Tag: American

Free Download Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0009RFWPW | 2005 | 11 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 618 MB
Author: Roger Cohen
Narrator: Michael Prichard
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned underground synthetic-fuel factory. This was the only incident of its kind during World War II. Starved and brutalized, the GIs were denied their rights as prisoners of war, their ordeal culminating in a death march that was halted by liberation near the Czech border. Twenty percent of these soldiers, more than 70 of them, perished.

Free Download American Legacy: Epic Dramas of US Politics: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramas (Audiobook)
English | June 15, 2023 | ASIN: B0BSXLDT45 | MP3@128 kbps | 9h 7m | 499.28 MB
Author: Mike Walker
Narrator: William Hootkins, Nathan Osgood, Alex Lanipekun, Colin Stinton, Bob Sherman, full cast, Lorelei King
Four gripping historical dramas centred around key figures who shaped America in the 20th century

Free Download American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBW45969 | 2023 | 6 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Andrew L. Whitehead
Narrator: Andrew L. Whitehead
Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity. Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church. Whitehead shows how Christians harm their neighbors when they embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence. He uses two key examples-racism and xenophobia-to demonstrate that these idols violate core Christian beliefs. Through stories, he illuminates expressions of Christianity that confront Christian nationalism and offer a faithful path forward. American Idolatry encourages further conversation about what Christian nationalism threatens, how to face it, and why it is vitally important to do so. It will help identify Christian nationalism and build a framework that makes sense of the relationship between faith and the current political and cultural context.

Free Download We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BQ8HXKFC | 2023 | 7 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 210 MB
Author: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
Narrator: Susan Bennett
From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform. Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. These proposals miss the point. As the Stanford health economist Liran Einav and the MIT economist and MacArthur Genius Amy Finkelstein argue, our health care system was never deliberately designed, but rather pieced together to deal with issues as they became politically relevant. The result is a sprawling yet arbitrary and inadequate mess. It has left 30 million Americans without formal insurance.

Free Download Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B8SYVYVS | 2023 | 9 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Lena S. Andrews
Narrator: Courtney Patterson
A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies’ victory. Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. They were pilots, codebreakers, ordnance experts, gunnery instructors, metalsmiths, chemists, translators, parachute riggers, truck drivers, radarmen, pigeon trainers, and much more. They were directly involved in some of the most important moments of the war, from the D-Day landings to the peace negotiations in Paris.

Free Download The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (Audiobook)
English | July 18, 2018 | ASIN: B07FCPL7WB | MP3@64 kbps | 24h 5m | 636.44 MB
Author: Paul Starr
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession of the 19th century become a most prosperous one in the 20th century? Why was national health insurance blocked? And why are corporate institutions taking over our medical care system today?

Free Download The American Claimant (Audiobook)
English | August 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0CF2QZVXC | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 20m | 400 MB
Author: Mark Twain | Narrator: Michael A. Harding
Two heirs, one claim: A hilarious clash of cultures in Mark Twain’s The American Claimant.

Free Download Quiet Street: On American Privilege (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B6CZGSY3 | 2023 | 2 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Nick McDonell
Narrator: Nick McDonell
A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the ruling class-intentionally or not-perpetuates cycles of injustice. Nick McDonell grew up on New York City’s Upper East Side, a neighborhood defined by its wealth and influence. As a child, McDonell enjoyed everything that rarefied world entailed-sailing lessons in the Hamptons, school galas at the Met, and holiday trips on private jets. But as an adult, he left it behind to become a foreign correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Quiet Street, McDonell returns to the sidewalks of his youth, exhuming with bracing honesty his upbringing and those of his affluent peers.

Free Download Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00A6FDPTW | 2012 | 16 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 467 MB
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Narrator: L. J. Ganser
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.

Free Download Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7SPDH8D | 2023 | 17 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 501 MB
Author: Mike Chinoy
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Nonetheless, American media coverage of China has profoundly influenced U.S. government policy and shaped public opinion not only domestically but also, given the clout and reach of U.S. news organizations, around the world. This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China-from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic-in their own words. Mike Chinoy assembles a remarkable collection of personal accounts from eminent journalists.