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Sky Warriors
- British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: Adam James
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Bestselling historian Saul David provides a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War....
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A new appreciation for British Airborne Forces
- By M. Eaton on 29-05-24
By: Saul David
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Hercules
- By: Scott Bateman
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian emergency, for over fifty years the RAF’s Hercules force was the first in and last out of any crisis faced by the UK government around the globe.
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Worth a listen and throughly enjoyed it.
- By Stu Connor on 29-05-24
By: Scott Bateman
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A Wing and a Prayer
- The “Bloody 100th” Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II
- By: Harry H. Crosby
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom....
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the 100th
- By Mike78 on 08-02-24
By: Harry H. Crosby
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Concorde
- By: Mike Bannister
- Narrated by: Mike Bannister
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Concorde is an enthralling personal account of what it takes to fly planes faster than the speed of sound, and of the events that lay behind 114 needless deaths—the 113 victims of the crash and, ultimately, Concorde herself....
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Terrible Accents took away from enjoyment
- By Neal Ireland Hello. on 09-06-23
By: Mike Bannister
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Eject! Eject!
- By: John Nichol
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....
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A truly superb book
- By Bob Upndown on 23-06-23
By: John Nichol
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Cinderella Boys
- The Forgotten RAF Force That Won the Battle of the Atlantic
- By: Leo McKinstry
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In early 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival. As the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic, supply lines and shipping losses fell victim to the carnage....
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An account but with flaws
- By Anonymous User on 17-07-23
By: Leo McKinstry
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Sky Warriors
- British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: Adam James
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling historian Saul David provides a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War....
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A new appreciation for British Airborne Forces
- By M. Eaton on 29-05-24
By: Saul David
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Hercules
- By: Scott Bateman
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian emergency, for over fifty years the RAF’s Hercules force was the first in and last out of any crisis faced by the UK government around the globe.
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Worth a listen and throughly enjoyed it.
- By Stu Connor on 29-05-24
By: Scott Bateman
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A Wing and a Prayer
- The “Bloody 100th” Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II
- By: Harry H. Crosby
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom....
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the 100th
- By Mike78 on 08-02-24
By: Harry H. Crosby
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Concorde
- By: Mike Bannister
- Narrated by: Mike Bannister
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Concorde is an enthralling personal account of what it takes to fly planes faster than the speed of sound, and of the events that lay behind 114 needless deaths—the 113 victims of the crash and, ultimately, Concorde herself....
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Terrible Accents took away from enjoyment
- By Neal Ireland Hello. on 09-06-23
By: Mike Bannister
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Eject! Eject!
- By: John Nichol
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....
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A truly superb book
- By Bob Upndown on 23-06-23
By: John Nichol
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Cinderella Boys
- The Forgotten RAF Force That Won the Battle of the Atlantic
- By: Leo McKinstry
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In early 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival. As the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic, supply lines and shipping losses fell victim to the carnage....
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An account but with flaws
- By Anonymous User on 17-07-23
By: Leo McKinstry
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Chinook Crew 'Chick'
- Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember
- By: Liz McConaghy
- Narrated by: Liz McConaghy
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Liz McConaghy spent a total of seventeen years flying with the RAF’s Chinook Fleet. Aged just 21, she was the youngest aircrew member to deploy to Iraq and was also the only woman on the Chinook wing for four years....
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Emotive, raw and honest, a must read.
- By Mr Alisdair Goldie on 01-06-24
By: Liz McConaghy
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Her Majesty's Top Gun
- And the Decline of the Royal Navy
- By: "Sharkey" Ward
- Narrated by: Nigel D MacCartan-Ward DSC AFC
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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This book relates the part played by Royal Navy Top Guns in defence of UK’s global national interests since World War II....
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Fascinating
- By Simon on 15-02-21
By: "Sharkey" Ward
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Typhoon
- By: Mike Sutton
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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The Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 is the most advanced multi-role combat aircraft in the world....
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Insightfull, informative, exciting story
- By Dovydas on 31-12-21
By: Mike Sutton
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Winkle
- The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot
- By: Paul Beaver
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd, Paul Beaver
- Length: 11 hrs
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The daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot....
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An interesting take
- By FAB on 19-06-23
By: Paul Beaver
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Into the Silk
- The Dramatic True Stories of Airmen Who Baled Out – and Lived
- By: Ian Mackersey
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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From World War Two to the Jet Age, Ian Mackersey charts the thrilling and personal accounts of airmen who have jumped from their planes and survived....
