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The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II!
In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William "Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the Father of Central Intelligence,” with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road linking Burma and China by performing guerilla operations behind the Japanese lines. Thus was born OSS Detachment 101, the first clandestine special force formed by Donovan and one that would play a highly dangerous but vital role in the reconquest of Burma by the Allies.
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- By Charles on 12-27-09
By: Larry Alexander
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Lost in Shangri-La
- A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
- By: Mitchell Zuckoff
- Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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On May 13, 1945, 24 American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s best-selling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals. But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through.
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Facinating history
- By Janice on 05-12-11
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
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Devil's Guard
- By: George R. Elford
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers.
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If it is only half true...
- By ROS5FAM13 on 06-17-20
By: George R. Elford
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The Ghost Mountain Boys
- Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea
- By: James Campbell
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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New Guinea became the site of one of the World War II's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over rugged mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna.
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painful reading
- By richard on 10-29-09
By: James Campbell
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The Airmen and the Headhunters
- The Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
- By: Judith M. Heimann
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet: and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers?
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Spellbinding
- By She on 01-03-08
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The Green Berets
- The Amazing Story of the U.S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit
- By: Robin Moore
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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Robin Moore became one of the first true embedded journalists by training with and fighting alongside the Green Berets in Vietnam. Though fictionalized, his work is an eye-opening exposé of the horrors of the Vietnam War and the basis for the hit John Wayne movie of the same title. Taut, fast-paced, and interspersed with unforgettable accounts of combat, Moore’s novel features an American major who goes "native" with Montagnard tribesmen, a courageous Vietnamese girl who poses as a rabid anti-American Communist to capture a murderous Viet Cong officer, and the unforgettable acts of courage of soldiers in the field.
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Green Berets Nam and beyond
- By Jawbone on 10-07-17
By: Robin Moore
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On Desperate Ground
- The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash in the Korean War relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt's-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances.
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typical armchair critic armed with hign site
- By Brent on 10-03-18
By: Hampton Sides
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The Brenner Assignment
- The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II
- By: Patrick K. O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American spies parachutes into Italy behind enemy lines. Their orders: link up with local partisans and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass - the Nazis' crucial supply route through the Alps - thereby bringing the German war effort in Italy to a grinding halt.
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Interesting History
- By Gary L. Richardson on 03-21-24
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Hunting Che
- How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary
- By: Mitch Weiss, Kevin Maurer
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Che Guevara was a threat to American foreign policy - and when he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be eliminated. Hunting Che follows the exploits of Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton, Felix Rodriguez, and Gary Prado - the Bolivian Ranger commander who ultimately captured him. With the White House and the Pentagon secretly monitoring every move, Shelton and his team changed history.
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Insightful
- By David Keirns on 10-21-23
By: Mitch Weiss, and others
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Undefeated
- America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor
- By: Bill Sloan
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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Abandoned by their government, the men and women of the American garrison struggled against impossible military odds, rampant disease, and slow starvation to delay inevitable surrender by the largest American military force ever. Rather than picturing these defenders as little more than helpless victims of an overwhelmingly powerful and sadistic enemy-as most previous books about the Philippines campaign have done- Undefeated credits American troops with the unexcelled heroism and indomitable spirit they displayed under the worst imaginable conditions.
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Mesmerizing
- By Amazon Customer on 03-30-17
By: Bill Sloan
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The Secret Rescue
- An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
- By: Cate Lineberry
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
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When 26 Army nurses and medics - part of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron - boarded a cargo plane for transport in November 1943, they never anticipated the crash landing in Nazi-occupied Albania that would lead to their months-long struggle for survival.
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Well-told story of a WWII rescue
- By bkgrn on 07-01-13
By: Cate Lineberry
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Goodbye, Darkness
- A Memoir of the Pacific War
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
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This memoir offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific - what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.
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The best war memoir ever
- By Doug on 05-31-07
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Tears in the Darkness
- The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
- By: Michael Norman, Elizabeth Norman
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book.
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Powerful, anguishing story
- By Book and Movie Lover on 07-22-09
By: Michael Norman, and others
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Saving Bravo
- The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
- By: Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
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The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator who knew our most important secrets crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him.
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What a story!
- By Kindle Customer on 02-27-19
By: Stephan Talty
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- Marksharrar
- 08-26-21
amazing history of Heroism!
I'd never heard to the Kachin people and had no idea they fought with us. the story of the original OSS soldiers, their bravery, and individual Heroism was fantastic
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- MelsHD
- 01-21-23
Well read and written
Captivating listen, informative and sad account of the trails of war and the love of humanity
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- John C.
- 07-12-17
The OSS carved out a unique place in military annals.
A detailed account of the birth of the OSS with an unanticipated formation of a symbiotic relationship between allied forces and indigenous hill tribes. Those tribes people were equally indispensable to the hard fought retaking of Burma.
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- Eric B. Smith
- 12-29-20
Entertaining!
One of the best I have read since joining Audible. Well performed and full of detail, with interesting facts about the OSS in Burma.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-08-21
Worth a listen
Unique and interesting story of behind enemy lines and the guerrilla warfare utilized in Burma in World War II I greatly appreciate the story for sharing the view that one rarely sees or hears of World War II I would’ve liked the book to go in a little more detail about some of the actual combat formations and I would’ve liked to of seen a narrative as a relates to some of the main characters after the war what became of them did they continue to communicate with the Cochins narration was excellent
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- J Morris
- 01-31-23
Fascinating
Amazing story telling about the OSS in Burma, something I’ve never even heard or read about before. The chapters are paced very well and I’ve never once felt lost in the jungle of words like these men had been. Highly recommend!
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- Craig A. Jordan
- 10-06-23
Slow to start, but worth the listen.
Well done performance. Great book. It was slow to get engaged in the beginning but it was well with money and time.
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- Teachislife4
- 10-17-18
Phenomenal book. really enjoyed it
I wish there were more books about CBI theater on Audible. This book is an amazing story that is almost hard to believe.
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- Mike
- 11-01-20
History alive
Good book of the OSS behind Japanese lines in WW II. Hard to follow as the names of the villages and major characters are not familiar. But once past that the exploits of the OSS and their native allies is great.
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- Tracy S.
- 06-14-22
Love it
As a history buff I’ve read hundreds of books on WW2. This book really shows what day to day life behind Japanese lines was like. Really interesting group of people in this book as well.
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