Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beauty Is In The Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe Author: Joachim C. Häberlen Narrator: Nadia Albina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 5, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989, when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote its history. In the decades between, Joachim C. Häberlen argues, new movements emerged that transformed the nature of protesting. Activism moved beyond traditional demonstrations, from squatting to staging 'happenings' and camping out at nuclear power plants. People protested in the way they dressed, the music they listened to, the lovers they slept with, the clubs where they danced all night. New movements were born, notably anti-racism, women's liberation, gay liberation, and environmentalism. And protest turned inward, as activists experimented with new ways of living and feeling, from communes to group therapy, in their efforts to live a better life in the here and now. Some of these struggles succeeded, others failed. But successful or not, their history provides a glimpse into roads not taken, into futures that did not happen. The stories in Häberlen's book invite us to imagine different futures; to struggle, to fail, and to try again. In a time when we are told that there are no alternatives, they show us that there could be another way. ©2023 Joachim C. Häberlene (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War Author: Florian Illies Narrator: Jacqui Bardelang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “An enthralling and insightful cultural history—one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair.” —Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book Review  An ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth century As the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in a Paris café for a first date with Simone de Beauvoir, who never shows. Marlene Dietrich slips away from a loveless marriage to cruise the dive bars of Berlin. The fledgling writer Vladimir Nabokov places a freshly netted butterfly at the end of his wife’s bed. Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Zelda and Scott, Dalí and Gala, Picasso and his many muses, Henry and June and Anaïs Nin, the entire extended family of Thomas Mann, and a host of other fascinating and famous figures make art and love, write and row, bed and wed and betray. They do not yet know that they, along with millions of others, will soon be forced to contemplate flight—or fight—as the world careens from one global conflict to the next.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon Author: David Grann Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 18, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: **NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration. ‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’ JOHN GRISHAM ‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ Sunday Times ‘Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones’ Daily Telegraph ‘The best story in the world, told perfectly’ Evening Standard

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity Author: Harriet F. Senie Narrator: Ann Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 1, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation’s most revered presidents—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Is Rushmore a proud national achievement or a symbol of the US theft and desecration of the Lakota Sioux’s sacred land? Is it fair to denigrate George Washington for having owned slaves and Thomas Jefferson for having had a relationship with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman, to the point of dismissing these men’s accomplishments? Should we retroactively hold Abraham Lincoln accountable for having signed off on the largest single-day mass execution in US history of thirty-eight Dakota men? How do we reckon with Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy? He was criticized for his imperialist policies but praised for his pro-labor antitrust and conservation programs. These charged issues and many others have been plaguing our nation and prompting the removal of Confederate statues and flags amid racial unrest, a national pandemic, and political strife. Noted art historian Harriet F. Senie tackles these pivotal subjects and more in Monumental Controversies. Senie places partisan politics aside as she investigates subjects that have not been adequately covered in classrooms or literature and require substantial reconciliation in order for Americans to come to terms with their history. She shines a spotlight on the complicated facts surrounding these figures, monuments, and sites, enabling us to revisit the flaws of our Founding Fathers and their checkered legacies while still recognizing their enormous importance and influence on the United States of America. Monumental Controversies presents strategies to create an inclusive narrative that honors the varied stakeholders in a democracy—a vital step toward healing the divisiveness that now appears to be a dominant feature of American discourse. As the public and press reconsider the viability of the American experiment in democracy, Senie offers a thoughtful reflection on the complex lives and legacies of the four presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore. All four presidents faced some of the most contentious times in our history and yet they championed unity, made possible by acknowledging and accepting opposing opinions as a basic premise of democracy. Historians, curators, government officials, academics, and students at all levels will be riveted by this authoritative work.