Freedom National: The destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes

Freedom National: The destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157385 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157385] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom National: The destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Author: James Oakes Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 57 minutes Release date: December 10, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The consensus view of the Civil War—that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory—dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle. In the disloyal South the federal government quickly began freeing slaves, immediately and without slaveholder compensation, as they fled to Union lines. In the loyal Border States the Republicans tried coaxing officials into abolishing slavery gradually with promises of compensation. As the devastating war continued with slavery still entrenched, Republicans embraced a more aggressive military emancipation, triggered by the Emancipation Proclamation. Finally it took a constitutional amendment on abolition to achieve the Union’s primary goal in the war. Here, in a magisterial history, are the intertwined stories of emancipation and the Civil War.

Drinking Water: A History by James Salzman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155737 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155737] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drinking Water: A History Author: James Salzman Narrator: Lee Hahn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running dry and reservoirs emptying, where is your water going to come from in the future? In Drinking Water, Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time—from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change—and how humans have been wrestling with these problems for centuries. Bloody conflicts over control of water sources stretch as far back as the Bible yet are featured in front page headlines even today. Only fifty years ago, selling bottled water sounded as ludicrous as selling bottled air. Salzman weaves all of these issues together to show just how complex a simple glass of water can be.

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149855 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149855] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World Author: Maya Jasanoff Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 16, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Maya Jasanoff won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her groundbreaking work Liberty's Exiles. After the American Revolution, 60,000 British loyalists fled the U.S. for Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other points abroad. Jasanoff traces their harrowing journeys across the globe, shedding light on their ambitions, the post-revolutionary world they encountered, and their legacies.

D-Day: June 6, 1944 : The Climactic Battle of WWII by Stephen E. Ambrose

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149648 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149648] to listen full audiobooks. Title: D-Day: June 6, 1944 : The Climactic Battle of WWII Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Jesse Boggs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 62 Ratings of Narrator: 4.06 of Total 16 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged. Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be. The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149668 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149668] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 Author: Anne Applebaum Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 30, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.