New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Chinese] - General Li GuangBi Author: Yunlei Jia Narrator: Yunlei Jia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 31, 1969 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Li Guangbi, the martyr's descendant, didn't behave like an ordinary child since his childhood. From a young age, he excelled in horsemanship and archery. He had a stern and resolute character, rarely smiling or joking. People felt a sense of awe upon seeing him, and everyone in the military knew he was a promising young talent with great ambitions. After the death of Li Kailuo, Li Guangbi inherited his father's title. He served under Wang Zhongsi, the Military Governor of Hexi, as the commander of the cavalry and the leader of the Chishui Army. Wang Zhongsi had a keen eye for talent and treated Li Guangbi differently. He often said, 'In the future, the one who can lead my troops can only be Guangbi.' Due to his repeated military achievements in defeating the Tubo and Tuyuhun forces, the Tang court promoted Li Guangbi to General of Cloud Banners. At that time, An Sishun, the Military Governor of Shuofang, recommended Li Guangbi as his deputy and entrusted him with the management of military logistics. Due to Li Guangbi's talents and straightforwardness, An Sishun wanted to arrange a marriage between his daughter and Li Guangbi. However, Li Guangbi declined, claiming he was unwell, thus avoiding this marriage proposal. This indicates that Li Guangbi had a strategic vision from the beginning of his career and aimed to avoid entanglement in the webs of power and relationships among influential officials and generals. This way, he could remain devoted to the court and resist personal temptations and favors. His rival, Ge Shuhan, who had a strained relationship with An Sishun, learned about this and admired Li Guangbi's principles. At that time, An Lushan and An Sishun held significant power, making it nearly impossible for ordinary people to curry favor with them. Li Guangbi's unwavering integrity and determination set him apart. In response, Ge Shuhan praised Li Guangbi's exceptional integrity and submitted a petition to the court, bringing Li Guangbi to the capital as a military officer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King Author: Dan Jones Narrator: Dan Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher'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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742177 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator’s Search for the Unexplained Author: Stanley Milford, Jr. Narrator: Duane Minard, Stanley Milford, Jr. Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: *A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!* A Navajo Ranger’s chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained in Navajoland As a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent, Stanley Milford Jr. grew up in a world where the supernatural was both expected and taboo, where shapeshifters roamed, witchcraft was a thing to be feared, and children were taught not to whistle at night.  In his youth, Milford never went looking for the paranormal, but it always seemed to find him. When he joined the fabled Navajo Rangers—a law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation who are equal parts police officers, archeological conservationists, and historians—the paranormal became part of his job. Alongside addressing the mundane duties of overseeing the massive 27,000-square-mile reservation, Milford was assigned to utterly bizarre and shockingly frequent cases involving mysterious livestock mutilations, skinwalker and Bigfoot sightings, UFOs, and malicious hauntings. In The Paranormal Ranger, Milford recounts the stories of these cases from the clinical and deductive perspective of a law enforcement officer. Milford’s Native American worldview and investigative training collide to provide an eerie account of what logic dictates should not be possible.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands Author: Amir Tibon Narrator: Amir Tibon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The gripping true story of how leading Israeli journalist Amir Tibon, along with his wife and their two young children, were rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023 by Tibon’s own father—an incredible tale of survival that also reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures that led to Hamas’s attacks that day.   On the morning of October 7, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli community less than a mile from Gaza City. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family’s reinforced safe room, urging them not to cry as gunfire echoed just outside the door. With his cell phone battery running low, Amir texted his father: “The girls are behaving really well, but I’m worried they’ll lose patience soon and Hamas will hear us.”   Some 45 miles north, Amir’s parents had just cut short an early morning swim along the shores of Tel Aviv. Now, they jumped in their Jeep and sped toward Nahal Oz, armed only with a pistol but intent on saving their family at all costs.   In The Gates of Gaza, Amir Tibon tells this harrowing story in full for the first time. He describes his family's ordeal—and the bravery that ultimately led to their rescue—alongside the histories of the place they call home and the systems of power that have kept them and their neighbors in Gaza in harm’s way for decades.    Woven throughout is Tibon's own expertise as a longtime international correspondent, as well as more than thirty original interviews: with residents of his kibbutz, with the Israeli soldiers who helped to wrest it from the hands of Hamas, and with experts on Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the failed peace process. More than one family's odyssey, The Gates of Gaza is the intimate story of a tight-knit community and the broader saga of war, occupation, and hostility between two national movements—a conflict that has not yet extinguished the enduring hope for peace.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them Author: Ekow Eshun Narrator: Ekow Eshun, Ako Mitchell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 19, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Richly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in their own right but the representative of a type. What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? And what happens beneath the mask? In answer, Ekow Eshun conjures the voices of five very different men. Ira Aldridge: nineteenth century actor and playwright. Matthew Henson: polar explorer. Frantz Fanon: psychiatrist and political philosopher. Malcolm X: activist leader. Justin Fashanu: million-pound footballer. Each a trailblazer in his field. Each haunted by a sense of isolation and exile. Each reaching for a better future. Ekow Eshun tells their stories with breathtaking lyricism and empathy, capturing both the hostility and the beauty they experienced in the world. And he locates them within a wider landscape of Black art, culture, history and politics which stretches from Africa to Europe to North America and the Caribbean. As he moves through this landscape, he maps its thematic contours and fault lines, uncovering traces of the monstrous and the fantastic, of exile and escape, of conflict and vulnerability, and of the totemic central figure of the stranger. 'Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book' Bernardine Evaristo 'Luminous and extraordinary... This book will be referenced for years to come' Lemn Sissay ©2024 Ekow Eshun (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War Author: David S. Brown Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War. The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises—the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or “a house divided,” as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South. The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains—the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash. In the bill’s wake the conservative Whig Party (winners of multiple presidential elections) collapsed, and the radical Republican Party was born—in six years it would take control of the central government, provoking Southern secession. In A Hell of a Storm, Brown brings history to life in a way that resonates with the events of present. Through chapters on Lincoln, Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Tubman, along with a cast of presidents, poets, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Brown weaves a political, cultural, and literary history that chronicles the Republican party’s creation and rise, the collapse of antebellum compromises, and the coming of the Civil War, all topics that mirror current discussions about polarization in our nation today. By illuminating the personalities and the platforms, the writings and ideas that upended an older America and made space for its successor, A Hell of a Storm reminds us that American history is always being made, and it can be both dynamic and dangerous, both then and now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sage Warrior: Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory Series: Part of The Revolutionary Love Project Author: Valarie Kaur Narrator: Harjit 'dolly' Kaur Brar, Valarie Kaur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Profound inner wisdom for courageous action—from the author of See No Stranger and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, a “prophetic voice of our generation” (America Ferrera) How do we find the wisdom to envision a new world and the courage to fight for it? How do we survive seemingly apocalyptic times? In a world on fire, how do we find love and joy? We are not the first to ask these questions—in fact, seeking answers to them forged one of the world's great wisdom traditions. In a time riven by caste, conquest, and cruelty, Sikhs blazed the path of the sant sipahi, the sage warrior. The sage radiates love and Oneness; the warrior activates that ethical power to fight for humanity. These energies empowered the first Sikhs to survive near-annihilation in South Asia nearly half a millennium ago. The sage warrior is the essential archetype for our time of turmoil—one we can all embody to cultivate our souls and transform the world. Valarie Kaur combines the epic, immersive story of her Sikh ancestors—centering the stories of the women who worked to map the path of the sage warrior—with the chronicle of a personal journey: her pilgrimage with her young  children to the Panjab, India, where the stories unfolded, an occasionally comic adventure woven with sublime moments of connection and insight. Each chapter offers a lesson that emerges from the stories—from practicing pleasure to metabolizing grief to choosing courage. Sage Warrior shimmers with wisdom: Every story is accompanied by meditations, illuminating new ways of seeing and being. This journey is for anyone—from any faith tradition or spiritual practice or none at all—who hungers for a better world and is ready to discover the depth of their own power. This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains an illustrated map of Punjab, an ancestral tree, a family photo, a glossary, and acknowledgments from the printed book.

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 Potomac Author: Stephen W. Sears Narrator: James Conlan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher'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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner Author: Russell Shoatz Narrator: Kanya D'almeida, Avery Kidd Waddell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way. Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the most militant units of the Black Liberation Army. Shoatz was convicted to life in prison following a coordinated attack on a park police station that left one guard dead.The prison walls, however, could not deter Shoatz’s battle for personal and collective freedom. He escaped state prisons twice, making him a living legend, and endowed him with the moniker “Maroon,” once used to honor runaway slaves from plantations. He survived 22 years in solitary confinement, prompting an international campaign for his freedom. I Am Maroon charts a life of dizzying intrigue and a long struggle for liberation. With an unforgettable voice, Maroon reminds us that we too are capable of radical change, leaving us a blueprint for how we might dedicate our lives and minds to the ongoing fight for freedom.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Survive the School Year: An essential guide for stressed-out grown-ups Author: Adam Parkinson, Lee Parkinson Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Let the Sunday Times bestselling authors and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast) lead you through the school year… Does the phrase ‘back to school’ fill you with dread? Or does it bring delight … until you see the size of your September to-do list? Can you really be expected to keep track of next Thursday’s swimming, spelling and singing club? Not to mention the PTA-sponsored bounce! From the autumn harvest festival to the summer sports day, the academic year is a non-stop frenzy of planning, preparation and potential chaos, whichever side of the school gates you find yourself. But now Britain’s best-loved teachers and podcast hosts Lee and Adam Parkinson are here to make it all that little bit easier as they share the hilarious trials, tribulations and tomfoolery going on inside our primary schools. Whether you’re a fatigued parent or a frazzled teacher – or just want a good laugh! – grab your back-to-school essentials, find your desk and get ready to learn what NOT to do in the year ahead. Don’t just survive the school year – thrive!

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 War Author: Phillips Payson O'brien Narrator: Justin Price Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher'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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs Narrator: Alexis Pauline Gumbs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024 Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre’s fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split the continents, to reach you, wherever you are. Audre Lorde was a survivor: of childhood disability injustice, of her best friend’s suicide, of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear arms. A mother who knew poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And, ultimately, a cancer survivor, who understood the war going on within her cells was connected to the struggle against oppression taking place all around her. This stunning new account of Lorde’s life and work illuminates how, for Lorde, survival was not simply about getting through, or about resilience. It was about how to live on, and with, a planet in transformation. Lorde’s commitment to justice was intimately connected to her deep engagement with the natural world; with the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For Lorde, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be on earth, and how to live fully as a Black feminist lesbian warrior poet. In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Audre Lorde. Her life and work swell to become a cosmic force, showing us the grand possibility of life together on earth. ©2024 Alexis Pauline Gumbs (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War Author: Barry Werth Narrator: Stephen Graybill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “riveting” (The Economist), “gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years. John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War