Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London Author: J.M. Maloney Narrator: Annie Aldington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 11, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Sisters of Battle Road by J. M. Maloney, read by Annie Aldington. In 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war. Little did they know what was in store for them or how their lives would change. From the trials and tribulations of leaving London, the destructive horror of the Blitz and terrible family tragedy to tea dances, romance and the triumphs of making a new life in the country, The Sisters of Battle Road is the compelling true story of six ordinary girls who carved out a life in extraordinary wartime circumstances. Today, the six young girls – Mary, Anne, Sheila, Pat, Joan and Kath – are six remarkable women who have lived to tell their tale of sisterhood and its unbreakable bonds in the shadow of World War Two.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath Author: John Toland Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: December 12, 2017 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: A revealing and controversial account of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland presents evidence that FDR and his top advisors knew about the planned Japanese attack but remained silent. Infamy reveals the conspiracy to cover up the facts and find scapegoats for the greatest disaster in United States military history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Dunkerque Author: Joshua Levine Narrator: Alejandro Vargas-Lugo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: December 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Pronto una gran película de Christopher Nolan. La épica historia de Dunkirk, mayo de 1940: cuando más de 300.000 tropas aliadas atrapadas fueron dramáticamente rescatadas de la destrucción a manos de la Alemania Nazi por una extraordinaria evacuación vía marítima. La historia real de los soldados, marineros, aviadores y civiles implicados en la evacuación durante los nueve días desde el 27 de mayo a 4 de junio de 1940 se ha convertido en leyenda. Ahora el tema de la película del director Christopher Nolan, protagonizada por Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance y Harry Styles. La historia que Winston Churchill describió como un «milagro» es detallada por el autor best seller Joshua Levine en su contexto completo y avasallador. Incluye nuevas entrevistas con veteranos y supervivientes, este libro va más allá de las escenas para explorar la vida real de esos soldados, bombardeados y ametrallados en las playas durante días, sin comida ni municiones; los civiles cuyas embarcaciones fueron sobrecargadas; los aviadores que arriesgaron sus vidas para comprarle tiempo valioso en tierra a sus compañeros; y aquellos que no lograron escapar. Contada desde las perspectivas terrestre, marítima y aérea, Dunkirk™ por Joshua Levine es una narración dramática de esta gloriosa derrota.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Author: Paul Kix Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II—Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur—and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain’s Special Operations Executive. A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat—cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands—from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies, beloved by Winston Churchill, who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans’ war-time missions, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucald withstood months of torture without cracking, and escaped his own death, not once but twice. The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld’s enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his way to his execution to stealing Nazi limos to dressing up in a nun’s habit—one of his many disguises and impersonations. Whatever the mission, whatever the dire circumstance, La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him. More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, bravely worked to change the course of history, and inspired the creation of America’s own Central Intelligence Agency.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Those Who Fall Author: John Muirhead Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: As a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber pilot, John Muirhead led missions into northern Italy, Germany, and Bulgaria during World War II. Ultimately, he was shot down and taken prisoner. John Muirhead’s re-creation of those years is a breathtaking mingling of ravaging horrors and silent, surreal images; of raw, tumultuous memory and elegantly paced narrative; of lightening humor and measured reflection. Seldom has a reader been made to feel terror so viscerally. Rarely has a reader ascended the skies so thrillingly. And never has one felt so close to the numbing fear, the boredom, the eerie beauty, and the dislocated sensibilities of war in the air as in Those Who Fall.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwomanly Face of War Author: Svetlana Alexievich Narrator: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexeivich, read by Julia Emelin and Yelena Shmulenson. