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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scandal of the Century Author: Lisa Hilton Narrator: Emma Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR. AN OUTRAGEOUS ELOPEMENT. STOLEN LETTERS. SCHEMING SERVANTS. SEX. SENSATION. CELEBRITY. THIS IS THE SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY. There are few labels not attached to Aphra Behn - playwright, poet, a spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals. And yet, for all her notoriety Aphra Behn is an enigma. Born in around 1640, her early life isn't well recorded and facts about her are continually disputed. Her birth name may have been Eaffrey Johnson and she could have been the daughter of a Canterbury barber, although neither fact is certain. And, just after the Restoration she probably briefly lived in the English colony of Surinam in South America, where she was perhaps embroiled in political espionage. Whatever the truth, Behn was in London by 1664 and six years later was writing for the stage. For a decade, Behn's work dominated the London stage. Then, suddenly in 1682, she was charged with libel. Her plays could not be produced and by the time of the trial of the century Behn was broke. She decided that writing would be her way out and began to write a novel based on the most notorious adultress of a notoriously adulterous age - Lady Henrietta Berkeley. ©2024 Lisa Hilton (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court Author: Gareth Russell Narrator: John Telfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts’ PHILIPPA GREGORY For centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and intrigue: a stage for events that shaped the nation. The Palace raises the curtain on 500 years of British history with royals, politicians, criminals, and geniuses all playing their parts. Hampton Court has been an arc of monarchy, revolution, religious fundamentalism, sexual scandals, and military coups. In this rich and vivid history, Gareth Russell moves through the rooms and the decades, each time focusing on a different person who called Hampton Court their home. Beginning with the Tudors, Russell takes the reader from the kitchens of Henry VII and the dreams of Anne Boleyn to Elizabeth I’s brush with death and the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. To the commissioning of the King James Bible, the republican victories of Oliver Cromwell, the many mistresses of Charles II and their laxative-laced attempts to embarrass one another. The gossip and feuds of Georgian aristocrats lead into the era of the Windsors when Hampton Court becomes the place to host Elizabeth II’s coronation ball and hide the last Tsar’s sister. Fascinating and engaging, The Palace is as atmospheric as it is gossipy and through the many sovereigns and servants that lived and worked in its halls reveals the personal tragedy and political importance of this extraordinary place.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier Author: Cw Goodyear Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield. In “the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canalman; crooked election-fixed and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated. James Abram Garfield was all these things and more. Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so. President Garfield is American history at its finest. It is about an impoverished boy working his way from the frontier to the Presidency; a progressive statesman, trying to raise a more righteous, peaceful Republic out of the ashes of civil war; the tragically imperfect course of that reformation, and the man himself; a martyr-President, whose death succeeded in nudging the country back to cleaner, calmer politics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard Author: Christopher Wallace Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination  Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary lifestyle. A scion of American industry turned explorer of Africa and environmental advocate, Beard embodied the extremes of his time: grand adventurer and sexually voracious partier, friend of everyone from the Rolling Stones to Jackie Onassis to Andy Warhol to Karen Blixen. And Beard had a passion—probably more like an obsession—with the faults of the entire human experiment, with the ways in which our consumption of the world’s resources have come to consume us all. Beard’s outsize life and character—his death-defying documentation of both the endangered wildlife of Africa, and, closer to home, some of the world’s most beautiful women for a range of fashion magazines—animate this lively but authoritative biography. The journalist Christopher Wallace, long fascinated by Beard’s artistic legacy, adventurous spirit, and hard-partying persona, came to know him well later in Beard’s life. Capturing the varied social and cultural scenes that Beard moved through with glamorous ease over five decades, Wallace also makes a powerful case for the lasting impact of his work. In Twentieth-Century Man, Wallace has rendered this towering figure in all of his contradictions and complexities—a deeply romantic and idiosyncratic personality, beloved by so many, whose sensibilities nonetheless remained firmly rooted in an era characterized by racist and colonialist attitudes. Stirring and visceral, Twentieth-Century Man is the definitive portrait of Peter Beard.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims Author: Jennifer Vanderbes Narrator: Jennifer Vanderbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain   A “fascinating and compassionate” (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already popular around the world. Touted as a sedative without risks, thalidomide was handed out freely, under the guise of clinical trials, by doctors who believed approval by the Food and Drug Administration was imminent.  But in 1960, when the application for thalidomide landed on the desk of FDA medical reviewer Frances Kelsey, she quickly grew suspicious. When she learned that the drug was causing severe birth abnormalities abroad, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents, and journalists fought tirelessly to block its authorization in the United States and stop its sale around the world. Jennifer Vanderbes set out to write about this FDA success story only to discover a sinister truth that had been buried for decades: For more than five years, several American pharmaceutical firms had distributed unmarked thalidomide samples in shoddy clinical trials, reaching tens of thousands of unwitting patients, including hundreds of pregnant women.  As Vanderbes examined government and corporate archives, probed court records, and interviewed hundreds of key players, she unearthed an even more stunning find: Scores of Americans had likely been harmed by the drug. Deceived by the pharmaceutical firms, betrayed by doctors, and ignored by the government, most of these Americans had spent their lives unaware that thalidomide had caused their birth defects.    Now, for the first time, this shocking episode in American history is brought to light. Wonder Drug gives voice to the unrecognized victims of this epic scandal and exposes the deceptive practices of Big Pharma that continue to endanger lives today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions Author: Mattie Kahn Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NPR's Books We Love 2023 Glamour's 'The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far' Vogue's 'Best Books of 2023 (So Far)' Town & Country's 'The Best Books of 2023' A 'heartening inspiration'(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls—some as young as ten—walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation’s first-ever labor strikes. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might: they have ignited almost every single one. Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women’s liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them. Their stories illuminate how much we owe to girls throughout the generations, what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices, and, crucially, what we can all stand to learn from them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America Author: Audrey Clare Farley Narrator: Kate Udall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an “intimate and compassionate portrait” (Grace M. Cho) of the Genain quadruplets, the harrowing violence they experienced, and its psychological and political consequences.​ In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that four 24-year-old identical quadruplets in Lansing, Michigan, had all been diagnosed with the mental illness, they could hardly believe their ears. Here was incontrovertible proof of hereditary transmission and, thus, a chance to bring international fame to their fledgling institution.   