Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Volunteers Author: Lezlie Lowe Narrator: Krista Wells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 1, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited narrative history of the women who volunteered in Nova Scotia during the Second World War by award-winning journalist and author of No Place to Go.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/791225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rabbit Hole Book: 99 adventures into the history of stuff Author: Cat Jarman, Richard Coles, Charles Spencer Narrator: Cat Jarman, Richard Coles, Charles Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Have you ever wondered why pubs have certain names? Or why jet lag exists? Or perhaps you have speculated about the origin of the paperclip? If any of these ring true or if you can relate to spending far too much time down an internet rabbit hole then you are in the right place/ this is the book for you! Trivia lovers and general knowledge enthusiasts rejoice as we introduce the first book from the trio behind the hit history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives. Join your favourite investigators, Richard Coles, Charles Spencer and Cat Jarman, as they uncover the weird and wonderful provenance behind your favourite and surprising historical objects both real and metaphorical. Forensically researched, beautifully observed, and using humour and their vast historical knowledge, The Rabbit Hole Detectives Book is a feast of historical trivia and unknown facts. Packed full with a stimulating and moreish mix of longer entries, lists, trivia, amazing factoids and hysterical banter, this book is addictive, fun and endlessly informative. Whatever you think you know, guess again. © Richard Coles, Charles Spencer and Cat Jarman 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/789187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Stille Rebellen: Der Überfall auf den 20. Deportationszug nach Auschwitz Author: Marion Schreiber Narrator: Lisa Rauen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 30, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Mut kennt kein Kalkül: Der Überfall auf den 20. Deportationszug nach Auschwitz. Am 19. April 1943 stoppen drei junge Männer einen Zug, der 1.618 Juden vom belgischen Sammellager Mechelen nach Auschwitz transportiert. Ausgerüstet mit drei Zangen, einer mit rotem Papier beklebten Sturmleuchte sowie einer Pistole, führen Youra Livchitz, Jean Franklemon und Robert Maistriau einen Plan aus, den jüdische Widerständler erdacht, bewaffnete Partisanen aber als zu riskant verworfen hatten. Sie befreien 17 Männer und Frauen, dann eröffnen die deutschen Bewacher das Feuer. Bis der 20. Konvoi die deutsche Grenze erreicht, können weitere 225 Insassen fliehen. Während der Besatzung haben viele Belgier aus allen sozialen Schichten Juden vor der SS geschützt, gefälschte Pässe besorgt, Unterkunft oder Arbeit gewährt, Kinder versteckt. Neben Menschlichkeit und Mut gedeiht Verrat: Mit Hilfe von Spitzeln kann die Gestapo Widerstandsgruppen und Juden festnehmen. Youra, der als Kind mit seiner Mutter und seinem älteren Bruder Alexandre nach Brüssel immigriert war, vielseitig begabt, grüblerisch, lebenshungrig ist und die Frauen fasziniert, wird denunziert, gefoltert und im Februar 1944 erschossen. Auch Robert und Jean werden festgenommen, überleben aber die Haft im Konzentrationslager. Das Buch beruht auf privaten Dokumenten, Archivakten und Polizeiberichten, Recherchen und Interviews, darunter Gesprächen mit sechs Zeitzeugen, die aus dem 20. Konvoi fliehen konnten. Sie verschweigen weder Verzweiflung noch Ohnmacht und Trauer, dennoch stärken ihre Erfahrungen Zuversicht und Lebensmut. Paul Spiegel, ehemaliger Vorsitzender des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland, berichtet im Vorwort über das Schicksal seiner Familie, die in Belgien ein Versteck gefunden hatte, wo sie den Holocaust zu überleben versuchte.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Major General Smedley D. Butler, Author of Author: Major General Smedley D. Butler Narrator: Major General Smedley D. Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: By the end his military career, Major General Smedley D. Butler was the most decorated Marine in US history, having received two medals of honor. After his service, he became an outspoken critic of US wars and wrote a scathing book called, "War Is A Racket." The following audio clips include; In November 1934, Butler exposing an alleged fascist coup to remove President Franklin D Roosevelt from office and overthrow the U.S. government; A scathing rebuke of Roosevelt and the integrity of the upcoming 1936 election. In 1937, making a plea for the removal of all American civilians and military forces from Chinese war zone. In 1932, praising the determination, and patriotism of the Veterans Bonus Army-tens of thousands of World War I veterans who marched on Washington DC demanding early payments of their army bonuses.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America's Special Operations Author: Patrick K. O'donnell Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America’s modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefields that was in many ways equally consequential to the conflict’s outcome. At the heart of this groundbreaking narrative is the epic story of Lincoln’s special forces, the Jessie Scouts, told in its entirety for the first time. In a contest fought between irregular units, the Scouts hunted John Singleton Mosby’s Confederate Rangers from the middle of 1863 up to war’s end at Appomattox. With both sides employing pioneering tradecraft, they engaged in dozens of raids and spy missions, often perilously wearing the other’s uniform, risking penalty of death if captured. Clashing violently on horseback, the unconventional units attacked critical supply lines, often capturing or killing high-value targets. North and South deployed special operations that could have changed the war’s direction in 1864, and crucially during the Appomattox Campaign, Jessie Scouts led the Union Army to a final victory. They later engaged in a history-altering proxy war against France in Mexico, earning seven Medals of Honor; many Scouts mysteriously disappeared during that conflict, taking their stories to their graves. An expert on special operations, O’Donnell transports listeners into the action, immersing them in vivid battle scenes from previously unpublished firsthand accounts. He introduces indelible characters such as Scout Archibald Rowand; Scout leader Richard Blazer; Mosby, the master of guerrilla warfare; and enslaved spy Thomas Laws. O’Donnell also brings to light the Confederate Secret Service’s covert efforts to deliver the 1864 election to Peace Democrats through ballot fraud, election interference, and attempts to destabilize a population fatigued by a seemingly forever war. Most audaciously, the Secret Service and Mosby’s Rangers planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln in order to maintain the South’s independence. A little-known chronicle of the shadow war between North and South, rich in action and offering original perspective on history, The Unvanquished is a dynamic and essential addition to the literature of the Civil War.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764719 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Weg des Gewissens: Von der Grausamkeit eines SS-Sonderkommandos Author: Hanns Glöckle Narrator: Klaus G. Förg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Als Harald Rüster in Pleskow den Bahnhof verlässt, wird er Augenzeuge, wie das SS-Sonderkommando Ahrends jüdische Frauen und Kinder zusammentreibt, wobei der Hauptsturmführer Ahrends mutwillig von der Pistole Gebrauch macht und eine Frau und ihr Kind niederschießt. Sein Glaube an die Lehren des NS-­Regimes gerät ins Wanken. Erst recht als Rüster die Zustände im Lager FX 72 kennenlernt, in dem polnische Frauen und Mädchen gefangen gehalten werden, die bei unzureichender Ernährung schwere körperliche Arbeit verrichten müssen und nur dann eine Erleichterung ihres Schicksals erfahren, wenn sie sich der hemmungslosen Gier des Feldwebels Voß ergeben. Eines der Mädchen, Olga, kann Harald vor diesem Los bewahren - aber kann er es auch vor dem SS-Sonderkommando Ahrends beschützen, dem die Frauen zur Liquidierung übergeben werden sollen, als die Front sich nähert? Harald steht jetzt in dem Zwiespalt, in dem so viele deutsche Soldaten des letzten Krieges standen: In dem Zwiespalt zwischen Befehl und Gewissen. Er geht den schwereren Weg, den des Gewissens.