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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/810590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Joseph Fouché Author: Stefan Zweig Narrator: Wolfgang Schrader Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Nicht wenige halten diese Biographie Stefan Zweigs für sein Meisterwerk. Frankreich zwischen 1792 und 1815 wird unter der Zweigschen Wortgewalt zu einem atemberaubenden Monument. Die einzelnen Figuren von Robespierre über Napoleon bis Ludwig XVIII lässt Stefan Zweig für uns in brillanter Schärfe lebendig werden. Der eigentliche Gegenstand seiner Biographie – Joseph Fouché – bettet sich ein in das gewaltige historische Drama dieser Zeit. Und von Seite zu Seite nötigt uns dieser amoralische Verräter aus Leidenschaft für seine Überlebensfähigkeit mehr Respekt ab.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/806134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El indio Victoriano: Del idealismo a la desolación, la novela biográfica de El Chacal Author: Gustavo Vázquez Narrator: Aarón Olvera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: SOY VICTORIANO HUERTA MÁRQUEZ Y LLEVO AMORTAJADO DIEZ AÑOS EN ESTE HUMILDE ATAÚD QUE TODAVÍA NO SE HA DEPOSITADO EN LA TIERRA… PARA MUCHOS SOY UN MONSTRUO, ALGO EXTRAORDINARIO EN MALDAD Y HORROR. Basta decir que lahistoria lo conoce como El Chacal, y que es por aclamación el villano mayor en la galería de los presidentes de México. Sin embargo, es mucho más que eso: en su juventud, ese indígena huichol se convirtió en uno de los mejores astrónomos de su época y fue un brillante matemático, geógrafo, alpinista, cartógrafo y uno de los mejores militares mexicanos. Jamás perdió una batalla, algo único en la historia del país. Inclusodespués de su exilio tras su traición a Madero y Pino Suárez, la estrella de Victoriano Huerta no se apagó. En aquel momento sobrevino su capítulo más insólito: aliado con Alemania, estuvo a punto de invadir México, declarar la guerra a Estados Unidos y cambiar el curso de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Esta biografía —la primera que abarca la totalidad de la vida de Huerta— se presenta novelada,pero cada hecho está sustentado en fuentes históricas, muchas de ellas primarias, y en una acuciosa investigación de años..

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses Series: Part of Campfire Stories Author: Steven Rinella Narrator: The Contributors Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Eleven spellbinding tales of transformation, survival, and grit from the creators of the New York Times bestselling original audiobook MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls. In MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses, a collection of outdoorsmen share remarkable tales of life-altering moments. From a macabre discovery in the Idaho mountains that closed the book on a mystery spanning more than 50 years to an Ice Age archaeological find in remote Alaska, these stories take listeners on an immersive journey and provide intimate glimpses into a way of life that is slipping away. You'll hear firsthand accounts of a deadly helicopter crash, turkey hunting during a tornado, a prophetic dream about a 24-point buck, a fight over a record-breaking black bear, plus more stories about close calls and brushes with death.   MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses features tales from MeatEater crew members Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb, and Brent Reaves • with additional stories by Buck Bowden • John Hayes • Mike Kunz • Bob Service • Chris Williams & Jeff Jones • Jim Swenson & Mike Carey • Chad Martin • Chad Johnston • and Ryan Murray

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nearly Departed: A Memoir: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences Author: Gila Pfeffer Narrator: Gila Pfeffer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene—which put her at high risk of developing cancer herself. Determined to break the cycle of early death in her family, Gila decides to undergo an elective double mastectomy. This memoir follows her journey as she becomes a reluctant expert on how to sit shiva, grows up, falls in love, and enters motherhood, before her life is derailed yet again. Her double mastectomy reveals cancer already growing in one breast. After enduring eight rounds of chemo and the removal of her ovaries, she takes her last-ever dip in the mikvah waters as a bald, menopausal, thirty-five-year-old mother of four. With chutzpah honed over years of repeatedly surviving the worst, she manages to save her own life. Drenched in Gila's dark humor, Nearly Departed is a story about thriving against the odds, committing to what's important, and leaving a better legacy than the one you inherited.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/807180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare Author: Michelle Ephraim Narrator: Sharon Freedman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything. The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her literary studies, she found herself dumped by her boyfriend and bombing out of graduate school. Then, one night, she crashed a Shakespeare recitation party. Loopy from vodka and never having read a single line of Shakespeare, she was transfixed. Shakespeare, she decided, was the lifeline she needed. Green World is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Ephraim's quest to become a Shakespeare scholar and to find community and home. As she studies Shakespeare, Ephraim's world uncannily begins to mirror the story of the Jewish daughter in The Merchant of Venice, and she finds herself in a Green World, an idyllic place where Shakespeare's heroines escape their family trauma. Green World reckons with global, historical, and personal tragedy and shows how literature—comic and tragic—can help us brave every kind of anguish.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/810668 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Hernán. Cortés, crónica de un imposible Author: José Luis Olaizola Sarriá Narrator: Jaime Novales López-Medel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 9, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: sta espléndida biografía novelada de Hernán Cortés empieza con su llegada a Santo Domingo, y en seguida se resumen los principales episodios de su vida anterior. Es escribano, se traslada a la isla de Cuba, donde mantiene tensas relaciones con el gobernador, se casa y por fin se le pone al mando de una expedición que se dirige al imperio azteca. A partir de ahí se relatan todas las peripecias de la conquista de México, siempre con el mayor rigor histórico, que se hermana con una extraordinaria amenidad y una gran fuerza narrativa, consiguiendo que el libro pueda leerse como una novela en la cual todos los hechos que se refieren son reales. Una vez más José Luis Olaizola demuestra su singular pericia en el género histórico, dando vida y perfil humano a unos personajes de siglos atrás que protagonizaron una de las aventuras más increíbles de toda la historia de la humanidad.