Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/488622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sugar Girls of Love Lane: Tales of Love, Loss and Friendship from Tate & Lyle's Liverpool Refinery Author: Nuala Calvi, Duncan Barrett Narrator: Samantha Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: In The Sugar Girls of Love Lane, Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Sugar Girls, tell the remarkable stories of those who worked at the famous Tate & Lyle factory in Liverpool. For over a hundred years until it closed in 1981, Henry Tate’s flagship sugar refinery at Love Lane dominated the Liverpool skyline – and was the beating heart of the local community. More than 10,000 workers passed through the doors of the factory during its lifetime, with some families counting four or even five generations of service. Young women leaving school in the post-war years were drawn by the good wages and the unrivalled social life that Tate & Lyle offered. When they arrived, they started at the very bottom, sweeping sugar off the floors, before graduating to packing and weighing by hand. The work was tough, with girls expected to stack heavy bags of sugar onto pallets five feet high, and by the end of the day their arms were aching and their stockings full of sugar dust. But, despite the hot, heavy work, they found their own ways of having fun, and the friendships they formed would last a lifetime. As well as the female friendships, many women met their future husbands at the factory, and expected their own children to follow in their footsteps. Barrett and Calvi's social history of the post-war era casts a warm and nostalgic look back at one of the most iconic factories in the north, bringing back a vanished era of hard work, community spirit and simple pleasures.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La Ilíada (Versión íntegra sin abreviar) Author: Homero Narrator: Manuel Renteria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Sumérgete en el mundo épico de La Ilíada, la obra maestra de Homero, en esta versión sin abreviar, narrada de manera magistral. Experimenta la emoción de la guerra de Troya y los intrincados hilos del destino mientras los dioses y los mortales se enfrentan en una batalla que cambiará el curso de la historia. Con una narración cautivadora y una calidad de voz impecable, este audiolibro te transportará a la antigua Grecia, donde los héroes luchan por la gloria y el honor. Cada palabra cobra vida de forma vívida, gracias a la interpretación experta y la entonación precisa del narrador. Sumérgete en la trama llena de acción, los personajes cautivadores y los emocionantes giros y vueltas que han fascinado a los lectores durante siglos. La Ilíada es un relato eterno de valentía, honor y destino, una obra maestra literaria que ha resistido el paso del tiempo. Escucha esta magnífica epopeya y descubre por qué ha dejado una huella indeleble en la historia de la literatura. Esta edición de La Ilíada en audiolibro es perfecta para los amantes de la narrativa clásica, los entusiastas de la historia antigua y aquellos que buscan una experiencia auditiva excepcional. Sumérgete en la grandiosidad de la antigua Grecia y disfruta de la claridad de la narración en cada momento.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439296 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler Author: Tom Dunkel Narrator: Jamie Renell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of traitors the “Black Orchestra.” This is their tension-filled story. As the “Final Solution” unfolds, a loose network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and civilians are doing everything in their power to undermine the Third Reich from the inside: reporting troop movements to the Allies, feeding disinformation to the Nazi high command, plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and more. The Gestapo nicknames this shadowy confederation of traitors the “Black Orchestra.” Its players include Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a dissident Lutheran pastor, and his brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi, a staff attorney at the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service. In this tension-filled narrative, Tom Dunkel traces the perilous movements of these “white knights” as they and their families face constant danger of being exposed and executed. Some act out of moral outrage and patriotism. Some want to atone for their own Nazi sins. When their treasonous activities are finally discovered, Hitler’s SS and the Gestapo are hell-bent on taking bloody revenge as the end of the war rapidly approaches and lives hang in the balance. White Knights in the Black Orchestra is a tautly written, meticulously reported account of men and women heroically resisting Hitler’s ruthless regime. It packs the punch of the best espionage thrillers, but the cat-and-mouse drama and plot twists are grounded firmly in fact. This is a stirring story of people willing to risk all by doing the right thing in a country gone mad, a story that may prompt readers to ask themselves “What would I have done?”
