Tag: Untold

Free Download Deborah Cadbury, "Space Race: The Untold Story of Two Rivals and Their Struggle for the Moon"
English | 2006 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0007209940, 0007209959 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
From the author of ‘Seven Wonders of the Industrial World’, another highly anticipated TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race – and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it.

Free Download Freddie Wilkinson, "One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2"
English | 2011 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 045123331X | EPUB | 1,0 mb
The account of one of the deadliest and most mysterious tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster.

Free Download Dominic Phelan, "Cold War Space Sleuths: The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program"
English | 2012 | pages: 315 | ISBN: 1461430518 | PDF | 340,7 mb
"Space Sleuths of the Cold War" relates for the first time the inside story of the amateur spies who monitored the Soviet space program during the Cold War. It is written by many of those "space sleuths" themselves and chronicles the key moments in their discovery of hidden history. This book shows that dedicated observers were often better than professionals at interpreting that information coming out of the USSR during the dark days of the Cold War. This book takes a unique approach to the history of Soviet spaceflight – looking at the personal stories of some of the researchers as well as the space secrets the Soviets tried to keep hidden. The fascinating account often reads like a Cold War espionage novel.

Free Download Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada’s Greatest Spy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT399FLR | 2023 | 10 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Jason Bell
Narrator: Christopher Grove

Free Download The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW2924YV | 2023 | 11 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: Loren Grush
Narrator: Inés del Castillo
The remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts-six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle. When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots-a group then made up exclusively of men-had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender.

Free Download The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B006J1DP8I | 2011 | 7 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 198 MB
Author: Patrick K. O’Donnell
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
An impossible mission. Behind enemy lines. The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich’s main supply artery-the Brenner Pass. Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare , a small team of American special operatives parachutes into Italy under the noses of thousands of German troops. Their orders: link up with local partisans in the mountains and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass, the crucial route through the Alps for the Nazi war machine. Without the supplies that travel this route, the German war effort in Italy will grind to a halt. Using thousands of recently declassified files, personal interviews, and private documents, including a behind-the-lines diary buried in a bottle, military historian Patrick K. O’Donnell has written a cinematic World War II adventure story.

Free Download Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell, Dorje Swallow, Penguin Random House Australia Audio
English | 2012 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0933HBG3R | MP3@128 Kbps | Duration: 13:53 h | 795 Mb
March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s Indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know little about Dayaks, other than that they were once headhunters who might kill them on arrival. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face.
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than 100 Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on two of Borneo’s great rivers – the Baram and Rejang – the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II’s and Semut III’s brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation.

Free Download Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV4Y5XZ3 | 2023 | 11 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 648 MB
Author: Jerry Dunleavy, James Hasson
Narrator: Maxwell Hamilton
This hard-hitting book is the definitive account of the Biden administration’s most disgraceful hour-and the chaos it unleashed in the world. America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield. Desperate Afghans fell from the landing gear of departing planes. Taliban fighters mercilessly whipped and humiliated U.S. civilians trying to access the few square miles still controlled by American forces. Countless Afghan interpreters were abandoned to the mercy of the Taliban after risking their lives alongside American troops for years.

Free Download The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD989R2L | 2023 | 6 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Maj. Gen. Mari K. Eder
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
An inspiring feminist tale of a woman who dedicated her entire life to the New York Police Department, upending the patriarchy and the status quo for women working in public service. Mary "Mae" Foley was a force to be reckoned with. On one hip she held her makeup compact, on the other, her NYPD badge. When women were fighting for the vote, Mae was fighting crime in the heart of New York City-taking down rapists, bootleggers, Nazis, and serial killers. One of the first women to be sworn into the police force, Mae not only fought crime in the city that never sleeps, but also did something much bigger-challenged the patriarchal systems that continually tried to shut her and other women down. The result of her efforts? A long career that helped over 2,000 women join her auxiliary police force, the ‘Masher Squad.’ Mae Foley is proof that women can do anything men can do, all while wearing corsets and the perfect shade of rouge. From renowned author, speaker, and retired United States Army Major General Mari K. Eder comes the exciting and superbly researched story of a trailblazer who courageously dedicated her life to public service.

Free Download Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDMVJZSQ | 2023 | 8 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Anthony M. Amore, Tom Mashberg
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted. In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world-from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio-the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world’s most renowned museums.