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers and pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familiar with, creating an extraordinary alternative history from their private stories. Published in 1985 in Russia and now available in English for the first time, The Unwomanly Face of War was Alexievich's first book and a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union, establishing her as a brilliantly revolutionary writer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America Author: Steven J. Ross Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 1 minute Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: This is the chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it. No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city’s Jews and to sabotage the nation’s military installations. Plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast. US law enforcement agencies were not paying close attention—preferring to monitor Reds rather than Nazis—and only Leon Lewis and his daring ring of spies stood in the way. From 1933 until the end of World War II, attorney Leon Lewis, the man Nazis would come to call “the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles,” ran a spy operation comprising military veterans and their wives who infiltrated every Nazi and fascist group in Los Angeles. Often rising to leadership positions, this daring ring of spies uncovered and foiled the Nazis’ disturbing plans for death and destruction. Featuring a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Lewis’ daring spy network in a time when hate groups had moved from the margins to the mainstream.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stalingrad Author: Jonathan M. House, David M. Glantz Narrator: Paul Woodson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 1 minute Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Tantor Audio presents the complete audio version of the long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Stalingrad is an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hellfire Boys: The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World¿s Deadliest Weapons Author: Theo Emery Narrator: Allan Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 14, 2017 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: This explosive look into the dawn of chemical warfare during World War I is 'a terrifying piece of history that almost no one knows' (Hampton Sides). In 1915, when German forces executed the first successful gas attack of World War I, the world watched in horror as the boundaries of warfare were forever changed. Cries of barbarianism rang throughout Europe, yet Allied nations immediately jumped into the fray, kickstarting an arms race that would redefine a war already steeped in unimaginable horror. Largely forgotten in the confines of history, the development of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service in 1917 left an indelible imprint on World War I. This small yet powerful division, along with the burgeoning Bureau of Mines, assembled research and military unites devoted solely to chemical weaponry, outfitting regiments with hastily made gas-resistant uniforms and recruiting scientists and engineers from around the world into the fight. As the threat of new gases and more destructive chemicals grew stronger, the chemists' secret work in the laboratories transformed into an explosive fusion of steel, science, and gas on the battlefield. Drawing from years of research, Theo Emery brilliantly shows how World War I quickly spiraled into a chemists' war, one led by the companies of young American engineers-turned-soldiers who would soon become known as the 'Hellfire Boys.' As gas attacks began to mark the heaviest and most devastating battles, these brave and brilliant men were on the front lines, racing against the clock -- and the Germans -- to protect, develop, and unleash the latest weapons of mass destruction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink Author: Anthony McCarten Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 77 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill’s ascendancy to Prime Minister—now a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to Prime Minister, the horrors of Blitzkreig witness one western European Democracy fall after another in rapid succession. Facing this horror, with pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, Churchill wonders what words could capture the public mood when the invasion of Britain seems mere hours away. It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched and wonderfully written new book, The Darkest Hour. A day-by-day (and often hour-by-hour) narrative of this crucial moment in history provides a revisionist look at Churchill—a man plagued by doubt through those turbulent weeks—but who emerged having made himself into the iconic, lionized figure we remember.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom Author: Russell Shorto Narrator: Russell Shorto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution. While some of the protagonists-a Native American warrior, a British aristocrat, George Washington-play major roles on the field of battle, others-a woman, a slave, and a laborer-struggle no less valiantly to realize freedom for themselves. Through these lives we understand that the Revolution was, indeed, fought over the meaning of individual freedom, a philosophical idea that became a force for violent change. A powerful narrative and a brilliant defense of American values, Revolution Song makes the compelling case that the American Revolution is still being fought today and that its ideals are worth defending.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309897 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts Author: Daniel Siemens Narrator: Roger Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these 'ordinary' men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 1920s to the 'Night of the Long Knives' in 1934, when Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm and many other SA leaders were assassinated on Hitler's orders. In this deeply researched history, Daniel Siemens explores not only the roots of the SA and its swift decapitation but also its previously unrecognized transformation into a million-member Nazi organization, its activities in German-occupied territories during World War II, and its particular contributions to the Holocaust. The author provides portraits of individual members and their victims and examines their milieu, culture, and ideology. His book tells the long-overdue story of the SA and its devastating impact on German citizens and the fate of their country.