Tag: Churchill

Brothers in Arms Churchill’s Special Forces During WWII’s Darkest Hour [Audiobook]


Free Download Damien Lewis, Peter Noble (Narrator), "Brothers in Arms: Churchill’s Special Forces During WWII’s Darkest Hour"
English | ASIN: B0CRLHHP6J | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~14:22:00 | 432 MB
In 1941, as World War Two raged, scores of men stepped forward to answer Winston Churchill’s call for volunteers for Special Service, a high-risk opportunity to undertake the most hazardous, top-secret duties of war. Comprised of some of the finest fighting units in the entire British Army, these warriors longed to leave behind their mind-numbing garrison duties for battle. A rightfully proud regiment with an unrivaled esprit de corps, they were disavowed as unruly by top brass, unyieldingly vaunted by Churchill, and courageously loyal to the clandestine "butcher and bolt" raids that made their sacrifices-and their triumphs-legendary. But even as the combat-worn ranks of the SAS risked all to deliver the first resounding defeats on Nazi Germany, there were well-founded fears that their fortunes would change.
In Brothers in Arms, Damien Lewis pays tribute to the mavericks and visionaries who founded elite-forces soldiering-the SAS. Exhaustively researched from an invaluable trove of never-before-seen documents, wartime letters, diaries, mission reports, rare photos, undeveloped film, plus interviews with WWII veterans and their surviving families, Damien follows one close-knit band of men from the founding of the SAS through to the Italian landings, which truly turned the tide of the war.

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Mirrors of Greatness Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him [Audiobook]


Free Download Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C74VZHLC | 2024 | 17 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: David Reynolds
Narrator: Ethan Kelly

Winston Churchill remains one of the most revered figures of the twentieth century, his name a byword for courageous leadership. But the Churchill we know today is a mixture of history and myth, authored by the man himself. In Mirrors of Greatness, prizewinning historian David Reynolds reevaluates Churchill’s life by viewing it through the eyes of his allies and adversaries, even his own family, revealing Churchill’s lifelong struggle to overcome his political failures and his evolving grasp of what "greatness" truly entailed. Through his dealings with Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, we follow Churchill’s triumphant campaign against Nazi Germany. But we also see a Churchill whose misjudgments of allies and rivals like Roosevelt, Stalin, Gandhi, and Clement Attlee blinded him to the British Empire’s waning dominance on the world stage and to the rising popularity of a postimperial, socialist vision of Great Britain at home. Magisterial and incisive, Mirrors of Greatness affords Churchill his due as a figure of world-historical importance and deepens our understanding of his legend by uncovering the ways his greatest contemporaries helped make him the man he was, for good and for ill.

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Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946


Free Download Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 by William Averell Harriman
English | 1975 | ISBN: 0394482964 | 595 Pages | PDF | 14.2 MB
Recounts the distinguished diplomat-statesman’s activities and observations as Roosevelt’s personal World War II emissary to Churchill and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, with assessments of the Allied leaders, their decisions, and their Big Three meetings.

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Hitler’s Spy Against Churchill The Spy Who Died Out in the Cold


Free Download Hitler’s Spy Against Churchill: The Spy Who Died Out in the Cold by Jan-Willem van den Braak
English | June 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1526768771 | 312 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
From the summer of 1940 until May 1941, nearly twenty German Abwehr agents were dropped by boat or parachute into England during what was known as Operation Lena, all in preparation for Hitler’s planned invasion of England. The invasion itself would never happen and in fact, after the war, one of the Abwehr commanders declared that the operation was doomed to failure.

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Churchill’s Hellraisers The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress [Audiobook]


Free Download Damien Lewis, Matt Bates (Narrator), "Churchill’s Hellraisers: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress"
English | ASIN: B08FW1JHGR | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:09:00 | 345 MB
From award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis, the untold story of the heroic hellraisers who stormed a Nazi fortress-in one of the most daring raids of World War II….
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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