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Narrated by:
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Paul Thornley
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By:
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Stephen Leather
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Who was Dan "Spider" Shepherd before he signed up as an undercover cop and began working for MI5? The Sandpit rewinds with an action-packed rollercoaster to his days in the SAS....
Dan Shepherd and his SAS team are sent into the badlands of Afghanistan to train the rebels who are battling Taliban fanatics. But what starts as a training mission in The Sandpit rapidly turns into a life or death struggle with Shepherd and his team very much in the firing line. Soon they are caught up in an international intrigue that threatens the stability of the whole Middle East.
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,492
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,486
Southern Afghanistan was slipping away. That was clear to then-Captain Rusty Bradley as he began his third tour of duty there in 2006. The Taliban and their allies were infiltrating everywhere, poised to reclaim Kandahar Province, their strategically vital onetime capital. To stop them, the NATO coalition launched Operation Medusa, the largest offensive in its history. The battlefield was the Panjwayi Valley, a densely packed warren of walled compounds that doubled neatly as enemy bunkers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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'Merica!
- By NKeene on 03-07-15
By: Major Rusty Bradley, and others
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Outlaw Platoon
- Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
- By: Sean Parnell, John Bruning
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7,359
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,676
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6,663
At 24 years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon - a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws - and was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. Parnell and his men assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians, but in May 2006 what started out as a routine patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became a brutal ambush.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book...Everyone should listen to this book!!
- By Chris on 04-09-12
By: Sean Parnell, and others
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Last Stand: The Complete Box Set
- By: William Weber
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,231
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,902
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,891
Four audiobooks in one box set: Last Stand: Surviving America's Collapse, Last Stand: Patriots, Last Stand: Warlords, and Last Stand: Turning the Tide. John Mack, a prepper and former soldier, struggles to save his family and community after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) takes out the country's electrical grid. With most electronics, communications, and transportation destroyed in a matter of seconds, the nation quickly collapses into anarchy. Threats emerge from enemies both foreign and domestic.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed feelings on "The Last Stand" series
- By filmakr on 11-03-18
By: William Weber
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The Only Thing Worth Dying For
- How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
- By: Eric Blehm
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,800
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,617
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,614
The Only Thing Worth Dying For chronicles the most important mission in the early days of the Global War on Terror, when the men on the ground knew little about the enemy - and their commanders in Washington knew even less. With unprecedented access to surviving members of ODA 574, key war planners, and Karzai himself, award-winning author Eric Blehm cuts through the noise of politicians and high-level military officials to narrate, for the first time, a story of uncommon bravery and terrible sacrifice.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ending is..... can't even put a word to it.
- By Ben on 04-18-15
By: Eric Blehm
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Without Warning
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 476
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4 out of 5 stars 330
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, as the world waits for war, a miles-high energy wave cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico. In a moment, 99 percent of the U.S. population has been wiped from the face of the earth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Language in book is a bit over the top.
- By John R. Dritenbas on 07-07-10
By: John Birmingham
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The Green Berets
- The Amazing Story of the U.S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit
- By: Robin Moore
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 961
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 873
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 871
Robin Moore became one of the first true embedded journalists by training with and fighting alongside the Green Berets in Vietnam. Though fictionalized, his work is an eye-opening exposé of the horrors of the Vietnam War and the basis for the hit John Wayne movie of the same title. Taut, fast-paced, and interspersed with unforgettable accounts of combat, Moore’s novel features an American major who goes "native" with Montagnard tribesmen, a courageous Vietnamese girl who poses as a rabid anti-American Communist to capture a murderous Viet Cong officer, and the unforgettable acts of courage of soldiers in the field.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Green Berets Nam and beyond
- By Jawbone on 10-07-17
By: Robin Moore
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When the Killer Man Comes
- Eliminating Terrorists as a Special Operations Sniper
- By: Paul Martinez, George Galdorisi - contributor
- Narrated by: Paul Martinez, Nicholas Irving - foreword
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 350
America has one force with the single mission of direct action to capture or kill the enemy. That force is the 75th Ranger Regiment. Staff Sergeant Paul Martinez was a Ranger Sniper with the 75th Rangers during the desperate fighting in Afghanistan in 2011 when the United States made the decision to try to withdraw from Afghanistan. It was never going to be easy. There were still a large number of senior Taliban and al Qaeda leaders and other terrorists in secure locations throughout that country.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Didn't finish.