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Astrophysicist Carl Sagan Discussing Planet Earth Author: Carl Sagan Narrator: Carl Sagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 8, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996), born in Brooklyn, NY, was an American astronomer and astrophysicist. His best-known scientific contribution was his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light. He assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, which were universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. The following is a lecture Sagan gave in 1977 during which he discussed the place, scale and geometry of earth--the third planet from the Sun, formed 4.5 billion years ago--in our solar system.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections Author: Suraj Yengde, Anand Teltumbde Narrator: Rajiv Dadia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This landmark volume, edited and introduced by Anand Teltumbde and Suraj Yengde, establishes B.R. Ambedkar as the most powerful advocate of equality and fraternity in modern India. While the vibrant Dalit movement recognizes Ambedkar as an agent for social change, the intellectual class has celebrated him as the key architect of the Indian Constitution and the political establishment has sought to limit his concerns to the question of reservations. This remarkable volume seeks to unpack the radical in Ambedkar's legacy by examining his life work from hitherto unexplored perspectives.Although revered by millions today primarily as a Dalit icon, Ambedkar was a serious scholar of India's history, society and foreign policy. He was also among the first dedicated human rights lawyers, as well as a journalist and a statesman. Critically evaluating his thought and work, the essays in this book-by Jean Drèze, Partha Chatterjee, Sukhadeo Thorat, Manu Bhagavan, Anupama Rao and other internationally renowned names-discuss Ambedkar's theory on minority rights, the consequences of the mass conversion of Dalits to Buddhism, Dalit oppression in the context of racism and anti-Semitism, and the value of his thought for Marxism and feminism, among other global concerns.An extraordinary collection of immense breadth and scholarship that challenges the popular understanding of Ambedkar, The Radical in Ambedkar is essential reading for all those who wish to imagine a new future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise of Sport Author: Frederic L. Paxson Narrator: Joseph Tabler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms THE RISE OF SPORT by FREDERIC L. PAXSON. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1917. FREDERIC L. PAXSON Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN HISTORY 1925. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master’s from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin (1910 to 1932) as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947. As a historian he was an authority on the American frontier. (Wikipedia) Narrated by Joseph TablerAudio copyright 2024 Audio cover picture - Photos of America the first America’s Cup winner; John L. Sullivan in 1882; 1896 Baltimore Orioles baseball club. All from Wikipedia. Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany Author: Harald Jähner Narrator: Sam Peter Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future.     In the aftermath of World War I, Germany was buffeted by political partisanship, economic upheaval, and the constant threat of revolutionary violence. At the same time, many Germans embraced newly liberated lifestyles. They flouted gender norms, flooded racetracks and dance halls, and fostered a vibrant avant-garde that encompassed groundbreaking artists like filmmaker Fritz Lang, painter Wassily Kandinsky, and architect Walter Gropius. But this new Germany sparked a reactionary backlash that led to the Republic’s fall to the Nazis and, ultimately, the conflagration of World War II.     Blending deeply researched political history with the firsthand experiences of everyday people, Vertigo is a vital, kaleidoscopic portrait of a pivotal moment in German history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - De schaduw van Tambora: De grootste natuurramp sinds mensenheugenis Author: Philip Dröge Narrator: Philip Dröge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 18, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Het meeslepende verhaal van een van de grootste vulkaanuitbarstingen aller tijden 'Dröge belicht zijn onderwerp van alle kanten en levert een meeslepend boek af.' Trouw In april 1815 vond op het eiland Soembawa, in het toenmalige Nederlands-Indië, de grootste vulkaanuitbarsting sinds mensenheugenis plaats. Deze uitbarsting verbijsterde behalve de plaatselijke bevolking ook de koloniale overheersers. De enorme aswolk die na de eruptie over de wereld dreef, zorgde voor hagel op Sri Lanka en sneeuw in het zuiden van de VS. Twee natuurverschijnselen die daarvoor én daarna nooit meer zijn waargenomen. Het boek volgt de wolk die na de uitbarsting over de hele wereld heen trekt. Dröge beschrijft hoe men wereldwijd tegen het unieke fenomeen aankeek en hoe men het niet altijd als een natuurverschijnsel zag, maar vaak ook als een goddelijk teken. De schaduw van Tambora vertelt het ongelooflijke verhaal van de mega-uitbarsting en de opkomst van de moderne wetenschap. Het is een reisboek en het geeft een prachtig tijdsbeeld, maar het is bovenal een geweldig verhaal. De pers over De schaduw van Tambora: 'Verborgen geschiedenis – opgedist met een fijn huivergehalte.' Frank Westerman 'In zijn prettig geschreven De schaduw van Tambora beschrijft Dröge de verbijsterende gevolgen van deze uitbarsting wereldwijd. […] Een bijzonder leerzaam boek.' NRC Handelsblad 'Geologische thriller en pageturner, geschreven met vakmanschap en bijzonder fraai uitgegeven. Vijf sterren.' De Standaard 'Geen boek om je bij te vervelen.' Het Parool Philip Dröge is schrijver, columnist en onderzoeksjournalist. Naast zijn boeken schreef hij de korte verhalen Barbarenzaken en De Republiek Groningen. Zijn boeken zijn vertaald in het Duits en Italiaans, en werden genomineerd voor de Jan Wolkers Prijs en de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frontline Bodies: Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century Author: Nicolas Martin-Breteau Narrator: Amir Abdullah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not—and have never been—purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in the 1890s during Reconstruction, Black Americans proactively used athletics as a tactic to fight racial oppression. Martin-Breteau considers the work of Edwin B. Henderson, a prominent Black physical educator, civil rights activist, and historian of Black sports. Training Black children as athletes, Henderson felt, would work both to fortify racial pride and to dismantle racial prejudices—two necessary requirements for a successful political liberation struggle. In this way, physical education became political education. By the end of the twentieth century, Martin-Breteau argues, racial uplift through sports had lost its emancipating power. The emphasis on the accumulation of wealth for professional athletes, as well as sports' ability to reinforce anti-Black stereotypes, had become a political problem for true collective liberation. For a marginalized group of people that has been physically excluded from the democratic process, however, sports remain a political resource. By studying the relationship between athletics and politics, Frontline Bodies renews the history of minority bodies and their power of action.