The case of the pseudonymous Genain quadruplets, they soon found, was hardly so straightforward. Contrary to fawning media portrayals of a picture-perfect Christian family, the sisters had endured the stuff of nightmares. Behind closed doors, their parents had taken shocking measures to preserve their innocence while sowing fears of sex and the outside world. In public, the quadruplets were treated as communal property, as townsfolk and members of the press had long ago projected their own paranoid fantasies about the rapidly diversifying American landscape onto the fair-skinned, ribbon-wearing quartet who danced and sang about Christopher Columbus. Even as the sisters’ erratic behaviors became impossible to ignore and the NIMH whisked the women off for study, their sterling image did not falter. Girls and Their Monsters chronicles the extraordinary lives of the quadruplets and the lead psychologist who studied them, asking questions that speak directly to our times: How do delusions come to take root, both in individuals and in nations? Why does society profess to be “saving the children” when it readily exploits them? What are the authoritarian ends of innocence myths? And how do people, particularly those with serious mental illness, go on after enduring the unspeakable? Can the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood help the deeply wounded heal?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Family Author: Cassandra A. Good Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken stepgrandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War. While it’s widely known in America that George and Martha Washington never had children of their own, few are aware that they raised numerous children together. In First Family, we see Washington as a father figure, as well as meet the children he helped raise and trace their complicated roles in American history. The children of Martha Washington’s son by her first marriage—Eliza, Patty, Nelly and Wash Custis—were born into life in the public eye. Raised in the country’s first “first family,” they remained well-known as Washington’s family and keepers of his legacy throughout their lives. By turns petty and powerful, glamorous and cruel, the Custises used Washington as a means to enhance their own power and status. As enslavers committed to the American empire, the Custis family embodied the failures of the American experiment that finally exploded into civil war—all the while being celebrities in a soap opera of their own making. First Family brings new focus and attention to this surprisingly neglected aspect of George Washington’s life and legacy. As the country grapples with concerns about political dynasties and the public role of presidential families, the saga of Washington’s family offers a human story of historical precedent. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, and, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in the Country Author: Editors Of Texas Monthly Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State—and the nation—over the past half century. With a population of twenty-nine million, Texas has birthed some of America’s most innovative, culture-altering politicians, entertainers, athletes, and activists of the last five decades. In Lone Stars Rising, the editors of Texas Monthly select fifty of the most trailblazing Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State and America today. Organized by decade and featuring essays from the magazine’s legendary roster of contributors, accompanied by drawings and fifty photographs throughout, this collection includes incisive commentary on the stars whose rise from Texas to the world stage has been meteoric, as well as the lesser-known individuals who have been toiling on the sidelines, quietly and intentionally shaping the way we think and talk about the Texas that exists today. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, Lone Stars Rising is the quintessential ode to the Lone Star State in all its complexity. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West Author: Will Grant Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime.  The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit continues to this day. ​      The Pony Express was a fast-horse frontier mail service that spanned the American West— the high, dry, and undeniably lonesome part of North America. While in operation during the 1860s, it carried letter mail on a blistering ten-day schedule between Missouri and San Francisco, running through a vast and mostly uninhabited wilderness. It covered a massive distance—akin to running horses between Madrid and Moscow— and to this day, the Pony Express is irrefutably the greatest display of American horsemanship to ever color the pages of a history book.   Though the Pony Express has enjoyed a lot of traction over the years, among the authors that have attempted to encapsulate it, none have ever ridden it themselves. While most scholars would look for answers inside a library, Will Grant looks for his between the ears of a horse. Inspired by the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, and Horace Greeley, all of whom traveled throughout the developing West, Will Grant returned to his roots: he would ride the trail himself with his two horses, Chicken Fry and Badger, from one end to the other.   Will Grant captures the spirit of the west in a way that few writers have.  Along with rich encounters with the ranchers, farmers, historians, and businessmen who populate the trail, his exploits on horseback offer an intimate portrait of how the West has evolved from the rough and tumble 19th century to the present, and it’s written with such intimacy that you’ll feel as though you’re riding right alongside of him. Along the way, he fights off wild mustangs wanting to steal his horses in Utah, camps with Peruvian sheepherders in the mountains, and even spends three days riding under the Top Gun aviator school in Nevada, which are just a handful of extraordinary tales Will Grant unveils as he makes his way across the treacherous and, at times, thrilling landscape of the known and unknown American West.   The Last Ride of the Pony Express is a uniquely tenacious tale of adventure by a native son of the West who defies most modern conveniences to compass some two thousand miles on horseback. The result is an unforgettable narrative that will forever change how you see the West, the Pony Express, and America as a whole.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Charlie Author: David Von Drehle Narrator: David Von Drehle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 69 Ratings of Narrator: 4.21 of Total 14 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: One of our nation’s most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this “original and highly readable account of a splendid American life” (The Wall Street Journal). When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship—and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. Charlie White was no ordinary neighbor. Born before radio, Charlie lived long enough to use a smartphone. When a shocking tragedy interrupted his idyllic boyhood, Charlie mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of human wisdom. Thus armored, Charlie’s sense of adventure carried him on an epic journey of the Jazz Age, racing aboard ambulances through Depression-era gangster wars, improvising techniques for early open-heart surgery, and cruising the Amazon as a guest of Peru’s president. David Von Drehle came to understand that Charlie’s resilience and willingness to grow made this remarkable neighbor a master in the art of thriving through times of dramatic change. As a gift to his children, he set out to tell Charlie’s secrets. The Book of Charlie is a “genuinely original, formula-shattering” (Bob Woodward) gospel of grit—the inspiring story of one man’s journey through a century of upheaval. The history that unfolds through Charlie’s story reminds you that the United States has always been a divided nation, a questing nation—a nation of Charlies in the rollercoaster pursuit of a good and meaningful life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives Author: Naoíse Mac Sweeney Narrator: Shaheen Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times—is a powerful figment of our collective imagination. An urgently needed emergent voice in big history, she offers a bold new account of Western history, real and imagined, through the lives of fourteen remarkable individuals.   