- By Keenan on 11-12-18
By: Paul Martinez, and others
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Bravo Two Zero - 20th Anniversary Edition
- By: Andy McNab
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 551
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Story5 out of 5 stars 502
January 1991: IRAQ. Eight members of the SAS regiment embark upon a top-secret mission to infiltrate deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, they are to sever a vital underground communication link and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO ZERO. Each laden with 15 stones of equipment, they tab 20km across the desert to reach their objective. But within days, their location is compromised. After a fierce fire fight, they are forced into evasive action. Four men are captured. Three die. Only one escapes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Give it a go!
- By Renae Goggans on 07-01-14
By: Andy McNab
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Back in the Fight
- The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up
- By: Joseph Kapacziewski, Charles W. Sasser
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story5 out of 5 stars 103
On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner’s hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski’s right leg below the knee, damaging his right hip, and severing a nerve and artery in his right arm. He endured more than forty surgeries, but his right leg still wasn’t healing as he had hoped, so in March 2007, Kapacziewski chose to have it amputated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true hero.
- By Anonymous User on 01-28-21
By: Joseph Kapacziewski, and others
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One Bullet Away
- The Making of Marine Officer
- By: Nathaniel Fick
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Fick
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,286
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 975
A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth, and advances to the pinnacle, Recon, four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book incomplete.
- By Amazon Customer on 08-06-17
By: Nathaniel Fick
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Generation Kill
- By: Evan Wright
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,967
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,597
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,598
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Politically Neutral??.....Not.
- By Brett on 11-26-12
By: Evan Wright
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Once a Warrior King
- Memories of an Officer in Vietnam
- By: David Donovan
- Narrated by: Don Sobczak
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story5 out of 5 stars 69
He was a young American soldier - and the most powerful man in a remote rural District of Vietnam.
In the spring of 1969, First Lieutenant David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam to work as military advisor with village chiefs and local militia to win the war.
But as he was the highest-ranking person in the entire district, his life there was far more complex than anyone could have imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally on audio!
- By Trucker john on 02-27-14
By: David Donovan
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Eye of the Storm
- Twenty-Five Years in Action with the SAS
- By: Peter Ratcliffe, Noel Botham, Brian Hitchen
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Peter Ratcliffe served in the SAS for 25 years. Blooded in Oman in the 1970s, he also saw action in Northern Ireland, in the Falklands War, and in the Gulf campaign. From his early days in the Paras to his time as Regimental Sergeant-Major in the Gulf, he has lived and fought by the motto 'who dares wins'. Eye of the Storm is his insider's account of that exceptional career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Peter is the real deal
- By LARRY on 10-19-19
By: Peter Ratcliffe, and others
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Devil's Guard: The Real Story
- By: Eric Meyer
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
Following the myths and legends about Nazis recruited by the French Foreign Legion to fight in Indochina, Eric Meyer's new book is based on the real story of one such former Waffen-SS man who lived to tell the tale.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Fairytale
- By Robert Lion on 11-09-19
By: Eric Meyer
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Devil's Guard
- By: George R. Elford
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 560
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 497
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Story5 out of 5 stars 498
The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If it is only half true...
- By ROS5FAM13 on 06-17-20
By: George R. Elford
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Into the Fire
- A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
- By: Dakota Meyer, Bing West
- Narrated by: Zach McLarty
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,522
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,230
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,227
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the enemy was positioned to wipe out 100 men who were pinned down and were repeatedly refused artillery support. Ordered to remain behind with the vehicles, 21 year-old Marine corporal Dakota Meyer disobeyed orders and attacked to rescue his comrades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional Memoir
- By Jean on 06-26-16
By: Dakota Meyer, and others
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- steven c young
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Good Story
It was pretty exciting most of the time, other times I had a tough time staying focused on the story. The narrator was very good.
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