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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625621 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Intrepid SpiritAuthor: David TunnoNarrator: David TunnoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 30 minutesRelease date: April 15, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: In an ironic twist of fate, past and present cross swords. USS Constitution, âOld Ironsides,â must foil a world-wide jihadist plot by the descendants her historic foes, the Barbary Coast pirates in this multiple-award-winning, swashbuckling and cinematically explosive blend of action, history, romance, humor and the supernatural. Following is the full review by Charla White, Audiobookreviewer.com. 'Action-Packed & Vividly Realistic!' 'Moses Redding, a Navy man known for his decisive actions was reassigned to the USS Constitution for a goodwill tour of the Mediterranean because of this earlier move disobeying orders. This decision places him in an ideal setting with little chance of sparking an international incident. In an unexpected turn of events, terrorists underestimated the militaryâs ability to implement, be resourceful, and use antiquated weaponry! This miscalculation leads to an epic battle between Moses and the terrorists.' 'The author, David Tunno, crafts an exciting tale, interwoven with authentic historical details and military maneuvers. The action-packed narrative achieves realism through well-crafted dialogue and vivid descriptions. Tunno also expertly crafts vivid characters and skillfully executes plot twists.' 'As the narrator, he delivers an ardent performance, infusing the story with depth of emotion, excitement, and subtle nuances only the author can provide. He speaks clearly and concisely.' 'Overall, this is a great thriller to hear whether or not one enjoys military-based books. Tunnoâs skill at bringing a book to life and captivating the listener takes many shapes!' 'There were no issues with the quality or production of this audiobook.'
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637379 to listen full audiobooks.Title: What the Taliban Told MeAuthor: Ian FritzNarrator: Ian FritzFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 18 minutesRelease date: November 7, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: An âessentialâ (Kevin Maurer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadnât been accepted into colleges thanks to an indifferent high school career. Heâd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to peopleâs most intimate conversations over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of AfghanistanâTaliban and otherwiseâthe war, and himself. Fritzâs fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a âfraught, movingâ (Kirkus Reviews) coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in Afghanistan.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633591 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in AfghanistanAuthor: Miles LagozeNarrator: Miles LagozeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 23 minutesRelease date: November 7, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: âThe most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan warâ (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura. At just eighteen years old, Miles Lagoze joined the Marine Corps a decade after the war began and found himself surrounded by people not unlike those heâd left behind at homeâaimless youth searching for stability, community, and economic security. Deployed to Afghanistan as a Combat Cameramanâan active-duty videographer and photographerâLagoze produced slick images of glory and heroism for public consumption. But his government-approved footage concealed a grim reality. Here, Lagoze pulls back the curtain and illustrates the grisly truth of the longest war in American history. As these young men and women were deployed to an unfamiliar country half a world awayâhistoryâs âgraveyard of empiresââthey carried the scars of the fractured homeland that sent them. Lagoze shows us Marines straddling the edge of chaos. We see forces desensitized to gore and suffering by the darkest reaches of the internet, unsure of their places in an unraveling world and set further adrift by the uncertain mission to which they had been assigned abroad. Whistles from the Graveyard shows the parts of the Afghanistan War we were never meant to seeâAfghan locals and American infantry drawn together by their fears of the ghostly, ever-present terror of the Taliban; moments of dark resignation as the devastating toll of years in warâs crossfire reveals itself between bouts of adrenaline-laced violence; and nights of reckless, drug-fueled abandon to dull the pain. In full, vivid color, Miles Lagoze shows us an oft-overlooked generation of young Americans we cast out into the desert, steeped in nihilism, and shipped back home with firsthand training in extremism, misanthropy, and insurrection.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650343 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945â1948Author: Neill LocheryNarrator: Kevin StillwellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 6 minutesRelease date: November 7, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain âneutralâ countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take their wealth with them. Their escape routes were diverse: Sweden and Switzerland boasted proximity, banking, and industrial closeness, while Spain and Portugal offered an inviting Atlantic coastline and shipping routes to South America. And in various ways, each of these so-called neutral nations welcomed the Nazi escapees, along with the clandestine wealth they carried. Cashing Out tells the riveting history of the race to intercept the stolen assets before they disappeared, and before the will to punish Germany was replaced by the political considerations of the fast-approaching Cold War. Bestselling author Neill Lochery here brilliantly recounts the flight of the Nazi-looted richesâthe last great escape of World War IIâand the Allied quest for justice.