In this groundbreaking, story-driven retelling of Western history, Naoíse Mac Sweeney debunks the myths and origin stories that underpin the history we thought we knew. Told through fourteen figures who each played a role in the creation of the Western idea—from Herodotus, a mixed-race migrant, to Phylis Wheatley, an enslaved African American who became a literary sensation; and from Gladstone, with a private passion for epic poetry, to the medieval Arab scholar Al-Kindi—the subjects are a mind-expanding blend of unsung heroes and familiar faces viewed afresh. These characters span the millennia and the continents, representing different religions, varying levels of wealth and education, diverse traditions and nationalities. Each life tells us something unexpected about the age in which it was lived and offers us a piece of the puzzle of how the modern idea of the West developed—and why we've misunderstood it for too long.   The concept of “the West” is present in every daily interaction you have, from entertainment and politics to world markets and world history. This engagingly intimate history will reshape the way you see the world around you. At this moment of civilizational redefinition, if we are to chart a future for the West, we must properly understand its past.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence Author: Joseph Berger Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from a small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the world stage? Drawing on Wiesel’s prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question.Berger explores Wiesel’s Hasidic childhood in Sighet, the loss of his parents and little sister in the death camps and his own extraordinary survival, the postwar years spent rebuilding his life from the ashes in France, his transformation into a Parisian intellectual, his failed attempts at romance, his years scraping together a living in America as a journalist, his decision to marry and have a child, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors and persecuted peoples throughout the world, his lifelong devotion to the state of Israel, and his difficult final years. Through this penetrating portrait we come to know intimately the man the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “a messenger to mankind.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds Author: Anders Gyllenhaal, Beverly Gyllenhaal Narrator: Stephen Graybill, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population. Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds to scrappy black crows, from a rainbow of warblers to common birds such as owls and sparrows. In a desperate race against time, scientists, conservationists, birders, wildlife officers, and philanthropists are scrambling to halt the collapse of species with bold, experimental, and sometimes risky rescue missions. High in the mountains of Hawaii, biologists are about to release clouds of laboratory-bred mosquitos in a last-ditch attempt to save Hawaii’s remaining native forest birds. In Central Florida, researchers have found a way to hatch Florida Grasshopper Sparrows in captivity to rebuild a species down to its last two dozen birds. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a team is using artificial intelligence to save the California Spotted Owl. In North Carolina, a scientist is experimenting with genomics borrowed from human medicine to bring the long-extinct Passenger Pigeon back to life. For the past year, veteran journalists Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal traveled more than 25,000 miles across the Americas, chronicling costly experiments, contentious politics, and new technologies to save our beloved birds from the brink of extinction. Through this compelling drama, A Wing and a Prayer offers hope and an urgent call to action: Birds are dying at an unprecedented pace. But there are encouraging breakthroughs across the hemisphere and still time to change course, if we act quickly.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England Author: Vanessa Wilkie Narrator: Imogen Church Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: This “engrossing, fast-paced, extremely well-researched biography” (Booklist) transports us to Tudor and Stuart England as Alice Spencer, the daughter of an upstart sheep farmer, becomes one of the most powerful women in the country and establishes a powerful dynasty that endures to this day. Perfect for fans of The Duchess Countess and Georgiana. Alice Spencer was born in 1560 to a family on the rise. Her grandfather had amassed a sizeable estate of fertile grazing land and made a small fortune in sheep farming, allowing him to purchase a simple but distinguished manor house called Althorp. With her sizable dowry, Alice married the heir to one of the most powerful aristocratic families in the country, eventually becoming the Countess of Derby. Though she enjoyed modest renown, it wasn’t until her husband’s sudden death (after he turned in a group of Catholics for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I) that Alice and her family’s future changed forever. Faced with a lawsuit from her brother-in-law over her late husband’s fortune, Alice raised eyebrows by marrying England’s most powerful lawyer. Together, they were victorious, and Alice focused her attentions on securing appropriate husbands for her daughters, increasing her land ownings, and securing a bright future for her grandchildren and the entire Spencer family. But they would not completely escape scandals, and as the matriarch, Alice had to face an infamous trial that threatened everything she had worked so hard for. Now, in “this riveting tale reads more like a legal thriller than historical nonfiction” (Beth Morrison, coauthor of The Lawless Land), the full story of the remarkable Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton is revealed. A woman both ahead of and part of her time, Alice’s ruthless challenging of the status quo has inspired future generations of Spencers and will change the way you view Tudor women.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skinfolk: A Memoir Author: Matthew Pratt Guterl Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A haunting, poignant story of growing up in a mixed-race family in 1970s New Jersey, in the tradition of The Color of Water. Magnanimous and charming, Bob Guterl knew that he could solve the racial problems bedeviling postwar America. Determined to stave off impending global catastrophe, the larger-than-life judge and his resolute wife, Sheryl, launched a radical experiment, raising their two biological sons alongside four children adopted from Korea, Vietnam, and the South Bronx―the so-called “war zones of the American century”―in a white clapboard house with a white picket fence in small-town New Jersey. In lyrical, often searing prose, Matthew Guterl, a renowned historian of race and their third-eldest child, recounts the ultimately troubling story of his family; his racially diverse siblings; and his idealistic parents, with their miragelike dreams of creating a racial utopia in an otherwise all-white community. Chronicling the siblings’ coming-of-age in a recalcitrant, discriminatory society, Skinfolk peers behind that white picket fence, revealing many of the racial issues that continue to plague Americans today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invention of Jane Harrison Author: Mary Beard Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image. And she contrasts her story with that of Eugénie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art, and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome—but who lost the race for renown. The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period—its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual 'influence' and 'movements,' Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene. The Invention of Jane Harrison offers shrewd history and undiluted fun.