The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241734 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241734] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency Author: Annie Jacobsen Narrator: Annie Jacobsen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 22, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or 'the Pentagon's brain,' from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the book on DARPA -- a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241252 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241252] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World Author: Linda Hirshman Narrator: Andrea Gallo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: NPR Best Book of 2015 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER The author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve as Supreme Court justices. The relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher’s daughter and Brooklyn girl—transcends party, religion, region, and culture. Strengthened by each other’s presence, these groundbreaking judges, the first and second to serve on the highest court in the land, have transformed the Constitution and America itself, making it a more equal place for all women. Linda Hirshman’s dual biography includes revealing stories of how these trailblazers fought for their own recognition in a male-dominated profession—battles that would ultimately benefit every American woman. She also makes clear how these two justices have shaped the legal framework of modern feminism, including employment discrimination, abortion, affirmative action, sexual harassment, and many other issues crucial to women’s lives. Sisters-in-Law combines legal detail with warm personal anecdotes that bring these very different women into focus as never before. Meticulously researched and compellingly told, it is an authoritative account of our changing law and culture, and a moving story of a remarkable friendship.

Kent State by James A. Michener

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241178 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241178] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kent State Author: James A. Michener Narrator: Larry McKeever Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 25, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: All of James A. Michener's storytelling and reportorial skills are brought to the fore in this stunning and heartbreaking examination of the events that led to the 1970 shootings at Kent State, which shook the country to the roots and had a profound impact on the anti-war movement.

Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack by Tom Nagorski

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241591 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241591] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack Author: Tom Nagorski Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 25, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable story of children in wartime, of heroism at sea, and--above all--of courage and the power of the human spirit. On September 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, but the ship's prized passengers were 90 children whose parents had elected to send their boys and girls away from Great Britain to escape the ravages of World War II. They were considered lucky, headed for quiet, peaceful, and relatively bountiful Canada. The Benares sank in half an hour, in a gale that sent several of her lifeboats pitching into the frigid sea. They were more than five hundred miles from land, three hundred miles from the nearest rescue vessel. Miracles on the Water tells the astonishing story of the survivors--not one of whom had any reasonable hope of rescue as the ship went down. The initial 'miracle' involves one British destroyer's race to the scene, against time and against the elements; the second is the story of Lifeboat 12, missed by the destroyer and left out on the water, 46 people jammed in a craft built and stocked for 30. Those people lasted eight days on little food and tiny rations of drinking water. The survivors have grappled ever since with questions about the ordeal: Should the Benares have been better protected? How and why did they persevere? What role did faith and providence play in the outcome? Based on first-hand accounts from the child survivors and other passengers, including the author's great-uncle, Miracles on the Water brings us the story of the attack on the Benares and the extraordinary events that followed. Tom Nagorski is currently the Executive Vice President of the Asia Society following a three-decade career in journalism - having served most recently as Managing Editor for International Coverage at ABC News. Nagorski has won eight Emmy awards and the Dupont Award for excellence in international coverage, as well as a fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War by Giles Whittell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240741 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240741] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War Author: Giles Whittell Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie   “A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and clandestine activity.”—The Wall Street Journal Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962, when their fates helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the cold war.   Bridge of Spies is the true story of three extraordinary characters—William Fisher, alias Rudolf Abel, a British-born KGB agent arrested by the FBI in New York City and jailed as a Soviet superspy for trying to steal America’s most precious nuclear secrets; Gary Powers, the American U-2 pilot who was captured when his plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over central Russia; and Frederic Pryor, a young American graduate student in Berlin mistakenly identified as a spy, arrested, and held without charge by the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police.   Giles Whittell masterfully weaves the three strands of this story together and reconstructs the brinkmanship and covert mind games that brought the United States and Soviet Union so close to a hot war in the early 1960s. The exchange that day at two of the most sensitive points along the Iron Curtain represented the first step back from where the superpowers had stood since the building of the Berlin Wall the previous summer—on the brink of World War III.