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They Called Us ""Lucky""
- The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
- De: Ruben Gallego, Jim DeFelice
- Narrado por: Ruben Gallego, Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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At first, they were “Lucky Lima”. Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.
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My perspective as a 3/25 insider...
- De R-N en 06-25-22
- They Called Us ""Lucky""
- The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
- De: Ruben Gallego, Jim DeFelice
- Narrado por: Ruben Gallego, Stephen Graybill
I had to turn it off at the end.
Revisado: 08-04-24
I am a US Marine, OIF combat vet. I say that because I wanted to like this book, and I did at some points in the story. 3/25 got hammered really bad, and I have a tremendous respect for the marines who fought with them, including the author. I also found myself completely relating to the author’s words about PTSD and struggles with the aftermath of war.
What I did not enjoy was the infusion of politics into this story. I got it, the author is a congressman and Harvard alumni. But the whole J6 thing at the end, and the announcement that you’re BFFs with a congressman who had an affair with a Chinese spy… , while attacking our 45th president, and talking about fair elections, while your side blocks voter ID laws…. come on bro!
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Damn the Valley
- 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2-508 PIR, 82nd Airborne in the Arghandab River Valley Afghanistan
- De: William Yeske, LTG Ben Hodges - Foreword USA (Ret.)
- Narrado por: Basil Sands, William Yeske
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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"DAMN THE VALLEY" was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valley during the deployment of 2 Fury to Afghanistan in 2009-2010. The valley has claimed bodies from the troops of Alexander the Great, the British Empire, and more recently, the Russian Army. Operating in the valley was like nothing the men could have envisaged, they called it the "meat grinder." It was a deployment that the media didn't talk about, and the government doesn't acknowledge.
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Horrible in every way
- De Amazon Customer en 06-23-24
- Damn the Valley
- 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2-508 PIR, 82nd Airborne in the Arghandab River Valley Afghanistan
- De: William Yeske, LTG Ben Hodges - Foreword USA (Ret.)
- Narrado por: Basil Sands, William Yeske
Thanks for telling it.
Revisado: 07-27-24
Thanks for telling this story. A Marine OIF veteran it is great to hear what our Army OEF brothers went through. We fought 2 different campaigns in the same War on Terror, our stories are different, but also the same.
Semper Fi🇺🇸
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Scouts Out!
- A Kiowa Warrior Pilot’s Perspective of War in Afghanistan
- De: Ryan Robicheaux
- Narrado por: Timothy G Little
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
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The OH-58D Kiowa Warrior—a deep reconnaissance scout and attack aircraft—was legendary to those it supported. Regularly flying mere feet off of the ground while intentionally drawing enemy fire, almost everyone called Kiowa pilots crazy. Responsible for hunting elusive enemy fighters and protecting those under their charge, Kiowa crews displayed a fierce and intense devotion that was unparalleled.
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Great story
- De Alejandro en 07-19-24
- Scouts Out!
- A Kiowa Warrior Pilot’s Perspective of War in Afghanistan
- De: Ryan Robicheaux
- Narrado por: Timothy G Little
Great story
Revisado: 07-19-24
Very real story especially about the feelings of combat felt by our helicopter crews and the way the military treats it’s own people.
Semper Fi!
HMH-465
OIF- 2006-07
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Generation Kill
- De: Evan Wright
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam.
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Politically Neutral??.....Not.
- De Brett en 11-26-12
- Generation Kill
- De: Evan Wright
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
Sad buy true
Revisado: 07-06-24
Semper Fi.
We went to fight terrorists. That is what they told us.
OIF, 2006-07
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Stakeknife's Dirty War
- How Scappaticci, British Intelligence and Special Branch Ran the IRA
- De: Richard O'Rawe
- Narrado por: Alan Turkington
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984. From the outside, Scappaticci appeared to be a dedicated volunteer, but inwardly, he had become disenchanted with the IRA and, in 1977, he started working for British intelligence.
