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In Operation Gladio: The Plan, the People, and the Fallout, Miles Dunsford takes listeners deep into one of the most controversial and misunderstood covert operations of the 20th century.

Operation Gold is one of the most extraordinary—and least believed—Cold War operations ever attempted: a secret tunnel dug beneath divided Berlin so Britain and America could listen directly to Soviet communications. It sounds like the plot of a spy thriller, yet it happened in real life, in a city where every street corner had eyes, every building had informants, and every shadow seemed to belong to someone else. This book takes you into that world, where engineering became espionage, and where the ground itself became a battleground.

Sumérgete en mil años de historia medieval y vive la brutal transformación de Europa entre la peste, la guerra y la fe. Lejos del mito de una época oscura, este inmersivo viaje sonoro ilumina la verdadera realidad cotidiana de quienes forjaron nuestro mundo. Explora el colapso del Imperio...

Adéntrate en la historia militar europea y comprende cómo la arquitectura defensiva definió mil años de guerra medieval. Este absorbente viaje al pasado transforma tu trayecto diario en una épica inmersión donde la piedra y el ingenio humano chocan contra la brutalidad del combate. Siente...

A sweeping, action-packed saga of the legendary last stand at the Alamo, by the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory. On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused...

In 1940, Private Raymond Bailey, a 21 year old Vauxhall motors apprentice, serving with the 1st Kensington Regiment, was captured in Northern France, becoming a Nazi prisoner of war. But he wouldn't remain one for long... The Longest Walk Home is the incredible account of his daring 2,000 mile...

In November 1983, the Cold War reached one of its most dangerous and least remembered turning points. Able Archer 83 was not a battle, not an invasion, and not a declared crisis. It was a NATO command-post exercise, a controlled rehearsal designed to test communications, procedures, and decision-making in the event of war. Yet behind the closed doors of bunkers and command centres, it unfolded in a climate so tense, so brittle, and so saturated with fear that the Soviet Union reportedly interpreted elements of the exercise as preparation for a real nuclear first strike.

Operation Chrome Dome uncovers one of the Cold War’s most astonishing and unsettling secrets: for years, the United States kept nuclear-armed B-52 bombers flying around the clock, ready to launch a retaliatory strike at a moment’s notice. This gripping, factual narrative takes readers inside the hidden world of airborne deterrence—where “peace” was protected by aircraft carrying weapons capable of ending entire cities, and where routine missions depended on perfect discipline, flawless technology, and a constant battle against fatigue, weather, and human error.

The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater Virginia plantation reveals how the daily resistance of the enslaved was heightened by spiritual beliefs...

In mid-1943, Snelling Robinson joined the crew of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Cotten as a newly commissioned ensign. The Cotten sailed to Pearl Harbor in time to join the Fifth Fleet. Under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance, the Fifth Fleet participated in the invasions of Tarawa and Iwo Jima and several naval battles in the Philippine Sea and the Leyte Gulf.

The riveting true account of the Battle of Tarawa, an epic World War II clash in which the U.S. Marines fought the Japanese nearly to the last man. In November 1943, the men of the 2d Marine Division were instructed to clear out Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio, a speck at the...

The Cold War is often remembered as a contest of missiles, rhetoric, and nuclear brinkmanship. But beneath the headlines, another kind of power quietly held Europe together. It wasn’t glamorous. It didn’t roar across television screens in columns of tanks or dramatic speeches. It lived in schedules, shipping routes, fuel calculations, rail timetables, warehouse inventories, and the disciplined precision of men and women who understood a hard truth: deterrence is only credible if you can move.

Some wars are fought openly, with armies, flags, and formal declarations. Others unfold in silence, shaped by budgets hidden behind code names, weapons that appear without fingerprints, and decisions made with the understanding that no one will ever publicly admit responsibility. Operation Cyclone was one of the largest and most consequential wars of that second kind.

Based on actual events spanning forty years, this story is about the relentless struggle of a family’s search for freedom, the Great Seven Fidel Castro’s inner circle, and an epic adventure driven by a passionate love relationship set in pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba. The love story is the main impetus of this chronicle. Pepe, the only survivor of the inner circle to escape several assassination attempts, is forced to leave his family and his fiancée (Alicia) in Cuba. Alicia, who is carrying his unborn child, conceals her pregnancy to ensure Pepe’s immediate departure to safety.

During the Cold War, the most decisive battles were often the ones no one ever saw. While missiles stood on alert and submarines prowled the oceans, a quieter war unfolded beneath the surface, fought with patience, engineering brilliance, and extraordinary nerve. Operation Ivy Bells was one of the boldest operations of that hidden conflict, a mission so audacious that its success depended entirely on remaining invisible.

In Operation Condor, Miles Dunsford uncovers how this transnational machine functioned, from target lists and surveillance networks to renditions, black sites, and the deliberate use of disappearance as a tool of control. Drawing on documented evidence and survivor testimony, the book reveals how fear was weaponised and silence enforced, while families were left searching for answers that never came.

Operation Ajax is the gripping, unsettling true story of one of the Cold War’s most influential covert missions—the 1953 coup that removed Iran’s elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and restored the Shah to power.

In 1954, a small Central American nation became the testing ground for a new kind of power. Guatemala was not invaded by armies in the traditional sense. There was no formal declaration of war, no clear front line, no obvious foreign takeover. Instead, a democratically elected government was dismantled through pressure, propaganda, proxies, and fear. The operation had a name that sounded clinical and harmless. Its effects were anything but. Operation PBSUCCESS reveals how a country can be brought to its knees without tanks rolling down the capital’s streets.

Operation Rolling Thunder was meant to be controlled. It was designed as a measured use of air power, a campaign that could pressure North Vietnam without triggering a wider war and without requiring the United States to commit to an all-consuming ground conflict. On paper, it looked like a modern solution to a Cold War problem: apply force from the air, send a message, disrupt supply, and persuade an opponent to change course.

Operation Linebacker is the story of the moment the Vietnam War changed shape, when a conflict defined by years of frustration, restraint, and political exhaustion suddenly demanded a decisive response. In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a major conventional offensive that threatened to overwhelm the South and expose the limits of American strategy. What followed was America’s final sustained air campaign of the war.