the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost in China: A Memoir of World War II Author: Jennifer F. Dobbs Narrator: Alexandra Potocka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 12, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It's November 1941. Siblings Jennifer and John, ages seven and five, huddle in a cement culvert near Kunming, China, while Japanese Zeros fly overhead. Jennifer pretends to ignore the screech of gunfire. Where are Daddy and Mummy? she thinks. Lost in China is the true story of two Anglo-American children separated from their parents in China during World War II, and their unforgettable journey to America a year later. When their mother and father fly to Hong Kong on a short trip and get caught up in the Japanese attack, the Dobbs children are left parentless, with no idea when their parents will return—or if they are even still alive. For a year, the children remain in Western China. Finally, after spending a month traveling three-quarters of the way around the world via the US military's World War II air ferry routes, they reunite with their mother in a rain-swept, deserted airfield in Washington, DC—and face a shocking discovery about their father. Lost in China is both a riveting firsthand account of a family broken apart in World War II China and a daughter's tribute to her beloved father.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Traficante de Esperanza: Un camino hacia la redención Author: Monty Esté Narrator: Monty Esté Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 12, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta es la historia de un joven que ha tenido que caminar identidad y encontrar el porqué de su vida en este plano Una familia disfuncional trazó para él un camino distorsionado en el que experimentó una serie de acontecimientos que lo empujaron al consumo de alcohol, psicotrópicos y a vivir entre traficantes de drogas y prostitutas. Como consecuencia, él mismo comenzó a traficar estas sustancias al otro lado del mundo. Una historia conmovedora que llevará al lector a conocer y conectarse a nivel personal con la vida de este singular hombre quien tuvo que experimentar la prisión para descubrir que Dios tenía un propósito para su vida, el cual sería forjado por las formas misteriosas que Dios tiene para realizar su obra entre nosotros.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich verspreche dir: Ich werde nicht sterben - Wie eine Diagnose das Leben einer Familie schlagartig änderte von Denise und Hendrik Verst (Ungekürzt) Author: Hendrik Verst, Denise Verst Narrator: Julia Kothe, Luise Georgi, Alexander Pensel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 12, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Diagnose: Autoimmune Hepatitis. Und das mit Anfang 30. Für Hendrik und Denise Verst bricht 2015 die Welt zusammen. 5 Jahre später braucht Hendrik dringend eine neue Leber. Die 7-köpfige Familie steht vor großer Ungewissheit: Wird Papa rechtzeitig ein passendes Spenderorgan bekommen? Jetzt, 2 Jahre nach der Transplantation, arbeiten Denise aka Mathellaslife und Hendrik aka fitdad_hendrik die Zeit des Bangens und Hoffens in einem gemeinsamen Buch auf - bewegend, ehrlich und aufschlussreich.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Eden: The Wonderfilled Years Author: Elegy Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Return to Eden speaks of a pilgrimage. A journey from the horrors and pain, inhumanity and fear of the now to what once was. That place from whence we were exiled to wander through a million wildernesses seeking redemption, seeking forgiveness, seeking love, and unable to endure any longer, where we wish to return. To go home. This is the pilgrimage of Suzanne and Jackie.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774288 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Plantation Days: Southern Life Before the Civil War Author: Nancy Bostick De Saussure Narrator: John Riddle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 8, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For 'Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War' by Nancy Bostick De Saussure, the most fitting BISAC (Book Industry Standards and Communications) category would be 'HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).' This category encompasses works that delve into the era surrounding the Civil War, including personal narratives and recollections that provide insights into daily life, societal norms, and the social fabric of the time. Given the book's focus on recounting life in the Southern United States before the outbreak of the Civil War, this classification helps to situate it within a broader historical context for readers and researchers interested in the period.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marrying Mongolia: A Memoir Author: Sas Carey Narrator: Sas Carey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 3, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'A child of the '50's, Sas Carey was raised to marry and rear children. She did that, but with the care and morals shared by her parents, along with a lust for life, learned she could follow her own path, strewn with heartache, yet leading to transcendence. Her story is one of empowerment. In overcoming expectations, Sas becomes a healer of body and soul, learning that she need not devote herself to a single person to substantiate herself.' Sas Carey has climbed mountains, swum across lakes and rivers, and slept on the ground of three continents. She has ridden planes, trains, cars, bikes, boats, horses, camels, and reindeer. A Quaker, Sas is an award-winning documentary film director, author, spiritual healer, registered nurse, mother, and