II years who, like other Yale grads, was recruited by the CIA. He joined the Agency and was sent to Japan in 1952, during the Korean War. In a violation of protocol, he took part in an air drop that failed and was captured over China. His sources on the ground had been compromised, and his identity was known. Although he first tried to deny who he was, he eventually admitted the truth. But government policy forbade ever acknowledging the identity of spies, no matter the consequences. Washington invented a fictitious cover story and stood by it for four administrations. As a result, Downey was imprisoned during the decades that Red China, as it was called, was considered by the US to be a hostile nation, until 1972, when the US finally recognized the mainland Chinese government. He had spent twenty-one years in captivity. Downey would go on to become a lawyer and an esteemed judge in Connecticut, his home state. Prisoner of Lies is based in part on a prison memoir that Downey wrote several years after his release. Barry Werth fluently weaves excerpts from the memoir with the Cold War events that determined Downey’s fate. Like a le Carré novel, this is a “thrilling, richly informative” (Stephen Kinzer, author of The Brothers) story of one man whose life is at the mercy of larger forces outside of his control; in Downey’s case as a pawn of the Cold War, and more specifically the Oval Office and the State Department. His freedom came only when US foreign policy dramatically changed. Above all, Prisoner of Lies is an inspiring story of remarkable fortitude and resilience.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Teacher Man: Diaries of Life Inside a Primary School Author: George Pointon Narrator: George Pointon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: I asked my Year 1 class, ‘What’s the best thing that’s ever happened to you?’ George Pointon asks his class a lot of questions. What do you want to be when you grow up? What do you reckon your parents do while you’re at school? Can you put that down, please? JJ, the stapler – can you put it down? He’s also got a few for himself: what is he doing here? Who was he kidding, thinking he could teach? But the course of true professional fulfilment never did run smooth, and there’s no backing out now. In this book, George takes us along on his first year inside the messy, magical world of primary school teaching. In the company of five-year-olds – who are somehow wisdom, innocence and chaos incarnate – there is always lots to be learned.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757617 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich Author: Richard J. Evans Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too long, the Nazis have been presented as little more than psychopaths or criminals. In his major new work, renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use of a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from the faces of the Third Reich and present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us. Evans offers rounded, fresh and often startling new portraits of the men and women who created and served Nazi Germany, beginning with Hitler himself and going on to encompass leading figures like Göring, Goebbels and Himmler, enforcers of Hitler’s orders such as Eichmann and Heydrich, propagandists like Leni Riefenstahl, low-level perpetrators such as the notorious Irma Grese and unknown sympathizers and fellow-travellers who helped the regime in myriad ways. Hitler’s People is a chilling, brilliantly written work which allows the reader to understand the texture and values of the Third Reich and just how far individuals will go when so many normal moral constraints have disappeared. ©2024 Richard J. Evans (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Crown that Lasts: You Are Not Your Label Author: Demi-Leigh Tebow Narrator: Demi-Leigh Tebow, Tim Tebow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. In A Crown that Lasts, former Miss Universe and Miss South Africa Demi Tebow confesses the danger of tying our identities to our accomplishments. Discover the truth of who you were created to be and how to use your platform, no matter how big or small, for eternal impact. On this earth, a crown is what separates victors from the rest of the competitors, but the goal of creating a life worth living is not to gain a trophy, get a prize, or keep the crown. Our lives are not meant to be about being number one or making our own names known. While walking you through the journey of her evolving confidence—from basing her identity on temporary labels and her own efforts, to discovering the rock-solid security of anchoring her dreams in her Maker—Demi weaves her story together with the insights she's learned along the way. A Crown that Lasts will show you how to - Relate to the discomfort, confusion, and doubt that arises when you base your confidence on external things, - Discover God-confidence when your plans take unexpected detours, - Know what do when planted in unknown territory, - Use your story to grow an eternal impact, and - Stay grounded in the truth of who you are in Christ.   The purpose of our lives is to love and serve God and others. Demi shows how you can be encouraged to focus not just on your aspirations, but on your greater purpose and leave behind a footprint of significance, not just success.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich Author: Richard J Evans Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive.” —Wall Street Journal “Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the larger context . . . Just the kind of probing, nuanced and unsparing study to help us think things through.” —The New York Times Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radiated out from Hitler to the inner and outer circles of the regime’s leadership, one of our greatest historians answers the enduring question, how does a society come to carry out a program of unspeakable evil? Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler’s People, he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement: namely, the lives of its most important members. Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Evans forms a typological framework of Germany society under Nazi rule from the top down. With a novelist’s eye for detail, Evans explains the Third Reich through the personal failings and professional ambitions of its members, from its most notorious deputies—like Goebbels, the regime’s propagandist, and Himmler, the Holocaust’s chief architect—to the crucial enforcers and instruments of the Nazi agenda that history has largely forgotten—like the schoolteacher Julius Streicher and the actress Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing on a wealth of recently unearthed historical sources, Hitler’s People lays bare the inner and outer lives of the characters whose choices led to the deaths of millions. Nearly a century after Hitler’s rise, the leading nations of the West are once again being torn apart by a will to power. By telling the stories of these infamous lives as human lives, Evans asks us to grapple with the complicated nature of complicity, showing us that the distinctions between individual and collective responsibility—and even between pathological evil and rational choice—are never easily drawn.