Tag: Untold

The Six The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts [Audiobook]


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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.

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The Brenner Assignment The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II [Audiobook]


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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.

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Semut The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo


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.

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Kabul The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End [Audiobook]


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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.

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The Girls Who Fought Crime The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting [Audiobook]


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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.

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Stealing Rembrandts The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists [Audiobook]


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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.

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Untold Stories from World War II Rhode Island


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 1467141860, 1540241157 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 4.4 mb
Following the success of World War II Rhode Island, author Christian McBurney returns, with new coauthors Norman Desmarais and Varoujan Karentz, to present extraordinary personal stories of local contributions to the war effort.

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Blacklisted by History The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies


Free Download Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies by M. Stanton Evans, Tom Weiner, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2010 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B003YV18DU | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 23:05 h | 633 Mb
Accused of creating a bogus Red scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half-century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts.

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