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Winter Came: A Country Doctor’s Journey to Fight the Flu Pandemic of 1918 Author: Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer Narrator: Peter Bradbury, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer grew up listening to her grandfather, Dr. Pierre Sartor, describing his remarkable life, including his collaboration with Mayo Clinic, which spanned several decades.Long after Dr. Sartor died, Beth found a handwritten memoir of his experiences caring for patients during the influenza pandemic of 1918 nestled among other family documents in a lockbox.Thus began the journey. Beth used her skills as a journalist to discover how Dr. Sartor saved lives amid a global crisis … how he won the love of his patients throughout his career … and how he earned the respect of his colleagues, who named him Iowa’s General Practitioner of the Year.Beth tells the story of her grandfather—a compassionate, skilled physician who does the best of things in the worst of times—with warmth and wisdom.Medicine has changed greatly since her grandfather practiced on the Midwestern prairie, but however winter may come to each of our lives, we all want a doctor like Pierre Sartor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cobblestones, Conversations, and Corks: A Son’s Discovery of His Italian Heritage Author: Giovanni Ruscitti Narrator: Noah James Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: On November 11, 1943, the Nazis invaded Cansano, forcing its two thousand inhabitants to make a tough decision—fight and be killed or sent to a POW camp, stay behind as servants to the Nazis, or move into the unforgiving mountains of Abruzzo while the Nazis used their village as a home base. Giovanni Ruscitti's family chose the latter and spent the next few months living in horrendous winter conditions in the rugged mountains. When the war ended, they returned to a village so ravaged by the Nazis that, today, the town has less than two hundred citizens and remains in a dilapidated state. In this memoir, Ruscitti visits Cansano for the first time with his family, including parents Emiliano and Maria. As he walks Cansano's cobblestones, his father's stories and life are illuminated by the town piazza, the steep valley, and the surrounding mountains. He relives the tales of his parents' struggles during World War II, their extreme post-war misery and poverty, their budding romance after, and their decision to immigrate to the US in search of the American Dream. Ruscitti's adventure is not just an exploration of his homeland but reveals what family, culture, wisdom, and love really means. And what our heritage really tells us about who we are.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paramedic to the Prince: An American Paramedic's Account of Life Inside the Mysterious World of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Author: Patrick (tom) Notestine Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Drive-by shootings, drug overdoses, and multi-car accidents—as a paramedic, he thought he had seen it all, until he answered a small job advertisement that changed his life forever. Welcome to the mysterious world of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the most fundamentalist Islamic countries on the globe. Working as a paramedic at the only level one trauma center in the Middle East, he found his skills and knowledge tested to the limit on a daily basis. Later recruited to the medical team of Crown Prince Abdullah Ibin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the now reigning King of Saudi Arabia, he was drawn into a world of palaces and princes, limousines an Learjets. His adventure had only begun. This is a riveting, factual account of an American paramedic's extraordinary experience inside a country seldom seen by the outside world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape to the Tatras: A Boy, a War, and Life Interrupted Author: Oscar Sladek Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A coming-of-age story set against the rise of fascism, the collapse of democracy in Slovakia and Hungary, the attempted genocide of the Jewish people, and the eventual conquest of the Allied Forces over Nazi Germany, ESCAPE TO THE TATRAS tells the story of one child’s remarkable journey encompassing the essence of life before and throughout World War II. During the terrifying years of deprivation, deportation, and imprisonment of Jews, many of whom were sent off to Nazi labor and extermination camps, the Štaub family (mother Irene, father Frici, and their young son Oskar), citizens of Prešov, Slovakia, fled for their lives in order to hide from the brutal Slovakian forces and their German operatives. Young Osi, who witnessed it all, found the courage and resiliency to cope with challenges far beyond his years. Written seven decades later with the precision of unfailing memory and the pain of personal experience, Oscar (Osi) (Staub) Sladek tells an unforgettable story of resilience and personal triumph.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World According to Proust Author: Joshua Landy Narrator: Stephen Bowlby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was arguably France's best-known literary writer. He was the author of stories, essays, translations, and a 3,000-page novel, In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). This book is a brief guide to Proust's magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites the listener to view the novel as a single quest—a quest for purpose, enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging—through the novel's fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex desire, knowledge, self-understanding, self-fashioning, and the unconscious mind. Landy also shows why the questions Proust raises are important and exciting for all of us: how we can feel at home in the world; how we can find genuine connection with other human beings; how we can find enchantment in a world without God; whether an artist's life can shed light on their work; what we can know about the world, other people, and ourselves; when not knowing is better than knowing; how sexual orientation affects questions of connection and identity; who we are, deep down; what memory tells us about our inner world; why it might be good to think of our life as a story. Finally, Landy suggests why it's worthwhile to read the novel itself—how the long, difficult, but joyous experience of making it through 3,000 pages of prose can be transformative for our minds and souls.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival Author: Judith Kashti, Alexandra Littauer, Eva Heymann, Celia Clement Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Three young Jewish sisters from Leipzig, Germany huddle together in the cold darkness of night waiting for their smugglers to rescue them and bring them to freedom in Belgium. Their mother, in a state of shock following Kristallnacht, is left behind, sedated in a psychiatric hospital. November 1938 begins the four year ordeal of the seven member Kroch family who endure unfathomable conditions in their fight for survival: imprisonment in French internment camps, hiding in a tiny tool shed, and adapting to the deplorable conditions of a Nazi prison. The memoirs of Alexandra, age eleven, and her sisters, fifteen year old Eva and fourteen year old Judith, interweave as they recount the true story of their escape from the Nazis. Leaving behind their life of luxury, the girls describe unimaginable hunger, deprivation, and fear. Family love, music, and the close friendship of strangers are the essential ingredients that sustain them through the hardships they face. A narrative backdrop threads through the story, providing the socio-political context. From a historical perspective and from the three sisters' witness accounts, the listener will come to understand the progression of antisemitism in Germany and France, the course by which Hitler dismantled democracy, the role France adopted as Nazi collaborators, and how the Swiss policies towards Jews were executed. This audiobook includes supplemental material in printable PDF format.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hot Spot: A Doctor's Diary From the Pandemic Author: Dr. Alex Jahangir Narrator: Shawn K. Jain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, unexpectedly found himself head of the city's COVID-19 Task Force and responsible for leading it through uncharted waters. What followed was a year of unprecedented challenge and scrutiny. Jahangir, who immigrated to the United States from Iran at age six, grew up in Nashville. He thought he knew the city well. But the pandemic laid bare ethnic, racial, and cultural tensions that daily threatened to derail what should have been a collective effort to keep residents healthy and safe. Hot Spot is Jahangir's narrative of the first year of COVID, derived from his op notes (the journal-like entries surgeons often keep following operations) and expanded to include his personal reflections and a glimpse into the inner sanctums of city and state governance in crisis.