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Suicide Author: Huey P. Newton Narrator: Fredrika Newton, C.T. Hayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicide is unrepentant and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760211 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER - Discover the truth behind the headlines Author: Robert Jobson Narrator: Lucy Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HEADLINES, THE REVELATORY ROYAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR From the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal correspondent, Robert Jobson - with his extensive connections within the royal household - this revelatory new biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today. Kate Middleton's life's story seems like a modern-day fairy-tale. An attractive, clever, and ambitious girl from unexceptional beginnings meets and falls in love with a wealthy prince destined to be King when they are both university undergraduates. Now, with the British monarchy in transition, Catherine is Princess of Wales and is set to become Queen. Since her wedding on 29 April 2011, Catherine has endeared herself to the people of the UK, the Commonwealth and worldwide on her extensive travels, with her infectious smile, sense of style and down-to-earth nature. Her self-deprecation, willingness to laugh at herself, solid work-ethic - along with her husband, William, warmth, and accessibility - this royal family's dynamic duo have become the most popular members of the Royal Family. But it's not come without its fair share of commentary and scandal, particularly with recent revelations on the relationship of the 'Fab Four' with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as well as her own health scares. As interest in the royals continues to gain legions of new, younger fans, there is increasing interest in their histories and back stories of the principal players in this story. This book aims to discover, through talking to close sources both on and off the record within the royal household, what has made Catherine the woman she is today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721840 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune Series: Part of Significations Author: Noliwe Rooks Narrator: Danielle Lee James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is the only Black American whose statue stands in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol, and yet for most, she remains a marble figure from the dim past. Now, seventy years later, Noliwe Rooks turns Bethune from stone to flesh, showing her to have been a visionary leader with lessons to still teach us as we continue on our journey toward a freer and more just nation. Any serious effort to understand how the Black civil rights generation found role models, vision, and inspiration during their midcentury struggle for political power must place Bethune at its heart. Her success was unlikely: the fifteenth of seventeen children and the first born into freedom, Bethune survived brutal poverty and caste subordination to become the first in her family to learn how to read and to attend college. She gave that same gift to others when in 1904, at age twenty-nine, Bethune welcomed her first class of five girls to the Daytona, Florida, school she had founded and which would become the university that bears her name to this day. Bethune saw education as an essential dimension of the larger struggle for freedom, vitally connected to the vote and to economic self-sufficiency, and she enlisted Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many other powerful leaders in her cause. Rooks grew up in Florida, in Bethune’s shadow: her grandmother trained to be a teacher at Bethune-Cookman University, and her family vacationed at the all-Black beach that Bethune helped found in one of her many community empowerment projects. The story of how Bethune succeeded in a state with some of the highest lynching rates in the country is, in Rooks’s hands, a moving and astonishing example of the power of a mind and a vision that had few equals. Now, when the stakes of the long struggle for full Black equality in this country are particularly evident—and centered on the state of Florida—it is a gift to have this brilliant and lyrical reckoning with Bethune’s journey from one of our own great educators and scholars of that same struggle.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/727957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking Author: Laila Mickelwait Narrator: Laila Mickelwait Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The gripping, true story of one woman’s battle to expose and shut down a criminal online porn empire. Pornhub was the 10th most visited site on the Internet, often praised as a progressive champion of women. Then one day, an activist discovered a secret they had been keeping from the world for over a decade: it was infested with child sexual abuse and rape videos. Now for the first time, anti-trafficking expert and mother of two Laila Mickelwait tells the story of her battle against Pornhub’s billionaire executives and the credit card companies who helped them monetize the abuse of countless victims—some as young as three years old. Readers will follow her from her first horrifying discovery of criminal content on Pornhub to closed-door meetings with credit card executives, White House and Justice Department senior officials, a powerful hedge-fund manager and more. Through insider accounts from Pornhub moderators and executives, you’ll meet the world’s first online porn tycoon, AKA “the Zuckerberg of porn,” along with Pornhub’s top brass (known internally as “The Bro Club”) who operate in secrecy. The culmination of years of activism, Takedown is the true, never before told story of how Mickelwait mobilized a movement of two million people and together they accomplished 'the biggest takedown of content in Internet history.' (Financial Times)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire Author: Kevin Loring, Peter Edwards Narrator: Kevin Loring, Wayne Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, the BC town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone. “It’s dire,” Greta Thunberg retweeted Mayor Jan Polderman. “The whole town is on fire. It took a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere.” Before it made global headlines as the small town that burned down during a record-breaking heat wave in June 2021, while briefly the hottest place on Earth, Lytton, British Columbia, had a curious past. Named for the author of the infamous line, “It was a dark and stormy night,” Lytton was also where Peter Edwards, organized-crime journalist and author spent his childhood. Although only about 500 people lived in Lytton, Peter liked to joke that he was only the second-best writer to come from his tiny hometown. His grade-school classmate’s nephew Kevin Loring, Nlaka’pamux from Lytton First Nation, had grown up to be a Governor General’s Award–winning playwright.         The Nlaka’pamux called Lytton “The Centre of the World,” a view Buddhists would share in the late twentieth century, as they set up a temple just outside town. A gold rush in 1858 saw conflict with a wave of Californians come to a head with the Canyon War at the junction of the mighty Fraser and Thompson rivers. The Nlaka’pamux lost over thirty lives in that conflict, as did the American gold seekers. In modern times, many outsiders would seek shelter there, often people who just didn’t fit anywhere else and were hoping for a little anonymity in the mountains.         Told from the shared perspective of an Indigenous playwright and the journalist son of a settler doctor who pushed back against the divisions that existed between populations, Lytton portrays all the warmth, humour and sincerity of small-town life. A colourful little town that burned to the ground could be every town’s warning if we don’t take seriously what this unique place has to teach us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Bamboo Curtain: Understanding America's Invisible Minority Author: Dr. Michael Soon Lee Narrator: Dr. Michael Soon Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This unique and informative book provides well-documented but little-known facts that will give listeners a deeper understanding of the cultural experience of Asians in America. Michael Soon Lee powerfully reveals how he overcame prejudice and discrimination to achieve success despite these obstacles. Shedding light on the diverse Asian American experience mostly absent from history books and the media . . . or distorted by stereotypes such as the myth of the 'model minority,' this book illuminates the many facets of Asian Americans lives and strives to educate to help reduce violence and anti-Asian sentiment. This work is a must-listen for those seeking to understand and shed hidden prejudices toward Asians in America who could be your boss, coworker, or neighbor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First Emperor of China Author: Jonathan Clements Narrator: Kathleen Li Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century . . . Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First Emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors. He faked a foreign threat to justify an invasion. He ruled a nation under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He ordered his interrogators to torture suspects. He boiled his critics alive. He buried dissenting scholars. He declared war on death itself. Jonathan Clements uses modern archaeology and ancient texts to outline the First Emperor's career and the grand schemes that followed unification: the Great Wall that guarded his frontiers and the famous Terracotta Army that watches over his tomb. This revised edition includes updates from a further decade of publications, archaeology and fictional adaptations, plus the author's encounter with Yang Zhifa, the man who discovered the Terracotta Army.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and Migration Author: Jessica Goudeau Narrator: Jessica Goudeau Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An award-winning author's deep exploration of pivotal moments in Texas history through multiple generations of her own family, and a ruthless reexamination of our national and personal myths Seven generations of Jessica Goudeau’s family have lived in Texas, and her family’s legacy—a word she heard often growing up—was rooted in faith, right-living, and the hard work that built their great state. It wasn’t until her aunt mentioned a stowaway ancestor and she began to dig more deeply into the story of the land she lives on today in suburban Austin, that Goudeau discovered her family’s far more complicated role in Texas history: from a swindling land grant agent in the earliest days of Anglo settlement that brought slavery to Mexican land, up through her Texas Ranger great-uncle, who helped a sociopathic sheriff cover up mass murder.  Tracking her ancestors’ involvement in pivotal moments from before the Texas Revolution through today, We Were Illegal is at once an intimate and character-driven narrative and an insider’s look at a state that prides itself on its history. It is an act of reckoning and recovery on a personal scale, as well as a reflection of the work we all must do to dismantle the whitewashed narratives that are passed down through families, communities, and textbooks. And it is a story filled with hope—by facing these hypocrisies and long-buried histories, Goudeau explores with us how to move past this fractured time, take accountability for our legacy, and learn to be better, more honest ancestors. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with a family tree.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life Author: Eric Weiner Narrator: Eric Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Part biography, part travelogue, part self-help, New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiration and practical lessons for living a purposeful and virtuous life. Ben Franklin lingers in our lives and in our imaginations. One of only two non-presidents to appear on US currency, Franklin was a founder, statesman, scientist, inventor, diplomat, publisher, humorist, and philosopher. He believed in the American experiment, but Ben Franklin’s greatest experiment was…Ben Franklin. In that spirit of betterment, Eric Weiner embarks on an ambitious quest to live the way Ben lived. “A warm combination of homage and introspective memoir” (Kirkus Reviews), Ben & Me is a guide to living and thinking well, as Ben Franklin did. It is also about curiosity, respect for virtue, and, most of all, the elusive goal of self-improvement. As Weiner follows Franklin from Philadelphia to Paris, Boston to London, he attempts to uncover Ben’s life lessons, large and small. We learn how to improve a relationship with someone by inducing them to do a favor for you—a psychological phenomenon now known as The Ben Franklin Effect. We learn about the printing press (the internet of its day), early medicine, diplomatic intrigue, and, of course, electricity. And we learn about ethics, persuasion, humor, regret, appetite, and so much more. At a time when history is either neglected or contested, Weiner argues we have much to learn from the past and that we’d all be better off if we acted and thought a bit more like Ben did, even if he didn’t always live up to his own high ideals. Engaging, smart, moving, and quirky, Ben & Me distills the essence of Franklin’s ideas into grounded, practical wisdom for all of us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew Author: Dr. Stephen D. Engle Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: Widely known as the 'poor man's lawyer' in antebellum Boston, John Albion Andrew (1818–1867) was involved in nearly every cause and case that advanced social and racial justice in Boston in the years preceding the Civil War. Inspired by the legacies of John Quincy Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mentored by Charles Sumner, Andrew devoted himself to the battle for equality. By day, he fought to protect those condemned to the death penalty, women seeking divorce, and fugitives ensnared by the Fugitive Slave Law. By night, he coordinated logistics and funding for the Underground Railroad as it ferried enslaved African Americans northward. In this revealing and accessible biography, Stephen D. Engle traces Andrew's life and legacy, giving this important, but largely forgotten, figure his due. Rising to national prominence during the Civil War years as the governor of Massachusetts, Andrew raised the African American regiment known as the Glorious 54th and rallied thousands of soldiers to the Union cause. Upon his sudden death in 1867, a correspondent for Harper's Weekly wrote, 'Not since the news came of Abraham Lincoln's death were so many hearts truly smitten.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765272 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition) Author: Elleke Boehmer Narrator: Zoleka Vundla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today. Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela's life, explaining first the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and then the post-apartheid period of difficult reconciliation, including the shifts and changes in Mandela's reputation since the millennium. This innovative postcolonial reflection takes on board the more critical revisionist literature on Mandela that has emerged since 2015, looking at responses to his death in 2013, and the 2018 commemorations of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The first edition set a trend in scholarship on Mandela by reading his character and achievements through the lens of his influences, interests, and leading ideas. The second edition extends this focus with a far-reaching critical look at meanings of reconciliation and Mandela's ethic of reciprocity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution Author: Richard Brookhiser Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment John Trumbull (1756–1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand—he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was 'to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man.' Although Trumbull's contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian. Richard Brookhiser tells Trumbull's story of acclaim and recognition, a story complicated by provincialism, war, a messy personal life, and, ultimately, changing fashion. He shows how the artist's fifty-year project embodied the meaning of American exceptionalism and played a key role in defining the values of the new country. Trumbull depicted the story of self-rule in the modern world—a story as important and as contested today as it was 250 years ago.