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  • The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

    The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754930 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & PowerAuthor: Daniel YerginNarrator: Michael David AxtellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 46 hours 11 minutesRelease date: December 17, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding
irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. First time on unabridged audio! Now with an entirely new epilogue, read by Daniel Yergin, that speaks to the enduring lessons and continued relevance of the book’s lasting themes about energy, geopolitics, and economics. The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. This updated edition categorically proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first by tracing economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.” With his far-reaching insight and in-depth research, Yergin is uniquely positioned to address the present battle over energy which undoubtedly ranks as one of the most vital issues of our time. The canvas of his narrative history is enormous—from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, and both the Iraq War and current climate change. The definitive work on the subject of oil, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement, and great value—crucial to our understanding of world politics and the economy today—and tomorrow.

  • Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents by Nigel Hamilton

    Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents by Nigel Hamilton

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761429 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the PresidentsAuthor: Nigel HamiltonNarrator: Rick AdamsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 32 hours 2 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From a renowned biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance—and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union. Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, there has been one surprising gap: the drama of how the “railsplitter” from Illinois grew into his critical role as U.S. commander-in-chief, and managed to outwit his formidable opponent, Jefferson Davis, in what remains history's only military faceoff between rival American presidents. Davis was a trained soldier and war hero; Lincoln a country lawyer who had only briefly served in the militia. Confronted with the most violent and challenging war ever seen on American soil, Lincoln seemed ill-suited to the task: inexperienced, indecisive, and a poor judge of people’s motives, he allowed his administration's war policies to be sabotaged by fickle, faithless cabinet officials while entrusting command of his army to a preening young officer named George McClellan – whose defeat in battle left Washington, the nation’s capital, at the mercy of General Robert E. Lee, Davis’s star performer. The war almost ended there. But in a Shakespearean twist, Lincoln summoned the courage to make, at last, a climactic decision: issuing as a “military necessity” a proclamation freeing the 3.5 million enslaved Americans without whom the South could not feed or fund their armed insurrection. The new war policy doomed the rebellion—which was in dire need of support from Europe, none of whose governments now would dare to recognize rebel “independence” in a war openly fought over slavery. The fate of President Davis was sealed. With a cast of unforgettable characters, from first ladies to fugitive coachmen to treasonous cabinet officials, Lincoln vs. Davis is a spellbinding dual biography from renowned presidential chronicler Nigel Hamilton: a saga that will surprise, touch, and enthrall.

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  • American Heroes: From the #1 bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann

    American Heroes: From the #1 bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755087 to listen full audiobooks.Title: American Heroes: From the #1 bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat BootsAuthor: James Patterson, Matt EversmannNarrator: Joe MantegnaFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 0 minutesRelease date: October 21, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Instant #1 National Bestseller! “A monumental contribution to comprehending the motivation and distinguished service of American warriors. American Heroes is a book that every citizen should read.” — Association of the United States Army From the authors of Walk in My Combat Boots, “American Heroes is a gripping collection of firsthand accounts
capturing the indomitable spirit of our nation’s finest” (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List series). U.S. soldiers who served in overseas conflicts—from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan—share true stories of the actions that earned them some of America’s most distinguished military medals, up to and including the Medal of Honor. They never acted alone, but always in the spirit of camaraderie, patriotism, and for the good of our beloved country. There has never been a better time for all of us to think about duty, sacrifice, and what it means to be an American hero.