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307634 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism Author: John U. Bacon Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn’s harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an extraordinary disaster awaited. . . . On Monday, December 3, 1917, the French freighter SS Mont-Blanc set sail from Brooklyn carrying the largest cache of explosives ever loaded onto a ship, including 2,300 tons of picric acid, an unstable, poisonous chemical more powerful than TNT. The U.S. had just recently entered World War I, and the ordnance was bound for the battlefields of France, to help the Allies break the grueling stalemate that had protracted the fighting for nearly four demoralizing years. The explosives were so dangerous that Captain Aimé Le Medec took unprecedented safety measures, including banning the crew from smoking, lighting matches, or even touching a drop of liquor. Sailing north, the Mont-Blanc faced deadly danger, enduring a terrifying snowstorm off the coast of Maine and evading stealthy enemy U-boats hunting the waters of the Atlantic. But it was in Nova Scotia that an extraordinary disaster awaited. As the Mont-Blanc waited to dock in Halifax, it was struck by a Norwegian relief ship, the Imo, charging out of port. A small fire on the freighter’s deck caused by the impact ignited the explosives below, resulting in a horrific blast that, in one fifteenth of a second, leveled 325 acres of Halifax—killing more than 1,000 people and wounding 9,000 more. In this definitive account, Bacon combines research and eyewitness accounts to re-create the tragedy and its aftermath, including the international effort to rebuild the devastated port city. As he brings to light one of the most dramatic incidents of the twentieth century, Bacon explores the long shadow this first ''weapon of mass destruction'' would cast on the future of nuclear warfare— crucial insights and understanding relevant to us today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900 - 1917 Author: Mikhail Zygar Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The window between two equally stifling autocracies—the imperial family and the communists—was open only briefly, in the last couple of years of the 19th century until the end of WWI, by which time the revolution was in full fury. From the last years of Tolstoy until the death of the Tsar and his family, however, Russia experimented with liberalism and cultural openness. In Europe, the Ballet Russe was the height of chic. Novelists and playwrights blossomed, political ideas were swapped in coffee houses and St. Petersburg felt briefly like Vienna or Paris. The state, however couldn't tolerate such experimentation against the backdrop of a catastrophic war and a failing economy. The autocrats moved in and the liberals were overwhelmed. This story seems to have strangely prescient echoes of the present.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor Author: Tom Sileo, Flo Groberg Narrator: Corey Brill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In an inspiring story of valor and the making of a hero, Florent Groberg—who grew up in France and emigrated to the US—becomes the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Florent “Flo” Groberg was born in the suburbs of Paris and moved to the US with his family in middle school. He became a naturalized citizen in 2001. After attending the University of Maryland, he joined the US Army and twice deployed to Afghanistan. In August of 2012, Flo was guarding a high-level US-Afghan delegation and noticed someone suspicious: a local man stumbling toward his patrol. Flo reacted quickly and ran to tackle the man—who was wearing a suicide vest. Four people died in the subsequent explosion, but many others were spared. Flo himself spent the next three years undergoing surgeries at Walter Reed Medical Center, and in 2015 he was given the nation’s highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor—the first immigrant to be so recognized since the Vietnam War. What prepares a soldier for those critical moments in combat? 8 Seconds of Courage tells Flo’s story from his childhood in France to his decision to enlist and the grueling training he underwent at US Army Ranger School. As a field commander on the front lines in Afghanistan he formed close and lasting bonds with his fellow soldiers. It was this powerful sense of responsibility that compelled him to take action to save lives, even at the risk of his own. “Flo’s incredible tale of bravery and service is also a stark reminder that for many of our warriors, coming home is not the end of the fight. Flo finds a way to live…Truly an inspiration” (Jon Stewart). In his own words, Flo provides that essential insight into his selfless act while remembering his four fallen brothers in arms. 8 Seconds of Courage is a story of heroism, sacrifice, and camaraderie in wartime.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315304 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II Author: Stephen R. Taaffe Narrator: James Anderson Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, faced the daunting task not only of overseeing two theaters of a global conflict but also of selecting the best generals to carry out American grand strategy. Marshall and His Generals is the first and only book to focus entirely on that selection process and the performances, both stellar and disappointing, that followed from it. Stephen Taaffe explores how and why Marshall selected the Army's commanders. Among Marshall's chief criteria were character (including 'unselfish and devoted purpose'), education, (whether at West Point, Fort Leavenworth, or the Army War College), and striking a balance between experience and relative youth in a war that required both wisdom and great physical stamina. As the war unfolded, Marshall also factored into his calculations the combat leadership his generals demonstrated and the opinions of his theater commanders. Delving deeper than other studies, this path-breaking work produces a seamless analysis of Marshall's selection process of operational-level commanders. Taaffe also critiques the performance of these generals during the war and reveals the extent to which their actions served as stepping stones to advancement.