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop Author: Martin Puchner Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the 'know-how' of life, but the 'know-why'—the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past and from other cultures. In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume. From Nefertiti's lost city to the plays of Wole Soyinka; from the theaters of ancient Greece to Chinese travel journals to Arab and Aztec libraries; from a South Asian statuette found at Pompeii to a time capsule left behind on the Moon, Puchner tells the gripping story of human achievement through our collective losses and rediscoveries, power plays and heroic journeys, innovations, imitations, and appropriations. More than a work of history, Culture is an archive of humanity's most monumental junctures and a guidebook for the future of us humans as a creative species.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der totale Rausch - Drogen im Dritten Reich (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung) Author: Norman Ohler Narrator: Norman Ohler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 1, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Drogen im Dritten Reich: Norman Ohler geht den Tätern von damals buchstäblich unter die Haut und schaut direkt in ihre Blutbahnen hinein. Arisch rein ging es darin nicht zu, sondern chemisch deutsch - und ziemlich toxisch. Wo die Ideologie für Fanatismus und 'Endsieg' nicht mehr ausreichte, wurde hemmungslos nachgeholfen. Als Deutschland 1940 Frankreich überfiel, standen die Soldaten der Wehrmacht unter 35 Millionen Dosierungen Pervitin. Das Präparat - heute als Crystal Meth bekannt - machte den Blitzkrieg erst möglich. Auch der vermeintliche Abstinenzler Hitler griff gerne zur pharmakologischen Stimulanz: Als er im Winter 1944 seine letzte Offensive befehligte, war er längst süchtig nach Eukodal, einem Opiat stärker als Heroin. Täglich erhielt er von seinem Leibarzt Theo Morell verschiedenste Dopingmittel, dubiose Hormonpräparate und auch harte Drogen gespritzt. Nur so konnte der Diktator seinen Wahn bis zum Schluss aufrechterhalten.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Ministerio de la Verdad: Una biografía del 1984 de George Orwell (The Biography of George Orwell's 1984) Author: Dorian Lynskey Narrator: Sergio Alberto Bustos De La Tijera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: March 1, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘1984’, de George Orwell, se ha convertido en un relato definitorio del mundo moderno. Su influencia cultural puede observarse en algunas de las creaciones más notables de los últimos setenta años, desde ‘El cuento de la criada’ de Margaret Atwood hasta el hito televisivo Gran Hermano, mientras que ideas como 'policía del pensamiento', 'doblepensamiento' y 'Newspeak' están arraigadas en nuestro lenguaje. ‘El Ministerio de la Verdad’ traza la vida de uno de los libros más influyentes del siglo XX y una obra que es cada vez más relevante en esta tumultuosa era de 'noticias falsas' y 'hechos alternativos'. Dorian Lynskey investiga las influencias que confluyeron en la escritura de 1984, desde las experiencias de Orwell en la Guerra Civil española y en el Londres de la guerra hasta su fascinación por la ficción utópica y distópica. Lynskey explora el fenómeno en que se convirtió la novela cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1949 y las formas cambiantes en que se ha leído desde entonces, revelando cómo la historia puede orientar a la ficción y cómo la ficción puede influir en la historia. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020. “Todo lo que querías saber sobre 1984 pero estabas demasiado ocupado usando mal la palabra 'orwelliano' para preguntarlo”- Caitlin Moran 'La biografía de Dorian Lynskey sobre '1984', une los puntos entre la era de las fake news y la obra de Orwell'. The Economist

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Will Rogers Author: Will Rogers Narrator: Will Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The following recordings include Will Rogers a comedic keynote speech to a collection of bankers in 1924 and his first political speech made in support of a New York candidate for Congress. William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, humorist, and newspaper columnist from Oklahoma. Born in Cherokee Nation territory, Rogers was known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son." Rogers traveled the world, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s Rogers was hugely popular in the United States as its leading political commentator and the highest paid Hollywood film star. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Versöhnungstheater (Ungekürzt) Author: Max Czollek Narrator: Max Czollek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Max Czolleks legendäre Bücher 'Desintegriert Euch!' und 'Gegenwartsbewältigung' streuten lustvoll Zweifel an den deutschen Narrativen von Integration bis Leitkultur. Scharf, gewitzt und an jeder Stelle überraschend, schließt Versöhnungstheater diesen Kreis, wenn es nach der aktuellen Erinnerung an die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit fragt. Nach weltweit bewunderten Gesten der deutschen Selbstvergewisserung vom Warschauer Kniefall bis zum Holocaust-Mahnmal hat sich in letzter Zeit einiges verändert: Der Militärhaushalt feiert eine Zeitenwende und Bundespräsidenten sprechen auf Israelreise unaufgefordert von 'Versöhnung'. Deutschland ist wieder wer, auch weil es sich so mustergültig an den Holocaust erinnert. Herzlich willkommen zum Versöhnungstheater!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of President Calvin Coolidge Author: Calvin Coolidge Narrator: Calvin Coolidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Calvin Coolidge (July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, becoming the state's 48th governor. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight as a man of decisive action. Coolidge was elected the country's 29th vice president the next year, succeeding the presidency upon the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative distinguished by a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor, receiving the nickname "Silent Cal".

