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Title: Wartime Britain: The Darkest Hours of World War 2 in Great Britain

Author: Liam Dale

Narrator: Liam Dale

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 48 minutes

Release date: December 5, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Join The History Journals for an hourly historical exploration of the war's diverse aspects. In this edition, uncover the impact of Hitler's forces on the people of Great Britain. Travel back to London in 1940, and while familiar landmarks like Buckingham Palace and St. Paul's Cathedral still stand tall, you'd witness a city and a nation under siege. This year marked a stark realization for the people of Great Britain as they faced the impact of a world at war for the second time in the 20th century. Winston Churchill's resounding leadership resonated with the nation, and as he called upon the British people to rally to the battle cry, they responded with unwavering determination. It was, without a doubt, the finest hour of a nation. Explore: - Winston Churchill's timely leadership - British wartime economizing - The coveted Christmas gift during wartime - The Treaty of Versailles as a precursor to WW2

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Title: Winston Churchill: His Finest Hour - The Winning of World War II

Author: Liam Dale

Narrator: Liam Dale

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 47 minutes

Release date: December 5, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Would you like to delve deeper into the life of Winston Churchill without tackling lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for an hour-long historical journey focused on his role during World War II. After guiding the nation through five tumultuous years of World War II, Winston Churchill faced weariness and uncertainty about Britain's post-war future. What were his thoughts? The seasoned leader harbored concerns that the British Empire, exhausted and financially strained from prolonged conflict, might be overshadowed by its more potent American and Russian allies as the war neared its conclusion. Churchill had devoted his all to King and country, and while an Allied victory promised to be his crowning achievement, he remained prudent. Astonishingly, his continued tenure as the nation's Prime Minister was far from guaranteed. Discover: - Churchill's apprehensions regarding Stalin and post-war Russia's influence - The significance of the Okinawa battle in the European war's outcome - Global awareness of multiple concentration camp atrocities - The transition following FDR's funeral and Harry S. Truman's international emergence - The fierce battle and capture of Berlin - VE Day and the recognition of Winston's selfless service to a grateful nation.

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Title: [German] - Das Bill-Gates-Problem - Der Mythos vom wohltätigen Milliardär (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Tim Schwab

Narrator: Frank Arnold

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 54 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Die erste umfassende kritische Darstellung von Bill Gates und seiner Stiftung Der Imagewechsel vom skrupellosen Kapitalisten und rücksichtslosen Microsoft-Chef zum wohltätigen Gutmenschen ist Bill Gates mit Bravour gelungen. Eine fundierte kritische Berichterstattung über den vermeintlich größten Philanthropen unserer Zeit und seine Stiftung, die 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation', gibt es jedoch nicht. In seinem Enthüllungsbuch räumt der Journalist Tim Schwab mit dem Bild von Bill Gates als Wohltäter auf. Auf Grundlage brisanter Dokumente und Insiderinformationen liefert Schwab ein überzeugendes Gegennarrativ: Der Tech-Milliardär zieht nicht nur finanziellen Nutzen aus seiner Stiftung, sondern nimmt durch sie auf undemokratische Weise Einfluss auf politische Entscheidungen weltweit. Denn nur Organisationen und Projekte, die mit Gates' persönlicher Agenda und Weltsicht übereinstimmen, haben eine Chance darauf, gefördert zu werden. Somit illustriert der Fall Bill Gates wie kein anderer die Gefahren extremer Ungleichheit: Denn wenn Superreiche ihr Vermögen nutzen, um Politik zu machen, werden demokratische Prozesse und Institutionen unterminiert und unsere Gesellschaft vor eine Zerreißprobe gestellt.

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Title: The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition

Author: John F. White

Narrator: Keval Shah

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Release date: November 28, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world. The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces. Yet within the space of just five years, the general, later emperor Aurelian had expelled all the barbarians from with the Roman frontiers, reunited the entire empire and inaugurated major reforms of the currency, pagan religion, and civil administration. His accomplishments have been hailed by classical scholars as those of a superman, yet Aurelian himself remains little known to a wider audience. His achievements enabled the Roman Empire to survive for another two centuries, ensuring a lasting legacy of Roman civilization for the successor European states. Without Aurelian, the Dark Ages would probably have lasted centuries longer. This is a new, revised edition.

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Title: Ike in Love and War: How Dwight D. Eisenhower Sacrificed Himself to Keep the Peace

Author: Richard Striner

Narrator: Bob Souer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Release date: November 28, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Behind the demeanor that made Dwight D. 'Ike' Eisenhower so popular was a cold-as-steel intelligence that kept his country prosperous and out of danger. Because his operating methods were so deeply hidden, it is only in the past few decades that historians have grasped the full extent of his achievements. Ike in Love and War shows the hidden sacrifices that made Eisenhower remarkable. It probes the mission that was driving him: the quest to reconcile his skill as a fighter with his mother's pacifism, which led him to become the greatest peacekeeper of his age. More than other biographies, this one explores the man's emotions. It puts the long-standing dispute about his romance with Kay Summersby in a new perspective: tragedy. Here is the story of a unique American, the passion and brilliance he kept concealed, the ambition that propelled him, the sacrifices that wore down his health, and the sheer self-mastery that made it all look easy. It never was. His achievements are timely as Americans face unprecedented dangers. This is the story of the world Ike made, the things he achieved, and the surprises that may still be in store for us as we strive to understand his life in full.