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640012 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to UkraineAuthor: David Petraeus, Andrew RobertsNarrator: Robert FassFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 26 minutesRelease date: October 17, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER âA rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decadesâ THE TIMES âA hugely important book ⊠elegantly written and persuasively arguedâ DAILY TELEGRAPH ** FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE NEW MATERIAL ON THE ISRAEL/GAZA CONFLICT ** Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putinâs invasion of Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past, and anticipate in the future, in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world. In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, the former CIA director who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over seventy years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have been repeated time and again, and explore the challenge, for statesmen and generals alike, of learning to adapt to various new weapon systems, theories and strategies. Among the conflicts examined are the Arab â Israeli wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the two Gulf wars, the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia, and both the Soviet and Coalition wars in Afghanistan, as well as guerrilla conflicts in Africa and South America. Conflict culminates with a bracing look at Putinâs disastrous invasion of Ukraine, yet another case study in the tragic results that occur when leaders refuse to learn from history, and an assessment of the nature of future warfare. Filled with sharp insight and the wisdom of experience, Conflict is not only a critical assessment of our recent past, but also an essential primer of modern warfare that provides crucial knowledge for waging battle today as well as for understanding what the decades ahead will bring.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623549 to listen full audiobooks.Title: If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing RevolutionAuthor: Vincent BevinsNarrator: Timothy AndrĂ©s PabonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 54 minutesRelease date: October 3, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraineâs Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail. He draws on four years of research and hundreds of interviews conducted around the world, as well as his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon. Careful investigation reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654733 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The War of Words: How Americaâs GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War IIAuthor: Molly Guptill ManningNarrator: Elisabeth RodgersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 27 minutesRelease date: September 26, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history. At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War IIâthe war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the lines between truth and fiction, the best defense was for American troops to bring the truth into focus by writing it down and disseminating it themselves. By warâs end, over 4,600 unique GI publications had been printed around the world. In newsprint, troops made sense of their hardships, losses, and reasons for fighting. These newspapersâby and for the troopsâbecame the heart and soul of a unit. From Normandy to the shores of Japan, American soldiers exercised a level of free speech the military had never known nor would again. It was an extraordinary chapter in American democracy and military history. In the war for âfour freedoms,â it was remarkably fitting that troops fought not only with guns but with their pens. This stunning volume includes fourteen pages of photographs and illustrations.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651477 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest SpyAuthor: Jason BellNarrator: Christopher GroveFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 44 minutesRelease date: September 26, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The thrilling true story of agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis âBrilliantly researched. . . . A page-turner, one of those books not to be missed.â âRosemary Sullivan, author of Stalinâs Daughter âWho knew that a Canadian was the first to warn the world what the Nazis were up to, and to do it years before anyone else was even talking about Nazis? Winthrop Bell is a name you should know, and thanks to Jason Bell and his deep-dive research, you now will.â âPeter Mansbridge In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell of Halifax was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman. But as MI6 secret agent A12, he evaded gunfire and shook off pursuers to break open the emerging Nazi conspiracy in 1919 Berlin. His reports, the first warning of the Nazi plot for WWII, went directly to the man known as C, the mysterious founder of MI6. Throughout this, a powerful fascist politician quietly worked to suppress Bellâs alerts. Nevertheless, agent A12âs intelligence sabotaged the Nazis in ways that are only now being revealed. Bell became a spy once again in the face of WWII. In 1939, he was the first to crack Hitlerâs deadliest secret code: the Holocaust. But the fĂŒhrer was a popular politician who said he wanted peace. Could anyone believe Bellâs shocking warning? Fighting an epic intelligence war from Ukraine, Russia and Poland to France, Germany, Canada and Washington, DC, A12 was the real-life 007, waging a single-handed fight against madmen bent on destroying the world. Without Bellâs astounding courage, the Nazis might just have won the war. Informed by recently declassified documents, Cracking the Nazi Code is the first book to illuminate the astonishing exploits of Winthrop Bell, agent A12.