Free Download The Soviet Sixties (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNS7V9QQ | 2023 | 20 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 578 MB
Author: Robert Hornsby
Narrator: Peter Noble
The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union. Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll.

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Free Download The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWK9LXNK | 2023 | 10 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Tobias Dengel, Karl Weber
Narrator: Graham Winton
Why voice technology is the next big thing in technology, as big as mobile a decade ago and the internet in the late 90s, fundamentally altering the way companies do business. Voice is the next technology-remarkably similar in potential impact to the internet and mobile computing-poised to change the way the world works. Tobias Dengel is in the vanguard of this breakthrough, understanding the deep, wide-ranging implications voice will have for every industry. In The Sound of the Future, he connects the dots about this emerging paradigm to vividly illustrate how business leaders can stay ahead of the game, rather than scrambling to catch up, as voice technology gradually reveals its power, creating a host of new winners and losers.

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Free Download The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVSBFCZT | 2023 | 18 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 524 MB
Author: Liza Mundy
Narrator: Liza Mundy
Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables, made dead drops, and maintained the agency's secrets. Despite discrimination-even because of it-women who started as clerks, secretaries, or unpaid spouses rose to become some of the CIA's shrewdest operatives. They were unlikely spies-and that's exactly what made them perfect for the role. Because women were seen as unimportant, pioneering female intelligence officers moved unnoticed around Bonn, Geneva, and Moscow, stealing secrets from under the noses of their KGB adversaries. Back at headquarters, women built the CIA's critical archives-first by hand, then by computer.

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Free Download The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy-A Retelling for Our Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7FS6FN | 2023 | 7 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: John Zubrzycki
Narrator: Julian Elfer
5,000 years of history-from the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywood-fill this masterful portrait of the world's most populous nation and a rising global power. India-a cradle of civilization with five millennia of history, a country of immense consequence and contradiction-often defies ready understanding. What holds its people together-across its many cultures, races, languages, and creeds-and how has India evolved into the liberal democracy it is today? From the Harappan era to Muslim invasions, the Great Mughals, British rule, independence, and present-day hopes, John Zubrzycki distills India's colossal history into a gripping true story filled with legendary lives: Alexander the Great, Akbar, Robert Clive, Tipu Sultan, Lakshmi Bai, Lord Curzon, Jinnah, and Gandhi. India's gifts to the world include Buddhism, yoga, the concept of zero, the largest global diaspora-and its influence is only growing. Already the world's largest democracy, in 2023, India became the most populous nation. Can India overcome its political, social, and religious tensions to be the next global superpower? As the world watches-and wonders-this Shortest History is an essential, clarifying must-listen.

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Free Download The Seven Measures of the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKD9VZVR | 2023 | 6 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 343 MB
Author: Piero Martin, Gregory Conti
Narrator: Michael Langan
From the beginning of history, measurement has been interwoven into the human experience, shaping our understanding of nature, personal relationships, and the supernatural. We measure the world to know our past, comprehend the present, and plan the future. Renowned physicist Piero Martin explores how scientific knowledge is built around seven key pillars of measurement: the meter for length; the second for time; the kilogram for mass; the kelvin for temperature; the ampere for electricity; the mole for quantity of substance; and the candela for luminous intensity.

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Free Download The Secret Life of John le Carre (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT6W2X66 | 2023 | 4 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Adam Sisman
Narrator: Sean Barrett
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy-cover stories, cut-outs and dead letter boxes.

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Free Download The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7H34KL | 2023 | 8 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Tony Platt
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
The University of California, Berkeley-widely known as "Cal"-is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought. Far less known are the university's roots in plunder, warfare, and the promotion of white supremacy. As Tony Platt shows in The Scandal of Cal, these original sins sit at the center of UC Berkeley's history. Platt looks unflinchingly at the university's desecration of graves and large-scale hoarding of Indigenous remains. He tracks its role in developing the racist pseudoscience of eugenics in the early twentieth century. He sheds light on the school's complicity with the military-industrial complex and its incubation of unprecedented violence through the Manhattan Project. And he underscores its deliberate and continued evasions about its own wrongdoings, which echo in the institution's decision-making up to the present day. This book, above all, illuminates Cal's culpability in some of the cruelest chapters of US history and sounds a clarion call for the university to undertake a thorough and earnest reckoning with its past.

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Free Download The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJTSF96 | 2023 | 18 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 1 GB
Author: James Holland
Narrator: Al Murray
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into one of the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war. James Holland's The Savage Storm, chronicling the dramatic opening months of the Italian Campaign in unflinching and insightful detail, is unlike any campaign history yet written. Holland has always narrated war at ground level but here goes further by chronicling events almost entirely through the contemporary eyes of those who were there on all sides and at all levels-Allied, Axis, civilians alike.

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Free Download The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7NJ7V5 | 2023 | 12 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: John F. White
Narrator: Keval Shah
Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world. The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces.

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Free Download The Rest Is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan-History's Most Curious Questions, Answered (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5YD52WP | 2023 | 11 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
Narrator: Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
This entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate-with a unique blend of wit, wisdom, and good old-fashioned banter. The Rest Is History podcast brilliantly distills major moments in human history, covering everything from the Trojan War to a historical ranking of the greatest dogs. Now, this official tie-in book brings the chart-topping podcast's charms, offering listeners a fresh, wide-ranging tour of humanity's essential, and essentially weird, moments. Featuring an introduction from podcast hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, this book cleverly demonstrates that the past-from modern to ancient and every time in between-is both closer to us than we might realize and bafflingly strange, all at once. So run your Egyptian milk bath, strap up your best Spartan sandals, and prepare for a journey down the highways and byways of the human past.

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