By: Ian Mackersey
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Cold War Boys
- Previously Unpublished Tales of Derring-Do from Lightning, Phantom, and Hunter Pilots
- By: Richard Pike
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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When the US president, Harry S Truman, declared the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, he could not have known that the resultant Cold War would persist for over forty years until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991....
By: Richard Pike
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F-35
- The Inside Story of the Lightning II
- By: Tom Burbage, Betsy Clark, Adrian Pitman, and others
- Narrated by: Rob Reider
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it....
By: Tom Burbage, and others
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Flying Forwards, Facing Backwards
- Captivating Tales from a Vulcan and Nimrod Air Electronics Officer
- By: Jim Walls
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Since he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to fly aircraft; he just never envisaged that his flying career would be spent in the back seat as opposed to the front....
By: Jim Walls
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....
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Oh dear!
- By Anonymous User on 30-04-21
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Fleet at Flood Tide
- America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
- By: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
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The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower....
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Good but not his best, its should have been 2 or even 3 books.
- By Zatoichisan on 10-11-16
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Viper Pilot
- The Autobiography of One of America's Most Decorated Combat Pilots
- By: Dan Hampton
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Sure to rank as one of the greatest aviation memoirs ever written, Viper Pilot is an Air Force legend's thrilling eyewitness account of modern air warfare....
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A great one for aviation enthusiasts
- By gregg on 01-10-20
By: Dan Hampton
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Race of Aces
- WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky
- By: John R. Bruning
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" - the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker - offered a bottle of bourbon to the first US fighter pilot to break his record of 26 enemy planes shot down....
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Race of Aces review
- By Anonymous User on 02-09-21
By: John R. Bruning
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Harrier
- Sea Stories of a U.S. Marine, Book 4
- By: W.R. Spicer
- Narrated by: David Bondo
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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This book relates a historic period in US Marine Corps Aviation, the first "off the shelf" procurement of a major weapons system from a foreign country and the introduction of the first operational V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff or landing) aircraft into the Untied States arsenal....
By: W.R. Spicer
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Enemy Coast Ahead
- The Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson
- By: Guy Gibson
- Narrated by: Nigel Gair
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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A definitive new edition of a classic memoir, published in association with the RAF Museum. Guy Gibson was the leader of the famous Dambusters raid and Enemy Coast Ahead is a vivid, honest account, widely regarded as one of the best books on World War II....
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Terrible Narrator
- By rascallybear on 21-10-20
By: Guy Gibson
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Arnhem
- Great Battles
- By: Christopher Hibbert
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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This book tells the true story of the Battle of Arnhem, which was fought in September 1944....
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superb and gripping account
- By Amazon Customer on 08-01-23
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Beaufighter Boys
- True Tales from Those Who Flew Bristol’s Mighty Twin
- By: Graham Pitchfork, ACM Sir David Cousins KCB AFC RAF [RTD] - foreword
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Researched many years ago by the author for a project which did not come to fruition, Beaufighter air and ground crew gave freely of their stories which ranged from complete memoirs to brief anecdotes....
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A spoilt story
- By mikehp4 on 07-05-20
By: Graham Pitchfork, and others
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Harrier Boys, Volume 1
- From the Cold War Through the Falklands, 1969-1990
- By: Robert Marston
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Robert Marston, who flew Harriers for many years, draws together accounts from others who worked with this unique jet through its history....
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Experiences and Anedcotes
- By Paul on 20-06-16
By: Robert Marston
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Harrier
- How to Be a Fighter Pilot
- By: Paul Tremelling
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Paul Tremelling was just seven years old when he watched the Royal Navy's Sea Harriers leave their home base in Somerset to do battle against the Argentine Air Force in the Falklands War. Two decades later, he would join this exclusive club....
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Great Story, narration let it down a little
- By J. Chettleburgh on 04-09-23
By: Paul Tremelling
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Wings on My Sleeve
- The World's Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story
- By: Eric 'Winkle' Brown
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him....
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A great read!
- By Jay Grady on 02-07-16
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The Silver Spitfire
- The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in His Own Words
- By: Tom Neil
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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A brilliantly vivid Second World War memoir by one of 'the Few' Spitfire fighter pilots....
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A really interesting book, and very well read by the narrator
- By MR ADRIAN M EASTON on 28-12-19
By: Tom Neil
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The Fighting Corsairs
- The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific during WWII
- By: Jeff Dacus
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943, when the tide turned against the Japanese....