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God of Sperm: Cappy Rothman's Life in Conception Author: Joe Donnelly Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman 'Roughhouse' Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine. Rothman started the California Cryobank, one of the world's largest repositories of reproductive genetic material and cord-blood stem cells. Among other achievements, Rothman also pioneered the use of microsurgery in urological procedures, postmortem sperm retrieval techniques, and was one of the first practitioners of andrology, a specialty dealing with male reproductive biology and medicine. How Cappy Rothman went from Mafia scion and man-about-town during the postwar Miami Beach–Havana era of gangster chic to one of the most consequential figures in modern medicine is an epic, only-in-America tale and also a fine reminder of the broad horizons and wild possibilities life in the US can offer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard Author: Christopher H. Evans Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Frances Willard (1839–1898) was one of the most prominent American social reformers of the late nineteenth century. As the long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard built a national and international movement of women that campaigned for prohibition, women's rights, economic justice, and numerous other social justice issues during the Gilded Age. Emphasizing what she called 'Do Everything' reform, Willard became a central figure in international movements in support of prohibition, women's suffrage, and Christian socialism. The first biography of Frances Willard to be published in over thirty-five years, Do Everything explores Willard's life, her contributions as a reformer, and her broader legacy as a women's rights activist in the United States. In addition to chronicling Willard's life, historian Christopher H. Evans examines how Willard crafted a distinctive culture of women's leadership, emphasizing the importance of religious faith for understanding Willard's successes as a social reformer. Despite her enormous fame during her lifetime, Evans investigates the reasons why Willard's legacy has been eclipsed by subsequent generations of feminist reformers and assesses her importance for our time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage Author: Ingrid Seward Narrator: Julie Teal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For more than 70 years, the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip was at the centre of the nation's life. Now, in My Husband and I, Ingrid Seward reveals the real story of their loving and enduring relationship. When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, it wasn't without its problems. The romance between the sailor prince and the young princess brought a splash of colour to a nation still in the grip of post-war austerity. When they married in Westminster Abbey in November 1947, there were 3000 guests, including six kings and seven queens. Within five years, as Queen Elizabeth II, she would ascend to the throne and later be crowned in front of millions watching through the new medium of television. Throughout her record-breaking reign until Prince Philip's death on 9 April 2021, she relied on the formidable partnership she had made with her consort. Now, acclaimed royal biographer Ingrid Seward sheds new light on their relationship and its impact on their family and on the nation.      In My Husband and I, we discover the challenges faced by Prince Philip as he had to learn to play second fiddle to the Queen in all their public engagements, but we also get a revealing insight into how their relationship operated behind closed doors. As the years went by, there were rumours of marital troubles, fierce debates over how to bring up their children, and they had to deal with family traumas - from scandalous divorces to shocking deaths - in the full glare of the public eye. But somehow, their relationship endured and provided a model of constancy to inspire all around them. This book is not only a vivid portrait of a hugely important marriage, it is a celebration of the power of love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in her Own Words Author: Ingrid Seward Narrator: Julie Teal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: During her 70 years on the throne, few got to know the Queen well, but there is one body of work that sheds new light on her thoughts, personality and the issues that really concerned her: the Queen's own speeches. For many years, the Queen's Christmas address was the most-watched programme on television on Christmas Day, and millions regularly tuned in to hear what she had to say. Now, in this wonderful, intimate portrait of Her Majesty, Ingrid Seward uses the Queen's speeches as a starting point to provide a revealing insight into the character of the woman who reigned over us since the days when Churchill was prime minister. Starting with her first-ever broadcast, in December 1940, when the teenaged Princess Elizabeth addressed a war-torn nation, right through the annus horribilis, and on into the 21st century, the book highlights the most important moments in her life and how she responded to them. Based on in-depth research and interviews with many of those who knew the Queen best, this book sheds new light on the life and career of our much-missed monarch. Renowned as one of the most authoritative writers on royal matters, Ingrid Seward, the editor of Majesty magazine, has written a charming and fascinating portrait that will be cherished by all who read it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: U.G. Krishnamurti: A Life: A Life Author: Mahesh Bhatt Narrator: Mahesh Bhatt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: UG Krishnamurti has been called the ‘anti-guru’, the ‘raging sage’ and the ‘thinker who shuns thought’. UG does not give lectures, has no organizations, does not write books, holds no gatherings and peddles no mantras. Yet he is the most talked-about thinker in India. This biography, that topped best-seller lists for nine months after it was first published, uravels the man who talks of enlightenment as a neurobiological state of being, utterly free of religious, psychological or mystical implications. Even though UG overturns all of our accepted beliefs—in God, mind, soul, religion, love, relationships—and even though he endlessly repeats: ‘I have no message for mankind’, hundreds of thousands of people the world over flock to UG’s unique brand of discourse. Mahesh Bhatt’s seminal biography examines why. This revised edition contains a new section, ‘A Taste of Death’. Written in the form of a journal it is a record of thirty days the author spent with UG in Gstaad, Switzerland, in 1995. and constitutes an intimate and perceptive portrait of this unique thinker.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chicken Who Saved Us: The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful Author: Kristin Jarvis Adams Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The award-winning, laugh-out-loud, reach-for-the-tissues story of an autistic boy's desperate struggle to survive a deadly illness and the backyard chicken who transforms his life into a tale of improbable hope and miraculous healing. Eight-year-old Andrew is autistic and bilingual. He speaks English and Chicken. With words limited by autism, Andrew lives in a fantastic world where chickens talk and superheroes come alive. But when he tells his pet chicken Frightful that his body is trying to kill him, it launches Andrew's family and an entire medical community into a decade-long quest for answers. This beautiful, fierce, and refreshingly honest memoir takes listeners on a mother's journey through the complex landscape of modern medicine to discover the healing bond between a boy and Frightful, the chicken who saves them all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation Author: Daniel C. Matt Narrator: Barry Abrams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition In the Bible Elijah is a zealous prophet, attacking idolatry and injustice, championing God. He performs miracles, restoring life and calling down fire. When his earthly life ends, he vanishes in a whirlwind, carried off to heaven in a fiery chariot. Was this a spectacular death, or did Elijah escape death entirely? The latter view prevailed. Though residing in heaven, Elijah revisits earth—to help, rescue, enlighten, and eventually herald the Messiah. Because of his messianic role, Jews open the door for Elijah during each seder—the meal commemorating liberation from slavery and anticipating final redemption. How did this zealot turn into a compassionate hero—apparently the most popular figure in Jewish tradition? Becoming Elijah explores this question, tracing how Elijah develops from the Bible to Rabbinic Judaism, Kabbalah, and Jewish ritual (as well as Christianity and Islam). His transformation is pertinent and inspirational for our polarized, fanatical world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Voices from the Confederacy: True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South Author: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. Narrator: J. Rodney Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Hear about the Civil War from those who were there. They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. In it, you will learn about the heroic, the scoundrels, the clever, the vanquished, and the hungry. Rich or poor, black or white, Voices from the Confederacy shares hundreds of poignant and revealing moments during the war between the states.