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: C Plot Author: Mary Anne Lale Narrator: Mary Anne Lale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: my Project description is my audiobook C Plot as intrigue! Conspiracy! Piracy from the Baddies as the BBBB New World Order origins and how being fought against today! 5 true life stories entwined over 400 years from Pirate Mary of Presently 2021 of Covid Blighty and NZ getting in way of individual freedoms. This is a book of power! From 1583 Blighty Britain Enslaved! Rebellion! Liberation and the English Leveller Revolution! 1634-1721....2021! Written from being Pirate Mary this a one off non put down able in any way missive! Mates! I dare U! Many have already NOT dared. Too much? Too True? Where r u at? What can one individual do?! Arragh....U Will Hear!....Pirate Mary Out!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Tomé de Sousa e a construção de Salvador: Trechos selecionados de 'Tratado descritivo do Brasil', de Gabriel Soares de Sousa Author: Gabriel Soares De Sousa Narrator: Yuri Ribeiro Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 1, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Nesta seleção de textos do livro 'Tratado descritivo do Brasil', seu autor Gabriel Soares de Sousa narra a fundação da cidade de Salvador, destacando a razão principal da escolha da localidade – a segurança de seu porto – o perfil de seus primeiros governantes: Tomé de Sousa e Duarte da Costa.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sigmund Freud Reflections On War & Death Author: Sigmund Freud Narrator: The Ark, Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 24 minutes Release date: December 17, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.” ? Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death Here is a classic historical psychology study by Sigmund Freud. Thoughts for the Time of War and Death is a set of twin essays written by Sigmund Freud in 1915, six months after the outbreak of World War I. The essays express discontent and disillusionment with human nature and human society in the aftermath of the hostilities and generated much interest among lay readers of Freud. The first essay addressed the widespread disillusionment brought on by the collapse of the Pax Britannica of the preceding century-what Freud called 'the common civilization of peacetime. The second essay addressed what Freud called the peacetime 'protection racket' whereby the inevitability of death was expunged from civilized mentality. Building on the second essay of Totem and Taboo, Freud argued that such an attitude left civilians in particular unprepared for the stark horror of industrial-scale death in the Great War. Freud's account of the centrality of loss in culture has been seen as seminal for his later work, Civilization and its Discontents. Caught in the whirlwind of these war times, without any real information or any perspective upon the great changes that have already occurred or are about to be enacted, lacking all premonition of the future, it is small wonder that we ourselves become confused as to the meaning of impressions which crowd in upon us or of the value of the judgments we are forming. It would seem as though no event had ever destroyed so much of the precious heritage of mankind, confused so many of the clearest intellects or so thoroughly debased what is highest.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Aves e peixes da Província de Santa Cruz: Trechos selecionados de 'História da província de Santa Cruz', de Pero de Magalhães Gandavo Author: Pero De Magalhães Gândavo Narrator: Guga Almeida Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Nesses tempos em que o leitor vê crescer diariamente a lista dos animais ameaçados de extinção, é nostálgico ler nesta seleção de textos do livro 'História da província de Santa Cruz', do cronista Pero de Magalhães Gandavo, sobre 'a grande variedade das finas e alegres cores das muitas aves que nesta província se criam', e que a 'fertilidade [de peixes] bastará a sustentá-los [os habitantes] abundantissimamente'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Povoações e moradores da província de Santa Cruz: Trechos selecionados de 'História da província de Santa Cruz', de Pero de Magalhães Gandavo Author: Pero De Magalhães Gândavo Narrator: Yuri Ribeiro Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Nesta seleção de textos do livro 'História da província de Santa Cruz', do cronista Pero de Magalhães Gandavo, o autor descreve sucintamente como são as oito capitanias então existentes. Destacam-se a boa condição do Espírito Santo, a 'mais fértil' e bem abastecida das capitanias, e também os combates necessários para afugentar os franceses que invadiam a capitania do Rio de Janeiro.