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/808110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eternity Through the Rearview Mirror: How Simple Faith Changes Everything - Seventeen Extraordinary Lives Author: Annette Hubbell Narrator: Annette Hubbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 8, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: How do ordinary people become extraordinary? Annette Hubbell asks that question of seventeen world changers in this one-of-a-kind fiction/non-fiction collection of spellbinding conversations with the most unlikely of bedfellows. Spanning the ages, from Galileo to Johnny Cash, these seventeen tell all from their heavenly vantage point. Let them reveal to you their secret to eternity's timelessness. (Hint, it has something to do with who gets the credit.). In addition to Galileo and Cash, you'll hear from Abraham Lincoln, C. S. Lewis, J. S. Bach, John Newton, Elizabeth Fry, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Amy Carmichael, Mary McLeod Bethune, Aimee Semple McPherson, Corrie ten Boom, Gladys Aylward, and Louie Zamperini. All were wildly famous in their day, some still are. These seventeen biographies are written as autobiographies, and the actual words of each historical figure are in italics to differentiate from those of the author's. If you're looking for accuracy and source documents, you'll find it in the 606 endnotes. If you want to dig deeper, each profile ends with places to visit, either in person or via the internet. Each story is also tagged with three Scripture verses that might have been their favorites. Because this book is written as a collection of stories, it can be read in any order, and would make an excellent subject for a book club or an in-depth home school curriculum.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen Author: Robert Jobson Narrator: Lucy Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Through the author's extensive connections within the royal household, this dynamic new biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today. Kate Middleton's life story seems like a modern-day fairy tale. An attractive, clever, and ambitious girl from unexceptional beginnings meets and falls in love with a wealthy prince when they are both college undergraduates. Now, with the British monarchy in transition, Catherine is destined to become the first "commoner Queen" in British history since Anne Hyde, wife of James II. Since her wedding on April 29th, 2011—and since becoming the Duchess of Cambridge—Catherine has endeared herself to the people of the Britain and America with her extensive travels, with her infectious smile, sense of style, and down-to-earth nature. With her self-deprecation, willingness to laugh at herself, solid work-ethic—along with William's warmth, and accessibility—this dynamic duo has become the most popular members of the royal family. As interest in the royals continues to gain legions of new, younger fans, there is increasing interest in the histories and back stories of the principal players in this story. Through the author's connection with sources both on and off the record within the royal household, this dynamic new biography tells the full story of how Catherine became the woman she is today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo2Darwin: In the Footsteps of Amy Johnson Author: Amanda Harrison Narrator: Sasha Higgins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 31, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Whilst learning to fly, Amanda Harrison discovered a beautiful vintage Tiger Moth. After researching the amazing pioneers who flew this fragile aircraft, a spark was ignited, and Amanda dreamed of emulating their adventures. On May 11, 2019, she made that dream a reality, taking off from Biggin Hill with the aim of flying to Darwin, Australia in twenty days—just as her idol Amy Johnson had done in 1930. Solo2Darwin documents one woman's exhilarating journey across the world. Indeed, the launch of her biplane, 'Solo2Darwin', received extensive press coverage, including print features in The Times and The Telegraph and TV footage broadcasted on ITV and Channel 5 News respectively. Faced with adversity, navigating through torturous mountain ranges covered in cloud, across seas, dodging thunderstorms, and surviving engine failures, Amanda's route had plenty of highs, lows, and drama. Alongside this she also experienced the difficulties of solo-flying a biplane and having to navigate dangerous regions across the world. What makes Amanda's expedition even more remarkable is that this was all undertaken whilst recovering from cancer. So strap in and prepare to go on a journey of a lifetime. Twelve countries, 2,600 miles, forty-six flying hours, two engine failures, one airplane, one female pilot, all equals one amazing adventure!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Fight: Boxing, ballet and breaking stereotypes Author: Harry Garside Narrator: Rew Hazzard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 31, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Life is all about triumph and tragedy. You can't have one without the other – that's just the contract we've signed in return for this short time we have here. Resilience isn't only about bouncing back. It's about bouncing back stronger. In The Good Fight, Harry Garside, Australia's ballet dancing boxing star, offers a raw  account of his journey through sport, unexpected challenges and personal growth. Harry opens up about his remarkable journey with wit and wisdom, and offers a refreshing perspective on masculinity, sharing his struggles, triumphs, and moments of profound self-discovery. Having won both gold and bronze medals at the Commonwealth and Tokyo Olympic games respectively, and playing a starring role at the 2024 Olympics, Harry is one of Australia's stand-out boxing talents. Through personal anecdotes and heartfelt poetry, Garside invites readers to see beyond the stereotypes, offering a nuanced exploration of identity, resilience, and showing how to be comfortable in your own skin.