Gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours
-
The Afghanistan Papers
- A Secret History of the War
- Narrateur(s): Dan Bittner
- Durée: 9 h et 35 min
Échec de l'ajout au panier.
Échec de l'ajout à la liste d'envies.
Échec de la suppression de la liste d’envies.
Échec du suivi du balado
Ne plus suivre le balado a échoué
Acheter pour 19,42$
Aucun mode de paiement valide enregistré.
Nous sommes désolés. Nous ne pouvons vendre ce titre avec ce mode de paiement
Vous pourriez aussi aimer...
-
Black Flags
- The Rise of ISIS
- Auteur(s): Joby Warrick
- Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
- Durée: 13 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents.
-
-
Fantastic
- Écrit par Reese le 2024-03-27
Auteur(s): Joby Warrick
-
Ghost Wars
- The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- Auteur(s): Steve Coll
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 26 h et 48 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan. With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998.
-
-
Honest and informative
- Écrit par william gary irwin le 2020-10-25
Auteur(s): Steve Coll
-
The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Narrateur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Durée: 16 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
-
-
Why an Author Should Not Narrate Their Own Work
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-07-08
Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
-
Dirty Wars
- The World Is a Battlefield
- Auteur(s): Jeremy Scahill
- Narrateur(s): Tom Weiner
- Durée: 24 h et 9 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond, Scahill speaks to the CIA agents, mercenaries, and elite Special Operations Forces operators who populate the dark side of American war-fighting. He goes deep into al Qaeda-held territory in Yemen and walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIA-backed warlords. We also meet the survivors of US night raids and drone strikes - including families of US citizens targeted for assassination by their own government - who reveal the human consequences of the dirty wars the United States struggles to keep hidden.
-
-
A very informative record
- Écrit par M. Ryan le 2023-01-13
Auteur(s): Jeremy Scahill
-
Blackwater
- The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- Auteur(s): Jeremy Scahill
- Narrateur(s): Tom Weiner
- Durée: 14 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
A largely untold facet of the war on terror is the widespread outsourcing of military tasks to private mercenary companies. Accountable neither to the citizenry nor to standard military legal codes, these largely unregulated corporate armies are being entrusted with ever-greater responsibilities on behalf of the nation.
Auteur(s): Jeremy Scahill
-
The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Narrateur(s): John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Durée: 17 h et 24 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread.
-
-
disappointing
- Écrit par A le 2019-01-05
Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
-
Black Flags
- The Rise of ISIS
- Auteur(s): Joby Warrick
- Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
- Durée: 13 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents.
-
-
Fantastic
- Écrit par Reese le 2024-03-27
Auteur(s): Joby Warrick
-
Ghost Wars
- The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- Auteur(s): Steve Coll
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 26 h et 48 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan. With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998.
-
-
Honest and informative
- Écrit par william gary irwin le 2020-10-25
Auteur(s): Steve Coll
-
The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Narrateur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Durée: 16 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
-
-
Why an Author Should Not Narrate Their Own Work
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-07-08
Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
-
Dirty Wars
- The World Is a Battlefield
- Auteur(s): Jeremy Scahill
- Narrateur(s): Tom Weiner
- Durée: 24 h et 9 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond, Scahill speaks to the CIA agents, mercenaries, and elite Special Operations Forces operators who populate the dark side of American war-fighting. He goes deep into al Qaeda-held territory in Yemen and walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIA-backed warlords. We also meet the survivors of US night raids and drone strikes - including families of US citizens targeted for assassination by their own government - who reveal the human consequences of the dirty wars the United States struggles to keep hidden.
-
-
A very informative record
- Écrit par M. Ryan le 2023-01-13
Auteur(s): Jeremy Scahill
-
Blackwater
- The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- Auteur(s): Jeremy Scahill
- Narrateur(s): Tom Weiner
- Durée: 14 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
A largely untold facet of the war on terror is the widespread outsourcing of military tasks to private mercenary companies. Accountable neither to the citizenry nor to standard military legal codes, these largely unregulated corporate armies are being entrusted with ever-greater responsibilities on behalf of the nation.
Auteur(s): Jeremy Scahill
-
The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Narrateur(s): John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Durée: 17 h et 24 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread.
-
-
disappointing
- Écrit par A le 2019-01-05
Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
-
Gray Work
- Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy
- Auteur(s): Jamie Smith
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Gurner
- Durée: 15 h et 17 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In this unprecedented audiobook, a paramilitary contractor with more than two decades of experience gives us a firsthand look into the secret lives of America's private warriors and their highly covert work around the world. Author Jamie Smith has planned and executed hundreds of missions on behalf of government agencies and private industry in some of the world's most dangerous hot spots - and lived to tell the tale.
Auteur(s): Jamie Smith
-
Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Auteur(s): Steve Coll
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 28 h et 30 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, best-selling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11.
