Black Virgin Mountain
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The memoir chronicles a 1992 railway journey Heinemann took from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City as the guest of the Vietnam Writers' Association. Along the way, he encounters Vietnamese war veterans and views sites that trigger powerful memories. His journey ends with a crawl through the tunnels of Cu Chi and a climb up the sacred mountain that is this book's namesake. A work of mourning and an act of reconciliation, Black Virgin Mountain considers the psychic costs of a war that is still taking its toll.
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Policing Saigon isn't Platoon or Apocalypse Now, but the story of Loren W. Christensen's experience as a military policeman (MP) in a city of millions at a time when chaos and fear reigned. As a 23-year-old from a small town in Washington State, the author was plunged into a chaotic city of brawling servicemen, prostitutes, racial violence, enemy rockets, riots, and death. It was a place that would give him a unique opportunity to see up close a different side of the Vietnam War and its effect on the human condition.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Forget about it.
- De Amazon Customer en 07-22-21
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All Things Must Fight to Live
- Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
- De: Bryan Mealer
- Narrado por: Karl Miller
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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In All Things Must Fight to Live, Bryan Mealer takes listeners on a harrowing 2000 mile journey through Congo, where gun-toting militia still rape and kill with impunity. Amidst burnt-out battlefields where armies still wrestle for control, into the dark corners of the forests, and along the high savanna, where thousands have been slaughtered and quickly forgotten, Mealer searches for signs that Africa's most troubled state will soon rise from ruin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding story and narration
- De Cthulhu's slobber en 09-19-19
De: Bryan Mealer
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You Don't Lose 'Til You Quit Trying
- Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient
- De: Sammy Lee Davis, Caroline Lambert
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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On November 18, 1967, Private First Class Davis' artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. At 21 years old, he resolved to face the onslaught and prepared to die. Soon he would have a perforated kidney, crushed ribs, a broken vertebra, his flesh ripped by beehive darts, a bullet in his thigh, and burns all over his body. Ignoring his injuries, he manned a two-ton Howitzer by himself, crossed a canal under heavy fire to rescue three wounded American soldiers, and kept fighting until the enemy retreated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Creed to Live By
- De GroovyMonkey8 en 01-15-21
De: Sammy Lee Davis, y otros
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Travels in Siberia
- De: Ian Frazier
- Narrado por: Ian Frazier
- Duración: 20 h y 26 m
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Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the 40-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. The book brims with Mongols, half-crazed Orthodox archpriests, fur seekers, ambassadors of the czar bound for Peking, tea caravans, German scientists, American prospectors, intrepid English nurses, and prisoners and exiles of every kind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Loved This Book
- De Sara en 01-05-14
De: Ian Frazier
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The Forever War
- De: Dexter Filkins
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, we witness the chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today's battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America's wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A memorable "read"
- De TCinDC en 02-16-09
De: Dexter Filkins
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Three Cups of Tea
- One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
- De: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Fraud
- De Sara en 02-23-16
De: Greg Mortenson, y otros
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Way of the Wolf
- The Vampire Earth, Book 1
- De: E. E. Knight
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel, E. E. Knight (Introduction)
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come.
On this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of mankind still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Its what you expect, and thats not a bad thing.
- De Kevin McLaughlin en 11-26-08
De: E. E. Knight
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China Marine
- An Infantryman's Life After World War II
- De: E. B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 605
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Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine in the First Division, traces his company's movements and charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific. He reflects on his duty in the ancient city of Peiping (now Beijing) and recounts the difficulty of returning to his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and resuming civilian life haunted by the shadows of close combat.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Is there any QC check on Audible?
- De PHSINV en 02-12-18
De: E. B. Sledge, y otros
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I'm Staying with My Boys
- The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC
- De: Jim Proser, Jerry Cutter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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I'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off 3000 Japanese troops at Guadalcanal after his 15-member unit was reduced to three men. At Iwo Jima he single-handedly destroyed an enemy blockhouse, allowing his unit to capture an airfield. Minutes later he was killed by an enemy artillery round. He was the only Marine in World War II to have received the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, and a Purple Heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Devil Dogs!
- De Skip Drake en 10-25-18
De: Jim Proser, y otros
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Forgiveness
- A Gift from My Grandparents
- De: Mark Sakamoto
- Narrado por: Geoff Sugiyama
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean chose to escape his troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada and volunteer to serve his country overseas. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Mitsue Sakamoto saw her family and her stable community torn apart after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Admirable progenitors
- De M. D. Baines en 04-24-18
De: Mark Sakamoto
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You'll Be Sor-ree!
- A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War
- De: Sid Phillips
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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Sid Phillips's account of his experiences in the 1st Marine Division fighting on Guadalcanal in the early days of World War II.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fun read until the last chapter
- De Bobby en 09-13-21
De: Sid Phillips
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Things I'll Never Forget
- Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam
- De: James M. Dixon
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Things I’ll Never Forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine Corps. These are his memories of funny times, disgusting times and deadly times. The author kept a journal for an entire year; therefore many of the dates, times and places are accurate. The rest is based on memories that are forever tattooed on his brain. This is not a pro-war book, nor is it anti-war. It is the true story of what the Marine Corps was like in the late 1960’s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Accurate Description
- De USMC VIETVET en 07-02-19
De: James M. Dixon
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Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Essays
- De: Michael Paterniti
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly intimate voice for humanity
- De Ed Hodges en 01-02-16
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Confederates in the Attic
- Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: Arthur Addison
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read for Civil War Buffs!
- De Ms Winston en 12-06-14
De: Tony Horwitz
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The Naked Don't Fear the Water
- An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
- De: Matthieu Aikins
- Narrado por: Nick Nikon
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story, horrible narration
- De AB en 02-25-22
De: Matthieu Aikins
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Places and Names
- On War, Revolution, and Returning
- De: Elliot Ackerman
- Narrado por: Elliot Ackerman, Mark Deakins
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq, and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At first, Ackerman pretends to be a journalist, but after establishing a rapport with Abu Hassar, he takes a risk by revealing to him that in fact he was a Marine special operation officer. Ackerman then draws the shape of the Euphrates River on a large piece of paper, and his one-time adversary quickly joins him in the game of filling in the map.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A crazy ride through the Mideast.
- De Kent Prochazka en 12-05-19
De: Elliot Ackerman
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This Is Not a Drill
- Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield
- De: Paul Carter
- Narrado por: Paul Carter
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Starting with action and mayhem galore This Is Not A Drill sets an unrelenting pace that just doesn't let up, as Paul almost drowns when the Russian rig he's working on begins to capsize; is reunited with his Dad - another adrenaline junkie; gets married; hangs out with his rig pig buddies in exotic locations; and spends a couple of interesting weeks in Afghanistan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want to party with this guy!
- De colleen en 05-06-14
De: Paul Carter
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Black Virgin Mountain
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- Lindy Cline
- 06-08-23
Tells a vivid story tinged with “I am smarter than you “
Very good descriptions that make it easy to see the visions. Comes across as the writer is smarter than the listener.
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- Jeffrey
- 11-23-15
Sarcasm, cynicism--and then more of the same
What did you like best about Black Virgin Mountain? What did you like least?
If you want to listen to yet another blistering and angry rant, this is for you. Yes, war is chaotic, cruel, unfair, and horrible. But there's so much more to it than that. It's also full of, remarkably, love. Heinemann, having done his time in combat, deserves his say. But it's an entirely one-dimensional say.
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