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Catalan] - Homenatge a Catalunya Author: George Orwell Narrator: Roger Batalla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 21, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: L'edició definitiva de l'assaig de George Orwell sobre la Guerra Civil Espanyola, prologat per Miquel Berga i amb una nova traducció a càrrec de Jordi Ainaud. Homenatge a Catalunya és una obra imprescindible per conèixer aspectes essencials de la Guerra Civil Espanyola. El relat d'Orwell ha esdevingut un testimoni únic que recull les seves experiències a Barcelona i al Front d'Aragó. L'autor britànic va arribar el desembre del 1936 a una Barcelona en plena efervescència revolucionària i es va allistar de seguida a les milícies del POUM. Va tornar del front perquè una bala franquista li travessà el coll. Paradoxalment, va haver de fugir de Barcelona perseguit per les mateixes forces estalinistes que havien liquidat el dirigent del POUM Andreu Nin, després dels Fets de Maig de 1937. Aquesta edició inclou la versió definitiva de l'obra, un pròleg del professor i escriptor Miquel Berga, que reconstrueix amb mestratge la història editorial del llibre, i l'assaig 'La guerra d'Espanya en retrospectiva'. Escrit per Orwell el 1942, quatre anys després de la publicació d'Homenatge a Catalunya, aquest assaig es llegeix ara com un text clau per entendre l'impacte que va suposar per a Orwell la vivència de la guerra.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths Author: Caitlin Davies Narrator: Annie Aldington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 1, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales? Dismissed as 'Mrs Sherlock Holmes' or amateurish Miss Marples, mocked as private dicks or honey trappers, they have been investigating crime since the mid-nineteenth century - everything from theft and fraud to romance scams and murder. In Private Inquiries, Caitlin Davies traces the history of the UK's female investigators. Women like Victorian private inquiry agent Antonia Moser, the first woman to open her own agency and Liverpool sleuth Zena Scott-Archer, who became the first woman president of the World Association of Detectives. Caitlin also follows in the footsteps of her subjects, undertaking a professional qualification to become a Private Investigator. After a century of undercover work, it's time to reveal the secrets of their trailblazing forebears.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter Author: Ryan Mac, Kate Conger Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews “Riveting . . . Character Limit offers a telling lesson in the cost of getting everything you want.” —The Washington Post “You couldn’t hope for a better ringside seat on the unfolding drama . . . [Character Limit] is a triumph.” —The Guardian   “Masterful in how it paints a picture and puts you in the room with the famous entrepreneur . . . Character Limit is a page turner.” —Forbes Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial fallout The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media—where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before. While its founder had idealistically dreamed of building a 'digital town square,' he detested Wall Street and never focused on building a profitable business. Musk joined the platform in 2010 and, by 2022, had become one of the site’s most influential users, hooking over 80 million followers with a mix of provocations, promotion of his companies, and attacks on his enemies. To Musk, Twitter — once known for its almost absolute commitment to free speech — had badly lost its way. He blamed it for the proliferation of what he called the “woke mind virus” and claimed that the survival of democracy and the human race itself depended on the future of the site. In January of 2022, Musk began secretly accumulating Twitter stock. By April, he was its largest shareholder, and soon after, made an unsolicited offer to purchase the company for the unimaginable sum of $44 billion dollars. Backed into a corner, Twitter’s board accepted his offer—but Musk quickly changed his mind, forcing Twitter to sue him to close the deal in October. The richest man on earth controlled one of the most powerful media platforms in the world—but at what price? Before long Twitter would be gone for good, replaced by something radically different, as Musk remade the company in his own image from the ground up. The story of the showdown between Musk and Twitter and his eventual takeover of the company is unlike anything in business or media that has come before. In vivid, cinematic detail, Conger and Mac follow the inner workings of the company as Musk lays siege to it, first from the outside as one of its most vocal users, and then finally from within as a contentious and mercurial leader. Musk has shared some of his version of events, but Conger and Mac have uncovered the full story through exclusive interviews, unreported documents, and internal recordings at Twitter following the billionaire’s takeover. With unparalleled sources from within and around the company, they provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers. This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Package Author: Claire Baum Narrator: Claire Baum, Naomi Azrieli, Carolyne Van Der Meer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Almost forty years after the end of the war, Claire Baum opens a package from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed memories from her childhood. As Claire delves into her past, she uncovers the personal sacrifice and bravery of her parents, the Dutch resistance and the families that selflessly gave shelter to her and her sister, Ollie. The Hidden Package portrays Claire’s years spent in hiding and pays tribute to all those who played a part in saving her life and ensuring a future for the next generations of her family. Introduction by Carolyne Van Der Meer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let's Make Things Better: A Holocaust Survivor's Message of Hope and Celebration of Life Author: Gidon Lev Narrator: Yuval Dor, Julie Gray, Gidon Lev Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek—where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.” —Gidon Lev On May 8, 1945, when he was just ten years old, Gidon Lev was liberated from a Nazi concentration camp after four nightmarish years. Twenty-six family members, including Gidon’s beloved father and grandparents, were murdered in the Holocaust. Only Gidon and his mother survived. From the depths of despair, a little boy who had lost so much was determined to build a life filled with adventure and love. And that is exactly what he did. Today, a spritely and cheerful octogenarian and father of six, Gidon speaks to celebrities and diplomats all over the world and has taken social media by storm—all with his signature candor, charm, and wisdom. Just what makes this Holocaust survivor, rascal, and dogged optimist tick? Sharing remarkable stories from his extraordinary life, Lev reveals his secrets of happiness and fulfillment. From reconciling with the sometimes painful past to embracing this singular gift called life, Gidon has never taken a day of his life for granted—and neither should we. “You don’t get the life you want,” Gidon says, “you get the life that you get.” Let’s Make Things Better is the story of an indomitable spirit whose cheerful determination to never give up is just what we need during these uncertain times. Now more than ever, Gidon Lev has important lessons for us all about life and how to live it well: having the courage to stand up to hate, living for the moment, believing in ourselves, nurturing loving and caring relationships, and always, always believing that a better world is something worth fighting for.