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A gripping, real-life drama that reveals the true story of a plane full of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a war zone and were delivered into the hands of a murderous dictator.
On August 1, 1990, Flight 149 was scheduled for its routine London-to-Kuala Lumpur run. But when the plane, carrying 385 passengers and crew, landed at a Kuwait airport to refuel that day, it was surrounded by Iraqi tanks and about to be bombed by fighter jets.
The passengers and crew were kept as hostages and suffered brutal treatment including violent attacks, sexual assaults, and mock executions. When the survivors were eventually released, they were never told why their plane landed in the middle of an invasion, or who a mysterious team of late arrivals on the flight might have been. Their story was overshadowed by the ensuing Gulf War. Until now.
In Flight 149, Stephen Davis draws on unique witness accounts from the hostages and uncovers the lies and coverups orchestrated by the British secret service and CIA. This story reveals an astonishing misuse of intelligence that changed the course of history and forever altered the relationship between the West and the Middle East.
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In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very intriguing story
- De Cindy en 10-31-22
De: Raffi Berg
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Checkpoint Charlie
- The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
- De: Iain MacGregor
- Narrado por: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the US confronted the USSR during the Cold War.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard to follow
- De J.Brock en 03-07-21
De: Iain MacGregor
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Saving Aziz
- How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban
- De: Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas - contributor, Glenn Beck
- Narrado por: Chad Robichaux, Glenn Beck
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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In Saving Aziz, Chad will give you a behind-the-scenes view of the evacuation efforts that saved thousands from the Taliban during the historic humanitarian crisis following the United States’ hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blessed
- De Teri Herron en 02-01-23
De: Chad Robichaux, y otros
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Guardian
- Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA’s War on Terror
- De: Thomas Pecora, Jon Land, Lindsay Preston
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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Somalia was Tom Pecora's first deployment as a CIA Protective Operations Cadre (POC) officer, responsible for providing protective operations support in hostile areas of the world. He later headed up a series of the Agency's undisclosed protective operations teams. From 1989 until his retirement in 2013, he was assigned to multiple war zones across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, doing the kind of work few are even aware exists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don’t buy it
- De L-E Industries en 06-18-20
De: Thomas Pecora, y otros
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The Love Stories of the Bible Speak
- Biblical Lessons on Romance, Friendship, and Faith
- De: Shannon Bream
- Narrado por: Shannon Bream
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 61
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The Bible reveals not just butterflies and broken hearts. In Scripture, we see God’s beautiful design for the partnership of marriage. We witness friendships that cross all boundaries. We watch as families navigate the many seasons of life. Our guiding example for them all is the deepest, most abiding, foundational love ever known: God’s unconditional love for His people. In The Love Stories of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream draws lessons from the good, the bad, and the ugly of Biblical romances, friendships, and families.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uplifting and motivational book
- De Joseph Sullivan en 03-31-23
De: Shannon Bream
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Betrayal in Berlin
- The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
- De: Steve Vogel
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Its code name was “Operation Gold”, a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Book
- De Toni Bowes en 01-11-20
De: Steve Vogel
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The Spymaster of Baghdad
- A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS
- De: Margaret Coker
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 71
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The Spymaster of Baghdad tells the dramatic yet intimate account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence unit called “the Falcons” came together against all odds to defeat ISIS. The Falcons, comprised of ordinary men with little conventional espionage background, infiltrated the world’s most powerful terrorist organization, ultimately turning the tide of war against the terrorist group and bringing safety to millions of Iraqis and the broader world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth every penny
- De Michelle en 04-20-21
De: Margaret Coker
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All Secure
- A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront
- De: Tom Satterly, Steve Jackson
- Narrado por: Tom Satterly
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,519
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,358
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,355
As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the US military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies. Tom is a legend even among other Tier One special operators. Yet the enemy that cost him three marriages, and ruined his health physically and psychologically, existed in his brain. Told through Satterly's firsthand experiences, it also weaves in the reasons for his career-long battle against the most insidious enemy of all: post-traumatic stress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- One of those books that truly make a difference
- De henry en 12-21-19
De: Tom Satterly, y otros
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The Wolves at the Door
- The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy
- De: Judith Pearson
- Narrado por: Patrice O’Neill
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 to follow a dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer. After watching Hitler roll over Poland and France, she enlisted to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret espionage and sabotage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France where, if captured, imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Gestapo was all but assured.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The narrator is ruining the book for me
- De Penni Khandi en 06-19-14
De: Judith Pearson
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American Spy
- Wry Reflections on My Life in the CIA
- De: H. K. Roy
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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To political
- De Amazon Customer en 11-29-19
De: H. K. Roy
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Double Agent
- My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA
- De: Kevin Fulton
- Narrado por: Stephen Armstrong
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Kevin Fulton was one of the British Army's most successful intelligence agents. Having been recruited to infiltrate the Provisional IRA at the height of the Troubles, he rose its ranks to an unprecedented level. Living and working undercover, he had no option other than to take part in heinous criminal activities, including the production of bombs which he knew would later kill. So highly was he valued by IRA leaders that he was promoted to serve in its infamous internal police - ironically, his job was now to root out and kill informers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dupe or sociopath?