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Klansman's Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism Author: R. Derek Black Narrator: R. Derek Black Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the former heir apparent to White nationalism, an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear, and of breaking from a community of hateDerek Black was raised to take over the White nationalist movement in the United States. Derek’s father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s first White supremacist website—Derek built the kids’ page—and David Duke was a mentor. Racist hatred, though often wrapped up in respectability and American history, was all Derek knew. It was their inheritance, their community, their identity. Then, while in college in 2013, Derek publicly renounced White nationalism and apologized for their actions and the suffering that they had caused. The majority of their family stopped speaking to Derek, and they disappeared into academia, convinced that they had done so much harm that there was no place for them in public life. But in 2016, as Derek watched the rise of Donald Trump, they recognized language and arguments they had once helped cultivate—and they knew that they couldn’t stay silent. The Klansman’s Son is a thoughtful, insightful, and moving account of a singular life, with important lessons for our contentious times. The place where Derek’s world turned upside down—New College of Florida—has become a prominent battleground in the fight over race, gender, and education, and few understand the ideology, motivations, or tactics of the White nationalist movement likeDerek. As coded language and creeping authoritarianism spread the ideas of White nationalists, this is an essential book from a powerful voice.“Your family or your soul? That is what the choice finally came down to for Derek Black, whose searching memoir has much to teach us all. Surprises and insights abound in this page-turner composed with candor and grace. For instance, why do White power recruiters focus on those who say, ‘I’m not a racist, but … ’? The Klansman’s Son is a must-read for all who hunger for hope in these cruel times.”—Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America and Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War Author: Erik Larson Narrator: Will Patton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times). On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fuelled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter – a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were ‘so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them’. At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardour at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between both. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous Secretary of State, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable – one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink – a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor Series: Part of Ancient Lives Author: Philip Freeman Narrator: Jonathan Johns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports—but what if it hadn't been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip Freeman in Julian, an appealing new entry in Yale's Ancient Lives series, which tells the story of the old faith's last imperial torchbearer.'—Anna Heyward, New York Times Book Review Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Julian fought to return Rome to the old gods who had led his ancestors to build their vast empire. As emperor, Julian set about reforming the administration, conquering new territories, and reviving ancient religions. He was scorned in his time for repudiating Christianity and demonized as an apostate for willfully rejecting Christ. Through the centuries, Julian has been viewed by many as a tragic figure who sought to save Rome from its enemies and the corrupting influence of Christianity. Christian writers and historians have seen Julian much differently: as a traitor to God and violent oppressor of Christians. Had Julian not been killed by a random Persian spear, he might well have changed all of history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beacon Bike: Around England and Wales in 327 Lighthouses Author: Edward Peppett Narrator: Edward Peppitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Beacon Bike is the inspirational tale of one man's quest to fulfil the promise he made to himself as a small child, nestled in the bed of an attic room while the glow of Dungeness lighthouse flashed past his window - a comforting, ever-present companion. It is also a loving tribute to the coast; not only its beautiful landscape, but also the communities that make it so special. It celebrates the generosity of spirit found in people around the the country, as well as the history of the iconic lights that brighten their world. This journey is a testament to the joy of life's simple pleasures. A warm welcome at the end of a long day. The fire of a child's imagination, rekindled in later life. The power of a light that pierces the darkness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest’s Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan Author: Naoko Abe Narrator: Ami Okumura Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish monk named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered in Auschwitz. Kolbe's life had been remarkable. Fiercely intelligent and driven, he founded a movement of Catholicism and spent several years in Nagasaki, ministering to the 'hidden Christians' who had emerged after centuries of oppression. A Polish nationalist as well as a monk, he gave sanctuary to fleeing refugees and ran Poland's largest publishing operation, drawing the wrath of the Nazis. His death was no less remarkable: he volunteered to die, saving the life of a fellow prisoner. It was an act that profoundly transformed the lives of two Japanese men. Tomei Ozaki was just seventeen when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, destroying his home and his family. Masatoshi Asari worked on a farm in Hokkaido during the war and was haunted by the inhumane treatment of prisoners in a nearby camp. Forged in the crucible of an unforgiving war, both men drew inspiration from Kolbe's sacrifice, dedicating their lives to humanity and justice. In The Martyr and the Red Kimono, award-winning author Naoko Abe weaves together a deeply moving and inspirational true story of resistance, sacrifice, guilt and atonement. ©2024 Naoko Abe (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King Author: Patrick Olivelle Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vastly heterogeneous empire not by a cult of personality but by the cult of an idea—'dharma'—which served as the linchpin of a new moral order. He aspired to forge a new moral philosophy that would be internalized not only by the people of his empire but also by rulers and subjects of other countries, and would form the foundation for his theory of international relations, in which practicing dharma would bring international conflicts to an end. His fame spread far and wide both in India and in other parts of Asia, and it prompted diverse reimaginations of the king and his significance. In this deeply researched book, Patrick Olivelle draws on Ashoka's inscriptions and on the art and architecture he pioneered to craft a detailed picture of Ashoka as a ruler, a Buddhist, a moral philosopher, and an ecumenist who governed a vast multiethnic, multilinguistic, and multireligious empire.