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Want to know what Vietnam was really like? From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM sites in North Vietnam, a nurse on the USS Repose, combat medics deep in the jungle, machine gunners in I-Corps, mechanics working on the rolling deck of a big carrier on Yankee Station, squad leaders on infantry sweeps in “the Arizona Territory”, truck convoys under fire, riverine patrol boats in the Delta, and much more....

This could be the most important audiobook you'll listen to this year. It isn't another war story. It is an audiobook about people, and it contains the personal stories of 100 Vietnam veterans who served there.

The Vietnam War dominated a generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. Some were drafted, some enlisted. Some became war heroes, intentional or not, but most were just trying to survive. From 1956 to 1976, from the Delta to the DMZ, these stories tell who we were, the jobs we did, our memories of that time and place, how it changed us, and what we did after we came home.

Real stories told by real people, in their own words. Hundred veterans, men and women, caught up in an all-too-real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you understand. If you weren't, buy this audiobook and you will, because they’re like Doritos. Try a few, and you won't be able to stop. The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. Some of us were drafted.

En el interior de un oxidado submarino alemán hay millones en lingotes de oro, obras de arte robadas y un gran secreto. ¡4.4 Estrellas en 782 Comentarios de US Amazon Kindle! El KGB, la CIA, sicarios de las SS nazis, incluso el Mossad israelí... todos quieren encontrarlo y saber qué hay dentro, pero sólo el ex aviador estadounidense Mike Randall conoce la verdad en este thriller de espías contra espías. Tras estrellarse su B-17 en Prusia Oriental en el invierno de 1945, Randall se encuentra en un batallón nazi de trabajos forzados en Konigsberg, en la helada costa del Báltico. En ...

Nothing covers up a big secret faster than a fresh grave. Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names. Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.

A historical suspense thriller set in the closing months of WWII, as one war grinds to an end in the rubble of Nazi Germany, all eyes turn to the next 'cold' one. The Americans, the Russians, and the British all know that the future belongs to whomever can grab the new rockets, jet fighters, long-range bombers, synthetic fuels and other 'wonder weapons' that Hitler unleashed upon them. Those will shape the balance of world power for decades to come.

Inside an old German U-Boat rusting on the bottom of the Baltic are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. In this military political action thriller, the only one who knows the truth is Mike Randall, a battle-scarred American who survived four months in the frozen Hell of northern Germany at the end of the war. When he does speak up, he puts a target on his own forehead, one which the Russians, the West Germans, the U-boat's former owners, the Israeli Mossad, and even his own government quickly take aim at.

La traición y el doble juego son la norma en este thriller de espías contra espías. Acción rápida y grandes personajes. ¡4.4 Estrellas en 395 Comentarios de US Amazon Kindle! Un agente del Mossad muerto, científicos nazis especializados en cohetes, la Hermandad Musulmana, un embajador estadounidense corrupto y dos regimientos de tanques egipcios desaparecidos: alguien está intentando iniciar otra guerra árabe-israelí. Richard Thomson es un agente de la CIA quemado al que la Agencia abandonó en Egipto porque no se les ocurrió un lugar peor al que enviarlo. Ya roído por Langley e...

Richard Thomson is a burnt-out CIA agent the Agency dumped in Egypt because they couldn’t think of a worse place to send him. Already gnawed on by Langley and set up by the Cairo police, his day can't get much worse until someone leaves a dead body on the rear steps of his hotel with its head lopped off. The body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief and wannabe spy peddling photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base in the Egyptian desert. While the world focuses on missiles in Cuba, no one notices the ones in the Egyptian desert pointed at Israel—no one except Thomson.

A Chinese spymaster in DC is stealing US Special Ops war plans, a nest of Chinese agents are inside Fort Bragg, a Chinese Navy task force is headed into the South China Sea to create mischief, and they just shot up Bob Burke’s new pickup truck. Trouble’s brewing in Sherwood Forest, and it isn’t a pot of green tea. Kidnappings, rockets, spies, naval battles on the high seas, military secrets, sniper rifles, and the Geeks! It's the most intricate and exciting Bob Burke action-adventure yet. Enjoy!