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650352 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on TerrorAuthor: Pardis MahdaviNarrator: Shila Ommi, Sitara Attaie, Pardis Mahdavi, Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Suzanne TorenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 40 minutesRelease date: August 29, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fightersâhorsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horseâand their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that revisits nearly one hundred years of Iranian history, highlighting the power and beauty of women who refuse to be subdued.â âAlison Hawthorne Deming, author of A Woven World Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their countryâs first line of defense from marauding warlords. To the female warriors who helped train and breed the horses used by US Green Berets when they touched down in October 2001, with a mission but insufficient intelligence on the groundâwomen whose contributions were then forgotten. Pardis Mahdavi chases the legacy of Caspian horses and the women whose lives are saved by them, drawing on decades of research, newly-discovered diaries, and exclusive military sources. Among those intersecting stories is that of American Louise Firouz, who helped bring the breed back from the brink of extinction, connecting Virginia traders to British royals to the son of the Shah. Firouzâs life is forever changed when she meets Mahdaviâs own family, who run an unusual smuggling operation in addition to raising horses in a wild bid for freedom. Book of Queens is an epic tale of hidden women whose communal knowledge was instrumental in saving an animal as ancient as civilization, and who were the genesis of their own liberation.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620855 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Star-Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's ParisAuthor: Heather Dune Macadam, Simon WorrallNarrator: Christa LewisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 23 minutesRelease date: August 22, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed CafĂ© de Flore, whose habitues include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter's creative world. For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazisâand more immediately, their parents' threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the maleficent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths. Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644139 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaustâs Most Audacious Rescue OperationAuthor: Roger MoorhouseNarrator: Roger MoorhouseFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 27 minutesRelease date: August 10, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and until now, completely unknown - humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they masterminded a systematic programme of forging passports and identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. While the Nazis unleashed their murderous fury, they retained a strange legalism that respected the citizens and passport holders of neutral countries. At first, these Jews were interned, in relative comfort, to be exchanged for German citizens held in these countries. Yet when it became obvious that the Latin American states were unwilling to honour these illegally issued documents, the 'Exchange Jews' gradually lost the protection that had saved them from the death camps. With the international community failing to act, the operation was one of the largest actions to aid Jews of the entire war. The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. We follow the desperate bids of Jews to obtain these life-saving documents; we witness their painful uncertainty over whether they will offer the desired protection, as the Nazi death machine draws ever closer. And we witness the quiet heroism of a group of ordinary men who decided to do something rather than nothing and saved thousands of lives. ©2023 Roger Moorhouse (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650339 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of HeroismAuthor: Tom HolmNarrator: Shaun Taylor CorbettFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 18 minutesRelease date: August 1, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayesâa Native American icon and World War II legend who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima but spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, along with five other Marines, was captured in Joe Rosenthalâs iconic photograph of raising the stars and stripes on Mount Suribachi during the battle for the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima. The photograph was the inspiration and model for the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington. Between the time he helped raise that flag and his deathâand beyondâhe was the subject of more newspaper columns than any other Native person. He was hailed as a hero and maligned as a chronic alcoholic unable to take care of himself. IRA HAYES explores these fluctuating views of Ira Hayes. It reveals that they were primarily the product of American misconceptions about Native people, the nature of combat, and even alcoholism. Like most surviving veterans of combat, Ira did not think of himself as a heroic figure. There can be no doubt that Ira suffered from PTSD, which is a compound of survivorâs guilt, the shock of seeing death, especially of oneâs friends, and the isolation brought on by feeling that no one could understand what he had been through. Iraâs life has been a subject of two motion pictures and a television drama. All these dramas sympathize with him, but ultimately fail to see his binge drinking as his way of temporarily escaping the melancholy, the rage he felt, his sense of betrayal, and the sheer boredom of peacetime. IRA HAYES breaks apart the complexities of Iraâs short life in honor of all Native veterans who have been to war in the service of the United States. This is equally their story.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649117 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite SpyAuthor: Janet WallachNarrator: Saskia MaarleveldFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 31 minutesRelease date: August 1, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE 'A compelling story that pulsates with the energy of a thriller'âThe Wall Street Journal 'Suspense, Ă©lan and a generous helping of glamour: Think George Smiley in a mink-trimmed coat.'