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis XI, King of France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Stuart Walker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: This collection of audiobooks will help you understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy. For each King, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements, narrated in a lively way. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: More than two centuries after her death, Marie-Antoinette continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers. She was born into royalty, and a world of immense privilege and power. At age 14, she married the one who would become Louis XVI, King of France; when he made her a queen, she was universally adored. But afterwards, her extravagant lifestyle turned public opinion against her, eventually participating in the crumbling of the already discredited monarchy into a maelstrom of revolution, disaster and tragedy. The French Revolution made this glamorous icon of style and fashion descend to bottomless tragedy, ending her tribulations with beheading. Discover the history of this most fascinating, controversial and misunderstood of queens, and the heart-breaking story of her family in a context of national upheaval. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis XVII, King of France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: This collection of audiobooks will help you understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy. For each King, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements, narrated in a lively way. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis-Philippe, King of France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Louis Philippe (1773–1850) is France's first 'constitutional monarch', having being properly elected by the National Assembly. He lived through the French Revolution, during which he saw his brother and sister-in-law, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, guillotined by extreme revolutionaries. Then, Napoleon Bonaparte seized the throne, declared himself emperor, and began the conquest of Europe; after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, France welcomed Louis Philippe back as an elected King. His reign was based on the principle of union of king and people, and marked the first real shift away from the 'divine right to rule' approach to kingship; as such, Louis Philippe is the best embodiment of the passage from the Ancien Regime to the truly modern world. This collection of audiobooks will help you understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy. For each King, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements, narrated in a lively way. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis XVIII, King of France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: This collection of audiobooks will help you understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy. For each King, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements, narrated in a lively way. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis XIV, King of France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: This collection of audiobooks will help you understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy. For each King, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements, narrated in a lively way. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis VI, King of France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Stuart Walker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Louis VI was a warrior king, but at the end of his reign, his weight had become so great that it had become difficult for him to lead in the field - hence his nickname 'The Fat'. He was a strong and competent ruler, who managed to considerably reinforce his power in the kingdom, and largely contributed to the subsequent centralization of authority in France. Learn about his soar to power, his struggles with the 'robber barons', and his successes in alliances and coalitions. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis XV, King of France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: The bar was high after the glorious reign of the Sun King. Louis XV, his successor, had a difficult time driving the country through religious disputes, intellectual shifts and economical hardness. This eventually led to a steep economic decline, which played an important role in the reaction of the French people against the monarchy, and eventually gave way to the French Revolution. This collection of audiobooks will help you understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy. For each King, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements, narrated in a lively way. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The story of Joan of Arc, the Maid who saved France Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Jonathan Waite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Joan of Arc is one of the most astounding heroins in French history. Her achievements leave anyone who knows her story shaking his head in amazed wonder. A small peasant girl born in Domrémy, she said she was visited by the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine, who instructed her to support the King Charles VII to recover France from English domination. It was the end of the Hundred Years' war, and the French army was miserable, almost defeated, and hopeless; but the young maiden obeyed the voice that spoke to her and took arms, eventually leading a galvanized army to astounding victories. She was later caught by a coalition allied with the English; the ensuing story of her trial and eventual execution at the stake is one of the most distressing episodes of history, with lies and manipulation forcing a political agenda against all evidence. This lively and precise audiobook will take you through this most fascinating story, from saintly visions to the politics of irrationality and conspiracy. