Résultats pour "De ware" dans Biographies et mémoires

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of...

Jack Maddox explores America's deadliest range wars, where cattle barons, small ranchers, and hired guns fought brutal battles over grass, water, and barbed wire. From the Johnson County invasion to the Pleasant Valley bloodbath, discover the violent land conflicts that shaped the West long after the frontier supposedly closed. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox reconstructs the Lincoln County War through court records and survivor testimony, exposing the corrupt alliances, economic monopolies, and dueling badges that transformed New Mexico Territory into a lawless battlefield where Billy the Kid became legend and institutional power crumbled into violence. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘We were so happy and didn’t know it…’ A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a quiet European suburb with his wife and his dog. His parents have bought an apartment nearby. On weekends they go out for brunch, cook and see friends. Life is good; it is normal...

Host Alexandra Reeves explores cartel alliances in *Blood In, Blood Out*, where billion-dollar partnerships collapse into brutal wars overnight. Each episode dissects real alliances turned bloodbaths—from El Mayo's kidnapping to Los Zetas betraying the Gulf Cartel—revealing how desperation forges deals and paranoia destroys them. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

When wealthy Wyoming cattle barons hired an army of assassins with a 70-name death list in 1892, they nearly got away with mass murder — protected by corrupt courts, complicit cavalry, and a president who looked the other way. Host Jack Maddox uncovers the documented conspiracy, explosive trials, and brutal class warfare that defined America's most notorious range war. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

In The Yankee and the British War Bride, two voices from opposite sides of the Atlantic come together to tell a deeply personal story of resilience, love, and the enduring spirit of the Greatest Generation. Through handwritten memoirs, Mary Irene Cooper-Dodd of Tipton, England, and Ernest Joseph...

Alexandra Reeves delivers raw, firsthand accounts from soldiers, civilians, and former cartel operatives in territories controlled by organized crime. This series reveals how ordinary people survive, adapt, and resist where violence is the norm and the state has lost its grip. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

World War Gods is an epic four-part series that delves into the origins and true nature of the gods, weaving together a narrative that is as thrilling as it is revelatory. This series does more than tell a story—it challenges the way you think, introducing the groundbreaking concept of abstract history. If you crave mind-expanding revelations, if uncovering the hidden truths of the universe excites you, if you engage with deep philosophical discourse, and if you have a passion for history.

A long-kept secret is revealed long after the battlefield death of a beloved and courageous West Point army officer in the Vietnam War. His young widow, in an act of love, had climbed up to the treacherous north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps with his ashes. In the casket in which his body had returned from war, she placed beloved memorabilia of their marriage and all, except one, of the hundreds of letters he had written to her.

An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.

In January 1980, a secret review quietly rewired Britain’s war in Northern Ireland. Commissioned by the Chief Constable of the RUC and led by future MI5 Director General Sir Patrick Walker, it placed intelligence above the law - and changed everything. What followed was a vast, covert...

A SAS soldier's journey from trainee to elite warrior fighting Islamic militants in Afghanistan, only to be betrayed by his own senior leaders at home. 'I've had more than my share of close calls. Truth is, it's fucking thrilling. But the fear can hit just as hard, especially when you see mates...

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.

War Poet is a biography of American poet, Alan Seeger, author of "I Have a Rendezvous with Death", one of the most powerful and memorable war poems of all time. Drawing on new and important archival material, author Michael Hill paints a noble and poignant portrait of Seeger, a little known but fascinating American poet.

Journey into the shadowy world of Mexico's most powerful criminal organizations, where billion-dollar empires are built on blood and entire regions fall under cartel control. Host Alexandra Reeves traces the evolution from the Guadalajara Cartel's 1980s origins through today's fragmented landscape of rival factions, exploring how these organizations have reshaped Mexican society, politics, and the global drug trade.For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Joey Jacobson, a young Jewish man from Westmount on the Island of Montreal, trained as a navigator and bomb-aimer in Western Canada. On arriving in England, he was assigned to No. 106 Squadron, a British unit tasked with the bombing of Germany. Joey Jacobson’s War tells, in his own words, why he enlisted, his understanding of strategy, tactics, and the effectiveness of the air war at its lowest point, how he responded to the inevitable battle stress, and how he became both a hopeful idealist and a seasoned airman.

Jeanne d'Arc. Anführer, Held, Krieger, Märtyrer. Verfolgen Sie Joans beeindruckende Verwandlung von einer ungewöhnlichen Kriegerin zu einer verehrten Militärkommandeurin, die sich gesellschaftlichen Normen widersetzt und sich unüberwindlichen Widrigkeiten gegenübersieht. Mit unerschütterlichem Glauben und unnachgiebiger Entschlossenheit versammelt sie die französischen Truppen und inspiriert sie mit ihrem Eifer und ihrer strategischen Brillanz. Während Joans Legende wächst, wächst auch die Komplexität ihrer Welt.

Alexandra Reeves reveals daily survival for ordinary Mexicans in cartel-controlled cities, where school runs and grocery shopping happen amid gang shootouts. Through intimate stories from Acapulco and Mexico City's Tepito, this series exposes the human cost of cartel warfare. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Alexandra Reeves chronicles the Tijuana Cartel's fight for control of the world's busiest border crossing, where family feuds sparked massacres, brothers ruled through terror, and a sister became Mexico's first female cartel boss. Discover how loyalty became the deadliest liability. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai