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Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316377 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316377] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young Men and Fire Author: Norman Maclean Narrator: Corey M. Snow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.

Cary Grant: A Class Apart by Graham McCann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125518 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125518] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cary Grant: A Class Apart Author: Graham McCann Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 28, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For two moviegoing generations, Cary Grant was class—an effortless embodiment of gentlemanly grace and humor. But Cary Grant’s greatest achievement was in creating himself and the irresistible character he became. In this savvy, fascinating portrait, McCann tracks the transformation of a life and looks closely at the sources of Cary Grant’s charms, which did not come easily. Generously filled with anecdotes about fellow actors and directors, a realistic portrait of a complicated man emerges. And although Grant was criticized for remaining in Hollywood during World War II, it now seems that he may have worked as a special agent for British Intelligence: in 1947, Grant was awarded the King’s Medal for Service in the Cause for Freedom, an honor that was not made public at the time. One of classic Hollywood’s definitive leading men, Cary Grant was named one of the greatest male stars of all time by the American Film Institute. This biography yields a new appreciation of his work and his persona, which was at once familiar, yet always enigmatic, even to those who knew him best.

Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan by Sean Parnell, John Bruning

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122330 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122330] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan Author: Sean Parnell, John Bruning Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 28, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 130 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 39 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell’s stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division’s heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan. Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kesh, Outlaw Platoon is a Band of Brothers or We Were Soldiers Once and Young for the early 21st century—an action-packed, highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery. A magnificent account of heroes, renegades, infidels, and brothers, it stands with Sebastian Junger’s War as one of the most important books to yet emerge from the heat, smoke, and fire of America’s War in Afghanistan.

Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile by Julia Fox

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120529 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120529] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile Author: Julia Fox Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 31, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine’s sister, Juana of Castile, wife of Philip of Burgundy and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is portrayed as “Juana the Mad,” whose erratic behavior included keeping her beloved late husband’s coffin beside her for years. But historian Julia Fox, whose previous work painted an unprecedented portrait of Jane Boleyn, Anne’s sister, offers deeper insight in this first dual biography of Katherine and Juana, the daughters of Spain’s Ferdinand and Isabella, whose family ties remained strong despite their separation. Looking through the lens of their Spanish origins, Fox reveals these queens as flesh-and-blood women—equipped with character, intelligence, and conviction—who are worthy historical figures in their own right. When they were young, Juana’s and Katherine’s futures appeared promising. They had secured politically advantageous marriages, but their dreams of love and power quickly dissolved, and the unions for which they’d spent their whole lives preparing were fraught with duplicity and betrayal. Juana, the elder sister, unexpectedly became Spain’s sovereign, but her authority was continually usurped, first by her husband and later by her son. Katherine, a young widow after the death of Prince Arthur of Wales, soon remarried his doting brother Henry and later became a key figure in a drama that altered England’s religious landscape. Ousted from the positions of power and influence they had been groomed for and separated from their children, Katherine and Juana each turned to their rich and abiding faith and deep personal belief in their family’s dynastic legacy to cope with their enduring hardships. Sister Queens is a gripping tale of love, duty, and sacrifice—a remarkable reflection on the conflict between ambition and loyalty during an age when the greatest sin, it seems, was to have been born a woman.

How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120839 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120839] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be Black Author: Baratunde Thurston Narrator: Baratunde Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 31, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this satirical guide to race issues—written for black people and those who love them. Audacious, cunning, and razor-sharp, How to Be Black exposes the mass-media’s insidiously racist, monochromatic portrayal of black culture’s richness and variety. Fans of Stuff White People Like, This Week in Blackness, and Ending Racism in About an Hour will be captivated, uplifted, incensed, and inspired by this hilarious and powerful attack on America’s blacklisting of black culture: Baratunde Thurston’s How to Be Black.