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The Special Air Service—the SAS—are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by the SAS from its inception during the Second World War to the present day, describing in dramatic detail the unit's most daring and memorable missions in trouble spots across the world.
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From hostage rescues to ambushes, from sabotage to jungle warfare and from pitched battles to reconnaissance, it hasn't always gone according to plan but the courage and devotion to duty revealed within show just what it takes to be an SAS soldier.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 302
After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses the conflict on Special Forces: unorthodox soldiers who work outside of traditional military forces to combine secret military operations with nation building.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Painful narration
- De JWS en 12-18-20
De: Tony Geraghty
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- De: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 276
Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his African childhood friends, before joining the army. A quiet, introspective thinker, Andre started out as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where he was engaged in fireforce combat operations. He then rejoined the SAS. Andre writes vividly about his experiences, his emotions, and his state of mind during the war, and reflects candidly on what he learned and how war has shaped his life since.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The tragic story behind the story
- De wade en 02-07-21
De: Hannes Wessels, y otros
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Undercover War
- De: Harry McCallion
- Narrado por: Colin Mace
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 128
This book is Harry McCallion's blistering account of the history of Britain's war against the IRA between 1970 and 1998. From new insights into high-profile killings and riveting accounts of enemy contact, to revelations about clandestine missions and the strategies used in combating a merciless enemy, Undercover War is the definitive inside story of the battle against the IRA, one of the most dangerous and effective terrorist organisations in recent history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I liked it
- De WCHBlok en 12-22-21
De: Harry McCallion
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Churchill's Hellraisers
- The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
- De: Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Matt Bates
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30
It is the winter of 1944. Allied forces have succeeded in liberating most of Axis-occupied Italy - with one crucial exception: the Nazi headquarters north of the Gothic Line. Heavily guarded and surrounded by rugged terrain, the mountain fortress is nearly impenetrable. But British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is determined to drive a dagger into the "soft underbelly of Europe." The Allied's plan: drop two paratroopers into the mountains-and take the fortress by storm....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gritty reality of ungentlemanly warfare
- De David Radlauer en 06-08-24
De: Damien Lewis
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No Mission Is Impossible
- The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
- De: Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal return with the intensely absorbing, fast-paced story of 30 of the boldest missions of the Israeli special forces. Bar-Zohar and Mishal depict in electrifying detail major battles, raids in enemy territory, and death-defying commando missions while also sharing the personal stories of both soldiers and top commanders, revealing their hopes and fears. The stories are often of victories, but sometimes they're of immense failures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kept me somewhat entertained. Forgettable though
- De Oliver Nielsen en 05-06-16
De: Michael Bar-Zohar, y otros
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In Mortal Combat
- Korea, 1950-1953
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 27 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves, employing scrupulous archival research and interviews as the bases for the drama and accuracy of his writing. In Mortal Combat reveals Mao's prediction of the date and place of MacArthur's Inchon landing, Russia's indifference to the war, Mao's secret leadership of the North Korean military, and the true nature of both sides' treatment and repatriation of POWs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slightly disappointed
- De Patrick en 09-02-19
De: John Toland
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The Hardest Place
- The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley
- De: Wesley Morgan
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 21 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 151
Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A walk through time
- De Brandon Kennedy en 04-12-21
De: Wesley Morgan
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Normandy '44
- D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 24 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 539
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 476
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent account of Normandy but be weary...
- De S. H. Moore en 02-22-20
De: James Holland
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Scholars of Mayhem
- My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
- De: Daniel C. Guiet, Timothy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made the trip. Daniel was admonished never to touch the box, but one day he couldn't resist. What he found astonished him: a .45 automatic and five full clips; three slim knives; a length of wire with a wooden handle at each end; thin pieces of paper with random numbers on them; several passports with his father's photograph, each bearing a different name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than fiction!
- De M. Galloway en 04-04-21
De: Daniel C. Guiet, y otros
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Taking Berlin
- The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market-Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies’ top battlefield commander.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great until personal politics showed up
- De UP North en 12-16-22
De: Martin Dugard
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Poland 1939
- The Outbreak of World War II
- De: Roger Moorhouse
- Narrado por: Roger Moorhouse
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 120
For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Always Overlooked
- De C. G. Telcontar en 05-27-21
De: Roger Moorhouse
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Crete 1941
- The Battle and the Resistance
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle around.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing
- De Jean en 02-01-16
De: Antony Beevor
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By Water Beneath the Walls
- The Rise of the Navy SEALs
- De: Benjamin H. Milligan
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 22 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 421
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 378
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 377
How did the US Navy - the branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceans - ever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the world’s most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles from the water on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, even Central Africa?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extra. Ordinary.
- De Anonymous User en 12-15-21
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Sicily '43
- The First Assault on Fortress Europe
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: Al Murray
- Duración: 19 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion 11 months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation HUSKY, as it was known, was enormously complex, involving dramatic battles on land, in the air, and at sea. Yet, despite its paramount importance to ultimate Allied victory, and its drama, very little has been written about the 38-day Battle for Sicily.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing, great narration, interesting topic
- De ItalCali en 08-02-21
De: James Holland
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The Germans in Normandy
- De: Richard Hargreaves
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
While the Germans knew an invasion was inevitable, no one knew where or when it would fall. Those manning Hitler's mighty Atlantic Wall may have felt secure in their bunkers, but they had no conception of the fury and fire that was about to break. After the initial assaults of June established an Allied bridgehead, a state of stalemate prevailed. The Germans fought with great courage - hindered by lack of supplies and overwhelming Allied control of the air. This book describes the catastrophe that followed, in a unique look at the war from the losing side.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a different view of Normandy 1944
- De Oscar Shinn en 06-13-20
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Taking Paris
- The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 225
May 1940: The world is stunned as Hitler's forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual freedom, and love of liberty, has fallen under Nazi control — perhaps forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Incorrectly titled
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-11-22
De: Martin Dugard
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Rogue Heroes
- The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- De: Ben Macintyre
- Narrado por: Ben Macintyre
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,347
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,036
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,031
Britain's Special Air Service - or SAS - was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a battlefield map of World War II's African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: Given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind enemy lines and sabotage their airplanes and war matériel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Those Who Dared, Won!
- De Matthew en 10-07-16
De: Ben Macintyre