High-Quality Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure Author: F.A. Worsley Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. 'You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?' asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. 'What the ice gets,' replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, 'the ice keeps.' It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-1916 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration.

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/620070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Jackie: A Life Reinvented Author: Oline Eaton Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Jackie. One name was all you needed. A paragon of femininity, fashion, ideal American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first of the modern First Ladies. Then her husband was murdered, changing her world and ours. Traumatized and exposed, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an America similarly haunted by upheaval. She dated and traveled ceaselessly before scandalizing the world by marrying a foreigner, living abroad, climbing pyramids, cruising the oceans, and wandering Europe braless and barefoot. But the story of Jackie’s reinvention has been culturally erased. In Finding Jackie, author Oline Eaton pieces it back together. Jackie’s story—treated like the national soap opera and transmitted through newspapers, magazines, images, and TV during the 1960s and 1970s—became wired into America’s emotional grid. Here, in Finding Jackie, she’s rediscovered as an adventurer, a wanderer, a woman, and an idea in whom, for over half a century, many Americans and people around the globe have deeply, fiercely wanted to believe.

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/627500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from the Edge Author: Morris Schnitzer Narrator: Bob Moore, Naomi Azrieli, Jake Epstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of teenager Morris Schnitzer. Fleeing from Nazi Germany before the onset of World War II, Morris ends up in the Netherlands only to watch the country be invaded by the Nazis. With his father’s warning to never set foot in a concentration camp echoing in his mind, Morris resolves to fight — and survive. As he assumes false identities and crosses endless borders in search of safety, Morris never acquiesces to the Nazi occupiers in Western Europe. In his epic journey to Escape from the Edge, Morris endures imprisonment and gruelling work as a farmhand, joins the resistance in Belgium and ultimately enlists in the American army, vowing to take revenge for all that he has lost. Introduction by Bob Moore.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cry in Unison: Sistering for Survival Author: Judy Cohen Narrator: Karin Doerr, Naomi Azrieli, Judy Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Judy Weissenberg is the mischievous and lively youngest child growing up in a large family in Debrecen, Hungary. But as the Nazis rise to power in Europe and anti-Jewish laws tear her family and community apart, Judy’s joyful youth becomes marred by fear and the hushed whispers of the adults around her. Then, in 1944, Germany occupies Hungary and Judy’s world is shattered. One terrifying event follows another, and soon Judy is faced with the incomprehensible — Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the shadow of the gas chambers, she clings to her sisters and “camp sisters,” who are her only hope of enduring the miseries that are to come. In A Cry in Unison, Holocaust survivor, educator and human rights activist Judy Weissenberg Cohen weaves her riveting story of survival with descriptions of the political and social forces that upended her life. Her voice is a powerful call to honour the unique experiences of women in the Holocaust and to refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. Introduction by Karin Doerr.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memories in Focus Author: Pinchas Gutter Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Pinchas Gutter, Stephen Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to become almost invisible. But after liberation, his photographic memory won’t let his past fade away, and Pinchas struggles to deal with nightmares and flashbacks while raising a family and trying to heal his emotional scars. As he journeys from England to France, Israel, Brazil and South Africa, Pinchas searches for belonging before finally finding his true home in Canada. A poignant reflection on suffering, injustice and trauma, Memories in Focus also offers hope and faith in the future. Introduction by Stephen Smith.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Cachée Author: Marguerite élias Quddus Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Marguerite élias Quddus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: « Au revoir mes enfants ! Quand vous partez, ne vous retournez pas… » Avec ces derniers mots de leur mère, deux petites filles, Marguerite et sa sœur aînée, vont commencer une longue errance qui durera deux ans. Munies d’une nouvelle identité, elles doivent se couper de tout ce qui constitue leur univers familier. Menées de fermes en couvents, elles apprennent à se taire, à faire semblant, à mentir, à s’adapter et surtout à garder espoir, envers et contre tout. Le récit que nous livre Marguerite Élias Quddus nous prend à cœur et nous laisse entrevoir l’Histoire à travers les yeux d’une toute jeune enfant. Préface de Elizabeth Lasserre et Naomi Azrieli.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Hiding (English Translation) Author: Marguerite élias Quddus Narrator: Theresa Tova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Goodbye my children! When you leave, don't look back…” With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that constitutes their familiar universe. Led from farms to convents, they learn to keep quiet, to pretend, to lie, to adapt and above all to keep hope, against all odds. The story that Marguerite Élias Quddus gives us takes one to the centre of it and lets us glimpse history through the eyes of a very young child. Preface by Elizabeth Lasserre and Naomi Azrieli.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flights of Spirit Author: Elly Gotz Narrator: Rami Neudorfer, Naomi Azrieli, Elly Gotz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims. But there is no escape from the liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944, and Elly and his father are taken to Kaufering, a brutal subcamp of the notorious Dachau concentration camp. After the war, as his family tries desperately to flee from Germany and their past, Elly is determined to regain his lost youth and education. Throughout his journey, Elly’s motivation and enterprising spirit drive him to succeed and, ultimately, to find strength in flight. Introduction by Rami Neudorfer.