Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Ejército y guerra

"Todo el país vibra de indignación ante esos desalmados que quieren, por el fuego y el terror, sumir a la España democrática y popular en un infierno de terror. Pero no pasarán…" Aquel legendario llamamiento por radio del 19 de julio de 1936 convirtió a Dolores Ibárruri, a la sazón diputada del Frente Popular por Asturias, en el símbolo universal de la resistencia republicana frente al fascismo. Mario Amorós ha escrito un relato biográfico riguroso y sobre todo necesario de una de las grandes figuras del movimiento obrero y comunista internacional.

Al igual que otros países, España ha vivido a lo largo de su historia luchas fratricidas, pero solo la que comenzó el 18 de julio de 1936 es recordada como la Guerra Civil por antonomasia. Ese conflicto fue total pues movilizó todo tipo de recursos como quizá nunca hasta entonces: desde los económicos, sociales y políticos, hasta los ideológicos, culturales y diplomáticos, y, por supuesto, los militares. La Guerra Civil.

Vicente Vallés, gran conocedor del funcionamiento de la política americana, nos da en este audio libro las claves de esta victoria, entre las que no hay que perder de vista que: "Donald Trump es algo más que un tipo histriónico y desafiante. Ha sabido ser lo que muchos americanos estaban buscando: alguien que pusiera boca abajo el sistema político del país, carcomido por décadas de amaneramiento y episodios de abuso."

Se trató de una campaña sofisticada y sorprendentemente bien financiada para socavar las instituciones democráticas, promover el antisemitismo y destruir la confianza ciudadana en sus líderes electos, con el objetivo final de derrocar al Gobierno estadounidense e instaurar un régimen autoritario. Algunos de los funcionarios electos más influyentes del país, incluyendo senadores y miembros del Congreso, trabajaron para difundir argumentos nazis, mientras que paramilitares fascistas almacenaban bombas y armas preparándose para una insurrección violenta.

When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man's experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today's students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate extremes men are forced to confront in any war.

The first book of D Day Through German Eyes has fascinated listeners around the world with its insight into the German experience of June 6, 1944. Now, book 2 contains a completely different set of astonishing German testimonies from the same archive. These newly translated eyewitness statements by German veterans show the defenders to be determined but psychologically insecure, often deluded in their thinking, and all too human in their shock at the onslaught they faced.

In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an 18-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages.

Since World War II, the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division, the paratroopers who led the Allied invasions into Nazi-held Europe. But within the ranks of the 101st, a sub-unit attained legendary status at the time, its reputation persisting among veterans over the decades. Primarily products of the Dustbowl and the Depression, the Filthy13 grew notorious, even within the ranks of the elite 101st. Never ones to salute an officer, or take a bath, this squad became singular within the Screaming Eagles.

El político y abogado Antonio Ledezma, quien fuera Alcalde Mayor del Distrito Metropolitano de Caracas, narra con extremo rigor cómo fue secuestrado, en dos ocasiones, por los órganos de seguridad del régimen venezolano, y describe las prisiones de las que se sirve la dictadura para reprimir a la oposición, tanto en la era de Hugo Chávez como en la actual, con el ilegítimo presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, al frente del poder.

«L'agente di pubblica sicurezza Antonio Annarumma muore con la testa fracassata da una sbarra di ferro». Gli anni di piombo si aprono nel 1969 con un morto durante una manifestazione a Milano, e proseguono con le stragi nere di piazza Fontana, di Brescia e dell'Italicus, con lo stillicidio degli agguati delle Brigate rosse e degli altri gruppi terroristici di estrema sinistra fino alla morte di Aldo Moro e degli agenti della sua scorta.

These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu, Baghdad, Fallujah and Mosul to directing multi-national special operations forces in a dauntingly complex fight against a formidable foe.

As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister and was at Margaret Thatcher's side for the final 18 months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural ally, and yet she became fascinated by the woman behind the Iron Lady façade and by how she dealt with a world dominated by men. As events inexorably led to Margaret Thatcher's downfall, Slocock observed the vulnerabilities and contradictions of the woman considered by many to be the ultimate anti-feminist.

John Nutting is nineteen years old in 1966. Raised in small-town Idaho, to a family that could trace its military roots back to the Revolutionary War, Nutting knows he’s going to fight the war as a Marine. On the day of his high school graduation, he swears into the US Marine Corps and boards the plane to boot camp.All too soon he’s in the jungle, a greenhorn member of "F" Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division.

How the US Army developed historical programs since World War I―sending combat historians into the fray to interview soldiers and collect documents for the benefit of history.

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This funny, rich, raunchy autobiography re-creates the adventures of a very young soldier in the US Army at the height of the Depression. Charles Willeford was 16 in 1935 when he signed up and was sent to the Philippines. And the Philippines of those days was like a place out of another century. Willeford’s job was to fuel aircraft whose pilots treated him and his buddies almost like slaves. At night, however, he was a lord, fully exploring a great, timeless, and sensual city with a multitude of women available - even on a private’s pay.

Patton foi um dos personagens mais famosos e controversos da Segunda Guerra Mundial. General competente e carismático, ficou conhecido pelas suas falas pouco convencionais, como aquela da famosa cena de abertura do filme que leva seu nome. Originário de uma família rica e poderosa (sendo considerado o mais rico oficial do Exército dos eua na sua época), Patton era capaz de falar com a linguagem simples dos soldados. Seu poder de persuasão podia levar a tropa aos maiores sacrifícios, o que fazia dele um comandante amado e odiado ao mesmo tempo.

This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. >William Lubbeck, age 19, was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939. As a member of the 58th Infantry Division, he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring his division served on the left flank of Army Group North in Operation Barbarossa.

In August 2006, many senior U.S. officials thought America had lost the war in Iraq, as the senior U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer there wrote that control of al Anbar Province, the seat of the raging Sunni insurgency, was irrevocably lost to the insurgents. In January 2007, the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment deployed to Ramadi as part of the 3rd Infantry Division, the first regular Army unit to deploy to Iraq for a third time. The battalion and its went to work in a campaign that will be seen as the D-Day of the Global War on Terror.

Harold Guard became a war correspondent quite by chance, after he had been invalided out of the navy following a submarine accident. Thereafter, working for United Press, he gained a front row seat to many of the most dramatic battles and events of the century. In March 1942 Guard arrived in Australia, having narrowly escaped from Japanese forces invading Singapore and Java. His dispatches from that disastrous front prompted one observer to comment on “the crisis days when everybody except Harold Guard was trying to hush up the real situation.”