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Rausholer: Hörbuch mit Atmo Author: Max Claro Narrator: Andi Königsmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 14, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Kurz vor dem Abi bricht der Hippie und Vietnamkriegsgegner Michael Müller das Gymnasium ab, woraufhin ihn seine alleinerziehende Mutter auf die Straße setzt. Nach einer Odyssee durch Amerika, dem Land seiner Träume, lässt er sich als Michael Miller einbürgern und landet schließlich selbst in der U.S. Army. Und in Vietnam. Miller desertiert auf eine so abenteuerliche Weise, dass die CIA auf ihn aufmerksam wird. Um einer Haftstrafe wegen Fahnenflucht zu entgehen, verpflichtet sich Miller, im Auftrag der CIA ausgewählte Personen aus Ostblockstaaten sowie dem Nahen und Mittleren Osten in den Westen zu schleusen. Sein größter Coup wird jedoch die von der Öffentlichkeit nahezu unbemerkte Befreiung von 141 deutschen Geiseln aus der Islamischen Republik Iran im Auftrag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. - Nach wahren Begebenheiten!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kein Ziel ist das Ziel: Auf Umwegen von Alaska nach Rio de Janeiro mit dem Campervan Author: Svenja Reidelbach Narrator: Daniela Frauenzimmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 6, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Wir haben keine austüftelte Reiseroute, keine spannend klingende Challenge, keinen detaillierten Plan. Wir wollen einfach nur das machen, worauf wir Lust haben. Und worauf wir als nächstes Lust haben, entscheiden wir jedes Mal neu, wenn es so weit ist. Solange bis wir auf nichts mehr Lust haben. Damit lautet das oberste Ziel der Reise, kein weiteres Ziel zu haben: 'Kein Ziel ist das Ziel'.' Für Peter und Svenja steht fest: Das Leben ist zu kurz für 'später' und so kündigen die beiden Jobs und Wohnung und fliegen nach Alaska, wo sie einen Bulli kaufen und zum Campervan umbauen. Mit dem geht es quer durch Nord- und Zentralamerika. Nach 'kleinen Umwegen' über Hawaii mit dem Fahrrad und die Südsee sowie als Backpacker auf dem Balkan geht es irgendwann doch mit dem Vanlife weiter. Mit einem neuen Gefährt starten Svenja und Peter in Südamerika erneut ins Abenteuer. Immer mit dem Ziel, irgendwann kein weiteres Ziel zu haben und endlich 'reisesatt' zu sein. Getreu dem Motto: 'Wir reisen nicht, um dem Leben zu entfliehen, sondern damit das Leben uns nicht entflieht.' In ihrem Buch berichtet Svenja über ihre Begegnungen mit wilden Bären und ebenso wenig zahmen Grenzbeamten. Von den Höhen und Tiefen des Vanlife, von Reifenplatzern und scheinbaren Totalschäden. Vom Reisen, wenn plötzlich eine globale Pandemie ausbricht. Und wie immer dann, wenn es am schlimmsten aussieht, irgendwie doch wieder alles gut wird.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under Her Skin Author: Sue Williams Narrator: Rachael Tidd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: October 5, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The remarkable story of Professor Fiona Wood, AM, one of Australia's most innovative and respected surgeons and world leading burns specialist whose ground-breaking research and technology development has changed the lives of burn patients. When three bombs tore out the heart of Bali and decimated so many Australian lives in 2002, burns surgeon Professor Fiona Wood led her team to save twenty-eight survivors with up to ninety-two per cent body burns. A pioneer in the field of burns and reconstructive surgery, she made world headlines with the use of her ground-breaking invention of 'spray-on skin' to help minimise her patients' horrific scars. Fiona was later made Australian of the Year, was voted Australia's Most Trusted Person for an unprecedented six years' running in the annual Reader's Digest poll and has been acclaimed as an 'Australian Living Treasure'. This is now the story of her extraordinary life, from the daughter of a fifth-generation coal-mining family in the north of England to becoming one of Australia's most innovative, respected and dedicated surgeons and researchers. She talks candidly of the moving valour of her burns patients, the heartbreak, the triumph, the tears and the controversies that have stalked her stellar career. As co-founder of the Fiona Wood Foundation, she conducts vital research into all aspects of the survival of burns victims, with findings and breakthroughs that have had an impact on treatment around the globe., while she is also director of the Burns Service of Western Australia, a consultant plastic surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Children's Hospital and Winthrop professor in the School of Surgery at The University of Western Australia. Remarkably she has achieved all of this while raising six children. In Under Her Skin, Sue Williams, a best-selling author and award-winning journalist who has written a number of best-selling biographies, most notably about Father Chris Riley, Father Bob Maguire, and Dr Catherine Hamlin, presents a searingly honest, no-holds-barred account of all aspects of Fiona Wood's remarkable life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622254 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waters of the Sanjan Author: David Read Narrator: Jason Savidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 30, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Waters of the Sanjan is fiction based on fact, woven around the life of a known (Masai) warrior who lived at the turn of the century. It is an historical novel and the events portrayed were not unusual in the life of a warrior of those times. The customs and traditions are accurate; the places where events took place are real places and to date still go by the same name the Waters of the Sanjan, translated literally, Inkariak-oo-Sanjan, means 'The Waters of Sweehearts', and in fact is a place that lies to the North of the famous treeless undulating savannah known the world over as The Serengeti, and to the Masai as Sirinket. Isirinket are the people that lived in the now unique Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. barefoot over the serengeti beating about the bush another load of bull waters of the sanjan home | about david | david's books | contact author, guide, farmer, soldier, father, grandfather and gentle man D R Waters of the Sanjan Available in English and German (Die Wasser des Sanjan) 'Waters of the Sanjan is fiction based on fact, woven around the life of a known (Masai) warrior who lived at the turn of the century. It is an historical novel and the events portrayed were not unusual in the life of a warrior of those times. The customs and traditions are accurate; the places where events took place are real places and to date still go by the same name the Waters of the Sanjan, translated literally, Inkariak-oo-Sanjan, means 'The Waters of Sweehearts', and in fact is a place that lies to the North of the famous treeless undulating savannah known the world over as The Serengeti, and to the Masai as Sirinket. Isirinket are the people that lived in the now unique Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. 'The author is perhaps one of the last lifelong European Tanzanian settlers, who possesses an intimate knowledge of the Masai. He has, since childhood mixed freely in friendship with both their children and the elders, and has had a unique opportunity to observe their way of life and customs.' Geoffrey Cotterell , Tanzanian Affairs Waters of the Sanjan is an accurate and admirable historic record of my people, recording their way of life at another point in time, yet not so very long ago. And because not many truly authentic books have been written about us, it is, I think, a valuable record of a proud people that will enlighten the reader and allow him to glimpse another world. He may, perhaps, shudder at the horror of some of the more violent sections, but he will emerge the wiser for knowing and understanding a little of what our forefathers had to cope with , and what they suffered, not only at the hands of encroaching colonialism, but at the hand of nature; climatic disaster, diseases of man and beast and inter/intra tribal wars that were the norm and claimed with monotonous regularity the lives of many.' Foreword from Ole Ntekerei Memusi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Crónica de la eternidad (Vida de Hernán Cortés 2) Series: #2 of Vida de Hernán Cortés Author: Christian Duverger Narrator: José Manuel Rincón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: «Sustentado por una apreciable información documental, el asombroso libro de Christian Duvergerrinde a Cortés escritor un merecido homenaje.» Bartolomé Bennassar Se cumplen cinco siglos de la Conquista de México, y a lo largo de este tiempo Hernán Cortés ha desempeñado un claro papel en el imaginario colectivo de la nación: el de villano. Sin embargo, para Christian Duverger esta apreciación no podría ser más injusta. Lejos del ambicioso y sanguinario invasor que los libros de texto han urdido, el historiador francés presenta en esta biografía en dos tomos a un humanista, un hombre de armas y de letras que vio en las tierras americanas la posibilidad, no de trasplantar una copia de la sociedad castellana, sino de inventar un mundo nuevo. Para Cortés, el mestizaje era la clave de este proyecto cultural. Publicada por primera vez en 2013, bajo el título de Crónica de la eternidad, esta segunda parte de la biografía cortesiana causó un gran revuelo al desmontar la autoría de Bernal Díaz del Castillo sobre la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España y devolvérsela a su verdadero dueño: Hernán Cortés. La pluma nos presenta a un Cortés cronista de sí mismo, un escritor que supo fundar su legado a través de un magistral artificio literario: un auténtico conquistador de la memoria.