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NATO Counterstrikes…and Western tanks storm into Germany. Can they break the Warsaw Pact? With the Soviet conquest of Germany nearly complete, the alliance falters. NATO scrambles to salvage the situation before it’s too late. American and Korean forces must hold the line. But can reinforcements arrive before it’s too late?

Fresh off his victory in the 1980 Presidential election, Jimmy Carter works with his National Security team to not only defend Western Europe, but prevent this war from going nuclear. Can they stop the escalation? Soldiers from east and west clash in battlefields across the world. Conflicts rage across Central America, the Middle East, and Asia.

The Soviets invade Afghanistan, and the governments of Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev jockey for position on the international stage. CIA operative Fred Poole races against the clock to decode the pieces of a Soviet puzzle that could lead to war.

Wars end, enemies are defeated and territories are conquered and the combatants have to return to a life changed. America and the rest of humanity have fallen to the Fae, ancient mortal enemies of mankind. After building their strength for two thousand years, the Elves have claimed their vengeance and now rule Earth with an iron fist and dragon fire. Down but not out, a human resistance is building, but first daily life needs to be lived.

When she won the presidency, the world was in crisis. Would Blain be able to maintain her trust at this crucial hour? The Chinese were driven out of the Caribbean, but Blain knew it was at a terrible cost. There were those in the administration that had lost their nerve. The president was determined to slay the Jade Dragon, but would he be able to get her what she needs to win?

Deep in an underground production facility, far away from prying eyes, President Yao Jintao stood and watched—row after row of machines busily working to build other machines that would fight and destroy their enemies. Killers were creating killers for as far as he could see. President Yao sensed they’d crossed a line. South Korean and American soldiers stared down their Chinese counterparts along the Yalu River, just like they had 75 years before. With winter on the way and both armies dug in, who might make the first move? Nobody was prepared for what came next.

One winter’s night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn’t spoken to – or even shouted at – each other for years. And he now had five children, an out-of-control menagerie of cats, and a sprawling farm to run. This is the story of what happened next.

He was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later a Super Bowl veteran. He was a star tight end on the league-dominant New England Patriots, who extended his contract for a record $40 million. Aaron Hernandez's every move as a professional athlete played out in the headlines, yet he led a secret life-one that ended in a maximum security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast?

Rugby megastars James Haskell, Mike Tindall and Alex Payne get together to discuss the highs and lows of their podcast, friendship and rugby. In one, no-holds-barred book, they will go behind the scenes of the hugely successful podcast The Good, The Bad and The Rugby to pull back the curtain on some of their most outrageous antics on tour – the ups, the downs and the sideways – and leave no story untold. All will be unleashed.

Success catapulted Alex James from a slug-infested squat in Camberwell to a world of private jets and world-class restaurants. As "the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band" life was always chaotic, but Alex James retained a boundless enthusiasm and curiosity at odds with his hedonistic lifestyle. In Bit of a Blur he recounts his experiences living through the madness of Britpop, detailing both the pleasures and perils of fame.

The ADHD Adults Podcast (in)expertly covers ADHD in adults, sharing evidence-based information and personal experiences. Join us for balloon-headed Alex the Psychoeducation Monkey's evidence-based information, James's annoyance and genuinely poor tips for coping, and the "Queen of Chaos", Mrs ADHD. Each episode also features regular games, "jokes", correspondence from absolutely real people and chaos... lots of chaos. If you would like to support our podcast, you can become a paid subscriber on Patreon. Visit our website below for more info 🧛‍♂️🎈🌪

From Eden to Egypt is a guided tour of the first book of the Bible. Alex Duke takes the listener by the hand and helps them to see that these stories of Genesis aren’t as difficult to understand as they sometimes seem.

This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James's first book, Bit of a Blur, the story of his excessive pop star lifestyle during the nineties. But now Alex has grown up, fallen in love and got married.

When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, unexpectedly found himself head of the city's COVID-19 Task Force and responsible for leading it through uncharted waters.

Vivimos pegados a la pantalla, sometidos a los cantos de sirena de la tecnología digital. En la era del exceso informativo, la atención ha pasado a ser un bien escaso y codiciado por las grandes empresas tecnológicas. ¿Cómo afecta este fenómeno a nuestra autonomía y nuestra libertad? ¿Cómo podemos oponer resistencia a la colonización de nuestra mente? Con un pie en la antigua Grecia y el otro en Silicon Valley, Clics contra la humanidadarroja luz sobre uno de los problemas más urgentes de nuestro tiempo.

They're baaaaaaaaaaaaacckkkkk!!! Rocky Coast Radio Theatre returns with yet another copious cornucopia of classic concoctions, crafted and compiled for the captive congregation (gotta love that thesaurus!). Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V offers dramatized adaptations (complete with music and sound effects) of chilling stories penned by Edgar Allan Poe, Hugh B. Cave, and H. P. Lovecraft, as well as a few additional treats.

Twenty sizzling stories where control is everything. Whether you like to wear the trousers or be ordered out of them, these stories will have you a slave to your fantasies in no time. Every kind of sexual domination and submission is explored in Power Play, from tongue-in-cheek role play to intense BDSM.

In the near future, the line between human and artificial intelligence blurs as AI becomes an integral part of everyday life. But when these sophisticated systems begin to malfunction in mysterious ways, it becomes clear that something—or someone—is deliberately tampering with the very fabric of digital existence. Grace Kim, a dedicated FBI Cyber Crimes agent, is thrust into the heart of this technological maelstrom.

[Contains explicit content] Featuring sets from Godfrey, Chris Garcia, Janelle James, Sean Donnelly and Alex Koll. Presented by Ron Funches.

[Contains explicit content] As an American living in London, host Rob Delaney ( Catastrophe) has had to answer a lot of questions about the USA. Are Americans really lacking in culture? What's up with all the guns? Why is everything so big? On this episode of Sounds Like America, Rob and his fellow globe-trotting comedians share experiences from traveling abroad, with a focus on how Americans are perceived from overseas.