-
-
Great but I wish there was supplementary material
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-12-15
Auteur(s): Steve Coll
-
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
- Narrateur(s): Annie Jacobsen
- Durée: 19 h et 5 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.
-
-
Great story narrated by a robot
- Écrit par Kareem le 2019-10-12
Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
-
Code over Country
- The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six
- Auteur(s): Matthew Cole
- Narrateur(s): Braden Wright
- Durée: 12 h et 10 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Investigative journalist Matthew Cole tells the story of the most lauded unit, SEAL Team 6, revealing a troubling pattern of war crimes and the deep moral rot beneath authorized narratives. From their origins in World War II, the SEALs have trained to be specialized killers with short missions. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan became the endless War on Terror, their violence spiraled out of control. Code Over Country details the high-level decisions that unleashed the SEALs’ carnage and the coverups that prevented their crimes from coming to light.
-
-
SEAL hate book
- Écrit par kamPy le 2023-11-28
Auteur(s): Matthew Cole
-
The Black Banners (Declassified)
- How Torture Derailed the War on Terror After 9/11
- Auteur(s): Ali H. Soufan
- Narrateur(s): Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Durée: 19 h et 14 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Widely heralded on publication as a “must-read” (Military Review) and “important window on America’s battle with al-Qaeda” (Washington Post), Ali Soufan’s revelatory account of the war on terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand al-Qaeda and how the United States prosecuted the war — and led to hard questions being asked of our leaders.
Auteur(s): Ali H. Soufan
-
The Triple Agent
- The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
- Auteur(s): Joby Warrick
- Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
- Durée: 7 h et 7 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a 30-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives....
-
-
Great read
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-02-01
Auteur(s): Joby Warrick
-
The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- Auteur(s): Erik Larson
- Narrateur(s): John Lee, Erik Larson
- Durée: 17 h et 49 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
-
-
I never write reviews.....
- Écrit par Lisa Slater le 2020-05-08
Auteur(s): Erik Larson
-
Black Ops
- The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
- Auteur(s): Ric Prado
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 12 h et 39 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central Intelligence Agency as the CIA equivalent of a two-star general. Black Ops is the story of Ric’s legendary career that spanned two eras, the Cold War and the Age of Terrorism.
-
-
Excellent
- Écrit par METT Adventures le 2023-07-19
Auteur(s): Ric Prado
-
To Start a War
- How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
- Auteur(s): Robert Draper
- Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
- Durée: 15 h et 30 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Even now, after more than 15 years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few of them are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps it's that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, that explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper.
Auteur(s): Robert Draper
-
Afghanistan
- A Cultural and Political History
- Auteur(s): Thomas Barfield
- Narrateur(s): Robin Bloodworth
- Durée: 17 h et 22 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces listeners to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.
-
-
Who knew?
- Écrit par Momma bear le 2018-10-13
Auteur(s): Thomas Barfield
-
The Devil's Chessboard
- Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
- Auteur(s): David Talbot
- Narrateur(s): Peter Altschuler
- Durée: 25 h et 23 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times best seller Brothers.
-
-
Not sure what to think…
- Écrit par Kathleen le 2023-05-26
Auteur(s): David Talbot
-
Dark Alliance
- The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
- Auteur(s): Gary Webb
- Narrateur(s): Christian Rummel
- Durée: 20 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
-
-
Mind blowing
- Écrit par KronicSupertstar le 2024-03-02
Auteur(s): Gary Webb
Description
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021
The number-one New York Times best-selling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock.
Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: Defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off-course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives.
Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory.
Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war, from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground.
Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander - and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are”. His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.”
The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Craig Whitlock has forged a searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials, with the same tragic echoes of the Vietnam conflict. The American dead, wounded, and their families deserved wiser and more honorable leaders.” (Tom Bowman, NPR Pentagon correspondent)
“At once page-turning and rigorous, The Afghanistan Papers makes a lasting and revelatory contribution to the record of America's tragic management of our longest war. In transparent and nuanced detail, Whitlock chronicles how American leaders and commanders undermined their country's promises to the Afghans who counted on them and to the US troops who made the ultimate sacrifice after 9/11.” (Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S)
“The Afghanistan Papers is a gripping account of why the war in Afghanistan lasted so long. The missed opportunities, the outright mistakes, and more than anything, the firsthand accounts from senior commanders who only years later acknowledged they simply did not tell the American people what they knew about how the war was going.” (Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon correspondent)
D'autres livres audio du même...
narrateur:
Ce que les auditeurs disent de The Afghanistan Papers
Moyenne des évaluations de clientsÉvaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Jose Amaya
- 2021-10-02
Well done curated information
If you would like to educate yourself on the Afghanistan war, this is a great source.
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
1 personne a trouvé cela utile