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Spooks and Squirrels
- De Amazon Customer en 11-19-23
- Stakeknife's Dirty War
- How Scappaticci, British Intelligence and Special Branch Ran the IRA
- De: Richard O'Rawe
- Narrado por: Alan Turkington
Interesting story
Revisado: 06-09-24
This was an interesting and seemingly unbiased analysis of the Stakeknife story. I really enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone who is interested in the topic of The Troubles.
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The Guardian
- De: Joshua Hood
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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As a member of the elite Air Force Pararescue, Travis Lane abides by the motto “These things we do, that others may live.” After an injury forces him to consider retirement, he is blindsided when his brother-in-law is killed in the line of duty, leaving Lane as the sole support for his sister and the family farm they can no longer afford. Desperate for something to help them keep the farm, Lane accepts an offer to join Broadside Solutions, a private company with specially trained military operatives who provide protection for clients all over the world.
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Didn’t make it far
- De jeff en 08-09-23
- The Guardian
- De: Joshua Hood
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Great story
Revisado: 03-02-24
I really enjoyed this book. I hope they come out with another book in this series because I will definitely buy it.
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The Frenchman: Book 1
- De: Jack Beaumont
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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Alec de Payns is an undercover operative in the ultra-elusive French Y Division of the DGSE, a foreign intelligence service. Codenamed Aguilar, de Payns is one of the division’s most accomplished agents working to neutralize international threats on a daily basis while simultaneously trying to balance his home life as a husband and father. When a routine mission to infiltrate a dangerous terrorist group unexpectedly goes belly up, Alec is faced with the unthinkable: that he may have been betrayed by someone in his team—and they may be trying to pin the blame on Alec himself.
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Fantastic story all around
- De Christian M. Woodhead en 10-11-24
- The Frenchman: Book 1
- De: Jack Beaumont
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
French James Bond
Revisado: 02-25-24
This guy is the French James Bond. I really enjoyed the book and can’t wait to hear the next one.
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No Mission Is Impossible
- The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
- De: Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal return with the intensely absorbing, fast-paced story of 30 of the boldest missions of the Israeli special forces. Bar-Zohar and Mishal depict in electrifying detail major battles, raids in enemy territory, and death-defying commando missions while also sharing the personal stories of both soldiers and top commanders, revealing their hopes and fears. The stories are often of victories, but sometimes they're of immense failures.
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Kept me somewhat entertained. Forgettable though
- De Oliver Nielsen en 05-06-16
- No Mission Is Impossible
- The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
- De: Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
Great collection of military stories
Revisado: 11-28-23
In these times, it was great to hear this collection of military stories about the IDF.
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Dance Hall of the Dead
- De: Tony Hillerman
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young ZuNi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig and a steel hypodermic needle.
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Impossible to Forget
- De Carole T. en 03-23-16
- Dance Hall of the Dead
- De: Tony Hillerman
- Narrado por: George Guidall
I couldn’t finish this.
Revisado: 08-31-23
I could not finish this one. The book is pretty boring and wasn’t what I was looking for.
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Hostile Intent
- A Matt Drake Thriller, Book 3
- De: Don Bentley
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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When a mysterious walk-in to the US embassy in Vienna claims to have critical information about a Russian intelligence operation, he raises eyebrows. But when he asks for Matt Drake by name and calls himself the Irishman, he gets the DIA’s premier case officer on a one-way flight. Matt arrives to find Austria’s charming capital lousy with intelligence officers, all swirling around Nolan Burke—a onetime member of the real IRA. But before Matt can debrief Nolan, the Irishman is kidnapped by a Russian direct action team.
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Fantastic!
- De jtbrooks en 05-06-22
- Hostile Intent
- A Matt Drake Thriller, Book 3
- De: Don Bentley
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Great story
Revisado: 08-08-23
I really enjoyed this series. Cant wait to get the next book. I highly recommend.
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