  • The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice by Simon Parkin

    The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice by Simon Parkin

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758400 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible ChoiceAuthor: Simon ParkinNarrator: Elliot FitzpatrickFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 45 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist * A New York Times Editors' Choice * From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life’s work to help end world hunger? In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad—now St. Petersburg—and began the longest blockade in recorded history, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly three-quarters of a million people. At the center of the besieged city stood a converted palace that housed the world’s largest collection of seeds—more than 250,000 samples hand-collected over two decades from all over the globe by world-famous explorer, geneticist, and dissident Nikolai Vavilov, who had recently been disappeared by the Soviet government. After attempts to evacuate the priceless collection failed and supplies dwindled amongst the three million starving citizens, the employes at the Plant Institute were left with a terrible choice. Should they save the collection? Or themselves? These were not just any seeds. The botanists believed they could be bred into heartier, disease-resistant, and more productive varieties suited for harsh climates, therefore changing the future of food production and preventing famines like those that had plagued their countrymen before. But protecting the seeds was no idle business. The scientists rescued potato samples under enemy fire, extinguished bombs landing on the seed bank’s roof, and guarded the collection from scavengers, the bitter cold, and their own hunger. Then in the war’s eleventh hour, Nazi plunderers presented a new threat to the collection
 Drawing from previously unseen sources, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin—who has “an inimitable capacity to find the human pulse in the underbelly of war” (The Spectator)—tells the incredible true story of the botanists who held their posts at the Plant Institute during the 872-day siege and the remarkable sacrifices they made in the name of science.

  • Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos by Keith Lowe

    Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos by Keith Lowe

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718662 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Naples 1944: War, Liberation and ChaosAuthor: Keith LoweNarrator: Jot DaviesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 26 minutesRelease date: October 11, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The Second World War destroyed countless cities in Europe and Asia. Naples 1944 is the story of the first major European city to be liberated by the Allies. The book describes not only what happened to Naples when the scourge of war lashed down upon it, but also, crucially, what happened next. This is the first major history of wartime Naples to appear in the English language. It fills a glaring gap in the British and American historiography of the war and shares a hoard of new stories – some of them truly shocking – that have never yet been published in any language. When the Allies arrived in late 1943, Naples had already suffered a brutal German occupation and suffered reprisals from the city’s heroic resistance and uprisings. This did not save it from the merciless Allied bombing. The city was on its knees with widespread suffering and squalor. Criminal gangs prospered, as did typhus, starvation and soaring prices on the black market. Much of the female population was forced into part-time prostitution simply to obtain food. Then Vesuvius erupted. Lowe’s gripping and powerful book places Naples right at the heart of Italian history. What happened in this city was not a mere sideshow to bigger events taking place further north, it was central to the story of the country as a whole. Neapolitans resisted Fascism just as the Florentines, the Bolognese, and the Milanese did. They suffered just as northerners did, and they longed as much for constitutional rebirth. The heroism and sacrifice that took place in Naples were harbingers of what would later happen throughout Italy – as were the compromise and corruption of ideals that came after the Allies took control. Naples 1944 is original and humane history at its very best, and a book which shows that Neapolitan story is the Italian story.

  • Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar by Max Hastings

    Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar by Max Hastings

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739122 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's RadarAuthor: Max HastingsNarrator: John Hopkins, Max HastingsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 33 minutesRelease date: October 8, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence—one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one of the most successful. In February 1942, RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed WĂŒrzburg. British intelligence proposed an assault to capture key components. Incredibly brave agents of the French Resistance risked their lives to probe the German defenses on the Normandy coast. Then a company of Airborne forces were dropped into France in the dead of night amid heavy snow. Launching their attack, the allied soldiers dismantled the German’s radar, and after three nail-biting hours and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time using landing-craft that carried them back across the stormy seas to Portsmouth. Operation Biting retells this dramatic operation through a gallery of amazing characters from Winston Churchill, who promoted the raid, to Lord Mountbatten, who commanded Combined Operations, to the brave unsung commandos who fought their way through enemy territory. A cliffhanger of a story that ratchets the suspense to the last page, Operation Biting sheds new light on an exciting and little-known chapter of the Second World War. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

  • Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones

    Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752241 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior KingAuthor: Dan JonesNarrator: Dan JonesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 41 minutesRelease date: October 1, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: 'Ambitious... With meticulous research and in lively style, Jones presents us with the man beyond the Shakespeare character.'—The New York Times “The best biography yet of England’s greatest king.'—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt, he is remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare deployed Henry V as a study in youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship. For one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite simply, “the greatest man who ever ruled England.” For Dan Jones, Henry V is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a hardened, sometimes brutal warrior, yet he was also creative and artistic, with a bookish temperament. He was a leader who made many mistakes, who misjudged his friends and family, but he always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, put down rebellions, and secured England’s borders; in foreign diplomacy, he made England a serious player once more. Yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses. Henry V is a historical titan whose legacy has become a complicated one. To understand the man behind the legend, Jones first examines Henry’s years of apprenticeship, when he saw the downfall of one king and the turbulent reign of another. Upon his accession in 1413, he had already been politically and militarily active for years, and his extraordinary achievements as king would come shortly after, earning him an unparalleled historical reputation. Writing with his characteristic wit and style, Jones delivers a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king.

  • Cassino '44: Five Months of Hell in Italy by James Holland

    Cassino '44: Five Months of Hell in Italy by James Holland

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735988 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Cassino '44: Five Months of Hell in ItalyAuthor: James HollandNarrator: Al MurrayFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 40 minutesRelease date: September 26, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943. And yet it didn't happen. Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard, thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War. By the start of 1944, the Allies found themselves coming up against the Gustav Line: a formidable barrier of wire, minefields, bunkers and booby traps, woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy where at its strongest point perched the Abbey of Monte Cassino. It would take five long bitter winter months and the onset of summer before the Allies could finally bludgeon their way north and capture Rome. By then, more than 75,000 troops and civilians had been killed and the historic abbey and entire towns and villages had been laid waste. Following a rich cast of characters from both sides - from frontline infantry to aircrew, from clerks to battlefield commanders, and from politicians and civilians caught up in the middle of the maelstrom - James Holland has drawn widely on diaries, letters and contemporary sources to write the definitive account of this brutal battle. The result is a compelling and often heart-breaking narrative, told in the moment, as the events played out, and from the perspective of those who lived, fought and died there. ‘Astonishingly thorough and meticulously researched; it should become a standard work on this campaign
A formidable achievement’ Telegraph 'James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign. He knows the ground intimately and expertly. In this gripping, beautifully written book, Holland breathes fresh life into the grim story of Cassino. Told from the perspectives of all the participants, packed with new insights and quality scholarship, Cassino 1944 makes a major contribution to our understanding of the fighting in Italy. Highest recommendation!' John C. McManus 'James Holland has given us another gripping historical narrative. This one unfolds from the grandeur of a palace turned wartime headquarters to a soon-to-be infamous Italian abbey that came to symbolize the complexities of the often-overshadowed Italian campaign. Holland writes with eloquence and power about the harsh realities of a brutal battle that grabbed the world’s attention and helped to decide the future of Italy' Professor Michael S. Neiberg ©2024 James Holland (P)2024 Penguin Audio

  • The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance by John Nichol

    The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance by John Nichol

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752013 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and RemembranceAuthor: John NicholNarrator: Michael FennerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 32 minutesRelease date: September 26, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: 'It is rare to find a tale so strange, intimate and human yet at the same time so enormous, so global in its importance. Yet again John Nichol impresses us with his ability to weave together the little details and the grand narrative' Dan Snow *** Over one million British Empire soldiers were killed during the First World War. More than a century later, more than half a million still have no known grave. The scale of the fighting, the destructive power of high explosive, and the combination of relentless military engagement and glutinous mud meant that many of the dead were never recovered or identified. Names were left without bodies, and bodies, or fragments of bodies, without names. In an emotional personal journey, Sunday Times bestselling author John Nichol uncovers the dramatic story of the Unknown Warrior who lies in Westminster Abbey, and our nation’s deep-seated need to honour and mourn the fallen. ‘A Soldier of the Great War Known Unto God.’ Rudyard Kipling In the aftermath of the First World War, an idea was born for a single ‘Unknown Warrior’ to commemorate every one of the missing, and help staunch the tidal flow of national grief. Echoed most recently by the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, each phase of his burial ceremony was choreographed with military precision, love, and respect. Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War prisoner-of-war John Nichol, retraces the Warrior’s journey home from the battlefields of Northern France to Westminster Abbey, talking to relatives of those involved and researching long-forgotten archives. How did the plan take shape? Who was this ‘unknown’ man? How was he chosen, and from where? What were the logistical challenges of repatriating a single body, whilst retaining its total anonymity? To help shine light on the 100-year-old story, John seeks out modern experts in battlefield trauma, the recovery of the slain, and the complexities of ceremonial interment on a grand scale. And speaking to those who have lost loved ones in more recent conflicts, he meditates upon our continuing need of a tangible resting place at which to truly grieve the fallen. Drawing on his own experience of military service and combat, Nichol explores the way individuals and nations have marked the sacrifice of their dead across the ages. Above all, The Unknown Warrior is a search for the true meaning of camaraderie, service and remembrance.

  • Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul by Saad Mohseni, Jenna Krajeski

    Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul by Saad Mohseni, Jenna Krajeski

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705862 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in KabulAuthor: Saad Mohseni, Jenna KrajeskiNarrator: Ramiz MonsefFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 26 minutesRelease date: September 24, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. In the heady early days of the American occupation, Mohseni returns to Kabul which he had last seen as a child before the Soviet invasion. Casting about for ways to be involved in the dawn of a new Afghanistan, Mohseni makes what seems like a quixotic decision to leave the comforts of a career in international banking to start a Kabul radio station with his three siblings. This unlikely venture quickly blossoms into a burgeoning television empire, bringing Mohseni and his family and employees into sometimes uncomfortable contact with everyone who has a stake in the country—from the government of Hamid Karzai to White House officials. Moreover, their radio and television networks soon become a necessary beacon for millions of Afghans, who rely on them not just for independent news but for joyful pleasures like soap operas and Afghan Star, a beloved national singing competition in a country whose previous rulers had banned (and would again ban) music. Mohseni’s position at Moby affords him unique insights into this extraordinary yet troubled country, the youngest in the world outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, and his powerful account captures the spirit and resilience of the Afghan people—notably the hundreds of men and women still working in Moby's Kabul office today, who, once again under Taliban rule, create programs, report the news, and educate the public. Radio Free Afghanistan is a stunning, vibrant portrait of a nation in turmoil, poised between despair and hope.

  • Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham

    Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737721 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War IIAuthor: Elyse GrahamNarrator: Saskia MaarleveldFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 54 minutesRelease date: September 24, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger, Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, letters, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war. Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis—a tale that reveals the indelible power of the humanities to change the world.

  • America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War by H. W. Brands

    America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War by H. W. Brands

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752249 to listen full audiobooks.Title: America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of WarAuthor: H. W. BrandsNarrator: Mark BramhallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 33 minutesRelease date: September 24, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh. Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 launched a momentous period of decision-making for the United States. With fascism rampant abroad, should America take responsibility for its defeat? For popular hero Charles Lindbergh, saying no to another world war only twenty years after the first was the obvious answer. Lindbergh had become famous and adored around the world after his historic first flight over the Atlantic in 1927. In the years since, he had emerged as a vocal critic of American involvement overseas, rallying Americans against foreign war as the leading spokesman the America First Committee. While Hitler advanced across Europe and threatened the British Isles, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt struggled to turn the tide of public opinion. With great effort, political shrewdness and outright deception—aided by secret British disinformation efforts in America—FDR readied the country for war. He pushed the US onto the world stage where it has stayed ever since. In this gripping narrative, H.W. Brands sheds light on a crucial tipping point in American history and depicts the making of a legendary president.

  • Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell

    Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752246 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and IntrigueAuthor: Sonia PurnellNarrator: Louise BrealeyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 58 minutesRelease date: September 17, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes – on both sides of the Atlantic - remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today. At age 20 Churchill’s beloved daughter-in-law became a “secret weapon” during World War II, strategically wining, dining, and seducing diplomats and generals to help win over American sentiment (and secrets) to the British cause against Hitler. After the war, she helped to transform Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli into Italy’s ‘uncrowned king’ on the international stage and after moving to the US brought a struggling Democratic party back to life, hand-picking Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulting him to the presidency. Picked as Ambassador to France, she deployed her legendary subtle powers to charm world leaders and help efforts to bring peace to Bosnia, playing her part in what was arguably the high-water mark of American global supremacy. There are few at any time who have operated as close to the center of power over five decades and two continents, and there is practically no one in 20th Century politics, culture, and fashion whose lives she did not touch, including the Kennedys, Truman Capote, Aly Khan, Kay Graham, Gloria Steinem, Ed Murrow, and Frank Sinatra. Written with the novelistic richness and investigative rigor that only Sonia Purnell could bring to this story full of sex, politics, yachts, palaces and fabulous clothes, KINGMAKER re-asserts Harriman’s rightful place at the heart of history. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of Pamela Harriman's life through images.

  • The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War by Tim Cook

    The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War by Tim Cook

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757156 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World WarAuthor: Tim CookNarrator: David FerryFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 27 minutesRelease date: September 17, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From our country's most important war historian, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and bound by an alliance that has lasted to this day. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, it set in motion a deadly struggle between the Axis powers and the Allies, but also fraught negotiations between and among the Allies. On questions of diplomacy, economic policy, industrial might, military capabilities, and even national sovereignty, thousands of lives and the fate of the free world depended on back-room deals and desperate trade-offs between soldiers, diplomats, and leaders. In North America, Canada and the US strained to forge a new military alliance to guard their coasts and fend off German U-boats and the menace of a Japanese invasion. Wartime economies were entwined to produce a staggering contribution of weapons to keep Britain and other allies in the war. The defence of North America against enemy threats was essential before the US and Canada could send armies, navies, and air forces overseas. In his trademark style, Tim Cook employs eyewitness accounts to vividly lay bare the brutality of combat and the courage of North Americans under fire. Behind the fighting fronts, the charged and often secret communications between national leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and King reveal how their personalities shaped the outcome of history’s most destructive war, the fate of the British Empire, and the North American alliance that lives on to this day. The Good Allies is a masterful account of how Canadians and Americans made the transition from wary rivals to steadfast allies, and how Canada thrived in the shadow of the military and global superpower. In exploring this complex and crucial dimension of the Second World War and its legacy, Cook recounts two nations’ story of cooperation, of sacrifice, and of bleeding together to save the world from the fascist threat.

  • Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray

    Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759627 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Arnhem: Black TuesdayAuthor: Al MurrayNarrator: Al MurrayFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 28 minutesRelease date: September 12, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher'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

  • A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II by Shannon Monaghan

    A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II by Shannon Monaghan

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739062 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War IIAuthor: Shannon MonaghanNarrator: George WeightmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 14 minutesRelease date: September 10, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: The untold story of four special operations officers who fought together behind enemy lines across multiple theaters of World War II, and then continued to serve, officially and unofficially, for decades after in the hottest parts of the Cold War There have always been special warriors; Achilles and his Myrmidons are the obvious classical examples. What we now think of as “special operations,” however, were born in World War II, and one of the earliest and most exciting units formed was Britain's SOE. In the early years of the war, when Britain stood alone against the Nazis, Winston Churchill put them on a mission to “set Europe ablaze”: to foment local revolt, to gather intelligence, to blow up bridges, and to do anything that could help to disrupt the Axis cause. A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men follows four SOE officers who distinguished themselves in this fight: the Spanish Civil War veteran Peter Kemp, the demolitions expert David Smiley, the born guerrilla leader Billy McLean, and the political natural Julian Amery. With new and extensive research, including unprecedented access to private family papers that reveal the men's unbreakable bonds and vibrant personalities, Shannon Monaghan has uncovered a story of war in the twentieth century that, due to the secretive nature of the SOE’s work, has remained largely unknown. A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men is a thrilling and inspiring story of four remarkable men who, through sheer determination and daring, as well as unwavering friendship and loyalty, fought for a better world. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing the Cast of Characters and Maps from the printed book.

  • Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses by M. G. Sheftall

    Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses by M. G. Sheftall

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739061 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hiroshima: The Last WitnessesSeries: #1 of EmbersAuthor: M. G. SheftallNarrator: Brian NishiiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 6 minutesRelease date: September 10, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024 The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors—in harrowing detail, to give a minute-by-minute report of August 6, 1945, in the leadup and aftermath of the world-changing bombing mission of Paul Tibbets, Enola Gay, and Little Boy. These survivors and witnesses, who now have an average age over ninety years old, are quite literally the last people who can still provide us with reliable and detailed testimony about life in their cities before the bombings, tell us what they experienced on the day those cities were obliterated, and give us some appreciation of what it has entailed to live with those memories and scars during the subsequent seventy-plus years. Sheftall has spent years personally interviewing survivors who lived well into the twenty-first century, allowing him to construct portraits of what Hiroshima was like before the bomb, and how catastrophically its citizens’ lives changed in the seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months, and years afterward. He stands out among historians due to his fluency in spoken and written Japanese, and his longtime immersion in Japanese society that has allowed him, a white American, the unheard-of access to these atomic bomb survivors in the waning years of their lives. Their trust in him is evident in the personal and traumatic depths they open up for him as he records their stories. Hiroshima should be required reading for the modern age. The personal accounts it contains will serve as cautionary tales about the horror and insanity of nuclear warfare, reminding them—it is hoped—that the world still lives with this danger at our doorstep.

  • Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac by Stephen W. Sears

    Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac by Stephen W. Sears

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753531 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the PotomacAuthor: Stephen W. SearsNarrator: James ConlanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 31 hours 35 minutesRelease date: September 10, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac “A masterful synthesis . . . A narrative about amazing courage and astonishing gutlessness . . . It explains why Union movements worked and, more often, didn’t work in clear-eyed explanatory prose that’s vivid and direct.” — Chicago Tribune The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President Lincoln oversaw, argued with, and finally tamed his unruly team of lieutenants as the eastern army was stabilized by an unsung supporting cast of corps, division, and brigade generals. With characteristic style and insight, Stephen Sears brings these courageous, determined officers, who rose through the ranks and led from the front, to life and legend. “[A] massive, elegant study . . . A staggering work of research by a masterly historian.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

  • Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy

    Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736992 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Chernobyl Roulette: A War StoryAuthor: Serhii PlokhyNarrator: Leighton PughFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 14 minutesRelease date: September 3, 2024Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Russian occupation of the plant had begun. It would last thirty-five days. Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation; plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women’s Day despite all odds; Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors; and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook. Gripping and unforgettable, Chernobyl Roulette sounds the alarm about the dangers of nuclear sites in an unprecedented time, when plant workers are left to fight on their own while the world holds its breath. In a book that reads like a thriller, Serhii Plokhy tells a remarkable story about human nature, uncertainty and courage. 'A necessary book – and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it' Cal Flyn © Serhii Plokhy 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

  • The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War by Phillips Payson O'brien

    The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War by Phillips Payson O'brien

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757605 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made WarAuthor: Phillips Payson O'brienNarrator: Justin PriceFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 9 minutesRelease date: August 27, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: MilitaryPublisher's Summary: Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill's experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him unwilling to send masses of British soldiers back there in the 1940s, while Hitler's mistakes on the Eastern Front were influenced by his reluctance to accept that conditions had changed since his own time fighting. The implications of the power of leaders remain with us to this day: to truly understand what is happening in Ukraine, for example, requires us to know what has influenced the leaders involved. This is a history in which leaders—and their choices—matter. For better or worse.

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