- De Buretto en 10-26-19
De: Kevin Fulton
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A Guest of the Reich
- The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany
- De: Peter Finn
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Gertrude "Gertie" Legendre was a big-game hunter from a wealthy industrial family who lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. Her adventurous spirit made her the inspiration for the Broadway play Holiday, which became a film starring Katharine Hepburn. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Legendre, by then married and a mother of two, joined the OSS, the wartime spy organization that preceded the CIA.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating woman in a horrible period in history
- De Marlette en 12-03-19
De: Peter Finn
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Red Line
- The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
- De: Joby Warrick
- Narrado por: Barrett Leddy
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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In 2012, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, Pres. Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line”. Assad did it anyway, killing hundreds of civilians and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular war. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons, Obama leapt at the out. So begins an electrifying race to find, remove, and destroy 1,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An excellent story for Three Quarters of the Book
- De D. MacLean en 05-11-21
De: Joby Warrick
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Night of the Assassins
- The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
- De: Howard Blum
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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The year is 1943, and the three Allied leaders - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting, and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath. And so, a plan is devised - code name Operation Long Jump - to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very inaccurate background.
- De Anna Goforth en 04-19-22
De: Howard Blum
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Eagle Down
- The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War
- De: Jessica Donati
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes listeners into the lives of US Special Forces on the front lines against the Taliban and Islamic State, where a new and covert war is keeping Afghanistan from collapse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent depiction of the non tactical battle.
- De Paddy en 11-16-21
De: Jessica Donati
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First Casualty
- The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11
- De: Toby Harnden
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 491
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 425
This dramatic true story reveals the secret mission of the eight members of the CIA’s Team Alpha, the first Americans to be dropped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan after 9/11.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply researched
- De Jason G en 09-08-21
De: Toby Harnden
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Shatter the Nations
- ISIS and the War for the Caliphate
- De: Mike Giglio
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias. Mike Giglio takes listeners to the heart of this shifting, uncertain conflict, capturing the essence of a modern war. At its peak, ISIS controlled a self-styled "caliphate" the size of Great Britain, with a population cast into servitude that numbered in the millions. Its territory spread across Iraq and Syria as its influence stretched throughout the wider world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most important book for the coming decade
- De Peter A. en 01-01-20
De: Mike Giglio
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Return to the Reich
- A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
- De: Eric Lichtblau
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 36
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Based on years of research and interviews with Mayer himself, whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of 94, Return to the Reich is an enlightening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story, weak author
- De JD en 01-08-20
De: Eric Lichtblau
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Flight 149
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- Andy
- 09-25-21
Fantastic story of intrigue, military action, and history
Spoilers!! Incredible! Its probably as close to the truth that we will ever know about this strange unfolding of events. Imagine if the truth comes thru government admittance. The ultimate consequences of using a civilian aircraft to transport military operatives are frightening to imagine. In my less-experienced brain, I would think that would turn the aircraft into a target for sure. It turns civilians into circumstantial military targets. Great story!!
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