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Publisher

thebookvoice.com

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jul 2000

Latest episode

12 Jan 2023

Latest episodes

186 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Jan 2023

   In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573398 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573398) to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris Author: Livia Manera Sambuy Narrator: Christina Cole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi. On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at a museum in Mumbai. What's written in the caption will change her life forever. This gorgeous Punjabi princess, it's said, sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. Could it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unnoticed? Instinctively, almost viscerally, Manera becomes entangled in the mystery, losing herself in the history of the British Raj, in the diamonds and sapphires of the twentieth-century aristocracy, in the Circus Balls and Jubilees, and in the lives of extraordinary figures such as the Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala, the Jewish banker Albert Kahn, and the Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich-all in a decades-long pursuit of the elusive Amrit Kaur. When she rendezvouses with the princess's eighty-year-old daughter, Manera's search takes on a new dimension as she strives to reconnect an orphan with the mother who abandoned her in 1933, leaving behind her two children, her raja husband, and a legacy of activism in India's women's civil rights movement. In Search of Amrit Kaur is an engrossing detective story, a kaleidoscopic history lesson, and a moving portrait of women, across the century, seeking personal freedom. © Livia Manera Sambuy 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

2. 

   29 Nov 2022

   Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965 by James A. Warren

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576602 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576602) to listen full audiobooks. Title: Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965 Author: James A. Warren Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: From a celebrated military historian, a powerful, “highly recommended” (Library Journal, starred review) account of the most pivotal year of the Vietnam War—the cataclysm that “continues to haunt American politics and culture” (Publishers Weekly). The Vietnam War was the greatest disaster in the history of American foreign policy. The conflict shook the nation to its foundations, exacerbating already deep cleavages in American society, and left the country baffled and ambivalent about its role in the world. Year of the Hawk is a military and political history of the war in Vietnam during 1965—the pivotal first year of the American conflict, when the United States decided to intervene directly with combat units in a struggle between communist and pro-Western forces in South Vietnam that had raged on and off for twenty years. By December 1965, a powerful communist offensive had been turned back, and the US Army had prevailed in one of the most dramatic battles in American military history, but nonetheless there were many signs and portents that US involvement would soon slide toward the tipping point of tragedy. Vividly interweaving events in the US capital with action in Southeast Asia, historian James A. Warren explores the mindsets and strategies of the adversaries and concludes that, in the end, Washington was not so much outfought in Vietnam as outthought by revolutionaries pursuing a brilliant, protracted war strategy. Based on new research, Year of the Hawk offers fresh insight into how a nationalist movement led by communists in a small country defeated the most powerful nation on earth and is “a well-researched overview of how America got into Vietnam—and why it shouldn’t have” (Kirkus Reviews).

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   8 Nov 2022

   Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575422 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575422) to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor Author: Steve Kemper Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war. In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated the prime minister and conspiracies flourished. The military had a stranglehold on the government. War with Russia loomed, and propaganda campaigns swept the country, urging schoolchildren to give money to procure planes and tanks.  Into this maelstrom stepped Joseph C. Grew, America’s most experienced and talented diplomat. When Grew was appointed ambassador to Japan, not only was the country in turmoil, its relationship with America was rapidly deteriorating. For the next decade, Grew attempted to warn American leaders about the risks of Japan’s raging nationalism and rising militarism, while also trying to stabilize Tokyo’s increasingly erratic and volatile foreign policy. From domestic terrorism by Japanese extremists to the global rise of Hitler and the fateful attack on Pearl Harbor, the events that unfolded during Grew’s tenure proved to be pivotal for Japan, and for the world. His dispatches from the darkening heart of the Japanese empire would prove prescient—for his time, and for our own.   Drawing on Grew’s diary of his time in Tokyo as well as U.S. embassy correspondence, diplomatic dispatches, and firsthand Japanese accounts, Our Man in Tokyo brings to life a man who risked everything to avert another world war, the country where he staked it all—and the abyss that swallowed it.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.