Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 3, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In January 1968, the 26th Marine Regiment was ordered to a place in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. John Corbett, an untested replacement in a clean, green uniform, and his fellow leathernecks were responsible for building and defending the combat base, and holding positions on the strategic hills overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail as it crossed into Laos and South Vietnam from nearby North Vietnam. Only days after Corbett arrived at Khe Sanh, some twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base, outnumbering the American Marines seven to one. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War—and one of the greatest battles in military history. Private First Class Corbett, an “ammo humper” in an 81mm mortar section, made do with little or no sleep for days on end. The enemy bombarded the base incessantly, and Corbett’s mortars returned the fire, day and night. Extremes of heat, cold, and fog added to the misery, as did all manner of wounds and injuries too minor to justify evacuation from frontline positions. The emotional toll was tremendous as the Marines saw their friends suffer and die every day of the siege. Corbett relates these experiences through the eyes of an eighteen year old but with the mind and maturity of a man now in his fifties. His story of life, death, and growing up on the front lines at Khe Sanh speaks for all of the Marines caught up in the epic siege of the Vietnam War.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Darby's Rangers: We Led the Way Author: William O. Darby Narrator: Don Leslie Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 5, 2003 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The exciting true story of a legendary leader and the men who fought by his side in World War II, told in his own words From the moment they hit the beaches in North Africa to their last desperate struggle at Anzio, Darby’s Rangers asked for only one thing in World War II—the chance to fight. Experts at amphibious landings, night attacks, and close combat, the Rangers were the spearhead advancing U.S. forces. And at their helm was William O. Darby, a forceful, charismatic man who inspired, and was inspired by, his troops. Against overwhelming odds in Tunisia, through the concentrated hell at Gela, on to the final kill at Messina and the Italian mainland, Darby and his Rangers led the way. Darby’s Rangers is an authentic war story, as vivid as the action itself. “Proud reading . . . of value to a new generation of military historians and ‘battle buffs.’”—Military Affairs Magazine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sanh Author: Edward F. Murphy Narrator: Charles Stransky Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 29, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few are aware of the significance of the battles, or even their existence. For more than thirty years, virtually the only people who knew about the Hill Fights were the Marines who fought them. Now, for the first time, the full story has been pieced together by acclaimed Vietnam War historian Edward F. Murphy, whose definitive analysis admirably fills this significant gap in Vietnam War literature. Based on first-hand interviews and documentary research, Murphy’s deeply informed narrative history is the only complete account of the battles, their origins, and their aftermath. The Marines at the isolated Khe Sanh Combat Base were tasked with monitoring the strategically vital Ho Chi Minh trail as it wound through the jungles in nearby Laos. Dominated by high hills on all sides, the combat base had to be screened on foot by the Marine infantrymen while crack, battle-hardened NVA units roamed at will through the high grass and set up elaborate defenses on steep, sun-baked overlooks. Murphy traces the bitter account of the U.S. Marines at Khe Sanh from the outset in 1966, revealing misguided decisions and strategies from above, and capturing the chain of hill battles in stark detail. But the Marines themselves supply the real grist of the story; it is their recollections that vividly re-create the atmosphere of desperation, bravery, and relentless horror that characterized their combat. Often outnumbered and outgunned by a hidden enemy—and with buddies lying dead or wounded beside them—these brave young Americans fought on. The story of the Marines at Khe Sanh in early 1967 is a microcosm of the Corps’s entire Vietnam War and goes a long way toward explaining why their casualties in Vietnam exceeded, on a Marine-in-combat basis, even the tremendous losses the Leathernecks sustained during their ferocious Pacific island battles of World War II. The Hill Fights is a damning indictment of those responsible for the lives of these heroic Marines. Ultimately, the high command failed them, their tactics failed them, and their rifles failed them. Only the Marines themselves did not fail. Under fire, trapped in a hell of sudden death meted out by unseen enemies, they fought impossible odds with awesome courage and uncommon valor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam Author: John Leppelman Narrator: Scott Sowers Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 4, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it.  As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often it seemed the only way out of the carnage in the Central highlands was in a body bag.  But Leppelman did get out, transferring first to the army's riverboats and then the all-volunteer Rangers, one of the ballsiest units in the war. In three tours of duty, that ended only when malaria forced him back to the States, Leppelman saw the war as few others did, a Vietnam that many American boys didn't live to tell about, but whose valor and sacrifice survive on these pages.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/250292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rites of Passage: Odyssey of a Grunt Author: Robert Peterson Narrator: Eric Conger Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 50 minutes Release date: February 26, 2002 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: A raw, powerful account of an infantryman’s life during wartime– complete with all the horrors and the heroism . . . Robert Peterson arrived in Vietnam in the fall of 1966, a young American ready to serve his country and seize his destiny. What happened in that jungle war would change his life forever. Peterson vividly relives the tense patrols in the Viet Cong-infested Central Highlands, the fierce firefights along the Cambodian border, the ambushes and enemy charges. Daily he and his fellow grunts put their lives on the line, forced to follow orders blindly from higher-ups solely interested in reaping their personal glory. Yet out of the deadly hell of Vietnam came a brotherhood–forged in blood and courage, sacrifice and survival–of men who continuously risked their lives for one another, whatever the odds. Rites of Passage is a shining testament to their valor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War Paint: The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam Author: Bill Goshen Narrator: Jake Robards Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 2, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base was Lai Khe, within hailing distance of the Vietcong central headquarters, a mile inside Cambodia, with its vast stockpiles of weapons and thousands of transient VC and NVA soldiers. Recondo-qualified Bill Goshen was there, and has written the first account of these battle-hardened soldiers. As the eyes and ears of the Big Red One, the 1st Infantry, these hunter/killer teams of only six men instered deep inside enemy territory had to survive by their wits, or suffer the deadly consequences. Goshen himself barely escaped with his life in a virtual suicide mission that destroyed half his team. His gripping narrative recaptures the raw courage and sacrifice of American soldiers fighting a savage war of survival: men of all colors, from all walks of life, warriors bonded by triumph and tragedy, by life and death. They served proudly in Vietnam, and their stories need to be told.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Stories: Love Stories of World War II Author: Larry King Narrator: Jill Eikenberry Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 6, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.71 of Total 21 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Larry King, whose previous books have sold more than one million copies, tells the moving and heartwarming stories of couples who met by chance and fell in love during World War II, based on his original interviews. Poignant, inspiring, humorous, and unforgettable, these are the stories of men and women who, amid the chaos of a devestating war, became the loves of each other's lives. The stories in Loves Stories of World War II cover a wonderful range of experiences, from couples who met and got married within a few weeks to those who waited years after a brief first meeting to see one another again. There are charming stories of falling in love at first sight, stories of tragedy transformed by love, and stories of the remarkable resourcefulness that can be exercised by two people determined to be together. A treasure trove of unique reminiscences, Love Stories of World War II offers an unprecendented view into the personal side of the World War II experience and celebrates the incredible legacy of remarkable relationships forged in the midst of tragedy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Tom Brokaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 4, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 16 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.   “When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have today—the people I called the Greatest Generation—it was my way of saying thank you. But I was not prepared for the avalanche of letters and responses touched off by that book. I had written a book about America, and now America was writing back.”—Tom Brokaw   In the phenomenal bestseller The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw paid affecting tribute to those who gave the world so much—and who left an enduring legacy of courage and conviction. The Greatest Generation Speaks collects the vast outpouring of letters Brokaw received from men and women eager to share their intensely personal stories of a momentous time in America’s history. Some letters tell of the front during the war, others recall loved ones in harm’s way in distant places. They offer first-hand accounts of battles, poignant reflections on loneliness, exuberant expressions of love, and somber feelings of loss.   As Brokaw notes, “If we are to heed the past to prepare for the future, we should listen to these quiet voices of a generation that speaks to us of duty and honor, sacrifice and accomplishment. I hope more of their stories will be preserved and cherished as reminders of all that we owe them and all that we can learn from them.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/126428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seven Pillars of Wisdom Author: T.E. Lawrence Narrator: Nicolas Soames, Jim Norton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 4, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his role in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War. A reluctant leader, and wracked by guilt at the duplicity of the British, Lawrence nevertheless threw himself into his role, suffering the blistering desert conditions and masterminding military campaigns which culminated in the triumphant march of the Arabs into Damascus.