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives Author: J. W. Ocker Narrator: Kimberly M. Wetherell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the author of Cursed Objects and The United States of Cryptids comes an eye-popping compendium of the most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in history. Have you ever wondered how smart, normal people end up enmeshed in extreme cults? Weird history expert J. W. Ocker strives to answer that question in Cult Following. Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about history’s most notorious cults–and the psychology of the people who join them–is packed into this accessible, engaging volume. Walk in the footsteps of the followers who were lured into these sinister groups, including: Branch Davidians: Led by David Koresh, this cult was waiting out the apocalypse in 1993 when the FBI infamously raided their compound in Waco, Texas. Narcosatanists: This cult of drug traffickers in 1980s Mexico was led by Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, who believed he had magic powers and committed human sacrifice. Brotherhood of the Seven Rays: The earliest known UFO cult, the infiltration and study of the Brotherhood by psychologists inspired the term “cognitive dissonance.” Ho No Hana Sanpogyo: The founder, Hogen Fukunaga, claimed to be able to tell someone’s fortune by examining their feet. Breatherianism: Breatherians believe that humans can live on air alone. Their founder, Wiley Brooks, claimed to have gone without food for nineteen years. NXIVM: This twenty-first century cult attracted several members of Hollywood and engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, and racketeering under the guise of personal development seminars. In Cult Following, Ocker sheds light on the terrifying attraction of cults, demonstrating the elasticity of belief, the desperateness of belonging, and the tragedy of trust.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761211 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Marilyn Monroe Author: Marilyn Monroe Narrator: Marilyn Monroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 4, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson (June 1, 1926 - August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 60s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2022) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a pop culture icon. The following is a series of revealing audio clips from interviews and moments when Monroe was in front of the press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of US Army Corporal Leander Herron Recalling An Indian Attack in 1868 Author: Leander T. 'lee' Herron Narrator: Leander T. 'lee' Herron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 4, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Leander T. "Lee" Herron (December 29, 1846 - April 5, 1937) was a Corporal in the United States Army who, on September 2, 1868, while detailed as mail courier from Fort Larned to Fort Dodge in Kansas, voluntarily went to the assistance of a party of 4 enlisted men who had been attacked by 50 Indians, and remained with them until the party was relieved. Fifty-one years after his heroic actions, Herron received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest medal for valor. In this audio recording, Herron recalls the heroic event.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of John Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature Speech Author: John Steinbeck Narrator: John Steinbeck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 28, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968), born in Salinas, CA, was an American writer who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception." His writings include the novels Of Mice and Men (1937), the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and East of Eden (1952). The following is Steinbeck's speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of John Cheever Author: John Cheever Narrator: John Cheever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 28, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 - June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Westchester suburbs, and old New England villages. A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a 1981 National Book Award. The following is from a 1977 interview where Cheever discusses his novel 'Falconer'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government: Volume I Author: Jefferson Davis Narrator: John Riddle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 28, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Former Confederate President Jefferson Davis penned 'The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government' in 1881, offering a historical perspective and justification for the Confederacy's formation and actions during the Civil War. While serving as a valuable primary source for understanding Confederate leadership's motivations, the work is also recognized for its biased defense of the Confederacy and its 'Lost Cause' narrative. VOLUME I OF II

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760965 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past Author: Nate Dimeo Narrator: Ryan Reynolds, Hrishikesh Hirway, Betsy Brandt, Jad Abumrad, Nate DiMeo, Roman Mars, Kai Ryssdal, Daniel Alarcón, Carrie Coon, Rebecca Lowman, Dominic Hoffman, Robin Miles, Lili Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace. “One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together. The Memory Palace wants you to linger, to stay awhile, and find a deeper meaning both in the stories of the past and perhaps in your own life as well.”—Ken Burns The Memory Palace is a collection of crystalline historical tales that read like luminous short fiction and, like Nate DiMeo’s acclaimed podcast of the same name, conjure lost moments and forgotten figures who are calling out across time to be remembered. Space capsules filled with fruit flies and future senators. A socialite scientist who gives up her glamorous life to follow love and the elusive prairie chicken. A boy genius on a path to change the world who gets lost in the theoretical possibilities of streetcar transfers. An enslaved man who steals a boat and charts a course that leads him to freedom, war, and Congress. A farmer’s wife who puts down her butter churn, picks up the butter, and becomes an international art star. An amusement park glowing at the water’s edge when electric lights are a brand-new thing. This cabinet of curiosities teems with wonder. For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today, finding beauty and meaning in history’s dustier corners, holding things up to the light and weaving facts, keen insight, wit, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales. With new stories and treasured favorites from the beloved podcast, enchantment awaits you.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/787725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Film Icon Steve McQueen Author: Steve Mcqueen Narrator: Steve Mcqueen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The following recording is a 1977 interview with Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 - November 7, 1980) was an American actor whose antihero personae, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the 1960s and 70s. Nicknamed the "King of Cool," McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles (1966), and four Golden Globe nominations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah Author: Charles King Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah. 'A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure.'—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World 'A book of power and glory, brimming with emotion and dazzling in its reach.'