By: Jeff Dacus
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Sagittarius Rising
- By: Cecil Lewis
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this account the author sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war.
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The brave, british character who was only in his early twenties at the end of The Great War...1914 -18
- By aja dude on 07-04-24
By: Cecil Lewis
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From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog
- Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot
- By: Steven K Ladd
- Narrated by: Jeff Bolton
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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You do not have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd’s fascinating personal tale, woven around his 28-year career as a fighter pilot....
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Great achievement
- By robo on 22-04-24
By: Steven K Ladd
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Inferno
- By: Joe Pappalardo
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history....
By: Joe Pappalardo
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Into the Cold Blue
- My World War II Journeys with the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- By: John Homan, Jared Frederick - contributor
- Narrated by: Eric Torres
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the Pearl Harbor attack. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, raining death and destruction on the enemy. This first-person account of his harrowing missions—chronicling deadly flights through skies of red-hot flak bursts and airmen bailing out with parachutes aflame—will leave listeners staggered by the determination and grit of World War II aviators.
By: John Homan, and others
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Sabotage!
- An In-Depth Investigation of the 1943 Liberator Crash That Killed Polish General Sikorski
- By: Chris Wroblewski, Garth Barnard
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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On the night of July 4, 1943, transport aircraft Liberator AL523 took off from Gibraltar's North Front tarmac and within moments crashed into the sea with only one survivor, the pilot. The commander-in-chief of the Polish army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, was dead. Rumors as to the cause of the crash abounded. Was it pilot error? Was it, as officially classified, merely an accident, or was it, as the authors conclude in this riveting and meticulous study, an act of sabotage?
By: Chris Wroblewski, and others
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Hercules
- By: Scott Bateman
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian emergency, for over fifty years the RAF’s Hercules force was the first in and last out of any crisis faced by the UK government around the globe. Former RAF Hercules Captain Scott Bateman opens the cockpit to give an action-packed insider’s account of what it’s like to fly this legendary flying machine in peace and war, and at home and abroad, paying tribute to the remarkable men and women who operated this much-loved aircraft, and to those comrades in arms who, in doing so, made the ultimate sacrifice.
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Worth a listen and throughly enjoyed it.
- By Stu Connor on 29-05-24
By: Scott Bateman
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I’m in the Army Now
- World War 2 Letters, of Glenn Max Whitacre
- By: Martin Whitacre
- Narrated by: William Savage
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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These letters were discovered in an Army Air Force footlocker after being locked away for almost 80 years. Follow the story of one World War 2 Army Air Force soldier, Glenn Max Whitacre, from Bowling Green Ohio through basic training, schooling, combat prep, and into battle. He wrote home almost every day to keep in touch with his family, his friends, and the girl he loved. While also sharing details of everyday military life, as he prepares for, and eventually enters into the battle.
By: Martin Whitacre
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Lady Doreen
- A Wartime Memoir
- By: Edward Nebinger
- Narrated by: Mark Holmes Newton
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, solved the problem for a lot of American kids who wanted to be Army pilots but didn't meet the two years of college requirement for acceptance into the aviation cadet program. In mid-1942, under wartime pressures, the Army Air Corps dropped that requirement and made an exception for applicants who could pass a stiff written test.
By: Edward Nebinger
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Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- By: Caroline Alexander
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.
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Into the Cold Blue
- My World War II Journeys with the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- By: John Homan, Jared Frederick - contributor
- Narrated by: Eric Torres
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the Pearl Harbor attack. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, raining death and destruction on the enemy. This first-person account of his harrowing missions—chronicling deadly flights through skies of red-hot flak bursts and airmen bailing out with parachutes aflame—will leave listeners staggered by the determination and grit of World War II aviators.
By: John Homan, and others
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Sabotage!
- An In-Depth Investigation of the 1943 Liberator Crash That Killed Polish General Sikorski
- By: Chris Wroblewski, Garth Barnard
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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On the night of July 4, 1943, transport aircraft Liberator AL523 took off from Gibraltar's North Front tarmac and within moments crashed into the sea with only one survivor, the pilot. The commander-in-chief of the Polish army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, was dead. Rumors as to the cause of the crash abounded. Was it pilot error? Was it, as officially classified, merely an accident, or was it, as the authors conclude in this riveting and meticulous study, an act of sabotage?