grandmother. Relaxing in her gazebo in Vermont, she dreams of her next adventure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fisherman, Rancher, Horseman, Spy: True Stories of a Life Well-Lived Author: Bayard Kane Fox Narrator: Bayard Kane Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The generation of young men who grew up in the shadow of World War II but were too young to fight came of age idealizing patriotism and adventure. They burned to live life to the fullest and do their part in the Cold War. In 1951, when BAYARD FOX graduated from Yale, the CIA promised a unique opportunity to do both by serving as a double agent. Assigned to Europe, the Congo, and Iran, Fox—who spoke several languages and was always game to learn new ones— grew disillusioned and resigned after 12 years. Soon after, a horse he was riding cartwheeled on him, shattering his hip. After organizing local fishermen in the Solomon Islands while swimming and diving for two years of rehabilitation, he was able to walk and ride again. Fox bought a ranch in the mountains of Wyoming, 17 miles from the nearest paved road and telephone, and set out with his family on his life's true work: a sustainable, benevolent, ethical relationship with nature and the animals and people who thrive in it. This eloquent and brave autobiography of a solitary pioneer evokes those of other men on horseback, such as T.E. Lawrence and Teddy Roosevelt. Their dazzling physical exploits and success in battle made them legendary in their lifetimes, apart from the historical roles for which we remember them. Fox, at 92, reveals a similarly rich life of impossible adventures—and of hardships mastered by grit and mysterious good fortune—in his own spare and unsparing voice. You'll be riveted and grateful to discover it before he and his generation's other remaining survivors ride ahead over the last ridge.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Spaghetti-vongole-Tagebücher: Wie ich mit drei Kilo Pasta, zwei Kisten Prosecco und einem toten Fisch von Venedig nach Triest fuhr, um meine Schwiegereltern zu beeindrucken Author: Stefan Maiwald Narrator: Hans Jürgen Stockerl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ein Mann, ein Plan, ein Familienessen. Und eine Reise.  Was tun, wenn der Geburtstag naht? Was tun, wenn die italienische Familie bekocht werden will und der Schwiegervater ein ausgewiesener Feinschmecker ist?  Man(n) fragt bei den Besten nach!  Zwischen Venedig und Triest stehen sie mit Rat und Tat zur Seite: der smarteste Barkeeper der Welt, die Königin der Cicchetti, der Kapitän der Sarde in saor, der Padrone der Pasta, die Winzerin der Wasser-Reben, der Frico-Feinschmecker, der Bändiger des Baccalà – und natürlich Pino aus der »Bar in Italien«, der dem Autor beruhigend die Hand hält, wenn der Nervenzusammenbruch droht.  Am Ende der Reise zu den kulinarischen Höhepunkten an der Oberen Adria steht das Grande Finale – und die Frage, ob auch der Padrone zufrieden war.  - Mit dem Bestsellerautor auf kulinarischer Bildungsreise zwischen Venedig und Triest - Eine vergnügliche Tour de force mit Pasta, Prosecco und famiglia

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Kevin: From Warrior to Peacemaker Author: Kevin Osterman Narrator: Kevin Osterman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Kevin Osterman takes us through a fascinating journey from delinquency, his time as a Marine scout in Vietnam to learning leadership and ultimately becoming a peacemaker. Becoming Kevin – From Warrior to Peacemaker is a chronology that highlights specific pivotal events in the author's personal development, and which impacted the world around him. Whether he's shoplifting, completing boot camp at Parris Island, working his way through an enemy bunker complex, learning to fly, helping people find jobs, or facilitating dispute resolution, you'll be right there with him, so hang on! This is a trip worth taking!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Eden: The Wilderness Years Author: Elegy Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: England in the time of his boyhood was a cold and colourless country. They had seen to that, the Autumn Men. They who had been lifted high, the old men of his country and other countries, who in the autumn of their years, reflecting on the unfulfilled promise of their youth, and their failures as yet unredeemed, feeling as any old man adrift alone on a small boat, sails broken, oars lost, swept hopelessly onward towards the deafening roar of the approaching weir, might feel, decided that too few had sweetly and honourably been called. So call out the young men, wide-eyed and brave of heart, to don uniform, bid sweethearts farewell and forfeit their future. And murder in the name of God. Until they too are harvested 'neath the Autumn Men's sickle. And the lark song is stilled as passing bells are heard anew. No longer could the innocent look to the heavens for salvation, only look on in horror as the devil poured the contents of hell over them. And so it was and so it remained until Satan, who had found refuge in the hearts of too many, was cast out and the women had cried..'enough!!' And on countless memorials in towns and villages across the cold and colourless country, new names were added to the old and memorials once again were baptised with tears of the innocent for the innocent. And in the great city as the weak winter sunshine filters through the mists of an early November morning, the Autumn Men in their black coats and polished shoes still stand, shameless, in solemn line to bow their heads and lay poppy-lit wreaths, mankind's apology to its youth. This then was the wasteland of his boyhood. One from which he would spend the rest of his life trying to escape.