Episodes

  • The Other Side of Infamy - James Lund

    The Other Side of Infamy - James Lund
    Jan 30 2018
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    Title: The Other Side of Infamy
    Author: James Lund
    Narrator: Tim Campbell
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-30-18
    Publisher: Tantor Audio
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    War is uncomfortable for Christians, and worldwide war is unfamiliar for today's generations. Jim Downing reflects on his illustrious military career, including his experience during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to show how we can be people of faith during troubled times. The natural human impulse is to run from attack. Jim Downing - along with countless other soldiers and sailors at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 - ran toward it, fighting to rescue his fellow navy men, to protect loved ones and civilians on the island, and to find the redemptive path forward from a devastating war. We are protected from war these days, but there was a time when war was very present in our lives, and in The Other Side of Infamy we learn from a veteran of Pearl Harbor and World War II what it means to follow Jesus into and through every danger, toil, and snare.
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    5 hrs and 5 mins
  • Enemies Within: Communists, Spies and the Making of Modern Britain - Richard Davenport-Hines

    Enemies Within: Communists, Spies and the Making of Modern Britain - Richard Davenport-Hines
    Jan 25 2018
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    Title: Enemies Within: Communists, Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
    Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
    Narrator: Richard Trinder
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 24 hrs and 11 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-25-18
    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures

    Summary:
    What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. 'Historians fumble their catches when they study individuals' motives and ideas rather than the institutions in which people work, respond, find motivation and develop their ideas', writes Richard Davenport-Hines in his history of the men who were persuaded by the Soviet Union to betray their country. In an audiobook which attempts to counter many contradictory accounts, Enemies Within offers a study of character: both individual and institutional - the operative traits of boarding schools, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Intelligence Division, the Foreign Office, MI5, MI6 and Moscow Centre. The audiobook refuses to present the Cambridge spies as they wished to be seen, in Marxist terms. It argues that these five men did their greatest harm to Britain not from their clandestine espionage but in their propaganda victories enjoyed from Moscow after 1951. Notions of trust, abused trust, forfeited trust and mistrust from the late 19th century to perestroika pepper its narrative. In an audiobook that is as intellectually thrilling as it is entertaining and illuminating, Davenport-Hines charts how the undermining of authority, the rejection of expertise, and the suspicion of educational advantages began with the Cambridge Five and has transformed the social and political temper of Britain.
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    24 hrs and 11 mins
  • Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War - Paul Kahan

    Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War - Paul Kahan
    Jan 15 2018
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    Title: Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War
    Author: Paul Kahan
    Narrator: Michael Kazalski
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-15-18
    Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures

    Summary:
    From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799–1889) was one of the 19th century’s most prominent political figures. In his wake, however, he left a series of questionable political and business dealings and, at the age of 80, even a sex scandal. Far more than a biography of Cameron, Amiable Scoundrel is also a portrait of an era that allowed - indeed, encouraged - a man such as Cameron to seize political control. A key figure in designing and implementing the Union’s military strategy during the Civil War’s crucial first year, Cameron played an essential role in pushing Abraham Lincoln to permit the enlistment of African Americans into the US Army, a stance that eventually led to his forced resignation. Yet, his legacy has languished, nearly forgotten save for the fact that his name has become shorthand for corruption, even though no evidence has ever been presented to prove that Cameron was corrupt. Amiable Scoundrel puts Cameron’s actions into a larger historical context by demonstrating that many politicians of the time, including Abraham Lincoln, used similar tactics to win elections and advance their careers. This study is the fascinating story of Cameron’s life and an illuminating portrait of his times. Published by University of Nebraska Press. "This book is essential for any civil war historian's library." - San Francisco Book Review "A political biography that every Civil War student should read." - Civil War Books and Authors "A thought-provoking biography." - BlueGray Magazine
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    9 hrs and 47 mins