Tag: Untold

Free Download Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00QMJ69PI | 2015 | 14 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Tracy Borman
Narrator: Julian Elfer
Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation, secured Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and Descriptionted the downfall of Anne Boleyn, and upon his arrest, was accused of trying to usurp the King himself. But here Tracy Borman reveals a different side of one of the most notorious figures in history: that of a caring husband and father, a fiercely loyal servant and friend, and a revolutionary who helped make medieval England into a modern state. Born in the mid-1480s to a lowly blacksmith, Cromwell left home at 18 to make his fortune abroad.

Free Download Stealing Manhattan: The Untold Story of America’s Billion Dollar Gem Heist Masterminds (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNS3S1JN | 2023 | 6 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Burl Barer, Punch Stanimirovic
Narrator: Tom Lennon
Punch Stanimirovic insists: "My father, known as Mr. Stan, is the greatest gentleman thief who ever lived-a true genius." Punch was raised to be an exceptional diamond thief. He could work magic on a safe that would have sent Mandrake the Magician back to the novelty store, and Dr. Strange back to medical school. He and his family risked it all to make the patriarch, Mr. Stan, proud. Punch’s pop culture sensibilities, his father’s proven skills, and his mother’s artistic input merged to create cinema-style capers-elaborately planned and executed, including a spectacular 1992 New York mega-heist of over one billion dollars in diamonds, gold, and precious gems-and they got away with it.

Free Download Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7LQF7PH | 2023 | 13 hours and 11 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 728 MB
Author: Harry N. MacLean
Narrator: William DeMeritt
The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of America. On January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby town of Bennet, where a farmer was robbed and killed. When Starkweather’s car broke down, the teenagers who stopped to help were murdered and jammed into a storm cellar. By the time the dust settled, ten innocent people were dead and the city of Lincoln was in a state of terror. Schools closed.

Free Download Living the Beatles’ Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJS1W9RS | 2023 | 19 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 543 MB
Author: Kenneth Womack
Narrator: Kenneth Womack, Gary T. Evans
The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie. Malcolm Evans, the Beatles’ long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of the band’s inner circle. A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatles’ story, contributing at times as a performer and sometime lyricist, while struggling mightily to protect his beloved "boys." He was there for the whole of the group’s remarkable, unparalleled story: from the Shea Stadium triumph through the creation of the timeless cover art for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the famous Let It Be rooftop concert. Leaving a stable job as telecommunications engineer to serve as road manager for this fledgling band, Mal was the odd man out from the start-older, married with children, and without any music business experience. And yet he threw himself headlong into their world, traveling across the globe and making himself indispensable.

Free Download Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPN3RNZ8 | 2023 | 17 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 496 MB
Author: Caroline Elkins
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya’s largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people’s ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history with chilling parallels to America’s own imperial project.

Free Download Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1PQ7MZC | 2023 | 10 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Taylor Lorenz
Narrator: Taylor Lorenz, Emily Tremaine
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet-revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off. For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives we create online. In her debut book, Extremely Online, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this phenomenon to be one of the most disruptive changes in modern capitalism. By tracing how the internet has changed what we want and how we go about getting it, Lorenz unearths how social platforms’ power users radically altered our expectations of content, connection, purchasing, and power.

Free Download Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT12LDQP | 2023 | 6 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Amy Price
Narrator: Andi Arndt
The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. When Amy Price took a temporary design job at an Art Deco hotel in Los Angeles to help a friend, she had no idea the path it would lead her down. Before long, she would become manager of the Cecil Hotel, seeking to make it more welcoming and correct its notoriety, not helped by sitting at the foot of Skid Row, or the fact that since its opening in 1927, there had been any number of deaths by suicide, and residents such as serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger. She cared about guests and residents alike, though she faced challenges on many fronts, with over eighty people dying during her decade of service. Among them was Elisa Lam, whose tragic death became the subject of a Netflix documentary series that captivated millions and led to its own controversies and unwarranted personal attacks on Amy. For the first time, Amy delves into her experiences at the Cecil Hotel. Equal parts memoir, true-crime, and cultural history, Behind the Door is essential to understanding one of America’s most enigmatic hotels.

Free Download High Above: The untold story of Astra, Europe’s leading satellite company by Chris Forrester
English | PDF (True) | 2011 | 243 Pages | ISBN : 3642120083 | 75.1 MB
Frequently it is suggested that the ‘golden age’ of television was during the period 1950-1960. It is true that television almost ruined Hollywood’s fortunes during this period. But if this was the authentic golden age, then it was an age of black and white, somewhat limited creativity, poor reception, lack of competition (except in the United States) and – by and large – public service broadcasting. However, if we take 1950 as a generic ‘starting point’ for modern television broadcasting, then we talk about a kind of prehistoric stage of the medium – in which it remained for the best part of three decades. The younger days of broadcasting were the 1980s; the time when commercial television started on a large scale and, in this youth, was getting younger in terms of programming. Luxembourg-based SES Astra appeared on the scene at exactly this time. Astra was instrumental in the dramatic developments in television that we have witnessed since then. This is the story we want to tell in this book. Without satellite technology and the success of satellite reception, without the resulting mass-market penetration of television sets and general economic prosperity we would not have the necessary base ingredients to make the great leap forward into digital, into HDTV, 3D-television, and the prospects of Ultra High Definition now in sight.

Free Download Deep Halder, "Being Hindu In Bangladesh: The Untold Story"
English | ASIN : B0CKP86FZB | 2023 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1008 KB
For those who carry the scars of Partition, more than seven decades after arbitrary lines scarred the subcontinent, home is still on the other side of the Padma river. They pine for those who were left behind as a great mass of humanity moved from the east to the west of Bengal to settle in Hindu-majority India. Where are they today in the land that was then east Bengal, which became East Pakistan in 1947, and then Bangladesh in 1971?

Free Download Michael W. Campbell, "1919: The Untold Story of Adventism’s Struggle with Fundamentalism"
English | ISBN: 0816365326 | 2019 | 124 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In 1919, the world was reeling from the destructive forces of World War I, American Protestants were uniting against Modernism in defense of the inerrancy of the Bible, and Adventists were recovering from the 1915 death of Ellen White, their beloved prophet. Needing to confirm the movement’s identity in rapidly changing times, some 65 Adventist leaders, editors, and Bible teachers met from July 1 to August 9, 1919, in Columbia Hall on the campus of Washington Missionary College near Washington, D.C. Their discussions were candid and often heated, prompting A.G. Daniells to occasionally ask stenographers to stop their recording work. Minutes of the conference were buried in the archives and would eventually be rediscovered in 1974. Today, the Seventh-day Adventist Church continues to grapple with issues raised at this epochal event.