Iraq History

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    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed....

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    • A 5000-Year History of Iraq
    • By: Bartle Bull
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time.

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    • By: Albert Hourani
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises...

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    • Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
    • By: Robert O'Neill
    • Narrated by: Robert O'Neill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,654 ratings
    • Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career....

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    • One Soldier's Story of Brutal Combat
    • By: Johnny Mercer
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,118 ratings
    • A captain in 29 Commando, Johnny Mercer served in the army for 12 years. On his third tour of Afghanistan, he was a joint fires controller....

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    • The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation
    • By: William R. Polk
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into the foreseeable future says William R. Polk, former member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Council and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Chicago....

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    • From Goodbye to Welcome Home
    • By: Melissa Seligman
    • Narrated by: Suzie Venable
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • Melissa Seligman is something rare in the world of military families - a military wife who is also a beautiful writer....

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    • A Personal History
    • By: Jeremy Bowen
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bowen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 667 ratings
    • A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC’s long-serving correspondent in the region....

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    • The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War
    • By: Sam Faddis
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In 2002, Sam Faddis was named to head a CIA team that would enter Iraq to facilitate the deployment of follow-on conventional military forces numbering more than 40,000 American soldiers....

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    • The Hard Road to Baghdad
    • By: John Simpson
    • Narrated by: John Simpson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • This riveting and important book is the summation of more than 20 years covering Saddam Hussein's Iraq....

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • Green Beret Horse Soldiers and America's Response to 9/11
    • By: Mark Nutsch, Bob Pennington, Jim DeFelice
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • They landed in a dust storm so thick the pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. Welcomed by a band of heavily armed militiamen, they climbed a mountain on horseback to meet the most ferocious warlord in Asia....

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    • A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq
    • By: Gregory Michael Budd, Jake Harper-Ronald
    • Narrated by: Pat Devon
    • Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • Men in the furnace of adversity… Step into the extraordinary life of Jake Harper-Ronald, a man whose childhood dream of becoming a soldier led him on an unparalleled journey.

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    • A Memoir of a Member of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Global War on Terrorism
    • By: Grant McGarry
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A Night in the Pech Valley is Grant McGarry's account of what it takes to become an Army Ranger and what life is like in the 75th Ranger Regiment....

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    • The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
    • By: Sergio Miller
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On 11 September 2001 19 al-Qaeda-inspired jihadists hijacked four aircraft and mounted the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The outrage triggered a chain of events that saw British forces drawn into a lengthy military campaign against a fierce insurgency in Afghanistan.

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    • Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, American Combat Sniper
    • By: Hans Halberstadt
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes listeners deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before....

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    • The Betrayal of the Middle East
    • By: Robert Fisk
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce, Kit Griffiths
    • Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting. Fully immersed in the Middle East and critical of the West's ongoing interference, Fisk was committed to uncovering complex and uncomfortable truths.

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