As Bob Burke’s 737 lands at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, he sees a man strangling a woman on a rooftop below. Whether or not anyone believes him, Bob Burke isn’t the kind of guy to let a thing like that rest. He knows what he saw, and it isn't going to end well for the men responsible. Mild-mannered and slight of build, this telecommunications company executive is easily dismissed as the "phone guy".

When C-4 takes out a close friend and one of their own, it falls to the "Merry Men of Sherwood Forest" - Bob Burke, Ace Randall, a female CID agent, the Geeks, a maverick helicopter pilot, and a large pit-cat - to even the score before the terrorists strike an even more important US military target only 200 miles away.

Mild-mannered and slight of build, this telecommunications company executive is easily dismissed as the "phone guy." After four tours running "special operations" missions in Iraq and the rugged mountains of Afghanistan as an Army Ranger and Delta Force commander, he's one of the most lethal killers the US government ever produced. When one of his old NCOs takes a header from the fifth floor of an Atlantic City casino run by the infamous Genovese and Lucchese NY mob families, someone’s going to answer for it and payback’s gonna be a bitch!

When the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach steals his company’s army software contract, blows up his office building in Chicago, and attacks Sherwood Forrest, enough is enough! After dustups with ISIS terrorists, the New York Genovese and Luchese mafia families in an Atlantic City casino, and a shootout with the Chicago DiGrigoria mob in a Forrest Preserve woods, all this former army sniper, ranger, and Delta Force commander wanted was to go back to his North Carolina farm, kick back, and enjoy life.

With years of combat experience in the rocky deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, Mohammed Al-Bari has battled the best special ops troops America has to offer. But when his two brothers die in a bloody assault on a civilian bus in Israel, he takes his private war to the heart of America itself. The only thing that stands in his way is an ad hoc group of counterterror specialists: Eddie Barnett, a maverick FBI agent; Moustapha Khalidi, the dapper chief of security at the Egyptian Embassy; and Rachel Ullman, a hard-edged, Israeli Mossad agent fighting demons of her own.

El terrorismo radical de Oriente Próximo estalla en las costas estadounidenses. 4.4 Estrellas en 857 Comentarios de US Amazon Kindle! La mayoría de los cientos de miles de pasajeros que pasan por el aeropuerto de Dulles, en Washington, son turistas, funcionarios del gobierno u hombres de negocios agobiados. Ibrahim Al-Bari no es ninguno de ellos. Es un asesino a la caza de sangre, y su objetivo es el Presidente de los Estados Unidos. Con años de experiencia en combate en los desiertos rocosos de Irak y las montañas de Afganistán, Mohammed Al-Bari ha luchado contra las mejores tropas de...

Los espías mienten y los espías mueren en este trepidante thriller de acción de la Guerra Fría. ¡4.4 Estrellas en 472 Comentarios de US Amazon Kindle! Cuando la Segunda Guerra Mundial se detiene entre los escombros de la Alemania nazi, todas las miradas se vuelven hacia la próxima "guerra fría". Los estadounidenses, los rusos y los británicos saben que el futuro pertenece a quien consiga hacerse con la tecnología del "Arma Maravillosa" de Hitler, porque sus nuevos cohetes, cazas a reacción y submarinos determinarán el equilibrio del poder mundial durante las próximas décadas. ...

Nada encubre más rápido un gran secreto que una tumba fresca. Alguien con un bisturí y una mesa de embalsamar está colocando cadáveres a nombre de otras personas. ¡4.4 Estrellas en 395 Comentarios de US Amazon Kindle! Pete Talbott, un ajetreado informático de Boston, aún está de luto por la muerte de su esposa, cuando se encuentra en el extremo equivocado de la 45 de Gino Parini leyendo su propia esquela arrancada del periódico de la mañana. Talbott cree que se trata de un gran error, hasta que Parini le enseña también la esquela de su mujer, y ése es un misterio que Pete ...