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zuhören ist die beste Antwort - Was ich aus meinen Begegnungen gelernt habe (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Leeroy Matata Narrator: Patrick Abozen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Was zählt wirklich im Leben? Zuhören! Moderator und Youtube-Star Leeroy Matata teilt seine Erfahrungen mit uns. Hey Freunde, herzlich willkommen! Mein Name ist Leeroy und ich freue mich, dass ihr euch dieses Hörbuch gerade anschaut. Denn hier spreche ich so offen wie noch nie über das, was mich bewegt. Wir alle machen unterschiedliche Erfahrungen, die uns oft ein Leben lang prägen. Und niemand von uns kann in den Kopf anderer Leute schauen, deshalb führt das oft zu Missverständnissen. Aber das muss nicht so sein. Wenn wir einander wieder besser zuhören, können wir eine Menge lernen. So geht es mir zumindest. Ich habe über 250 Gespräche mit außergewöhnlichen Menschen geführt und auch mein eigenes Leben hielt schon ein paar Überraschungen für mich parat. Die spannendsten Aha-Momente möchte ich mit euch teilen. Denn zusammen können wir einen Unterschied machen. Jeden Tag aufs Neue. Das Hörbuch wird gelesen von Patrick Abozen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mother's Job: From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight For Her Tragic Daughter Author: Joy Dove, Joe Cusack, Ann Cusack Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “I am just an ordinary mum, yet I would go to the ends of the earth to get justice for my daughter. If I can change the way people are treated, then Jodey will not have died in vain. I now feel that this was her destiny; to change the lives of millions of others.“ While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. It was a letter she never saw. Despite suffering from major health problems and needing daily care, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine. While waiting for her appeal, and with no money coming in, Jodey killed herself, aged just 42. Another DWP letter pronouncing her ‘fit to work' was sent to her home three days after her tragic death. A Mother's Jobis the story of how Jodey's mum Joy Dove, 67, took on the system – and won justice for her daughter. A former cleaner and shop-worker, she is intimidated by nothing and nobody. Joy reveals how she struggled to raise her family, as a single mother, living on the now notorious: ‘Benefits Street' estate in Stockton-on-Tees. Of how Jodey, her middle daughter, developed problems including curvature of the spine, a brain cyst, and bipolar and personality disorders and how, as her health deteriorated, Joy became her unofficial carer, visiting several times a day. Jodey left farewell notes following her suicide, warning that her youngest son, Cory, a twin, was particularly vulnerable. Tragically, her premonition was realised when, unable to cope with his grief, he died from a drug overdose, aged 19, in May 2020. Joy felt that the DWP had stolen two members from her family. An inquiry after Jodey's death found the DWP had failed to follow its own safeguarding practice. It issued an apology and compensation. The case was discussed in Parliament where the Prime Minister labelled it ‘appalling.' Joy launched ‘Justice For Jodey' which aims to hold the DWP to account and to prevent other tragedies. She met other grieving families and her campaign saw her take centre stage at the Labour Party conference and argue her case in the High Court.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Meine Bekehrung Author: Charles H. Spurgeon Narrator: Eduard Janzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 21, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Wie kann ich Errettung erfahren?' Diese Frage quälte Spurgeon für viele Jahre. Trotz seiner christlichen Erziehung und eines Umfelds, in dem er alle 'Theorie' kennengelernt hatte, suchte er nach einer Antwort, die er an einem schneereichen Wintertag in einer unbekannten, kleinen Gemeindeversammlung fand. Mit dem Beginn seiner Bekehrung im Alter von 15 Jahren entfaltete sich einer der größten Prediger Englands. Sein lebendiger Predigtstil zog Massen von Menschen an und viele kamen zu Christus. Im Laufe seines Lebens predigte er zu einer geschätzten Menge von 10 Millionen Menschen und er wurde der 'Prince of Preachers' genannt.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aldous Huxley George Orwell Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A deep dive into the heart and mind of both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. The greatest contributions to the tradition of dystopian fiction are two defining masterpieces from the 20th century, both of them bestsellers at the time and ever since: Aldous Huxley’s 1932 Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four. The two dystopias have many details in common. Both writers saw a future shaped by weapons of mass destruction — biological and chemical weapons in Huxley’s case, nuclear war in Orwell’s. They agreed about the danger of permanent social stratification, with humanity divided into categories determined by biological engineering and psychological conditioning (Huxley) or traditional class combined with totalitarian loyalty systems (Orwell). Both men imagined future societies completely obsessed with sex, though in diametrically opposite ways: state-enforced repression and celibacy in the case of Orwell; deliberate, narcotizing promiscuity in the case of Huxley. Both men thought the future would be dominated by America. Both men thought that future governments would spend a lot of effort permanently trying to incite economic consumption — not that either man thought of anything as wildly fantastical as quantitative easing. Both began their books with a short sentence designed to signal a world that was familiar but also disconcertingly futuristic “ Here are both literary giants in their own bold words!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Is Thicker than War: Brothers and Sisters on the Front Lines Author: Martin King Narrator: Martin King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the author of Triage and Searching for Augusta comes a history of love, hate, jealousy, and revenge between brothers and sisters during times of war through the ages.Journey back through time to discover remarkable accounts of parents who waved off their sons and daughters, never knowing if they would ever see them again. One mother saw no less than ten of her sons between the ages of eighteen and thirty-seven, dispatched to the frontline in the First World War. The biggest “real” band of brothers that ever served their country, but to discover how many made it back and who this dear lady was, you will have to read the rest. War is completely indiscriminate when it comes to inflicting suffering and heartbreak on families, particularly when one’s own blood takes up arms to fight with, and in some cases against their own kin. These stories recount some of the prime examples of families divided and united in some of the direst conflicts.When British police discovered the body of a dead woman, who locals knew as the “Crazy Cat Lady,” they found a small bundle of possessions that revealed a truly incredible story of two amazing sisters who served behind enemy lines as elite Special Operations Agents (SOE) during World War II.