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    David Attenborough’s Life on Air. He reviews how he got started at the BBC and many of the adventures he took while trying to get some of the world’s animals captured on film, often for the very first time ever. It’s a short chapter when he discusses his wife’s passing but damn does it bring the tears

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    Read each chapter of Captain Richard Winters in sync with Band of Brothers HBO series. It’s uncanny.

    Edit: Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

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    Born Twice. It’s the autobiography of a Green Beret fighting in the US military’s most highly-decorated unit of all time, MACV-SOG. He read the audiobook himself, so if you go that route, it has a “Grandpa telling you stories” vibe to it, except that you’re an adult now and he doesn’t have to hold anything back anymore.