—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra and The Revolutionary George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by renowned choirs and orchestras, as well as by audiences singing along with the words on their cell phones. But this work of triumphant joy was born in a worried age. Britain in the early Enlightenment was a place of astonishing creativity but also the seat of an empire mired in war, enslavement, and conflicts over everything from the legitimacy of government to the meaning of truth. Against this turbulent background, prize-winning author Charles King has crafted a cinematic drama of the troubled lives that shaped a masterpiece of hope. Every Valley presents a depressive dissenter stirred to action by an ancient prophecy; an actress plagued by an abusive husband and public scorn; an Atlantic sea captain and penniless philanthropist; and an African Muslim man held captive in the American colonies and hatching a dangerous plan for getting back home. At center stage is Handel himself, composer to kings but, at midlife, in ill health and straining to keep an audience’s attention. Set amid royal intrigue, theater scandals, and political conspiracy, Every Valley is entertaining, inspiring, unforgettable.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Basque] - Euskal Herriko 40 emakume: Egon ginen, izan ginen Author: Cira Crespo Narrator: Gontzal Mendibil Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: LABURPENA: Kuxkuxeroa zara? Gustatzen zaizu zu jaio baino lehen zure herrian zer gertatu zen jakitea? Eta mota askoko jendea ezagutzea? Orduan, hau da zure liburua. Hemen ezagutuko dituzu gure gizarteari egindako ekarpenagatik erreferentzia diren Euskal Herriko emakumeak eta gizataldeak. Belaunaldi berrientzat erreferentzia diren eta jada hilik dauden emakume hauei historiak ez die merezi duten errekonozimendua eman. Eremu guztietako emakumeek lortu zituztenak ezagutaraziko dizkigute: idazleak, kazetariak, pedagogoak, bertsolariak, margolariak, argazkilariak, ilustratzaileak, sukaldariak. Ilustrazio deigarriak dituen liburua da eta teknika desberdinak erabili dira: akuarela, koloretako arkatzak, collage. Has zaitez emakume hauek ezagutzen, aho zabalik utziko zaituzte. IRAKURKETA ERRAZA bilduma, irakurtzeko eta ulertzeko zailtasunak dituzten pertsonei zuzenduta dago. Liburuetan hizkuntza erraza, zuzena eta egunerokoa erabiltzen da. Hizki handiak, bazter zabalak, ilustrazioak eta hitzen definizioak, koadroetan, erabiltzen dira.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations Series: #12 of Turning Points in Ancient History Author: Eric H. Cline Narrator: Eric H. Cline, John Chancer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This audiobook narrated by John Chancer tells the gripping story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever Features Eric Cline's FAQs as bonus content At the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration. After 1177 B.C. tells how the collapse of powerful Late Bronze Age civilizations created new circumstances to which people and societies had to adapt. Those that failed to adjust disappeared from the world stage, while others transformed themselves, resulting in a new world order that included Phoenicians, Philistines, Israelites, Neo-Hittites, Neo-Assyrians, and Neo-Babylonians. Taking the story up to the resurgence of Greece marked by the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C., the book also describes how world-changing innovations such as the use of iron and the alphabet emerged amid the chaos. Filled with lessons for today about why some societies survive massive shocks while others do not, After 1177 B.C. reveals why this period, far from being the First Dark Age, was a new age with new inventions and new opportunities.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII Author: Nahlah Ayed Narrator: Nahlah Ayed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII. On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other. But not long after their hasty marriage, their love is tested by separation, by a titanic invasion—and by indiscretion. Writing in vivid, heart-stopping prose, Ayed follows Sonia as she plunges into Nazi-occupied France and slinks into black market restaurants to throw off occupying Nazi forces, while at the same time participating in sabotage operations against them; and as Guy, in another corner of France, trains hundreds into a resistance army. Reconstructed from hours of unpublished interviews and hundreds of archival and personal documents, the story Ayed tells is about the ravaging costs of war paid for disproportionately by the young. But more than anything, The War We Won Apart is a story about love: two secret agents who were supposed to land in enemy territory together, but were fated to fight the war apart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes: A BBC Radio 4 Series Author: Ian Hislop Narrator: Ian Hislop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 2, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Ian Hislop takes a hilarious look at some of Britain's oldest jokes The British are rather proud of their sense of humour - but where has that pride come from and what makes it unique? With the help of contemporary comedians, scholars and an appetite for enduring humour, Ian Hislop tracks down the earliest examples of enduring British comedy tropes and jokes, and guides us through some of the vital elements that make up that most curious thing: the British sense of humour. Join Ian as he begins his quest in the dark ages, admittedly not known as a well-spring of comic opportunity. Nevertheless, in the pages of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, there is wordplay potent enough to have a part in the naming of a nation. How his fellow monks must have laughed. Travelling across the UK, Ian admires the Bishop's seat and discovers the filth hidden behind the Double entendre of the Exeter Book of Riddles. He looks for the earliest examples of visual humour under the seats of New College Oxford Chapel, and wooden carvings that suggest those who made them were never happier than when making people laugh. He discovers the set of a 15th century entertainer who performed for audiences in Nottinghamshire at the time of the Wars of the Roses, and the famous medieval Bestiary which describes the Bonnacon, a mythical beast that appears to have no biblical message beyond its capacity to make the reader laugh. Ian delves into Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century humble-brag parody, the Tale of Sir Topaz, before arriving in the 17th century, when printing and changes in censorship laws ushered in a new and energetic form of comedy. Finally, Ian explores satirical cartoons and a collection of comic songs with hilarious consequences. This is a must listen for anyone who loves a good belly laugh. Presenter and writer Ian Hislop is perhaps best known for his appearances on the satirical news quiz Have I Got News for You, and he has been the editor of Private Eye since 1986. He’s presented many shows on television and radio and is the author of several books. This series also features contributions from Nina Conti, Paul Whitehouse, comedy song writing duo Jo and Joan and parodist Craig Brown. Written and presented by Ian Hislop Produced by Tom Alban First broadcast 22 January-2 February 2024 ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver Author: Stephen R. Bown Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history's greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his marine survey of Hawaii and the Pacific coast was at its time the most comprehensive ever undertaken. But just two years after returning to Britain, the forty-year-old Vancouver, hounded by critics, shamed by public humiliation at the fists of an aristocratic sailor he had flogged, and blacklisted because of a perceived failure to follow the Admiralty's directives, died in poverty, nearly forgotten. In this riveting and perceptive biography, historian Stephen Bown delves into the events that destroyed Vancouver's reputation and restores his position as one of the greatest explorers of the Age of Discovery.