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Ian Buruma Narrator: Lee Beddow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an all-seeing God. Seen by many as Satan's disciple during his lifetime, Spinoza has been regarded as a secular saint since his death. Many contradictory beliefs have been attached to his name: rationalism or metaphysics, atheism or pantheism, liberalism or despotism, Jewishness or anti-Semitism. However, there is no question that he viewed freedom of thought and speech as essential to an open and free society. In this insightful account, the award-winning author Ian Buruma stresses the importance of the time and place that shaped Spinoza, beginning with the Sephardim of Amsterdam and followed by the politics of the Dutch Republic. Though Spinoza rejected the basic assumptions of his family's faith, and was consequently expelled from his Sephardic community, Buruma argues that Spinoza did indeed lead a modern Jewish life. To Heine, Hess, Marx, Freud, and no doubt many others today, Spinoza exemplified how to be Jewish without believing in Judaism. His defense of universal freedom is as important for our own time as it was in his.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Testing Education: A Teacher's Memoir Author: Kathy Greeley Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 8, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-­style evaluations, and top-­down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively critiqued by scholars and commentators. Yet one crucial voice has been missing. In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Headstrap: Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling Author: Deepa Balsavar, Nandini Purandare Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This captivating chronicle delves into the untold story of a tribe of people who have played a significant role in mountain exploration and climbing in the Himalayas. Situated in northern India, Darjeeling was developed as a colonial retreat by the British in the early 1830s and soon became famous for its tea gardens, attracting locals from around the region, Nepal, and Tibet in search of work. When Darjeeling became the jumping-off point for early Himalayan expeditions, workers from the Sherpa and Bhutia communities soon established themselves as the preferred high-altitude porters, bringing fame, entwined with tales of valor, courage, and sacrifice, to the city. These are some of their stories. Over the course of a decade, authors Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar conducted a series of interviews with Sherpas from Darjeeling, as well as their family members, descendants, friends, and contemporary climbers. Headstrap weaves a vivid tapestry of this particular Sherpa community, giving them the recognition in mountaineering literature that they deserve.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range Author: Michael Engelhard Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 1, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland, cultural connections, historical figures, humor, and gritty experiences across northern Alaska From the award-winning author of Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon comes an intimate exploration of Alaska's northernmost mountain range with observations on Indigenous cultures, conservation, and intense cross-country travel, all shaped by respect for the land. Follow author Michael Engelhard through tussock-studded tundra for a remarkable tale of bear encounters and white-knuckled river moments, as well as poetic reflections on a vast, untamed landscape. A trained anthropologist, Engelhard evokes classic writers like Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, and Ellen Meloy with profound dives into human and natural history and vivid meditations on Alaskan wildlife, flora, and geology. When he embarked on this thru-hike, fewer people had completed it solo in a single push than had dived to the floor of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of Earth's oceans. Much more than a captivating account of a human-powered solo thru-hike and float, Arctic Traverse illuminates the spirit of Alaska, drawing on encounters with Indigenous elders, guided clients, scientists, and others as well as on Engelhard's long-held dream and his experiences of the land itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Martin Goodman Narrator: Will Tulin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution Herod the Great (73–4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Roman revolution to establish himself as a major figure in a changing Roman world and transform the landscape of Judaea. Both Jews and Christians developed myths about his cruelty and rashness: in Christian tradition he was cast as the tyrant who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents; in the Talmud, despite fond memories of his glorious Temple in Jerusalem, he was recalled as a persecutor of rabbis. The life of Herod is better documented than that of any other Jew from antiquity, and Martin Goodman examines the extensive literary and archaeological evidence to provide a vivid portrait of Herod in his sociopolitical context: his Idumaean origins, his installation by Rome as king of Judaea and cultivation of leading Romans, his massive architectural projects, and his presentation of himself as a Jew, most strikingly through the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple. Goodman argues that later stories depicting Herod as a monster derived from public interest in his execution of three of his sons after dramatic public trials foisted on him by a dynastic policy imposed by the Roman emperor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier Author: Seth Kantner Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know.' —Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever When Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves was published it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race. It hit numerous bestseller lists, was critically acclaimed, and won a number of awards. Seth's nonfiction second book, the memoir Shopping for Porcupine, was even more compelling for many—the same raw details of a homesteading upbringing, but intensely personal. Now, in Swallowed by the Great Land, he once again brings us into his lyrical wilderness existence. Swallowed by the Great Land features slice-of-life essays that further reveal the duality in the author's own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabits—a mosaic of all life on the tundra. Unique characters, village life, wilderness and the larger landscape, a warming Arctic, and hunting and other aspects of subsistence living are all explored in varied yet intimate stories.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Man in Panama: The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega Author: John Dinges Narrator: Gary Tiedemann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: A 'carefully researched' account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both (The Washington Post). Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections Author: Anand Teltumbde, Suraj Yengde Narrator: Rajiv Dadia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: History & Culture 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/734772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunder Song: Essays Author: Sasha Lapointe Narrator: Sasha Lapointe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?š?