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents Author: Mark Perry Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of the deep and divisive debates between America's civilian leaders and its military officers. Renowned military expert Mark Perry investigates these internal wars and sheds new light on the US military-the most powerful and influential lobby in Washington. He reveals explosive stories, from the secret history of Clinton's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy to how the military plotted to undermine Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan, to show how internal strife and deep civilian-military animus shapes America's policy abroad, often to the nation's detriment. Drawing on three decades of high-profile interviews, both on and off the record, Perry yields sobering judgments on the tenures of our nation's most important military leaders. The Pentagon's Wars is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the inner workings of the making of America's foreign policy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic Author: Mike Duncan Narrator: Mike Duncan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 114 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 19 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: From the creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions comes the "remarkably engaging" (Washington Post) history of the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world filled with petty tyrants, barbarian chieftains, and despotic kings. Through the centuries, Rome's model of cooperative and participatory government remained remarkably durable and unmatched in the history of the ancient world. In 146 BC, Rome finally emerged as the strongest power in the Mediterranean. But the very success of the Republic proved to be its undoing. The republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome now ruled: rising economic inequality disrupted traditional ways of life, endemic social and ethnic prejudice led to clashes over citizenship and voting rights, and rampant corruption and ruthless ambition sparked violent political clashes that cracked the once indestructible foundations of the Republic. Chronicling the years 146-78 BC, The Storm Before the Storm dives headlong into the first generation to face this treacherous new political environment. Abandoning the ancient principles of their forbearers, men like Marius, Sulla, and the Gracchi brothers set dangerous new precedents that would start the Republic on the road to destruction and provide a stark warning about what can happen to a civilization that has lost its way.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver Narrator: Tom Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 19, 2017 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: On 27 October 1942, four 'Long Lance' torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea 100 miles northeast of the island of Guadalcanal and just north of the Santa Cruz Islands, taking with her 140 of her sailors. With the loss of Hornet, the United States Navy now had one aircraft carrier left in the South Pacific, USS Enterprise (CV-6), herself badly damaged in the two previous days of the Battle of Santa Cruz. For the American naval aviators, it would be difficult to imagine that within twenty-four months of this event, Zuikaku, the last survivor of the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor, would lie at the bottom of the Philippine Sea north of Cape Engano on the island of Luzon, alongside the other surviving Japanese carriers, sacrificed as lures in a failed attempt to block the American invasion of the Philippines, and that the United States Navy's Task Force 38, composed of sixteen fleet carriers, would reign supreme on the world's largest ocean.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial Author: James Reston Jr. Narrator: Jeff Cummings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Vietnam Vet Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin’s Design for the Vietnam MemorialA Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious “art war” that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial should be built to honor the men and women who died in the Vietnam War. The story intertwines art, politics, historical memory, patriotism, racism, and a fascinating set of characters, from those who fought in the conflict and those who resisted it to politicians at the highest level. At its center are two enduring figures: Maya Lin, a young, Asian-American architecture student at Yale whose abstract design won the international competition but triggered a fierce backlash among powerful figures; and Frederick Hart, an innovative sculptor of humble origins on the cusp of stardom.James Reston, Jr., a veteran who lost a close friend in the war and has written incisively about the conflict’s bitter aftermath, explores how the debate reignited passions around Vietnam long after the war’s end and raised questions about how best to honor those who fought and sacrificed in an ill-advised war.“The memorial appears as a rift in the earth, a long polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth.” —Maya Lin“I see the wall as a kind of ocean, a sea of sacrifice…. I place these figures upon the shore of that sea.” —Frederick Hart