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A Rare Recording of Pope Paul VI by Pope Paul VI

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334573 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334573] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Pope Paul VI Author: Pope Paul VI Narrator: Pope Paul VI Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini). He lived from Sept. 26, 1897 to August 6, 1978. He reigned as Pope from June 21, 1963 to his death on August 6, 1978. After succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council which he closed in 1965. He then helped to oversee the numerous reforms, and improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestants. This speech is delivered primarily in Latin, with a short message of prayer in English for American astronauts.

Cities: The First 6,000 Years by Monica L. Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345128 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345128] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cities: The First 6,000 Years Author: Monica L. Smith Narrator: Monica L. Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 16, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time.'--Nature 'This is a must-read book for any city dweller with a voracious appetite for understanding the wonders of cities and why we're so attracted to them.'--Zahi Hawass, author of Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance. Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and that number is growing. Weaving together archeology, history, and contemporary observations, Monica Smith explains the rise of the first urban developments and their connection to our own. She takes readers on a journey through the ancient world of Tell Brak in modern-day Syria; Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan in Mexico; her own digs in India; as well as the more well-known Pompeii, Rome, and Athens. Along the way, she presents the unique properties that made cities singularly responsible for the flowering of humankind: the development of networked infrastructure, the rise of an entrepreneurial middle class, and the culture of consumption that results in everything from take-out food to the tell-tale secrets of trash. Cities is an impassioned and learned account full of fascinating details of daily life in ancient urban centers, using archaeological perspectives to show that the aspects of cities we find most irresistible (and the most annoying) have been with us since the very beginnings of urbanism itself. She also proves the rise of cities was hardly inevitable, yet it was crucial to the eventual global dominance of our species--and that cities are here to stay.

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343546 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343546] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II Author: Sonia Purnell Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 9, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.49 of Total 190 Ratings of Narrator: 4.64 of Total 36 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography “Excellent…This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” -- The New York Times Book Review 'A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little resistance.' - NPR 'A meticiulous history that reads like a thriller.' - Ben Macintyre A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.' The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.' She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it. Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. But she plunged back in, adamant that she had more lives to save, and led a victorious guerilla campaign, liberating swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day. Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has for the first time uncovered the full secret life of Virginia Hall--an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance, and personal triumph over shocking adversity. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between by Michael Dobbs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343612 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343612] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between Author: Michael Dobbs Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 2, 2019 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany. In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that 'a piece of paper with a stamp on it' was 'the difference between life and death.' The Unwanted is the intimate account of a small village on the edge of the Black Forest whose Jewish families desperately pursued American visas to flee the Nazis. Battling formidable bureaucratic obstacles, some make it to the United States while others are unable to obtain the necessary documents. Some are murdered in Auschwitz, their applications for American visas still 'pending.'      Drawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, interviews, and visa records, Michael Dobbs provides an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930s and 1940s. He describes the deportation of German Jews to France in October 1940, along with their continuing quest for American visas. And he re-creates the heated debates among U.S. officials over whether or not to admit refugees amid growing concerns about 'fifth columnists,' at a time when the American public was deeply isolationist, xenophobic, and antisemitic.      A Holocaust story that is both German and American, The Unwanted vividly captures the experiences of a small community struggling to survive amid tumultuous world events.

White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century by John Oller

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345113 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345113] to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century Author: John Oller Narrator: Stephen Graybill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 19, 2019 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world “Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal • “Insightful and revealing.'—Kirkus • “Captivating.”—BookPage The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale—folksy lawyers arguing for fairness and justice before a judge and jury. But by the year 1900, a new type of lawyer was born, one who understood business as well as the law. Working hand in glove with their clients, over the next two decades these New York City “white shoe” lawyers devised and implemented legal strategies that would drive the business world throughout the twentieth century. These lawyers were architects of the monopolistic new corporations so despised by many, and acted as guardians who helped the kings of industry fend off government overreaching. Yet they also quietly steered their robber baron clients away from a “public be damned” attitude toward more enlightened corporate behavior during a period of progressive, turbulent change in America. Author John Oller, himself a former Wall Street lawyer, gives us a richly-written glimpse of turn-of-the-century New York, from the grandeur of private mansions and elegant hotels and the city’s early skyscrapers and transportation systems, to the depths of its deplorable tenement housing conditions. Some of the biggest names of the era are featured, including business titans J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, lawyer-statesmen Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Among the colorful, high-powered lawyers vividly portrayed, White Shoe focuses on three: Paul Cravath, who guided his client George Westinghouse in his war against Thomas Edison and launched a new model of law firm management—the “Cravath system”; Frank Stetson, the “attorney general” for financier J. P. Morgan who fiercely defended against government lawsuits to break up Morgan’s business empires; and William Nelson Cromwell, the lawyer “who taught the robber barons how to rob,” and was best known for his instrumental role in creating the Panama Canal. In White Shoe, the story of this small but influential band of Wall Street lawyers who created Big Business is fully told for the first time.