By: Chris Wroblewski, and others
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Hercules
- By: Scott Bateman
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian emergency, for over fifty years the RAF’s Hercules force was the first in and last out of any crisis faced by the UK government around the globe. Former RAF Hercules Captain Scott Bateman opens the cockpit to give an action-packed insider’s account of what it’s like to fly this legendary flying machine in peace and war, and at home and abroad, paying tribute to the remarkable men and women who operated this much-loved aircraft, and to those comrades in arms who, in doing so, made the ultimate sacrifice.
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Worth a listen and throughly enjoyed it.
- By Stu Connor on 29-05-24
By: Scott Bateman
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I’m in the Army Now
- World War 2 Letters, of Glenn Max Whitacre
- By: Martin Whitacre
- Narrated by: William Savage
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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These letters were discovered in an Army Air Force footlocker after being locked away for almost 80 years. Follow the story of one World War 2 Army Air Force soldier, Glenn Max Whitacre, from Bowling Green Ohio through basic training, schooling, combat prep, and into battle. He wrote home almost every day to keep in touch with his family, his friends, and the girl he loved. While also sharing details of everyday military life, as he prepares for, and eventually enters into the battle.
By: Martin Whitacre
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Lady Doreen
- A Wartime Memoir
- By: Edward Nebinger
- Narrated by: Mark Holmes Newton
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, solved the problem for a lot of American kids who wanted to be Army pilots but didn't meet the two years of college requirement for acceptance into the aviation cadet program. In mid-1942, under wartime pressures, the Army Air Corps dropped that requirement and made an exception for applicants who could pass a stiff written test.
By: Edward Nebinger
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Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- By: Caroline Alexander
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.
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Apache at War
- An Elite Pilot's Story
- By: Steve Jones
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Steve Jones is a former senior British combat pilot flying with the Army Air Corps (AAC), and Apache At War is his vivid and uncompromising account of flying 'the ultimate fighting machine', the Apache AH1 attack helicopter in action. From patrolling 'Bandit Country' in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s, to taking out Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in the mid to late 2000s, with active service in the Balkans and Iraq along the way: Steve Jones offers the taut, gritty, and graphic reality of flying in military service.
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Enjoyable Listen
- By Mr N Bennet-Williams on 13-05-24
By: Steve Jones
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The Things Our Fathers Saw
- By: Matthew Rozell
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled a small American community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front. Decades later, author Matthew Rozell tracks down over thirty survivors who fought the war in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to the surrender at Tokyo Bay. Rage is instantaneous. He's looking at me from a crawling position. I didn't shoot him; I went and kicked him in the head. Rage does funny things. After I kicked him, I shot and killed him. ~Thomas Jones, Marine veteran, Battle of Guadalcanal
By: Matthew Rozell
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Sky Warriors
- British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: Adam James
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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The legendary ‘Red Devils’ were among the finest combat troops of the Second World War. Created at Churchill’s instigation in June 1940, they began as a single parachute battalion of 500 men and grew into three 10,000-strong airborne divisions: the 1st, 6th and 44th Indian, each composed of parachutists and glider-borne troops. Wearing their distinctive maroon berets, steel helmets and Dennison smocks, they served with distinction in every major theatre of the conflict and played a starring role in some most iconic airborne operations in history.
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A new appreciation for British Airborne Forces
- By M. Eaton on 29-05-24
By: Saul David
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Marshall's Great Captain
- Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars
- By: Kathy Wilson
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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In Marshall's Great Captain, author Kathy Wilson details Andrews's extraordinary life and career. The first biography dedicated to the namesake of Joint Base Andrews, this book sheds a light on Andrews's crucial role in orchestrating US involvement in WWII, as well as the professional relationship between Andrews and Marshall. Wilson raises Andrews's legacy to its legitimate place within the annals of both air power and WWII history and posits that there is a high probability that Andrews was Marshall's first choice for the office of Supreme Allied Commander.
By: Kathy Wilson
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Sagittarius Rising
- By: Cecil Lewis
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war. We then follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme to his pioneering defence of London against deadly nighttime raids.
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The brave, british character who was only in his early twenties at the end of The Great War...1914 -18
- By aja dude on 07-04-24
By: Cecil Lewis
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Bombing Hitler's Hometown
- The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
- By: Mike Croissant
- Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets. It was a crucial transportation hub and communications center, with railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home and had long intended to remake as the cultural capital of Europe, filling its planned Fuehrermuseum with world-famous art stolen from his conquered territories.
By: Mike Croissant