Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/407238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium Author: Julie Wheelwright Narrator: Corrie James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 10, 2020 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A history of female combatants, from those who joined the military disguised as men to the current role of women in the armed forces. In October 2018, defense secretary Gavin Williamson announced that all roles in the military would now be open to women. Although this marks a historic shift, officially allowing British women into combat roles, the presence of women on the front lines dates back to antiquity. Beginning with the founding myth of the Amazons—in reality female warriors of a nomadic tribe to whom the Greeks attributed super-heroic powers—Julie Wheelwright explores the history of women in arms. She traces our fascination with these figures, many of whom successfully disguised themselves as men, using primary sources and their own words to bring their experiences vividly to light. Among these forgotten heroines are Christian Davies, Ireland's most famous eighteenth-century soldier; Sarah Edmonds, who left her native Canada and was among hundreds of women to enlist on both sides during the American Civil War; Maria Bochkareva, a private in the Tsar's army and leader of the Women's Battalion of Death in 1917; and Captain Flora Sandes, hero of the Serbian Army, who toured Australia, thrilling her audiences with tales of bravery and patriotism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe Author: Matthew Lockwood Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 21, 2020 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world. While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact—it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellions in Peru to the colonization of Australia—the inspirational impact the American success had on fringe uprisings was outweighed by the influence it had on the tightening fists of oppressive world powers. Here Matthew Lockwood presents, in vivid detail, the neglected story of this unintended revolution. It sowed the seeds of collapse for the preeminent empires of the early modern era, setting the stage for the global domination of Britain, Russia, and the United States. Lockwood illuminates the forgotten stories and experiences of the communities and individuals who adapted to this new world in which the global balance of power had been drastically altered.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr Author: Leanda De Lisle Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 21, 2019 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 Times Book of the Year 2018 Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I. His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever. Charles I’s reign is one of the most dramatic in history, yet Charles the man remains elusive. Too often he is recalled as weak and stupid, his wife, Henrietta Maria, as spoilt and silly: the cause of his ruin. In this portrait -- informed by newly disclosed manuscripts, including letters between the king and his queen -- Leanda de Lisle uncovers a Charles I who was principled and brave, but also fatally blinkered. He is revealed as a complex man who pays the price for bringing radical change; Henrietta Maria as a warrior queen and political player as impressive as any Tudor. Here too are the cousins who befriended and betrayed them: the peacocking Henry Holland, whose brother engineered the king’s fall; and the magnetic ‘last Boleyn girl’, Lucy Carlisle. This is a tragic story for our times, of populist politicians and religious war, of a new media and the reshaping of nations, in which women vied with men for power. For Charles it ended on the scaffold. Condemned as a traitor and murderer, he was also heralded as a martyr: his reign destined to sow the seeds of democracy across Britain and the New World.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War Author: Tim Marshall Narrator: Tim Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics. The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody conclusion in Kosovo in 1999. Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News, was on the ground covering the Kosovo War. This is his illuminating account of how events unfolded, a thrilling journalistic memoir drawing on personal experience, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with intelligence officials from five countries. Twenty years on from the war's end, with the rise of Russian power, a weakened NATO and stalled EU expansion, this story is more relevant than ever, as questions remain about the possibility of conflict on European soil. Utterly gripping, this is Tim Marshall at his very best: behind the lines, under fire and full of the insight that has made him one of Britain's foremost writers on geopolitics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/409317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky Author: Susie Linfield Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 13, 2019 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab world Cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the political, the book includes philosophers, historians, journalists, and activists such as Hannah Arendt, Arthur Koestler, I. F. Stone, and Noam Chomsky. In their engagement with Zionism, these influential thinkers also wrestled with the twentieth century’s most crucial political dilemmas: socialism, nationalism, democracy, colonialism, terrorism, and anti‑Semitism. In other words, in probing Zionism, they confronted the very nature of modernity and the often catastrophic histories of our time. By examining these leftist intellectuals, Linfield also seeks to understand how the contemporary Left has become focused on anti‑Zionism and how Israel itself has moved rightward.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noise A Human History - The Complete Series Author: Matt Thompson Narrator: David Hendy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 4, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This 30-part Radio 4 series explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. These specially extended episodes, recorded on location around the world and in collaboration with curators of the British Library Sound Archive, take us from prehistory to the present, encompassing the shamanistic music of our cave-dwelling ancestors, the massacre of noisy cats in pre-revolutionary Paris, the nerve-destroying din of trench warfare, right through to the cacophony of the modern metropolis. This is sound as life and death, pleasure and pain, power and revolution. Written and presented by Professor David Hendy from the University of Sussex. Produced by Matt Thompson for Rockethouse Productions. Theme tune composed by Joe Acheson from Hidden Orchestra. Readings Director Cherry Cookson. Assistant Producer - Cathy FitzGerald Includes a specially-composed 15-minute companion piece by electronic musician Matthew Herbert in which he retells the story of the whole series using only the sounds themselves.