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• Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546795 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets Author: Burkhard Bilger Narrator: Burkhard Bilger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this 'unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain) ‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party’s brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country’s crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out. What follows is a literary suspense story: a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in villages and dusty archives across Germany and France. Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century, tracing one family’s path through history’s wreckage. For readers of Bart van Es’s The Cut Out Girl or Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with the Amber Eyes, this is a story of middle lands, torn allegiances and loaded family inheritance.

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• The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Holocaust: An Unfinished History Author: Dan Stone Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The defining event of twentieth-century Europe - the extermination of millions of Jews - has been commemorated, institutionalised and embedded in our collective consciousness. But in this nuanced and perceptive new history, Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute, contends that the true dimension of the horror wrought by the Nazis is inadvertently brushed aside in our current culture of commemoration. This is due in part to practical or conceptual challenges, such as the continent-wide scale of the crime and the multiplicity of sources in many languages; and in part to an unwillingness to confront the reality that the Holocaust could not have happened without the assistance of numerous non-Nazi states and agents. Structured around four themes - trauma, collaboration, genocidal fantasy and post-war consequences - The Holocaust demonstrates the genocidal logic of much European thinking in the wake of WWI, explores how the Holocaust's effects unfolded even after the liberation of the camps in 1945, and stresses the ways in which Europeans continue, even now, to draw on a reservoir of fascist vocabulary and imagery in times of crisis. It is a deeply researched and indispensable examination of a trauma that still reverberates today. © Dan Stone 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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• [Spanish] - Drenajes by Diego Rodríguez Landeros

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Drenajes Author: Diego Rodríguez Landeros Narrator: Carlos Canales Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 21, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'Todo parte en un remolino, un espiral de agua que traga lagos, ríos, gente, el flujo completo de un país que desacomoda y que termina desapareciendo por el resumidero. Con una escritura líquida e inclasificable, mitad crónica, mitad ensayo, Diego Rodríguez Landeros convoca la memoria del agua resucitando las ausencias, enfocando la marca de los cadáveres lacustres y fluviales que dieron vida a comunidades enteras. Vertiginosa, lúdica, luminosa y conmovedoramente inteligente, esta obra nos advierte, como el Ángel de la Historia de Benjamin, sobre las ruinas que trae el huracán del progreso.'—Nona Fernández 'Diego Rodríguez Landeros tiene una prosa estupenda.'—Jorge Comensal Escritos con una triple escafandra de ficción, crónica y ensayo, los textos de Drenajes se sumergen en algunos momentos claves de la historia del agua en México para emerger de ahí con un ramillete de maravillas literarias. Desde las obras hidráulicas impulsadas por tlatoanis aztecas, reyes texcocanos y presidentes priistas, hasta los trasvases kilométricos que abastecen a las megalópolis del siglo xxi, pasando por cañerías subterráneas, ríos contaminados y la desecación de cuencas hidrográficas como resultado de megaproyectos virreinales, agroindustriales, inmobiliarios o energéticos, los hitos visitados en este libro conforman un mosaico que muestra los usos y abusos del agua en este país, así como un recuento de los beneficiados y damnificados de esos procesos. Al mismo tiempo, reafirmando su irrenunciable vocación literaria, la investigación se ramifica en un delta que conduce a inesperados finales de cuento, perfiles de personajes delirantes, digresiones poéticas, honduras filosóficas y reflexiones atípicas donde la mirada, tras el avistamiento de las profundidades, es capaz de ver orillas antes ocultas por la niebla. Drenajes, tercer libro de ensayos de Diego Rodríguez Landeros, continua la línea literaria de investigación sobre la crisis hidrológica en México que el autor ha realizado, cuya primera parte es la novela Desagüe, publicada también en Scribd Audio.

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• The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp by Simon Parkin

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Author: Simon Parkin Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, and—possibly—genuine spies. Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England on a Kindertransport rescue, an effort sanctioned by the UK government to evacuate minors from Nazi-controlled areas. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. During Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, tens of thousands of German and Austrian Jews like Peter escaped and found refuge in Britain. After war broke out and paranoia gripped the nation, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered that these innocent asylum seekers—so-called “enemy aliens”—be interned. When Peter arrived at Hutchinson Camp, he found one of history’s most astounding prison populations: renowned professors, composers, journalists, and artists. Together, they created a thriving cultural community, complete with art exhibitions, lectures, musical performances, and poetry readings. The artists welcomed Peter as their pupil and forever changed the course of his life. Meanwhile, suspicions grew that a real spy was hiding among them—one connected to a vivacious heiress from Peter’s past. Drawing from unpublished first-person accounts and newly declassified government documents, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin reveals an “extraordinary yet previously untold true story” (Daily Express) that serves as a “testimony to human fortitude despite callous, hypocritical injustice” (The New Yorker) and “an example of how individuals can find joy and meaning in the absurd and mundane” (The Spectator).

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• Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan Author: Saul David Narrator: Adam James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. The ‘Devil Dogs’ of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were part of the legendary first Marine Division. They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942 – the first US ground offensive of the war – and were present when Okinawa, Japan’s most southerly prefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945. In between they fought in the ‘Green Hell’ of Cape Gloucester on the island of New Britain, and across the coral wasteland of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, a campaign described by one K Company veteran as ‘thirty days of the meanest, around-the-clock slaughter that desperate men can inflict on each other.’ Ordinary men from very different backgrounds, and drawn from cities, towns, and settlements across America, the Devil Dogs were asked to do something extraordinary: take on the victorious Imperial Japanese Army, composed of some of the most effective soldiers in world history – and defeat it. This is the story of how they did just that and, in the process, forged bonds of brotherhood that still survive today. Remarkably, the company contained an unusually high number of talented writers, whose first-hand accounts and memoirs provide the colour, emotion, and context for this extraordinary story. In Devil Dogs, award-winning historian Saul David sets the searing experience of K Company into the broader context of the brutal war in the Pacific and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne. Gripping, intimate, authoritative and far-reaching, this is a unique and incredibly personal narrative of war. Saul David’s previous book SBS -Silent Warriors was in the Sunday Times Bestseller Chart in the 35th and 36th week of 2021.

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