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[Spanish] - Enigmas históricos al descubierto. De Jesús a Bin Laden by César Vidal

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177458 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177458] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Enigmas históricos al descubierto. De Jesús a Bin Laden Author: César Vidal Narrator: Rafael Oñate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: January 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: El conocido divulgador César Vidal aborda los mayores misterios históricos, nacionales e internacionales, para satisfacer la curiosidad de los lectores más inquietos, a través de una prosa clara y accesible: ¿quién ordenó el bombardeo de Guernica?, ¿fue Bin Laden un agente de la CIA?, ¿cómo se apoderó Gran Bretaña de Gibraltar?, ¿salvó el Opus Dei la economía de Franco? Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - César Vidal Manzanares es un abogado, periodista y escritor español. Ha trabajado para varias cadenas de radio, como la COPE y EsRadio, y periódicos, como El Mundo o La Razón.

Rescue at Los Banos: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II by Bruce Henderson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230182 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230182] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescue at Los Banos: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II Author: Bruce Henderson Narrator: Brett Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 31, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines—a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the ranks of Ghost Soldiers, Unbroken, and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines—most of them American men, women and children—would not survive much longer unless rescued soon. Deeply concerned about the half-starved and ill-treated prisoners, General Douglas MacArthur assigned to the 11th Airborne Division a dangerous rescue mission deep behind enemy lines that became a deadly race against the clock. The Los Baños raid would become one of the greatest triumphs of that war or any war; hailed years later by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell: “I doubt that any airborne unit in the world will ever be able to rival the Los Baños prison raid. It is the textbook operation for all ages and all armies.” Combining personal interviews, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and archival research, Rescue at Los Baños tells the story of a remarkable group of prisoners—whose courage and fortitude helped them overcome hardship, deprivation, and cruelty—and of the young American soldiers and Filipino guerrillas who risked their lives to save them.

The Age of Louis XIV: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza, 1648–1715 by Ariel Durant, Will Durant

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230252 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230252] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Age of Louis XIV: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza, 1648–1715 Series: #8 of The Story of Civilization Author: Ariel Durant, Will Durant Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Age of Louis XIV is the biography of a period (1648–1715) that Spengler considered the apex of modern European civilization. 'Some centuries hence,' Frederick the Great correctly predicted to Voltaire, 'they will translate the good authors of the age of Pericles and Augustus.' Those authors are lovingly treated here: Pascal, Racine, and Boileau, Madame de S├®vign├®, Madame de la Fayette, and above all the philosopher-dramatist Moli├¿re, who so memorably exposed the vices and hypocrisies of the age. Central to the book is the 'Sun King' himself, Louis XIV. Louis XIV ruled France for over seventy years, longer than almost any European ruler in history. He is the subject of a character study that runs through seven chapters, revealing the flesh and blood beneath the purple and the crown. He is seen at his worst in his struggle with Jansenists and Huguenots, at his best in his patronage of literature and art, and at his most human in his love affairs with Henrietta Anne of Orl├®ans, Louise de La Valli├¿re, Madame de Montespan, and Madame de Maintenon. From France the narrative passes to the Netherlands, and after pausing to examine the domestic idylls of Vermeer, shows the Dutch opening their dikes to save their land from Louis XIV and sending William of Orange to become king of England and a leader of the European alliance against Louis' hegemony. In England we contemplate the heyday of virtue under the Puritans and study the strange character of Cromwell. We see Milton's passionate career as part of the vain effort to prevent the Stuart Restoration. We find Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch,' with more manners than morals, attend boisterous Restoration plays; we skim the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys; and we follow Jonathan Swift from genius to insanity. Crossing the North Sea we trace the tragic heroism of Charles XII of Sweden and the attempt of Peter the Great to lead Russia from barbarism to civilization. We accompany the noble Sobieski of Poland as he rescues Vienna from the Turks. We visit Italy and Spain. We see the Jews proscribed and impoverished in Europe but rising to riches in Amsterdam and following Sabbatai Zevi in a desperate hope of regaining Palestine and freedom. All this forms the background for the 'intellectual adventure' of the European mind in its passage from superstition, mythology, and intolerance to education, science, and philosophy, for this was the age when Newton and Leibniz gave simultaneous birth to calculus, when Newton bound the planets and the stars with a chain of universal gravitation. Toward the end of the volume the authors revert to their favorite subject, philosophy, and devote a full chapter, with love and care, to Spinoza. The book ends with the sunset of Le Roi Soleil: Louis punished for his aggressions by a swarm of enemies gathering around him; fighting till his people are destitute and disillusioned, till his treasury and his heart are empty; dying defeated and repentant, begging his grandson and successor not to imitate his taste for splendor and war; and followed in his funeral by the insults of the crowd.

17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History by Andrew Morton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230085 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230085] to listen full audiobooks. Title: 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II. Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the duke's relations with Hitler. From the alleged affair between Simpson and the German foreign minister to the discovery of top secret correspondence about the man dubbed 'the traitor king' and the Nazi high command, this is a saga of intrigue, betrayal, and deception suffused with a heady aroma of sex and suspicion. ,br> For the first time, Morton reveals the full story behind the cover-up of those damning letters and diagrams: the daring heist ordered by King George VI, the smooth duplicity of a Soviet spy as well as the bitter rows and recriminations among the British and American diplomats, politicians, and academics. Drawing on FBI documents, exclusive pictures, and material from the German, Russian, and British royal archives, as well as the personal correspondence of Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Windsors themselves, 17 CARNATIONS is a dazzling historical drama, full of adventure, intrigue, and startling revelations, written by a master of the genre.

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228740 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228740] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Author: Erik Larson Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 143 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 16 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack.  Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.  Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo