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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: And the Rest Is History: Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies Author: Kenneth R. Timmerman Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Foreword by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal CenterA real-life adventure story told by a New York Times bestselling author and war correspondent who reveals how he became a hostage, an arms dealer, and an Israeli spy.And the Rest Is History takes readers on a traveling circus from Paris to Beirut, Baghdad, and beyond, introducing them to spies and terrorists, arms dealers and crooks, and along the way reveals a few surprises about the secret underbelly of recent history you won’t find in WikiLeaks. This book pinpoints precisely when the era of “fake news” actually began in America, and will change the way you think about journalism and journalists.It includes:• riveting testimony of the author’s torture and born-again experience as a hostage in a Beirut cellar;• unusual insight into the beginnings of the Iran–Contra scandal;• eyewitness reporting from the battlefields of the Middle East;• the inside scoop on Saddam Hussein’s WMD programs;• astonishing stories of French government dirty tricks, the intelligence underworld, Israeli hostage negotiations, and the real-life escapades of a Soviet sleeper agent.And the Rest Is History is a reporter’s journey from Left-Bank leftist to born-again Christian conservative. But most of all it’s a rollicking good read full of unusual characters, places, and events you will never hear about on the evening news.

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/620630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940–1944 Author: Mary F. Williamson, Tom Sharp Narrator: Meaghan Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 24, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Letters from Canada to the mother of child war guests from Britain are "an extraordinary slice of wartime Canadian life." — J.L. Granatstein The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports. The letters brim with detail about family holidays, the financial implications of an extended family, their involvement in their church, and the games and activities that kept them occupied. Marie’s letters reflect the lives and concerns of a particular family in Toronto, but they also reveal a portrait of what was then Canada’s second-largest city during wartime. The introduction is by Mary F. Williamson, Marie’s daughter, and Tom Sharp, Margaret’s youngest son. The book features a foreword by Jonathan Vance that puts the letters in historical context.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee Narrator: Anuj Datta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Nobody has done more harm to me than Jawaharlal Nehru,' wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? And what prompted Nehru to weep when he heard of Bose's untimely death in 1945 and to recount soon after, 'I used to treat him as my younger brother'?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kargil Girl: An autobiography Author: Flt Lt Gunjan Saxena, Kiran Nirvan Narrator: Swasti Shree Sharma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 1994, twenty-year-old Gunjan Saxena boards a train to Mysore to appear for the selection process of the fourth Short Service Commission (for women) pilot course. Seventy-four weeks of back-breaking training later, she passes out of the Air Force Academy in Dundigal as Pilot Officer Gunjan Saxena.On 3 May 1999, local shepherds report a Pakistani intrusion in Kargil. By mid-May, thousands of Indian troops are engaged in fierce mountain warfare with the aim to flush out the intruders. The Indian Air Force launches Operation Safed Sagar, with all its pilots at its disposal. While female pilots are yet to be employed in a war zone, they are called in for medical evacuation, dropping of supplies and reconnaissance.This is the time for Saxena to prove her mettle. From airdropping vital supplies to Indian troops in the Dras and Batalik regions and casualty evacuation from the midst of the ongoing battle, to meticulously informing her seniors of enemy positions and even narrowly escaping a Pakistani rocket missile during one of her sorties, Saxena fearlessly discharges her duties, earning herself the moniker 'The Kargil Girl'. This is her inspiring story, in her words.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vijyant At Kargil: The Biography of a War Hero Author: Neha Dwivedi, Vn Thapar Narrator: Paul Thottam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: By the time you get this letter, I’ll be observing you all from the sky. I have no regrets, in fact even if I become a human again, I’ll join the army and fight for my nation.’This was the last letter Captain Vijyant Thapar wrote to his family. He was twenty-two when he was martyred in the Kargil War, having fought bravely in the crucial battles of Tololing and Knoll. A fourth-generation army officer, Vijyant dreamt of serving his country even as a young boy. In this first-ever biography, we learn about his journey to join the Indian Military Academy and the experiences that shaped him into a fine officer.Told by his father and Neha Dwivedi, a martyr’s daughter herself, the anecdotes from his family and close friends come alive, and we have a chance to know the exceptional young man that Vijyant was. His inspiring story provides a rare glimpse into the heart of a brave soldier. His legacy stays alive through these fond memories and his service to the country.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln Author: Robert Todd Lincoln Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith's detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, and Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper, serviceman, state legislator, lawyer, politician, Republican Party leader, and of course President. Along the way, we learn about his days of hardship as a beginning lawyer, his love for Anne Rutledge, such myths as 'Honest Abe,' and his deep concerns over the issue of slavery. The author uses Lincoln's correspondence with others to show his personality traits and opinions about topics of his world. Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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/622129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mare and the Mouse Author: Martín Prechtel Narrator: Martín Prechtel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel’s book 'The Mare and the Mouse' is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala. First in the Stories of My Horses Series, The Mare and the Mouse is meant to be read aloud to crowds around campfires, especially to people who are mistaken that only rich people or rednecks ride horses, Prechtel credits both his own physical and spiritual survival in “modernity’s mad rush to nowhere” with the sanity of riding and living with his natural-born Southwestern horses. Not raised for show, performance, status, or money, these little horses allowed a way of living that took him flying over ravines into deep-mountain Holy places, backwards over streams, and in general keeping alive a sparkier, older spirit in an age where horses have been grossly de-natured and sadly removed from our own everyday lives after three millennia as the closest companions of our ancestors’ dreams and mythologies.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abraham Lincoln Author: Ida M. Tarbell Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin and was raised on the frontier primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his law practice but became vexed by the opening of additional lands to slavery. He reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leader in the Republican Party, and reached a national audience in the 1858 debates against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North in victory. To secure its independence, the new Confederate States fired on Fort Sumter, a U.S. fort in the South, and Lincoln called up forces to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union. Lincoln, a moderate Republican, had to navigate an array of factions with friends and opponents from both the Democratic and Republican parties. He managed the factions by exploiting their mutual enmity, carefully distributing political patronage, and by appealing to the American people. His Gettysburg Address appealed to nationalistic, republican, egalitarian, libertarian, and democratic sentiments. Lincoln scrutinized the strategy and tactics in the war effort, including the selection of generals and the naval blockade of the South's trade. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland, and he averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair.