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  • The First Casualty - Peter Greste

    The First Casualty - Peter Greste
    2018/01/18
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    Title: The First Casualty
    Author: Peter Greste
    Narrator: Peter Greste
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-18-18
    Publisher: Audible Studios
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    In a world where the first casualty of war is truth, journalism has become the new battleground. Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the world's most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Charged with threatening national security, and enduring a sham trial, solitary confinement and detention for 400 days, Greste himself became a victim of the new global war on journalism. Wars have always been about propaganda, but today's battles are increasingly between ideas, and the media has become part of the battlefield. Extremists have staked a place in news dissemination with online postings, and journalists have moved from being witnesses to the struggle to a means by which the war is waged - which makes them a target. Having covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, as well as having spent time prison in Egypt, Greste is extremely well placed to describe in vivid detail what effect this has on the nature of reporting and the mind of the reporter. Based on extensive interviews and research, Greste shows how this war on journalism has spread to the West, not just in the murders at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo or the repressions of Putin's Russia, but Australia's metadata laws and Trump's phony war on 'fake news'. In this courageous, compelling, vital account, Greste unpicks the extent to which modern investigative journalism is under threat and the fraught quest - and desperate need - for truth in the age of terrorism.
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    11 時間 25 分
  • Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The Third Year - Jada L. Roberts

    Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The Third Year - Jada L. Roberts
    2018/01/15
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    Title: Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The Third Year
    Author: Jada L. Roberts
    Narrator: Donna Soto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-15-18
    Publisher: Jada L. Roberts
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    If you haven't read the first and second books, Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The First Year and The Second Year, please do so, for this book is a continuation of those two books. This book starts with the third year living on the farm that Jake and Jada purchased to raise their children and to have a little piece of their own little paradise. But their paradise is not so peaceful as they would like. Can Jada and her family brave the terrorizing experiences that the creature has caused and live on the property in the mountains that they call paradise? The Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot series is a true story of one family's terrorizing encounter with an unknown creature lurking in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains.
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    1 時間 25 分
  • Edokko - Isaac Shapiro

    Edokko - Isaac Shapiro
    2018/01/12
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    Title: Edokko
    Author: Isaac Shapiro
    Narrator: Isaac Shapiro
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-12-18
    Publisher: seasidepress.org
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    In 1926, professional musicians Constantine Shapiro, born in Moscow in 1896, and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) met and married in Berlin, Germany after their respective families had suffered continuous persecution in war-torn Russia, or the Soviet Union, as it was known after 1922. With Hitler's national socialism on the rise, remaining in Berlin was for the newlyweds out of the question and they decided to continue their odyssey, first to Palestine, then China, to ultimately spend the World War II years in the relative safety of Japan. In 1931, they found themselves in Japan, where Isaac, son number four and author of this memoir, was born. A few years later, with World War II imminently looming, and the subsequent bombing of Pearl Harbor, their lives were disrupted once again. In 1944, the Yokohama shore was banned for foreigners and the Shapiro family, including their five children, were forced to move to Tokyo, where they survived endless hardships, among others the intensified strategic United States bombing campaigns on Tokyo. Operation Meetinghouse started March 9, 1945 and is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. The Japanese later called the operation the Night of the Black Snow. During the subsequent American occupation of Japan, 14-year-old Isaac, being multilingual, was hired as an interpreter by John Calvin Munn, a United States Marine colonel, (later promoted to Lt. Gen.) who, when the war was over, paved the way for Isaac, or Ike as he soon became known, to immigrate to the United States. In the summer of 1946, Isaac landed in Hawaii, at the time a United States territory, altering the course of his life forever.
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    8 時間 13 分