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Richard III, king of England Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Richard III: one of the most divisive and enigmatic figures in British history. Few monarchs have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, who would later ascend the throne as King Richard III; his character has been passionately besmirched and defended, and the arguments still rage after several centuries. He was depicted as a deformed monster in Shakespeare's play, but maybe this was to obey the will of the Tudor monarchy of the time. His real tragedy was both personal and political; his story, replete with intrigue, murder, war, and treachery. Richard III laid the foundations for modern government, often taking the side of the people against the barons; for this, he eventually paid a terrible price. Discover the real story of the controversial monarch whose reign marked the end of medieval times in Britain, and make your own mind on whether he was the bloody monster depicted in Shakespeare's brilliant caricature, or one of the first modern kings. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry VIII, king of England Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy, with this collection of portraits of some of the most spectacular rulers of France. This catalog lists the kings named Louis, from Louis XIII the Just who stood up against political intrigues, to Louis XVIII who reigned during the Restauration of the French Monarchy after the fall of Emperor Napoleon. For each one of these Kings, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements. They are, in order: Louis XIII the Just, Louis XIV the Sun King, Louis XV the Beloved, Louis XVI the Restorer of French Liberty, and Louis XVIII the Desired (Louis XVII having died in prison without receiving the sacrament). - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte Author: Napoleon Bonaparte Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the greatest military figures ever. He rose to prominence during the French Revolution, after which he kept on soaring higher and higher until he was crowned Emperor of the French. He then moved on to gain control of the whole of continental Europe, before the ultimate defeat of 1815. Today, his campaigns are studied in every military school, his liberal politics have had a strong legacy worldwide, and he remains one of the most celebrated and controversial political figures in Western history. Napoleon's style is clear, concise, sometimes passionnate, always grand; we have selected for you 100 of his best quotes, for you to get acquainted with this intense figure and gain a better understanding of the history of the world he helped shape. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496171 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edward I, King of England Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: This collection of audiobooks will help you understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy. For each King, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements, narrated in a lively way. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth 1st, Queen of England Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Discover the golden age of sixteenth-century England and its fascinating monarch. Elizabeth the 1st was perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known. Her father, Henry VIII, brutally murdered her mother and declared her a bastard; as he kept taking and discarding wives, Elizabeth had to build intelligence and presence to stay alive in the intrigue-laden Tudor court. When she at last ascended the throne, it was to inherit a bankrupt, famished, and powerless country. She would prove herself more than worthy of her position and become the most powerful rule of her time, succeeding in replenishing its treasury, healing its religious rifts, and bringing forth military victories. Her influence on the flowering of English culture was also tremendous. Discover the most fascinating character of the Virgin Queen, who never married although her councilors told her it would be her only chance of survival; delve deeper into this major page of British and European history with this lively audiobook. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: The French Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen is one of the most fundamental documents in the history of democracy. A representative product of the philosophy of the Enlightenment, it holds the rights of man to be universal, without distinction of race or religion, introducing the idea that human rights are a feature of human nature itself. This was used to create a nation of free individuals equally protected by law. Discover this major and actual piece of history: the Declaration of the Rights of Man is a great summary of the values of the French Revolution. As such, it had a major impact on the development of freedom and democracy worldwide, and its legacy is still alive every day. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry VII, king of England Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Henry Tudor was born in a country ravaged by conspiracies, coups, and ruthless violence. He belonged to the Plantagenet Royal Family, House of Lancaster. They were engaged in a bloody battle with the House of York, in a conflict that had been going on for years for control of the throne of England: the War of the Roses. Through ruse and guile, Henry Tudor made sure he emerged as the only claimant to the Crown. When he ascended the throne, he managed to unite the two warring houses by his marriage with Elizabeth of York, effectively ending the civil war while founding the Tudor dynasty; but to many, he remained an usurper and a false king. His story is rich with treachery, intrigue, and ruthlessness, while he was a capable monarch. Discover the dramatic story of the foundation of the Tudor Dynasty with this lively and documented history audiobook. - -
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry VI, king of England Author: J. M. Gardner Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy, with this collection of portraits of some of the most spectacular rulers of France. This catalog lists the kings named Louis, from Louis II (877-879), a king whose wisdom was greater than his authority, to Louis XI, 'The Universal Spider', whose reign was marked by cunning and conspiracies. For each one of these Kings, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements. They are, in order: Louis I the Debonaire, Louis II the Stammerer, Louis III, Louis IV from Outremer, Louis V the Lazy, Louis VI the Fat, Louis VII the Young, Louis VIII the Lion, Louis IX the Saint, Louis X the Quarreller, and Louis XI the Cunning. - -