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Performer: Art, Life, Politics Author: Richard Sennett Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words. Sennett is particularly attuned to the ways in which the rituals of ordinary life are performances. The book draws on history and sociology, and more personally on the author’s early career as a professional cellist, as well as on his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It traces the evolution of performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual; the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs Author: David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu Narrator: David Bellos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties—making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. It wasn't always so. Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers' control of books. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century brought about a new enclosure of the cultural commons, concentrating ownership of immaterial goods in very few hands. Copyright's metastasis can't be understood without knowing its backstory, a long tangle of high ideals, low greed, opportunism, and word-mangling that allowed poems and novels (and now, even ringtones and databases) to be treated as if they were no different from farms and houses. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, countless revisions have made copyright ever stronger.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The History of England Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Hannah Grace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 5, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The History of England from Henry IV to Charles I, by a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant historian. N.B. There will be very few dates in this History! Jane Austen wrote The History of England in 1791, at the age of just 15, as a satirical parody of 18th-century historical textbooks. It pokes fun at the apparent impartiality of contemporary historians and contains more opinions about the monarchs' relative characters than any facts or dates. The History of England was not published until 1922, more than a century after Austen's death.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760010 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite Author: William Beeston Narrator: John Clickman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 'The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite,' William Beeston throws a curveball at history, proposing a bold connection between the mighty Romans and the ancient Edomites of Jordan. Published in 1853, this controversial book dives deep into both groups' history and culture, searching for evidence of a shared ancestry. Beeston links similarities in language, customs, and even religion to paint a picture of the Romans as descendants of the Edomites. While mainstream historians largely reject his arguments due to lack of concrete proof, the book remains a fascinating exploration of these intertwined civilizations, offering a unique perspective on their origins and interactions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/785200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Film Icon Vivien Leigh and Producer Samuel Goldwyn Author: Vivien Leigh, Samuel Goldwyn Narrator: Vivien Leigh, Samuel Goldwyn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 20, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The following recording is a discussion between movie star Vivien Leigh, film producer Samuel Goldwyn and British Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. Vivien Leigh, born Vivian Mary Hartley (November 5, 1913 - July 8, 1967) was a British actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963). Samuel Goldwyn (August 27, 1882 (claimed, but most likely July 1879) - January 31, 1974), was a Polish-born American film producer. He was best known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood. He was awarded the 1973 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1947) and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1958). Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927- July 26, 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759980 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution Author: C. P. Snow. Narrator: Jason Mccoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 23 minutes Release date: February 23, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution,' C. P. Snow argues a stark divide separates science and humanities, hindering progress. He explores the educational roots, language barriers, and mutual distrust behind this chasm, then calls for increased dialogue, collaboration, and a more holistic education to bridge the gap. This thought-provoking classic remains relevant, urging us to overcome intellectual divides and foster a unified understanding of our complex world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America Author: Stephanie Gorton Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennett’s name has largely faded from public knowledge. Each held a radically different vision for what reproductive autonomy and birth control access should look like in America. Few are aware of the fierce personal and political rivalry that played out between Sanger and Dennett over decades—a battle that had a profound impact on the lives of American women. Meticulously researched and vividly drawn, The Icon and the Idealist reveals how and why these two women came to activism, the origins of the clash between them, and the ways in which their missteps and breakthroughs have reverberated across American society for generations. With deep archival scope and rigorous execution, Stephanie Gorton weaves together a personal narrative of two fascinating women and the political history of a country rocked by changing social norms, the Depression, and a fervor for eugenics. Refusing to shy away from the enmeshed struggles of race, class, and gender, Gorton has made a sweeping examination of every force that has come in the way of women’s reproductive freedom. Brimming with insight and compelling portraits of women’s struggles throughout the twentieth century, The Icon and the Idealist is a comprehensive history of a radical cultural movement.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Evelyn Waugh Author: Evelyn Waugh Narrator: Evelyn Waugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 26, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945). He is recognized as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century. In this recording, Waugh discusses God, religion, writing, and his conversion to Catholicism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Joan Crawford Author: Joan Crawford Narrator: Joan Crawford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 26, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay LeSueur (March 23, 1904 - May 10, 1977) in San Antonio, TX, was an American dancer, businesswoman, and actress of 86 films. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. Her films that were well received by Depression-era audiences and popular with women. By the 1930s, Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars-rivaling fellow actresses Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. A three-time Academy Award Best Actress nominee, Crawford took home the Oscar for the 1945 film Mildred Pierce. In this 1971 recording, Crawford discusses filmmaking, her films, and her appearance at an upcoming AFI event in Washington, DC.