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Chronicles of Newgate Vol 2

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True Crime
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 4

Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the ‘good’ punish the ‘bad’ – the warriors against crime have resorted not only to killing wrong-doers, but additionally subjecting them to “starvation or the withholding of fluid, by drowning, stoning, impaling or by exposing the wretched victims to the stings of insects or snakes.” Newgate Prison was one of the most famous – or infamous – prisons in England from the middle ages until the nineteenth century. Griffiths, a prison administrator, takes us inside where we discover “man’s inhumanity to man”. Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off. – Summary by Lynne Thompson [chương_files]

First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal

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War & Military
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 3

In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands triggered a demand for offensive action in the South Pacific. Completion of the Guadalcanal airfield might signal the beginning of a renewed enemy advance to the south and an increased threat to the lifeline of American aid to New Zealand and Australia. On 23 July 1942, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in Washington agreed that the line of communications in the South Pacific had to be secured. The Japanese advance had to be stopped. Thus, Operation Watchtower, the seizure of Guadalcanal came into being. – Summary by Henry I Shaw [chương_files]

29/08/2024

U.S. Army in the Iraq War Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal 2007 – 2011

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War & Military
Chapter: 40 | Listen: 2

The Iraq War has been the costliest U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War. To date, few official studies have been conducted to review what happened, why it happened, and what lessons should be drawn. The U.S. Army in the Iraq War is the Army’s initial operational level analysis of this conflict, written in narrative format, with assessments and lessons embedded throughout the work. This study reviews the conflict from a Landpower perspective and includes the contributions of coalition allies, the U.S. Marine Corps, and special operations forces. Presented principally from the point of view of the commanders in Baghdad, the narrative examines the interaction of the operational and strategic levels, as well as the creation of theater level strategy and its implementation at the tactical level. Volume 1 begins in the truce tent at Safwan Airfield in southern Iraq at the end of Operation DESERT STORM and briefly examines actions by U.S. and Iraqi forces during the interwar years. The narrative continues by examining the road to war, the initially successful invasion, and the rise of Iraqi insurgent groups before exploring the country’s slide toward civil war. This volume concludes with a review of the decision by the George W. Bush administration to “surge” additional forces to Iraq, and reviews the conduct of the “surge” and its aftermath. This study was constructed over a span of 4 years and relied on nearly 30,000 pages of handpicked declassified documents, hundreds of hours of original interviews, and thousands of hours of previously […]

media noche: visión estelar de un momento de guerra

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War & Military
Chapter: 9 | Listen: 2

Crónicas de la Primera Guerra Mundial: 40 breves capítulos, a modo de estampas o fogonazos desde el punto de vista de distintos personajes en diversos lugares y ocupaciones. Probablemente uno de los textos menos conocidos y más innovadores de su autor. En esta obra, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán pretende intentar reflejar una visión coral del crudo conflicto, proyecto que nació de sus vivencias como testigo y periodista cubriendo la Gran Guerra. Leído a dúo por Monste Gonzalez y Epachuko (Summary by Epachuko) [chương_files]

First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I

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War & Military, War & Military Fiction
Chapter: 55 | Listen: 1

This collection of non-fiction and fiction, with its companion poetry collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th July 1914. The majority of the items, all chosen by the readers, are in English, but the collection also includes pieces in Dutch, French, German and Ukrainian. Please note that some works are still protected by copyright in countries which observe copyright laws based on the author’s date of death. Most items were written during or shortly after the war, but one or two have been included for their relevance in other ways. For more information about each piece, please see this document (PDF format), which also shows the authors’ dates of death. (Summary by Ruth Golding) [chương_files]

History of the Great War, Volume 2

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War & Military
Chapter: 56 | Listen:

This is the second of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from the opening of the Dardenelles Campaign in September 1914 through the first stage of The Battle of Verdun, stopping in mid-April, 1916. As David Reader noted for volume 1, “the author took a rather formal approach by describing the war from a more macroscopic level, packed with factual details, but from the perspective of a patriotic British national.” – Summary by Lynette Caulkins [chương_files]

Korean War: Brief Histories

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War & Military
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 3

A collection of brief histories addressing the major campaigns or phases of the Korean War. (Summary by KevinS) [chương_files]

Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa

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War & Military
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“Tarawa Atoll is 2085 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and 540 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the Marshalls. Betio is the principal island in the atoll. The Japanese seized Tarawa from the British within the first three days after Pearl Harbor. In August 1943, to meet in secret with Major General Julian C. Smith and his principal staff officers, Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance flew to New Zealand from Pearl Harbor. Spruance told the Marines to prepare for an amphibious assault against Japanese positions in the Gilbert Islands in November. General Smith’s operations officer, Lieutenant Colonel David M. Shoup, studied the primitive chart of Betio and saw that the tiny island was surrounded by a barrier reef. Shoup asked Spruance if any of the Navy’s experimental, shallow-draft, plastic boats could be provided. ‘Not available,’ replied the admiral, ‘expect only the usual wooden landing craft.’ Shoup frowned. General Smith could sense that Shoup’s gifted mind was already formulating a plan. The results of that plan were momentous. The Tarawa operation became a tactical watershed: the first, large-scale test of American amphibious doctrine against a strongly fortified beachhead.” – Summary by Joseph H Alexander [chương_files]

29/08/2024

Project Horizon: Establishment of a Lunar Outpost

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War & Military
Chapter: 8 | Listen: 3

The US national policy on space includes the objective of developing and exploiting this Nation’s space capability as necessary to achieve national political, scientific, and security objectives. The establishment of a manned outpost in the lunar environment will demonstrate United States leadership in space. It will also provide a basis for further explorations and operations on the lunar surface as well as a supporting capability for other US operations in space. – Summary from the text [chương_files]

U.S. Army in the Iraq War Volume 1: Invasion Insurgency Civil War 2003 – 2006

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War & Military
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In September 2013, Chief of Staff of the Army General Raymond T. Odierno directed the Operation Iraqi Freedom Study Group to research and write an operational history of the U.S. Army’s experience in the Iraq War from 2003 to 2011. This volume, The United States Army in the Iraq War, 2003-2006, is the first of two fulfilling that task. It tells the story of the U.S.-led campaigns to remove Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi Ba’athist regime from power in 2003 and to stabilize the country following those operations. It details the course of the campaigns up to a point in late 2006 when President George W. Bush and other U.S. leaders changed the strategy in Iraq to one that resulted in the “surge” counteroffensive by American troops in 2007–2008. That counteroffensive and the subsequent withdrawal of the coalition forces from Iraq are the subjects of the second volume of this series. In scope, the study group members consciously modeled this history after the Army’s “Green Book” histories of World War II. As the Green Books did, and as General Odierno charged us to do, we focused on the operational level of war. These volumes are narrative histories that tell the story of U.S. forces in Iraq, mainly from the perspective of the theater command in Baghdad and the operational commands immediately subordinate to it. They focus on the decisions and intent of the senior three- and four-star commanders in Baghdad over time. [chương_files]