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, as they examine the role of art—in particular music—and community in helping a new generation of indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You've (Probably) Never Heard Of Author: Valorie Castellanos Clark Narrator: April Doty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Unruly Figures gives you access to the lives and often untold stories of twenty of history's most fascinating individuals. Of all the rebels and revolutionaries who have acted around the world, these are often overlooked. Whether they are a bit familiar or entirely new to you, each of these historical figures provides a vivid example of what it means to live life on one's own terms and have a lasting influence on society. In the first collection of its kind, spotlighting a young historian's fresh view on unheralded rebels, these characters' true stories are brought to life through enthralling narratives of their feats. Even those whose names are recognizable—like Jonas Salk—have moments of rebellion that are largely left out of their histories. Dive into this collection of hidden history tales—those of scientists, artists, revolutionaries, activists, heirs to thrones, and so many more—and you are guaranteed to be inspired by how they lived on their own unconventional terms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement Author: Doreen Manuel, Peter Mcfarlane Narrator: Lincoln Mcgowan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George Manuel (1920–1989) was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow him on a riveting journey from his childhood on a Shuswap reserve through three decades of fierce and dedicated activism. In these pages, an all-new foreword by celebrated Mi'kmaq lawyer and activist Pam Palmater is joined by an afterword from Manuel’s granddaughter, land defender Kanahus Manuel. This edition features new photos and previously untold stories of the pivotal roles that the women of the Manuel family played – and continue to play – in the battle for Indigenous rights.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Hanns und Rudolf: Der deutsche Jude und die Jagd nach dem Kommandanten von Auschwitz Rudolf Höß Author: Thomas Harding Narrator: Patrick Twinem, Sebastian Dunkelberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 3, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Thomas Harding kannte seinen Großonkel Hanns Alexander als einen freundlichen Mann mit viel Familiensinn, der ein bürgerliches Leben als Bankangestellter in London geführt hatte, sich für die Synagoge engagierte und gerne Witze machte. Seine jüdische Familie stammte aus Berlin und war in den 1930er-Jahren in letzter Minute nach England ins Exil entkommen. Das wussten alle. Ansonsten wurde über den Krieg nicht gesprochen. Erst nach dem Tod von Hanns Alexander erfuhr Harding, dass er ein Nazijäger gewesen war. Er hatte Rudolf Höß, den nach Kriegsende untergetauchten Kommandanten von Auschwitz Rudolf Höß, im Alleingang in seinem Versteck auf einem Bauernhof in Norddeutschland aufgespürt und so dafür gesorgt, dass ihm der Prozess gemacht wurde. 1947 wird Höß im früheren KZ-Auschwitz hingerichtet. Thomas Harding hat mit seinem Buch »Hanns und Rudolf« eine Doppelbiografie über zwei Menschen – Rudolf Höß und Hanns Alexander – geschrieben, die nicht unterschiedlicher sein können und deren Schicksale dramatisch miteinander verbunden sind. »Thomas Harding ist es gelungen, eine sehr lesbare, faktenreiche Doppel-Biografie zu schreiben, die Deutschland aus ganz konträren Seiten beleuchtet. Hier eine liberale, wohlhabende jüdische Familie Alexander; da eine abgestumpfte, gewalttätige und streng katholische Familie Höß. Harding ging der Frage nach, wie ein normaler Mann zu einem der größten Massenmörder in der Geschichte wird. Schließlich traf er die richtige Entscheidung, nicht einen Helden und einen Schurken, sondern zwei Menschen zu porträtieren: Hanns und Rudolf. Deren so verschiedene Lebensläufe erzählt er parallel, spannend und aus nächster Nähe – auf der Grundlage historischer Unterlagen, Familienbriefe und Interviews, unter anderem mit Höß' Tochter.« (NDR-Info)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Buchladen am Ende der Welt: Eine wahre Geschichte über ein abenteuerliches Leben und die Liebe zum Lesen Author: Ruth Shaw Narrator: Kaja Sesterhenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: AM ENDE DER WELT, GANZ WEIT IM SÜDEN NEUSEELANDS, steht ein winzig kleiner Buchladen. Er gehört einer Frau mit einer unfassbaren Lebensgeschichte: Ruth Shaw verlor ihr Kind und ihre große Liebe. Sie segelte jahrelang über den Pazifik, wurde von Piraten überfallen, wegen Glücksspiel verhaftet, war Streetworkerin und Köchin für einen Erzbischof. Heute verkauft sie Bücher im abgelegenen Fiordland. Oder verschenkt sie. In ihren Memoiren verwebt sie Anekdoten über die Menschen, die ihren Buchladen besuchen, mit den bittersüßen Geschichten aus ihrem abenteuerlichen Leben. Ein Buch über Trauer und Verlust, aber auch über die Liebe – zum Leben, zur Welt der Bücher und zur Weite des Ozeans.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Lebenslauf eines Optimisten: Buch der Jugend Series: #2 of Lebenslauf eines Optimisten Author: Ludwig Ganghofer Narrator: Bernd Ungerer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Im 'Buch der Jugend' beschreibt Ludwig Ganghofer seine Ausbildungs- und Studienzeit. Am Ende des Buches beschreibt er auch seine Vorstellung eines idealen Staatswesens in allen Einzelheiten. Einzelne Ideen könnt man auch heute noch herausgreifen und weiter verfolgen, doch im großen und ganzen spiegeln seine Vorstellungen den Zeitgeist jener Zeit wieder. Zum Beispiel wenn er unterschiedliche Bildungswege für Mann und Frau beschreibt.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen. Author: Nicola Tallis Narrator: Helen Keeley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the ‘Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII's younger daughter, who spent the majority of her early years as a girl with an uncertain future. Before she was three years old Elizabeth had been both a princess and then a bastard following the brutal execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn. After losing several stepmothers and then her father, the teenage Elizabeth was confronted with the predatory attentions of Sir Thomas Seymour. The result was devastating, causing a heartbreaking rift with her beloved stepmother Katherine Parr. Elizabeth was placed in further jeopardy when she was implicated in the Wyatt Rebellion of 1554 – a plot to topple her half-sister, Mary, from her throne. Imprisoned in the Tower of London where her mother had lost her life, under intense pressure and interrogation Elizabeth adamantly protested her innocence. Though she was eventually liberated, she spent the remainder of Mary's reign under a dark cloud. On 17 November 1558, however, the uncertainty of Elizabeth's future came to an end when she succeeded to the throne at the age of twenty-five. When Elizabeth became queen, she had already endured more tumult than many monarchs experienced in a lifetime. This colourful and immensely detailed biography charts Elizabeth's turbulent and unstable upbringing, exploring the dangers and tragedies that plagued her early life. Nicola Tallis draws on primary sources written by Elizabeth herself and her contemporaries, providing an extensive and thorough study of an exceptionally resilient youngster whose early life would shape the queen she later became. The heart racing story of Elizabeth's youth as she steered her way through perilous waters towards England's throne is one of the most sensational of its time. “A nuanced and realistic portrait of a formidable and multi-faceted woman.” ? Tudor Times “History as it should be written, vivid, colorful, pacy and evocative, but above all authentic and based on sound and innovative research.” – Alison Weir, Number One New York Times bestselling author