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759722 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War Memoirs Author: Charles De Gaulle Narrator: Raphael Corkhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 41 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The complete war memoirs of the resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who led France out of its darkest hour during the Nazi occupation during World War II. “Faced with the political disaster, I had to become France.” This was how Charles de Gaulle answered the call of history. One of the few French battlefield leaders to have distinguished himself in May 1940, he had become the undersecretary of state for national defense. But when the government rejected his calls to fight on and prepared to capitulate to Hitler, he escaped to London. There he instigated a resistance calling on “all the French who want to remain free to listen to me and follow me” in the legendary radio address of June 22. He was sentenced to death in absentia as his country made a disgraceful peace, but his Free France movement rallied people around the world to resist German occupation and fight for the liberation of Europe. Originally published in three volumes, The War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle is the story of the resurrection of France from its darkest hour collaborating with Hitler and the Nazi empire. The first section, “The Call,” examines the years leading up to France’s defeat and the confusion and despair triggered by Hitler’s blitzkrieg. The second section, “Unity,” describes de Gaulle’s struggles to rally the French in both Africa and underground movements throughout Europe, and often bitter conflicts with the Allied leaders as he sought legitimacy and resources. “Salvation,” the final installment, chronicles the turning of the tide of war against Nazi Germany, de Gaulle’s triumphant return to France, and the reincarnation of the French Republic as a major international presence. De Gaulle’s great prophecy of 1940 had been fulfilled: France had lost a battle, but she did not lose the war.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arnhem: Black Tuesday Author: Al Murray Narrator: Al Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but thwarted attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being doomed to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, didn't know that that was to be their fate. By focusing on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants and without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, Al Murray offers a very different perspective to a familiar narrative. Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered. Tuesday 19 September 1944 was that terrible day which became known as Black Tuesday. From just after 12:00 hours while plans were being made to seize the initiative and optimism reigned, to the following midnight, when Arnhem was burning and the Allied fortunes looked very different, a mere twenty-four hours changed the course of the war. Al Murray has always been obsessed with Arnhem, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday, brings all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of history’s great heroic failures differently for the first time. © Al Murray 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La llamada: La mentira del 11M: Aznar quería que fuera ETA Author: Jesús Ceberio Narrator: Jesús Ceberio, Eugenio Gómez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 7, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: La crónica imprescindible de Jesús Ceberio sobre un momento decisivo en la historia reciente de España: los atentados del 11-M. Un testimonio estremecedor en torno a la famosa llamada de Aznar a los periódicos. «El 11 de marzo de 2004 fue un jueves aciago en Madrid. Acababa de amanecer cuando retumbaron varias explosiones en un tren de cercanías que entraba en el andén de la estación de Atocha. Eran las 7.37 de una mañana casi primaveral. En menos de cinco minutos diez bombas reventaron cuatro trenes procedentes de Alcalá de Henares, con un efecto devastador que se traduciría en 191 muertos y más de 2.000 heridos. 'Tengo la certeza de que ha sido ETA', fue el veredicto inapelable que el presidente Aznar me transmitió por teléfono a las 13.06». Se cumplen veinte años del 11-M. Lo que sucedió aquel día, tanto la serie de ataques en los trenes de la red madrileña de Cercanías como la actuación del gobierno en vísperas de las elecciones generales, afectó a la sociedad española de manera brutal. En el eje de esa gestión estaba el intento por parte del Gobierno del Partido Popular de responsabilizar a ETA de los atentados, aun cuando desde muy pronto empezaron a aparecer indicios que apuntaban al terrorismo islamista como autor del ataque. El momento paradigmático de esa voluntad fue la llamada del presidente Aznar a los medios de comunicación para asegurarles que había sido ETA. El periodista de máximo prestigio Jesús Ceberio, entonces director de El País, habló con él por teléfono. En esta crónica rigurosa y trepidante Ceberio, como testigo directo, narra cómo fueron desarrollándose las investigaciones, discrepando cada vez más de la versión oficial y generando un nivel de tensión social y política que marcó la pauta para los años posteriores y la actualidad. En definitiva, un relato estremecedor que gira en torno a la famosa mentira del presidente Aznar a los medios de comunicación.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Warren Report: The Murder Of President John F. Kennedy Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: The Ark, Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In delving into the examination of the Warren Report, a narrative unfolds, revealing a tapestry of controversies and criticisms that have woven doubt into the fabric of its conclusions. The central pillar of contention revolves around the report's assertion that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, was the sole perpetrator behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As the report posits Oswald as the lone gunman, dissenting voices rise, challenging the simplicity of this conclusion. Critics argue that the investigation failed to adequately explore alternative theories that propose the involvement of multiple assailants. This fundamental disagreement casts a shadow over the narrative crafted by the Warren Commission. A particularly contentious element within the report is the infamous 'magic bullet' theory. This theory contends that a single bullet traversed through both Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally, causing seven wounds in the process. Detractors find this scenario implausible, citing the trajectory and the severity of the injuries as evidence that contradicts the narrative woven by the commission. The narrative takes a twist as the completeness of the investigation comes under scrutiny. Critics contend that key witnesses were left uninterrogated, and crucial pieces of evidence remained inadequately examined. The suggestion that the commission may have overlooked vital information introduces an air of skepticism surrounding the integrity of the narrative.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last American Frontier Author: Frederic Logan Paxson Narrator: Joseph Tabler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms The Last American Frontier by Frederic Logan Paxson. The MacMillan Company, 1910. From the Author’s Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque atmosphere that has given to the “Far West” a definite and well-understood meaning and to indicate those forces which have shaped the history of the country beyond the Mississippi. In doing it I have had to rely largely upon my own investigations among sources little used and relatively inaccessible. The exact citations of authority, with which I might have crowded my pages, would have been out of place in a book not primarily intended for the use of scholars. But I hope, before many years, to exploit in a larger and more elaborate form the mass of detailed information upon which this sketch is based. Chapter I. The Westward MovementChapter II. The Indian FrontierChapter III. Iowa and the New NorthwestChapter IV. The Santa Fe TrailChapter V. The Oregon TrailChapter VI. Overland with the MormonsChapter VII. California and the Forty-ninersChapter VIII. Kansas and the Indian FrontierChapter IX. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!'Chapter X. From Arizona to MontanaChapter XI. The Overland MailChapter XII. The Engineers’ FrontierChapter XIII. The Union Pacific RailroadChapter XIV. The Plains in the Civil WarChapter XV. The Cheyenne WarChapter XVI. The Sioux WarChapter XVII. The Peace Commission and the Open WayChapter XVIII. Black Kettle’s Last RaidChapter XIX. The First of the RailwaysChapter XX. The New Indian PolicyChapter XXI. The Last Stand: Chief Joseph and Sitting BullChapter XXII. Letting in the PopulationChapter XXIII. Bibliographical Note Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Fremdbestimmt: 120 Jahre Lügen und Täuschung Author: Thorsten Schulte Narrator: Thorsten Schulte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 9, 2019 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Dieses Buch ist ein Warnruf an alle Europäer! Kurt Tucholsky schrieb 1931: 'Das Volk versteht das meiste falsch; aber es fühlt das meiste richtig.' Immer mehr Menschen fühlen, dass die Zukunft Deutschlands und Europas in Gefahr ist, verstehen jedoch noch nicht die Ursachen. Deshalb muss das ganze Ausmaß von Täuschung und Fremdbestimmung offengelegt werden. Nur so können wir erkennen, was uns heute bedroht, warum gegen den Mehrheitswillen offenkundig regiert wird und was wir dagegen tun können. Thorsten Schulte demaskiert in diesem Buch die Geschichtsschreibung der Sieger, deckt Unwahrheiten, Halbwahrheiten und das Weglassen wichtiger Fakten in unseren Medien auf. Er entlarvt das verzerrte Geschichtsbild, das immer noch zu einem Schuldkomplex der Deutschen mit verheerenden Folgen führt. Erst dadurch wird seine Gefahrenanalyse in diesem Buch für das heutige Deutschland verständlich. Wir müssen unsere Geschichte kennen – und zwar die wahre Geschichte. Die New York Times huldigte dem letzten deutschen Kaiser im Juni 1913 mit der heute undenkbaren Überschrift: 'Kaiser, 25 Jahre Herrscher, gefeiert als Friedensstifter'. Den Deutschen wird nachweisbar gezielt vorenthalten, welcher US-Vertreter am 20. November 1922 den späteren deutschen Diktator traf und ihn als 'fabelhaften Demagogen' bezeichnete. Der ehemalige US-Präsident Harry S. Truman bemerkte über Deutschland und Russland im Juni 1941: 'Lasst sie sich doch gegenseitig so weit wie möglich ausrotten'. Bekam der deutsche Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Gelder des US-Geheimdienstes CIA? Wurden Spitzenpolitiker der Grünen im Ausland ausgebildet? Frankreichs Zeitung Le Figaro schrieb 1992 über den Maastrichter Vertrag, der den Weg zum Euro ebnete: 'Maastricht, das ist der Versailler Vertrag ohne Krieg'. Wer konnte bei der Euro-Rettung Angela Merkel 2011 womit zum Weinen bringen? Deutschlands Zukunft ist bedroht, wenn wir nicht handeln. Wir Deutschen müssen unsere Augen jetzt zum Sehen benutzen, damit wir sie nicht später zum Weinen gebrauchen. Mut zur Wahrheit für unsere Kinder und Enkel!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/784725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Nachspielzeiten: Denn der Fußball schreibt die besten Geschichten Author: Lucas Vogelsang Narrator: Lucas Vogelsang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 14, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: König Otto auf dem Thron. Der Kaiser in New York. Ein Torhüter als Wrestler. Fußball war immer schon mehr als nur Fußball. Deshalb macht sich Lucas Vogelsang auf den Weg, an die Ränder des Spiels, zu den Helden von einst, trifft Paul Gascoigne und Vinnie Jones in England, Mehmet Scholl in München und Rehhagels rechte Hand in Thessaloniki. Er tanzt mit Beckenbauer und Pelé im Studio 54, wirft sich mit Tim Wiese in den Ring und geht mit Häßler, Legat und Hartwig in den Dschungel. So sind seine NACHSPIELZEITEN eine Reise durch die Bilder und Biografien. Aber vor allem eine große Liebeserklärung an den Fußball und die Menschen, die ihn prägen. Wie konnte Otto Rehhagel 2004 Europameister werden, Paul Gascoigne in einer einzigen Nacht ein ganzes Land verändern und Franz Beckenbauer Ende der Siebzigerjahre New York erobern? Lucas Vogelsang schaut noch einmal genau hin und erzählt in seinem neuen Buch von den langen Augenblicken nach dem Abpfiff, dem schnellen Leben nach der Karriere, den kleinen und großen Dramen des Spiels. So nimmt er uns mit, auf eine Ehrenrunde durch die Momente und Zitate, hinein in die Erinnerungen und den Jubel. Und liefert damit, ganz nebenbei, auch die nächste Ladung Legenden. Seine NACHSPIELZEITEN sind eine literarische Verbeugung. Vor dem Fußball. Und den Menschen, die ihn prägen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Underwater Ruins of Civilization Author: Martin K Ettington Narrator: Martin K Ettington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 58 minutes Release date: February 19, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The level of Earth’s Oceans have changed many times over the millennia. Global sea level rose by a total of more than 120 meters (360 feet) as the vast ice sheets of the last Ice Age melted back. This melt-back lasted from about 19,000 to about 6,000 years ago, meaning that the average rate of sea-level rise was roughly 1 meter per century. Since many early cities and civilizations were built near the coast, there must be many submerged ruins around the world we are not yet familiar with. The study of these ruins is one of the great unmapped needs for future archeology. We do know about a few of these ruins and are learning much more. This book is a summary of what we know or think we know today about these lost civilizations, cities, and towns. I’ve also included the stories of many legendary cities or locations like Atlantis and Lemuria.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - L'Evangile de Thomas : la source Q de la Chrétienté Author: Israel Nazir Narrator: Israel Nazir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Selon Wikipedia, La Source Q ou Document Q est une source supposée perdue qui serait à l'origine des éléments communs aux Évangiles de Matthieu, Marc et Luc. Selon l’hypothèse des historiens, il s'agit d'un recueil de paroles de Jésus de Nazareth qui daterait des environs de l'an 50. L'hypothèse de la Source Q est une conséquence directe de la théorie des deux sources. La théorie des deux sources étant que l’évangile de Marc et la source Q servent de source à l’écriture de l’Évangile de Matthieu et de Luc. Dans ce livre audio, je présente les arguments qui prouvent que ce recueil des Paroles de Jésus est authentique et qu'il est ce que les historiens appellent la Source Q. Vous trouverez aussi dans cet ouvrage, une biographie historique de Jésus, ainsi qu'une chronologie des événements qui suivirent et qui s'articulent autour de la vie des disciples de Jésus ( L'âge apostolique) enfin, vous trouverez une section de commentaires sur les Logions de Jésus. Pour conclure cette description, certains, je les entends vous diront à quoi bon, connaitre la parole originelle de Jésus, si les pères de l’église ont décidé de la cacher et de favoriser les bonnes versions du message de Jésus ? Ce point de vue est compréhensible pourtant d’un point de vue philosophique, comment peut-on connaitre la fin du chemin quand on ne connait pas son point de départ ? Sans le recul qui est permis par la connaissance de son origine comment peut-on s’orienter dans ce labyrinthe ?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Puerto Rico: A National History Author: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo Narrator: Tony Chiroldes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today. In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus, and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's turbulent history in the centuries that followed, from the first indigenous insurrection against colonial rule in 1511—led by the powerful chieftain Agüeybaná II—to the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1952. He deftly portrays the contemporary period and the intertwined though unequal histories of the archipelago and the continental United States. Puerto Rico is an engaging, sometimes personal, and consistently surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, offering new perspectives not only on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean but on the United States and the Atlantic world more broadly. Available in Spanish from our partners at Grupo Planeta