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Title: Jack Ruby: The Many Face's of Oswald's Assassin

Author: Danny Fingeroth

Narrator: Danny Fingeroth

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby—and how did he come to be in that spot on that day? As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby’s motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger. The fascinating yet frustrating thing about Ruby is that there is evidence to paint him as at least two different people. Much of his life story points to him as bumbling, vain, violent, and neurotic—a product of the grinding poverty of Chicago’s Jewish ghetto, a man barely able to make a living or sustain a relationship with anyone besides his dogs. By the same token, evidence exists of Jack Ruby as cagey and competent, perhaps not a mastermind, but a useful pawn of the Mob and of the police and the FBI—someone capable of running numerous legal, illegal, and semi-legal enterprises, of acting as a middleman in bribery schemes. Cultural historian Danny Fingeroth's research includes an in-depth interview with Rabbi Hillel Silverman, the clergyman who visited Ruby regularly in prison. His findings will catapult you into a trip through a house of historical mirrors. At its end, perhaps Jack Ruby’s assault on history will begin to make sense. And perhaps we will understand how Oswald’s assassin led us to the world we live in today.

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Title: The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt

Author: Rick Marschall

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Release date: November 14, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Theodore Roosevelt largely is known today by stereotypes and his many accomplishments—but the full and fascinating essence of the man is fading. In this book, TR charges back! Historian Rick Marschall has collected almost five hundred quotations, descriptions, impressions, and memories of the 'Most Interesting American' derived from vintage newspapers, magazines, scrapbooks, diaries, letters, and so much more. In chapters devoted to his personality as a family man, a conservationist, an intellectual, patriot, activist, and as an American TR comes alive as never before seen. In more than a century since his death, the personal attributes that endeared Theodore to his America have become obscured. In this book of firsthand, eyewitness accounts TR comes roaring back to us in all of his astonishing ways!

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Title: When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art

Author: Matthew Algeo

Narrator: Pat Grimes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Release date: November 14, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Harry Truman and Pablo Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century—the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians. But in most ways, they couldn’t have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family and, despite his fame, far from a rich man. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picasso’s studio in the south of France? Truman’s meeting with Picasso was quietly arranged by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and an early champion of Picasso. Barr knew that if he could convince these two ideological antipodes, the straight-talking politician from Missouri and the Cubist painter from Málaga, to simply shake hands, it would send a powerful message, not just to reactionary Republicans pushing McCarthyism at home but to the whole world: modern art was not evil. A rigorous history with a heartwarming center, When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics, but at its core, it is the touching story of two old men who meet for the first time and realize they have more in common—and are more alike—than they ever imagined.

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Title: The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter

Author: Paul Blake Smith

Narrator: Tom Beyer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Release date: November 14, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Under the cover of night, on February 19, 1973, another U.S. president witnessed extraterrestrials. President Richard Nixon made a secret trip to a top security U.S. Air Force base, as his former boss, President Dwight Eisenhower, did in 1954. Nixon was said to have taken his golfing buddy, comedian Jackie Gleason. According to Gleason's then wife, Beverly McKittrick Gleason, Jackie was deeply shaken later that night when he returned home and confessed to their clandestine trip. As established in Smith's previous work, President Eisenhower's Close Encounters, this meeting was reminiscent of and perhaps even predicated by similar visits made by the president's predecessors, as well as others in the American government and entertainment industry. This in-depth book will attempt to separate fact from fiction. These events were carried off without the public learning the hushed facts and data connecting the two different presidential administrations . . . until now.

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Title: [German] - Reisen außerhalb der Zeit. Life is a Story – story.one

Author: Gregor Sieböck

Narrator: Gregor Sieböck

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Release date: November 3, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Zu Fuß, im Kajak, mit Frachtschiff, Flugzeug, Bus und Eisenbahn unterwegs rund um unseren Zauberplaneten Erde. Seit 2003 reist der Weltenwanderer Gregor Sieböck in die weite Welt hinaus und folgt der Stimme seines Herzens. Beschenkt von der Magie des Augenblicks lösen sich dabei Zeit, Raum und Grenzen auf. Die große Herausforderung besteht darin, überhaupt aufzubrechen, vermeintliche Sicherheiten hinter sich zu lassen und stattdessen der Ungewissheit des Weges zu begegnen. Der Weg entsteht dann wie von selbst.