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Auf krummen Wegen geradeaus: Was mich bewegt und antreibt Author: Lisa Federle Narrator: Lisa Rauen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lisa Federle, Deutschlands bekannteste Notärztin erzählt ihre Lebensgeschichte - das autobiographische Sachbuch einer starken Frau. Ihre selbstlose Art beeindruckt die Menschen immer wieder: 2015 wurde Lisa Federle bundesweit bekannt, als die Tübinger Notärztin eine rollende Arztpraxis zur Versorgung der Flüchtlinge einrichtete. Später verbesserte Lisa Federle damit die medizinische Versorgung von Obdachlosen, und seit 2020 ist sie als rollende Teststation in der Corona-Pandemie unterwegs und war ein wichtiger Baustein des sogenannten Tübinger Modells. Im Frühjahr 2021 rief sie mit Jan Josef Liefers und Michael Antwerpes die Initiative #BewegtEuch ins Leben, um benachteiligten Kindern und Jugendlichen sportliche Aktivitäten zu ermöglichen. Handeln, um zu helfen, das ist ihr Lebensmotto. Lisa Federle gilt mittlerweile vielen als tatkräftige Frau, die mitten im Leben steht, die sich immer durchkämpfen musste, die die Probleme mutig und wenn es sein muss unkonventionell angeht und dabei nie den Menschen aus dem Blick verliert. Für ihr soziales Engagement wurde die Notärztin 2020 mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz ausgezeichnet. Nun erzählt Lisa Federle ihre Lebensgeschichte, von der Kindheit in einem sittenstrengen protestantischen Elternhaus bis zu ihrem sozialen Engagement für Flüchtlinge, Obdachlose, Unfallopfer und Kinder. Lisa Federles Lebensgeschichte ist die Geschichte einer selbstbewussten und erfolgreichen Frau, die unverdrossen ihren Weg gegangen ist und sich dabei nie verbiegen ließ.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Auerbach: Eine jüdisch-deutsche Tragödie oder Wie der Antisemitismus den Krieg überlebte Author: Hans-Hermann Klare Narrator: Oliver Dupont Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 20, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Im April 1952 begann vor dem Landgericht München ein Sensationsprozess. Angeklagt war der prominenteste Jude in Deutschland nach dem Krieg: Philipp Auerbach. Er hatte Auschwitz überlebt und stritt wie kein anderer für die Überlebenden des Holocaust. Seine Richter, ehemalige Nazis, verurteilten ihn wegen geringer Vergehen. Auerbach nahm sich noch am gleichen Tag das Leben. Sein Schicksal steht symbolhaft dafür, dass es die »Stunde Null« nach dem Krieg so nicht gegeben hat. Dass alte Eliten zu neuen wurden und der Antisemitismus fortlebte. Hans-Hermann Klares fulminante Biographie taucht die Nachkriegszeit in neues Licht. Sie lässt eine Welt wieder auferstehen, in der Hundertausende Displaced Persons in Deutschland für ein Leben in Würde kämpfen mussten.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crazy Horse, Third Edition: The Strange Man of the Oglalas Author: Mari Sandoz Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Crazy Horse was the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being “strange.” Crazy Horse fought in many battles, including the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the US government’s efforts to confine the Native Americans to reservations. Eventually, in the spring of 1877, he surrendered to military forces and ended up meeting a violent death. Now, nearly a century and a half later, Crazy Horse continues to hold a special place in the hearts and minds of people. Author Mari Sandoz offers a powerful evocation of the indigenous people of this long-ago world, of the life of Crazy Horse, and of the man’s enduring spirit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Divine Lola: A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity Author: Cristina Morató Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 1, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity. Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous “Spider Dance” in the greatest performance halls across Europe, she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty, sexuality, and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor, a self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman, choosing a life of adventure, fame, sex, and scandal rather than submitting to the strictures of her era. Lola cast her spell on the European aristocracy and the most famous intellectuals and artists of the time, including Alexandre Dumas, Franz Liszt, and George Sand, and became the obsession of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She then set out for the New World, arriving in San Francisco at the height of the gold rush, where she lived like a pioneer and performed for rowdy miners before making her way to New York. There, her inevitable downfall was every bit as dramatic as her rise. Yet there was one final reinvention to come for the most defiant woman of the Victorian age—a woman known as a “savage beauty” who was idolized, romanticized, vilified, truly known by no one, and a century ahead of her time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/635766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Francisco José de Caldas Author: Santiago Díaz Narrator: Omar Barrera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta interesante biografía pretende presentar la vida y obra de Francisco José de Caldas, uno de los personajes más importantes de la Nueva Granada, y que pasó a la historia por sus aportaciones a la causa común de la emancipación, así como por sus variados intereses. Una biografía muy interesante. Fue uno de los personajes más notorios en la gesta libertadora.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/635776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Leonardo da Vinci. Claro y oscuro Series: #33 of Personajes de la Historia Author: Leonardo Venegas Narrator: Arturo Mercado Jr. Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 39 minutes Release date: December 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: (Vinci, Toscana, 1452-Amboise, Turena, 1519). Artista, pensador e investigador italiano que, por su insaciable curiosidad y su genio polifacético, representa el modelo más acabado del hombre del Renacimiento. Era hijo ilegítimo de un abogado florentino, quien no lo alejó de su madre, una modesta campesina. Leonardo se formó como artista en Florencia, en el taller de Andrea Verrochio; pero gran parte de su carrera se desarrolló en otras ciudades italianas como Milán (bajo el mecenazgo del duque Ludovico Sforza) o Roma (donde trabajó para Julio de Médicis). Aunque practicó las tres artes plásticas, no se ha conservado ninguna escultura suya. Tras su muerte, se ha convertido en el paradigma de hombre del Renacimiento, dedicado a múltiples investigaciones científicas y artísticas. Sus obras han determinado la evolución del arte en los siglos posteriores. Su vida personal es en gran parte un misterio; apenas han llegado indicaciones acerca de sus costumbres, gustos o defectos. Ha ocupado en forma alterna los pedestales del sabio, el artista, el científico, el profeta, el humanista o el inventor. Sin embargo, de las muchas actividades emprendidas por su genio irrefrenable, a ninguna le consagró más tiempo y disciplina que a aquella que hoy se conoce como el oficio de escribir.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/635759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Catalina II. La gran leyenda de Rusia Series: #18 of Personajes de la Historia Author: Anastassia Espinel Narrator: Ana Ragasol Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Aunque de origen alemán, tuvo una excelente formación a 'la francesa'. Asumió el cargo de emperatriz como sucesora de su marido Pedro III, que murió en un complot en 1762 (año que Catalina tomó el poder). Por su estrategia de política interior y exterior intentó una europeización del país, y otorgó a la nobleza un puesto relevante que hasta ese momento no habían tenido. Interiormente fracasó su intento de crear un código con las ideas de Montesquieu y vivió una contienda en 1773 con los campesinos, por la nefasta situación social que la población vivía. Esto provocó una nueva reestructuración del Gobierno regente. Exteriormente se centró en la expansión territorial, aunque dependía de Polonia y Turquía. Mantuvo una gran amistad y comunicación con los grandes ilustrados franceses, como Diderot, Montesquieu o Voltaire.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/635786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Robert Capa. Imágenes de guerra Series: #1 of Personajes de la Historia Author: Roberto Rubiano Narrator: Javier Lacroix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 1 minute Release date: October 18, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sufrió persecuciones políticas por sus ideas, huyó del nazismo y vivió la primavera intelectual de París de los años treinta. Estuvo en las trincheras de la guerra civil española, desembarcó en Normandía y dejó testimonios únicos sobre los combates de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Visitó China durante la invasión japonesa. Cubrió la primera guerra árabe-israelí y finalmente recorrió las tierras de Vietnam, en 1954, donde el último acto consciente de su existencia fue tomar una fotografía y correr el rollo para tener lista su cámara para la siguiente.