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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754930 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754930] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Author: Daniel Yergin Narrator: Michael David Axtell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 46 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 17, 2024 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. First time on unabridged audio! Now with an entirely new epilogue, read by Daniel Yergin, that speaks to the enduring lessons and continued relevance of the book’s lasting themes about energy, geopolitics, and economics. The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. This updated edition categorically proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first by tracing economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.” With his far-reaching insight and in-depth research, Yergin is uniquely positioned to address the present battle over energy which undoubtedly ranks as one of the most vital issues of our time. The canvas of his narrative history is enormous—from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, and both the Iraq War and current climate change. The definitive work on the subject of oil, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement, and great value—crucial to our understanding of world politics and the economy today—and tomorrow.

Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents by Nigel Hamilton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761429 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761429] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents Author: Nigel Hamilton Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: From a renowned biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance—and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union.  Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, there has been one surprising gap: the drama of how the “railsplitter” from Illinois grew into his critical role as U.S. commander-in-chief, and managed to outwit his formidable opponent, Jefferson Davis, in what remains history's only military faceoff between rival American presidents. Davis was a trained soldier and war hero; Lincoln a country lawyer who had only briefly served in the militia. Confronted with the most violent and challenging war ever seen on American soil, Lincoln seemed ill-suited to the task: inexperienced, indecisive, and a poor judge of people’s motives, he allowed his administration's war policies to be sabotaged by fickle, faithless cabinet officials while entrusting command of his army to a preening young officer named George McClellan – whose defeat in battle left Washington, the nation’s capital, at the mercy of General Robert E. Lee, Davis’s star performer.   The war almost ended there. But in a Shakespearean twist, Lincoln summoned the courage to make, at last, a climactic decision: issuing as a “military necessity” a proclamation freeing the 3.5 million enslaved Americans without whom the South could not feed or fund their armed insurrection. The new war policy doomed the rebellion—which was in dire need of support from Europe, none of whose governments now would dare to recognize rebel “independence” in a war openly fought over slavery. The fate of President Davis was sealed.   With a cast of unforgettable characters, from first ladies to fugitive coachmen to treasonous cabinet officials, Lincoln vs. Davis is a spellbinding dual biography from renowned presidential chronicler Nigel Hamilton: a saga that will surprise, touch, and enthrall.

American Heroes: From the #1 bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755087 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755087] to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Heroes: From the #1 bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots Author: James Patterson, Matt Eversmann Narrator: Joe Mantegna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 21, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Instant #1 National Bestseller! “A monumental contribution to comprehending the motivation and distinguished service of American warriors. American Heroes is a book that every citizen should read.” — Association of the United States Army From the authors of Walk in My Combat Boots, “American Heroes is a gripping collection of firsthand accounts…capturing the indomitable spirit of our nation’s finest” (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List series). U.S. soldiers who served in overseas conflicts—from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan—share true stories of the actions that earned them some of America’s most distinguished military medals, up to and including the Medal of Honor.    They never acted alone, but always in the spirit of camaraderie, patriotism, and for the good of our beloved country.     There has never been a better time for all of us to think about duty, sacrifice, and what it means to be an American hero.

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice by Simon Parkin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758400 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758400] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice Author: Simon Parkin Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist * A New York Times Editors' Choice * From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life’s work to help end world hunger? In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad—now St. Petersburg—and began the longest blockade in recorded history, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly three-quarters of a million people. At the center of the besieged city stood a converted palace that housed the world’s largest collection of seeds—more than 250,000 samples hand-collected over two decades from all over the globe by world-famous explorer, geneticist, and dissident Nikolai Vavilov, who had recently been disappeared by the Soviet government. After attempts to evacuate the priceless collection failed and supplies dwindled amongst the three million starving citizens, the employes at the Plant Institute were left with a terrible choice. Should they save the collection? Or themselves? These were not just any seeds. The botanists believed they could be bred into heartier, disease-resistant, and more productive varieties suited for harsh climates, therefore changing the future of food production and preventing famines like those that had plagued their countrymen before. But protecting the seeds was no idle business. The scientists rescued potato samples under enemy fire, extinguished bombs landing on the seed bank’s roof, and guarded the collection from scavengers, the bitter cold, and their own hunger. Then in the war’s eleventh hour, Nazi plunderers presented a new threat to the collection… Drawing from previously unseen sources, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin—who has “an inimitable capacity to find the human pulse in the underbelly of war” (The Spectator)—tells the incredible true story of the botanists who held their posts at the Plant Institute during the 872-day siege and the remarkable sacrifices they made in the name of science.

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos by Keith Lowe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718662 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718662] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos Author: Keith Lowe Narrator: Jot Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 11, 2024 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The Second World War destroyed countless cities in Europe and Asia. Naples 1944 is the story of the first major European city to be liberated by the Allies. The book describes not only what happened to Naples when the scourge of war lashed down upon it, but also, crucially, what happened next. This is the first major history of wartime Naples to appear in the English language. It fills a glaring gap in the British and American historiography of the war and shares a hoard of new stories – some of them truly shocking – that have never yet been published in any language. When the Allies arrived in late 1943, Naples had already suffered a brutal German occupation and suffered reprisals from the city’s heroic resistance and uprisings. This did not save it from the merciless Allied bombing. The city was on its knees with widespread suffering and squalor. Criminal gangs prospered, as did typhus, starvation and soaring prices on the black market. Much of the female population was forced into part-time prostitution simply to obtain food. Then Vesuvius erupted. Lowe’s gripping and powerful book places Naples right at the heart of Italian history. What happened in this city was not a mere sideshow to bigger events taking place further north, it was central to the story of the country as a whole. Neapolitans resisted Fascism just as the Florentines, the Bolognese, and the Milanese did. They suffered just as northerners did, and they longed as much for constitutional rebirth. The heroism and sacrifice that took place in Naples were harbingers of what would later happen throughout Italy – as were the compromise and corruption of ideals that came after the Allies took control. Naples 1944 is original and humane history at its very best, and a book which shows that Neapolitan story is the Italian story.