âThe New York Times Book Review The true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Born a privileged child of Americaâs Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her motherâs ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed at thirty-seven, and set off on a life of adventure. Hired as a society reporter, when America entered World War I she applied to Military Intelligence to work as a spy. She arrived in Berlin immediately after the Armistice and befriended the enemy, dining with aristocrats and dancing with socialists. Late into the night she wrote prescient reports on the growing power of the German right. Sent to Moscow, she sneaked into Russia to observe the results of the Bolshevik Revolution. Although she carried press credentials she was caught and imprisoned as an American spy. Terrified when told her only way out was to spy for the Cheka, she became a double agent, aiming to convince the Russian rulers she was working for them while striving to stay loyal to her country. In Germany and Russia, Harrison saw the futureâa second war with Germany, a cold war with the Sovietsâbut her reports were ignored by many back home. Over a decade, Harrisonâs mysterious adventures took her to Europe, Baghdad, and the Far East, as a socialite, secret agent, and documentary filmmaker. Janet Wallach captures Harrisonâs daring and glamour in this stranger-than-fiction history of a woman drawn to the impossible.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646960 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Five Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global HistoryAuthor: Douglas WilsonNarrator: Milton BagbyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 37 minutesRelease date: July 25, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: In Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in historyâs most influential cities âJerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York. Wilson issues a challenge to our collective understanding of history with the juxtapositions of freedom and its intrinsic failures; liberty and its deep-seated liabilities. Each revelation beckoning us deeper into a cityâs story, its political systems, and how it flourished and floundered. You'll discover the significance of: - Jerusalem's complex history and its deep-rooted character as the city of freedom, where people found their spiritual liberty. - Athens' intellectual influence as the city of reason and birthplace of democracy. - Rome's evolution as the city of law and justice and the freedoms and limitations that come with liberty. - London's place in the world's history as the city of literature where man's literary imagination found its wings. - New York's rise to global fame as the city of commerce and how it triggered unmatched wealth, industry, and trade throughout the world. Five Cities that Ruled the World chronicles the destruction, redemption, personalities, and power structures that altered the world's political, spiritual, and moral center time and again. It's an inspiring, enlightening global perspective that encourages readers to honor our shared history, contribute to the present, and look to the future with unmistakable hope.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646591 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Wall: Rome's Greatest FrontierAuthor: Alistair MoffatNarrator: James Cameron StewartFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 30 minutesRelease date: July 18, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Hadrian's Wall is the largest and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running seventy-three miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least twenty-six miles down the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain's most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch dug to the south of the Wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthwork. Built in a ten-year period by more than thirty thousand soldiers and laborers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall consisted of more than twenty-four million stones, giving it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids put together. At least a million people visit Hadrian's Wall each year, and it has been designated a World Heritage Site. In this book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was built, and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its mighty shadow. The result is a unique and fascinating insight into one of the wonders of the ancient world.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626902 to listen full audiobooks.Title: First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War CorrespondentAuthor: Lorissa RinehartNarrator: Kate HandfordFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 31 minutesRelease date: July 11, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. 'I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power.' From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldnât touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian National Liberation Front, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. She dove out of planes, faked her own kidnapping, and endured the mockery of male associates, before ultimately dying on assignment in Vietnam with the Marines in 1965, the first American female journalist killed while covering combat. Chapelle overcame discrimination both on the battlefield and at home, with much of her work ultimately buried from the public eyeâuntil now. In First to the Front, Lorissa Rinehart uncovers the incredible life and unparalleled achievements of this true pioneer, and the mark she would make on history. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martinâs Press.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655921 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Reivers: The Story of the Border ReiversAuthor: Alistair MoffatNarrator: Peter NobleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 45 minutesRelease date: July 11, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: An 'exciting and dramatic' history of the raiders who ruled the lawless Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over a century (Cumberland News). Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era, or indeed in Europe, did civil order break down over such a wide area, or for such a long time, as on the border country between Scotland and England. For more than a century, the hoofbeats of countless raiding parties drummed over the border. From Dumfriesshire to the high wastes of East Cumbria, from Roxburghshire to Redesdale, from the lonely valley of Liddesdale to the fortress city of Carlisle, swords and spears spoke while the law remained silent. Fierce family loyalty counted for everything, while the rules of nationality counted for nothing. The whole range of the Cheviot Hills, its watershed ridges and the river valleys that flowed out of them, became the landscape of larceny while Maxwells, Grahams, Fenwicks, Carletons, Armstrongs, and Elliots rode hard and often for plunder. These were the Riding Times and in modern European history, they have no parallel. This book tells the remarkable story of the Reivers and how they made the Borders.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625396 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Patriot's Promise: Protecting My Brothers, Fighting for My Life, and Keeping My WordAuthor: Israel 'dt' Del Toro, Jr.Narrator: Roger WayneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 15 minutesRelease date: July 4, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir of promises kept, overcoming obstacles, and what it means to sacrifice for others, written by a Special Warfare Operator with the Air Force. When Israel âDTâ Del Toro, Jr.'s Humvee rolled over a roadside IED in Afghanistan, he had one thought as he lost consciousness: I have to keep the promise I made to my dad. DT was orphaned at the age of fourteen, and on the night before his father died, he repeated the promise his dad required: âTake care of your brothers and sisters.â Throughout his childhood and into adulthood, DT indeed looked after his younger brother and sisters, even to his own detriment and sacrifice. When he enlisted in the Air Force, progressing in ranks as a skilled marksman calling airstrikes, his promise extended to his brothers and sisters in the Air Force, his fellow soldiers and brothers-in-arms. When DT was injured in action, he lay in a coma for three months with third-degree burns on 80% of his body. He nearly died three times, and doctors predicted â if he survived â he would forever breathe with a respirator and never walk again. DT pushed through every limit to his full recovery, and he became the first 100% disabled veteran to re-enlist in the Air Force. DT's promise to his dad extends now to his fellow wounded warriors throughout the world, as he advocates for awareness and affecting change in public policy for wounded, injured, and ill soldiers. He is a patriot who has kept his promise and changed the world with the spirit of his heart, soul, body, and mind. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martinâs Press.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652107 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945Author: Robin PriorNarrator: Liam GerrardFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 27 hours 21 minutesRelease date: June 21, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: A major new account of Britain's military strategy between 1914â1945, including the two world wars and everything between The First and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914â1945 an unprecedentedly intense and violent era of history. But how did Britain develop its complex military strategy during these wars, and how were decisions made by those at the top? Robin Prior examines the influence politicians had on military operations, in the first history to assess both world wars together. Drawing uniquely on both military and political archives and previously unexamined sources Prior explores the fraught relationships between civilian and military leaders: from Lloyd George's remarkably interventionist stance on military tactics during the First World War to Churchill's near-constant arguments with American leaders during the Second. Conquer We Must tells the complex story of this military decision-making, revealing how politicians attempted to control strategyâbut had little influence on how the army, navy, and air force actually fought.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646978 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Sergeant York: A Biography of an American Patriot and World War I HeroSeries: Part of Christian Encounters SeriesAuthor: John PerryNarrator: Milton BagbyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 57 minutesRelease date: June 20, 2023Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic New Yearâs conversion convinced him that killing was against Godâs will, and yet this shy, big-boned mountaineer singlehandedly dispatched two dozen Germans and captured 132 in the closing days of World War I. He earned the Medal of Honor and a ticker tape parade but refused to cash in on his fame, insisting âUncle Samâs uniform ainât for sale.â This succinct and gripping new account of Sgt. Yorkâs remarkable life includes details from exclusive interviews with the sergeantâs three surviving children and information drawn from battlefield eyewitness reports and original film studio archives: fresh reminders of the legacy of one of Americaâs great Christian patriots. We learn about life through the lives of others. Their experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. Whether the person is D.L. Moody, Sergeant York, Saint Nicholas, John Bunyan, or William F. Buckley, we are now living in the world that they created and understand both it and ourselves better in the light of their lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires uniquely illuminate our shared experience.
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