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Plantas e animais da Província de Santa Cruz: Trechos selecionados de 'História da província de Santa Cruz', de Pero de Magalhães Gandavo Author: Pero De Magalhães Gândavo Narrator: Tom Bueno Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Na presente seleção de textos do livro 'História da província de Santa Cruz', do cronista Pero de Magalhães Gandavo, predomina o pitoresco, como, por exemplo, a descrição da... banana! 'Parecem-se na feição com pepinos, e criam-se em cachos.' Bichos venenosos e, principalmente, o monstro marinho de São Vicente, são outras descrições interessantes o bastante para estimular sua leitura.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - De São Vicente a Cananéia: Trechos selecionados de 'Tratado descritivo do Brasil', de Gabriel Soares de Sousa Author: Gabriel Soares De Souza Narrator: Mauro Schames Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Os leitores que já fizeram um cruzeiro de Santos a Buenos Aires hão de refazer a rota nesta seleção de textos do livro 'Tratado descritivo do Brasil', de Gabriel Soares de Sousa – mas com olhos de um viajante do século XVI! Curioso notar como o cronista antevê o sucesso da pecuária no Sul do país, além de reiteradamente comparar seu relevo e clima aos da Espanha.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diez días que estremecieron el mundo Author: John Reed Narrator: Antonio Monroy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 21, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: John Reed, escritor revolucionario y cronista insuperable, fue testigo directo de uno de los acontecimientos históricos de mayor relevancia del siglo xx, la Revolución rusa de 1917. Diez días que estremecieron al mundo es su extraordinario y conmovedor testimonio de la Revolución en que los bolcheviques, al frente de obreros y soldados, conquistaron el poder del Estado en Rusia y lo entregaron a los soviets. No en vano, el mismo Lenin recomendó fervientemente su lectura, traducción y difusión, como instrumento imprescindible para entender la naturaleza de la Revolución proletaria y comprender la naturaleza de la dictadura del proletariado. Diez días que estremecieron al mundo contiene textualmente los discursos de los líderes de la revolución e informa sobre los comentarios y la actitud del pueblo, da cuenta de la unión del pueblo ruso frente a la opresión, narra las escenas vividas y refleja el espíritu de los que fueron testigos y protagonistas de los primeros días de la Revolución de Octubre.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - دروس من التاريخ Author: ويل ديورانت, إريل ديورانت Narrator: داود عفيشات Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 1, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'تدفن حضارات تحت الرمال فقط لعدم هطول أمطار كافية كما حدث في وسط آسيا، أو تنغمر وسط الغابات إذا هطلت أمطار غزيرة كما حدث في وسط أمريكا. ستنتكس منطقتنا المزدهرة وتعود إلى حالة من البدائية والكسل إذا ارتفعت درجة الحرارة عشرين درجة. في مناخ شبه استوائي، يمكن لأمة من نصف مليون نسمة أن تتكاثر كالنمل، لكن جوها الدافع للكسل قد يجعلها عرضة للاحتلال المتكرر من محاربين من بيئات أخرى أكثر تحفيزًا ودعوة للنشاط. يمكن أن تتمكن أجيالٌ من إرساء سيطرتها على الأرض، لكنها في النهاية محكومةٌ أن تتحولَ إلى حفريات تحت سطحها.' هل تُورث الحضارة أم كل جيل يصنع حضارته بنفسه؟ لم نتمنى العيش في الماضي رغم أن عصرنا أكثر تقدمًا؟ كيف نقع في نفس أخطاء الماضي رغم قراءتنا للتاريخ؟ ويل ديورانت مؤلف قصة الحضارة، يعود لنا بصحبة كتاب ذات قدرة كبيرة على استشراف المستقبل، وقراءة واقع الإنسان وسلوكه، عبر فصول متنوعة، الأخلاق والتاريخ، الدين والتاريخ، نظم الحكم والتاريخ. كتاب تاريخي ممتع ومثير، استمع الآن.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II Author: Jeffrey Cox Narrator: Theodore O'brien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 10, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East - and directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught. It was to be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific.