Final Engagement
A Marine's Last Mission and the Surrender of Afghanistan
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Through his team's deadly last showdown fighting alongside Afghan forces against the Taliban on the dangerous southern Helmand border, Marine Corps veteran Christopher Izant illustrates the impossible conditions and strategic blunders that disillusioned a generation of American veterans and all but guaranteed defeat
They were stepping into a world of hidden minefields, cultural clashes, "green-on-blue" insider attacks, and an ever-patient and relentless enemy. Christopher Izant and the Marines on his team volunteered to train the Afghan National Security Forces and fight the Taliban alongside them despite the risks and a seemingly futile mission they would term "advise and abandon" made by policymakers a world away.
In Final Engagement, listeners join then-Lieutenant Izant and the last team of Marine Corps combat advisors at Combat Outpost Taghaz in southern Helmand Province during Operation Enduring Freedom's most crucial and challenging campaign to sustain the hard-won victories of the infantry units. It was 2012, and with base closure and troop withdrawal timelines foolhardily fixed by America's top brass, the Marines had only six months to prepare the Afghan Border Police to stand on their own. But before Border Advisor Team 1 completely laid down arms, there would be one last deadly battle with a devastating aftermath.
After the fall of Kabul nearly a decade later, Final Engagement relives a clash in the Afghan borderlands that forebodes the countrywide collapse to come. Senior military commanders claimed victory to Congress, the press, and the American public while Izant and his fellow front-line warriors confronted understaffed and ill-equipped Afghan forces withering in the face of tribal infighting, incompetent leadership, and escalating Taliban attacks.
From foot patrols, deadly enemy engagements, and sinister insider attacks to meals and conversations with the men of the Afghan Border Police, Izant's account confronts the gauntlet of violence and anguish that transformed a generation of American and Afghan warriors from idealist volunteers for a just war to disillusioned veterans of a lost cause.
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Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports. But as Rome begin to fall in the fifth century, so did the games, devolving into nothing more than pointless massacres. In the end, millions of humans and animals were sacrificed in barbaric displays. What were once ceremonies given in honor of gods met an inglorious fate, yet they still captivate the imagination of people today.
De: Daniel P. Mannix
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The Saigon Guns
- A True Story of Aerial Combat in the Fall of 1972
- De: John Thomas Hoffman
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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The remaining US aviation forces, along with the US Air Force and US Navy and Marine aviation assets, would not be easily removed from the battle. For the US forces still in-country, this is an untold story of heroism, dedication, and refusal to yield the battlefield despite being largely considered by US political leaders as "expendable."
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Who Killed Una Lynskey?
- A True Story of Murder, Vigilante Justice and the Garda ‘Heavy Gang’
- De: Mick Clifford
- Narrado por: Ciaran O'Brien
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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In Who Killed Una Lynskey?, award-winning journalist Mick Clifford has built a compelling portrait of the case from interviews with the surviving main players, as well as exclusive access to the files of a private investigator who uncovered information the gardaí missed - or ignored. A timely, humane and compulsive listen, this is a groundbreaking account of the botched investigation and its devastating consequences for not just four devastated families, but also the reputation of the gardaí.
De: Mick Clifford
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Not a Real Enemy
- The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man’s Fight for Freedom (Holocaust Survivor True Stories)
- De: Robert Wolf, Janice Harper
- Narrado por: Gregory Dwyer
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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Hungary, 1944. Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the outside world and forced to endure inhumane brutalities and servitude. Once freed, a new oppression took hold as communist rule under Stalin turned friends to foes, enveloped the nation in fear and suspicion, and tested everyone’s character and strength.
De: Robert Wolf, y otros
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America's Cold Warrior
- Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan
- De: James Graham Wilson
- Narrado por: Jack de Golia
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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In America's Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze's career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving in eight presidential administrations, Nitze commanded White House attention even when he was out of government, especially with his withering criticism of Jimmy Carter during Carter's presidency.
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Damn the Valley
- 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2-508 PIR, 82nd Airborne in the Arghandab River Valley Afghanistan
- De: William Yeske, LTG Ben Hodges - Foreword USA (Ret.)
- Narrado por: Basil Sands, William Yeske
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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"DAMN THE VALLEY" was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valley during the deployment of 2 Fury to Afghanistan in 2009-2010. The valley has claimed bodies from the troops of Alexander the Great, the British Empire, and more recently, the Russian Army. Operating in the valley was like nothing the men could have envisaged, they called it the "meat grinder." It was a deployment that the media didn't talk about, and the government doesn't acknowledge.
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Horrible in every way
- De Amazon Customer en 06-23-24
De: William Yeske, y otros
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The Siege
- A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
- De: Ben Macintyre
- Narrado por: Ben Macintyre
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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As the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath.
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Interesting, but a bit of a slog
- De V. Temple en 11-16-24
De: Ben Macintyre
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Operation Pineapple Express
- De: Scott Mann
- Narrado por: Lt. Col. Scott Mann
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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In April 2021, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message was clear: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos; he passed through Fort Bragg’s legendary Q course and served alongside the US Special Forces for over a decade. But Afghanistan’s government and army were on the edge of collapse, and Nezam was receiving threatening texts from the Taliban.
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amazing, uplifting, heart wrenching
- De Lisa L. Weinley en 09-13-22
De: Scott Mann